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Vince Foster and Hillary Clinton

claim: Hillary had an affair with Vince Foster

analysis: false. In the context that this rumor is often used, it loses credibility. It gained it’s origins as gossip in Arkansas and was used by political opponents to later try and pin his suicide on the Clintons. I will go through why the rumor persists and show how it loses credibility in the way people use this rumor against the Clintons.

Background: the rumor that Hillary had an affair with Vince started in Arkansas where sexuality of public officials is often gossip.

Here’s a quote showing an example of how people would intrude and speculate about public figures life: “Sit in the Capitol Bar, in downtown Little Rock, for a few nights and you can be told that virtually every prominent public figure in the state is a rapacious womanizer and also gay- Including Clinton. Even Hillary Clinton was not spared this treatment: one can hear that she was having an affair with Vince Foster and also that she is a lesbian, often from the same lascivious gossip.”

Web Hubbell, another close friend of Hillary’s spoke on this matter and gave his view: Webster Hubbell explained in his memoir Friends in high places that this kind of sniping came with the territory Hillary had staked for herself in Arkansas. Because Hillary was the first female partner in the upper-crust Rose Law Firm, her close professional and personal relationships with Foster and Hubbell provoked resented in the tightly knit community surrounding the Little Rock Country Club. The governor’s wife was an inevitable focus of gossip and everything she did provoked idle chatter. If Hubbell was and Foster were sometimes said to be lovers, at other moments her friendships with other professional women provoked speculation that Hillary was actually a lesbian.

false accusations and rumors that have been made about Hillary and Vince Foster:

“In new expose Bill & Hillary: so this is that thing called love, authors Darwin Porter and Danforth Prince claim that Foster was “impressed” with the budding attorney and brought her to work at Little Rock’s Rose Law firm in 1977 as the first female associate.” This should hardly raise eyebrows, Hillary was an impressive lawyer and very smart but the way these authors talk about it make it seem as if it was more than that and Vince was only attracted to Hillary in a romantic or sexual way. This claim is false because it can easily be pinned down to sexism and the inability of two male authors to see that a woman can be recognized for her work ethic by a man in a platonic way where neither of the two are interested in each other.

“The authors go on to claim that other colleagues began to notice a brewing romance between Hillary and Vince and that sometimes he would skip family dinners to eat dinner with Hillary.” Again, this goes back to sexism and the fact that these authors and others can’t understand a platonic relationship between a man and a woman. Also what other colleagues? Web Hubbell himself already spoke on the matter, debunking it. And skipping family dinners to eat dinner with Hillary is hardly a crime, ever heard of working overtime?

This one is just laughable. He accompanied her because he worked at the law firm with her! Also never believe an unmerited and unidentified source such as “a room service staffer” or something vague like that. No name for a room service staffer was given so this could have easily been made up. If they were having an affair they would be discreet and not flaunt it in front of room service staff.

The authors also claimed that Vince’s wife, Lisa was jealous and hated Hillary.

Yeah so jealous lol.

Yeah this can be pinned down to troopergate and several troopers were paid to lie and worked with Larry Nichols. I will elaborate more on this in my troopergate post then link it back here but a lot of the troopers are not credible sources.

Just a preview: the dubious local duo of disgruntled former Clinton employee Larry Nichols and local detective Larry Case, whose specialty was outing the sex scandals of public figures, brought the likes of Gennifer Flowers to the tabloids while Cliff Jackson, a former Oxford classmate of Clinton's, created Troopergate.

Why does this claim persist?:

1. Fox news

Fox news has interviewed Jeff Rovin a man who claims he was a ‘fixer for the Clintons.’

his claim: man claiming to be Bill and Hillary Clinton’s “fixer” – hired to cover up their “dirtiest schemes,” including steamy sex romps and a major scandal involving former deputy White House counsel Vince Foster – says the Clintons have an open marriage, patronize hookers, buy off news reporters and coordinated a scheme to destroy White House intern Monica Lewinsky after her affair with the president.

Why he can’t be trusted: he’s biased. He is a trump supporter:

However, Rovin claimed he is coming forward to put an end to the wild and steamy gossip.

“The election is too important to focus in this salacious material,” he told Hannity. “I hope this stuff is so unpalatable that we just stop.”

“I like Trump,” he said, adding that he’s voting for “one of those two.”

Rovin stepped out and broke this “news” in October 2016 during the election. Interesting timing as it seems that he wanted to influence voters and make them have doubts about the Clintons.

More holes in his claims:

1. He claims that on the day Presidential brother Roger Clinton was marrying his eight-months-pregnant bride Molly. there was a bachelor party. Prostitutes were involved. Recordings were made. Recordings involving Bill Clinton. This claim is false. Larry Nichols has been looking for incriminating videos and photographs of Bill with other women for ages and none have been found.

2. “ I have kept these secrets for a quarter-century because Bill Clinton had become an elder statesman with heart trouble and Hillary Clinton seemed to be focused, at last, on the business of doing her job — for better or for worse.” This ruins his claim because why step out then during the 2016 election? Hillary was still very much focused on her job and Bill still had heart trouble oh right:

The National enquirer was the first to break his story and the National enquirer is a tabloid magazine filled with exaggerations that are meant to be eye grabbing, i.e., clickbait in journalism and they are usually biased as well:

2. People want to believe the Clintons are capable of murder.

This rumor persist because if Hillary were in love with Vince then the whole idea of his suicide as a murder is more plausible. People want to believe the Clintons are capable of murder in order to discredit them and they use the Vince/Hillary narrative to try to push this agenda.

why this is false:

Special counsel Robert B. Fiske Jr. concluded that Foster's death in Fort Marcy Park last July was a suicide. The Fiske investigation involved four lawyers, five physicians, seven FBI agents, approximately 125 witnesses; also DNA tests, microscopes and lasers.

According to Fiske, the truth belied all the ugly glamour. Foster's death was a personal collapse, not a White House scandal.

From the pinnacle of the Arkansas legal establishment, Foster leaped into the service of his boyhood friend, Bill Clinton, after Clinton was elected president. According to Fiske, the toll on Foster was intense from the beginning. During the transition period – when he vetted a number of top appointees – Foster complained to his Little Rock physician of depression and anxiety.

His symptoms grew worse when he got to Washington. In January 1993, Zoe E. Baird was forced to withdraw her nomination as attorney general because she had failed to pay taxes for a nanny; fresh from his inauguration, President Clinton was hit with charges of elitism and corner-cutting and incompetent screening. Foster blamed himself – the Fiske report shows him constantly shouldering blame for mistakes made in the chaotic White House – and the night of the Baird debacle Foster was literally sick from a panic attack.

Final thoughts: the idea that Hillary would have an affair with Vince Foster or any of her colleagues is simply rooted in old fashioned Arkansan sexism. It is born out of the idea that a woman can’t be close to a man without being sexually involved with him. It is also rooted in the old Arkansan belief that a woman can’t move forward in her career unless she is aided or favored by a man.

It would be entirely out of character for Hillary to cheat.

These are just now my own evaluations based on opinion/fact

Her methodist faith and from what we know about her drawing into her faith during times of trouble in her marriage give insight into the fact that she would agree that adultery is a sin. Whereas Bill is a completely different story and due to his upbringing, infidelity was predictable, Hillary herself seems to have no inner conflict that would cause her to cheat.

Why?

1. Hillary draws love from within herself. Hillary is entirely confident and does not need validation. Usually people that cheat are seeking to fill an emptiness they feel within themselves. Hillary has always been filled with a purpose.

2. “I was raised to believe that actions spoke louder than words,” she explained “If you were a person of faith, that should be evident in how you treated other people and what kind of life you lived.

To me this shows that Hillary would not cheat. Actions spoke louder than words and it is clear that Hillary is a woman of her word. Married to Bill by a methodist preacher, I think this would only enforce her and make her want to keep her vows, since actions meant more than words and the vows to her would have simply not been words.

3. Chelsea.

It is clear that Hillary’s priority has always been being a good mother to Chelsea. To me this is another reason why it would be out of character for her to cheat. it seems that she would much rather have a stable relationship than risk infidelity and tear their family apart, therefore hurting Chelsea and putting her in the middle of an affair like that would be out of the question for Hillary. Chelsea is one of the reasons Hillary worked so hard to save her relationship with Bill and I don’t think she would have been unfaithful to her husband out of respect for her daughter’s well being and her own beliefs.

sources: https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-private-faith-of-hillary-clinton

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/whitewater/stories/wwtr940701.htm

http://www.wnd.com/2016/10/clinton-fixer-hillarys-affair-with-vince-foster-an-open-secret/

https://www.amazon.com/Hunting-President-Ten-Year-Campaign-Destroy/dp/0312273193

#hope you liked this anon and sorry it took so long #sorry if i missed any typos

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dreaminginthedeepsouth · 17 hours

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Justice Alito’s arrogance threatens the Court

May 30, 2024

ROBERT B. HUBBELL

In an act oozing with contempt for the American people and reckless disregard for the Supreme Court, Justice Alito refused to recuse himself from cases involving Trump's election interference and unlawful retention of national defense documents. Alito sent two letters to members of Congress asserting that “no reasonable person” would conclude that Alito is required to recuse himself. See Letter from Samuel Alito to Senators Dick Durbin and Sheldon Whitehouse.

In his letter to Durbin and Whitehouse, Alito advances factual defenses that were shown to be false or misleading before Alito sent the letter to the Senators. As noted in articles in the NYTimes and Newsweek, Alito’s claim that the Stop the Steal flag was flown in retaliation after a dispute with a neighbor is false. Alito flew the Stop the Steal flag one month prior to the neighborhood dispute. See NYTimes, The Alitos, the Neighborhood Clash and the Upside-Down Flag (accessible to all) and Newsweek, Samuel Alito's Flag Claims Challenged.

Alito also seeks to avoid the controversy by claiming that

His wife is a co-owner of their Virginia home and owner of their beach house, so she “has the right to use the property as she sees fit.”

His “wife is a private citizen, and she possesses the same First Amendment, rights as every other American. She makes her own decisions, and I have always respected her right to do so.”

He “had no involvement in the decision to fly” the Appeal to Heaven flag.

He did not know that the Appeal to Heaven flag supported the “Stop the Steal” message.

His “wife likes flags,” while Alito “does not.”

It is a sad day when a Supreme Court justice lies to US Senators and the American people over a matter of national urgency. But even if we credit Alito’s falsehoods, the question of his recusal is not a close one.

Let’s make this easy. Suppose Alito’s wife flew a Swastika flag over their joint residence for three days. Alito then claims that he asked his wife to remove the flag but she refused. He also claims he did not understand the antisemitic meaning of the Nazi flag. He is then asked to recuse himself from a case before the Court that seeks to prohibit antisemitic speech. Alito could not credibly claim (as he does here) that “no reasonable person” would believe he is required to recuse himself.

The relevant canon of ethics provides:

A Justice should disqualify himself or herself in a proceeding in which the Justice's impartiality might reasonably be questioned, that is, where an unbiased and reasonable person who is aware of all relevant circumstances would doubt that the Justice could fairly discharge his or her duties.” Canon 3(B)(1)-(2), Code of Conduct for Justices of the Supreme Court.

Tens of millions of Americans reasonably doubt that Alito can fairly discharge his duties. Alito is gaslighting the American people—a technique he learned from Trump. Having been caught in his lie he is doubling down on the lie—while pretending to be aggrieved that Americans doubt his veracity.

This debacle is a stain on the Court and an indictment of Justice Robert’s leadership. His silence is an insult to the American people. He is the Chief Justice of the United States—not merely of the Supreme Court. He holds an office created by and mentioned in the Constitution. He has failed miserably in discharging his duties to oversee the courts of the United States.

What can we do? As always, we can gain control of Congress and the Presidency in order to expand the Court and impose an enforceable code of ethics on the Court.

But is there anything else? Representative Jamie Raskin penned an op-ed in the New York Times arguing that the other justices on the Court can force Alito to recuse himself. See Jamie Raskin: How to Force Justices Alito and Thomas to Recuse Themselves in the Jan. 6 Cases. (Accessible to all.)

Rep. Raskin writes that the DOJ “can petition the other seven justices to require Justices Alito and Thomas to recuse themselves not as a matter of grace but as a matter of law.”

Raskin continues:

The constitutional and statutory standards apply to Supreme Court justices. The Constitution, and the federal laws under it, is the “supreme law of the land,” and the recusal statute explicitly treats Supreme Court justices like other judges. This recusal statute, if triggered, is not a friendly suggestion. It is Congress’s command, binding on the justices, just as the due process clause is. The Supreme Court cannot disregard this law just because it directly affects one or two of its justices. When the arguments are properly before the court, Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Justices Amy Coney Barrett, Neil Gorsuch, Ketanji Brown Jackson, Elena Kagan, Brett Kavanaugh and Sonia Sotomayor will have both a constitutional obligation and a statutory obligation to enforce recusal standards.

Of course, Jamie Raskin’s approach calls for the cooperation of Roberts, Kavanaugh, and Barrett, as well as Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson. Will that happen? Doubtful, but public pressure may bring about that result.

At a meeting with the newsletter's Founding Members on Wednesday, a reader who is a member of the Supreme Court Bar said that he had just sent a letter to Chief Justice Roberts tendering his resignation. The reader no longer practices before the Supreme Court, so resigning will not interfere with his livelihood.

There are tens of thousands of lawyers in a similar position—they were admitted to the Supreme Court as a ceremonial matter or in connection with briefing on which they appeared. If tens of thousands of lawyers sent similar letters of resignation to Justice Roberts—and published those letters in local newspapers and major media outlets—it would increase pressure on Roberts and focus public attention on the ethics scandal on the Supreme Court.

Sounds like something a lawyer’s group defending American democracy should take on as a project! See also, Slate, (3/13/2020), Judge James Dannenberg writes John Roberts a letter resigning from the Supreme Court Bar.

Sadly, it will likely get worse before it gets better. It will get better, but not before tens of millions of Americans believe they should take to streets in protest. The Supreme Court is systematically stripping Americans of civil liberties and constitutional rights for the first time in the history of our nation. That is worth peaceful protests to protect our rights.

It will take time, but the American people will awaken. Justice Alito is pouring accelerant on the conflagration engulfing the Court. It will take more outrageous decisions and arrogant behavior by Alito, Thomas, and Roberts, but the time will come. Until then, each of us must elevate the crisis on the Supreme Court as an issue that deserves our undivided attention in 2024.

[Robert B. Hubbell Newsletter]

#Robert B. Hubbell #Robert B. Hubbell Newsletter #Corrupt SCOTUS #judges #rule of law #unaccountable #the law #branches of government #Whitehouse #Dick Durbin #Alito #Thomas

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What happens now? Judge Dearie will continue his review of the non-classified documents. We should expect that process will turn out badly for Trump. And then . . . sometime in 2023, we should expect an indictment of Trump for espionage.

“A reader asked in the Comments section yesterday whether the crime of espionage requires an intent to share the defense secrets with another party. It does not. Under Subsection (d) of the 18 USC § 793 (Espionage Act), if a person lawfully obtains possession of information harmful to the security interests of the United States (if disclosed), the person is guilty of espionage if he “willfully retains the same and fails to deliver it on demand to the officer or employee of the United States entitled to receive it."

Thus, under the Espionage Act, there is no requirement of an intent to share the information with anyone. Continued possession of defense secrets after a demand for their return is espionage. That is why the DOJ will indict Trump.”

READ MORE https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/a-good-day

88 Comments “This was quite a masterpiece Mr. Hubbell. I appreciate your excellent summary of events and the links to documents. I would also like to add Mr. Raskin's diatribe against the Republicans in the House yesterday. He gave them heck concerning the January 6 Select Committee. Here is the link:https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/let-s-tell-some-truth-raskin-goes-scorched-earth-on-republicans-during-hearing-over-opposition-to-jan-6-committee/ar-AA126gqR#:~:text=View%20Profile-,%E2%80%98Let%E2%80%99s%20Tell%20Some%20Truth!%E2%80%99%20Raskin%20Goes%20Scorched%20Earth%20on%20Republicans%20During%20Hearing%20Over%20Opposition%20to%20Jan.%206%20Committee,-Michael%20Luciano%20%2D

Robert B. Hubbell 12 hr ago Author

“There is a DOJ rule against indicting within 69 days of an election. I suppose a November or December indictment is possible .”

“Is it possible for TFG to appeal the 11th Court's decion to the Supreme Court?” Robert B. Hubbell Author “Possible. Highly unlikely that the Court would grant review.”

“A terrific newsletter! To add frosting to the cake of Robert's excellent perspective, check out Lawrence Tribe's conversation Wednesday at the weekly Community Advocates/Jews United for Democracy and Justice. It's on YouTube at” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAg9rT2csgc.

COMMENTS “And may I quote constitutional law scholar Laurence Tribe, who last night stated on a Zoom with Jews United for Democracy and Justice: "The recoking is coming for the president." (Former president!) I slept well.”

Legal expert reacts to Trump's inaccurate claim about declassifying

https://youtu.be/wAkvJPd1uoI

Attorney who sued Trump over real estate properties speaks out

CNN's Jim Sciutto and Poppy Harlow discuss the New York attorney general's lawsuit against Trump accusing him of business fraud with New York real estate attorney Adam Leitman Bailey. Bailey has sued Trump in the past over his real estate properties.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1H_HZlL8cJg

Trump Seems To Think His Presidential Powers Continue

“Former Chief of Staff at the Department of Homeland Security Miles Taylor, former FBI counterintelligence agent Pete Strzok, former U.S. attorney Harry Litman, and Wall Street Journal Justice Department reporter Sadie Gurman react to Trump’s claim that he declassified documents just by “thinking” about it “

364,376 views Sep 22, 2022 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDoIn23gyxg

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#A good day! September 22 2022. Robert B. Hubbell

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Prez Meets Prez

Yesterday, President Biden met with President Xi Jinping, President of the People’s Republic of China, in San Francisco. I would like to share with you Robert Hubbell’s take on the meeting and what it says about the ability of our president to be exactly what he needs to be in order to help make the world a safer place for us all … Biden In Command 16 November 2023 Robert B. Hubbell After…

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Atomska bomba: Zašto je nacisti nisu uspjeli napraviti i kako je Jugoslavija to pokušavala 3 puta

Istovremeno, toga 10.augusta 1945. godine u Hirošimu je stigao tročlani tim znanstvenika koji je vodio Sakae Shimizu (1915. – 2003.), fizičar sa Sveučilišta Kyoto. – Cijeli je grad uništen u potpunosti, ostalo je u ruševinama s posebnim mirisom smrti, sa samo nekoliko željezo-betonskih zgrada koje nalikuju duhovima – zapisao je Shimizu svoj prvi dojam nakon dolaska u Hirošimu.

On je tada započeo višednevno istraživanje koje je ušlo u povijest kao prva znanstvena studija o posljedicama atomske eksplozije u Hirošimi. Sve rezultate Shimizuovih istraživanja zatim je preuzeo general Thomas Farrell, zamjenik generala Leslieja Grovesa, vojnog voditelja projekta Manhattan te ih odnio u Ameriku…

Saradnja s Hrvatom

Četrdeset dvije godine nakon bombardiranja Hiroshime, prof. Sakae Shimizu sjedio je na ručku u jednom zagrebačkom restoranu u podsljemenskoj zoni. Društvo su mu pratili fizičari dr. Ante Ljubičić (1938. – 2018.), prof. John Howard Hubbell (1925. – 2007.) iz američkog National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) i dr. Krunoslav Pisk (76), tadašnji direktor Odjela FEP Instituta Ruđer Bošković (IRB).

Shimizu je sarađivao s Antom Ljubičićem, a obojica su s Hubbellom vodili International Radiation Physics Society. Za vrijeme ručka razgovarali smo o tome je li trebalo baciti atomsku bombu na Japan i zašto je bačena. Je li to bilo da se pokaže demonstracija sile, da se završi Drugi svjetski rat ili da se zaustave Rusi? Tijekom rasprave, Shimizu je izrekao svoje stajalište da to, bez obzira na sve razloge u prilog bombi, nije trebalo napraviti. No, Hubbell je imao drukčije mišljenje.

On je od 1943. godine bio u američkoj vojsci, a nakon kapitulacije Njemačke 1945. godine bio je u Sudetima. Da nije bačena atomska bomba, njegova jedinica bila bi poslana u rat na Pacifik, u borbu s Japancima. Stoga je Hubbell rekao Shimizuu: Čujte, ja sam bio sasvim zadovoljan što je rat završio – prisjetio se Krunoslav Pisk zanimljivog ručka s kraja 1987. godine.

– Dvije godine poslije, Institut Ruđer Bošković organizirao je veliku znanstvenu konferenciju na kojoj je sudjelovao i prof. Satoshi Yamada sa Sveučilišta Tokyo, kojega sam ugostio kao generalni direktor IRB-a. Onda mi je ispričao da je javna tajna među fizičarima u Japanu kako je moj poznanik prof. Shimizu radio na stvaranju japanske atomske bombe, ali u tome nije uspio. Da je to istina, doznao sam tek 2006. godine, kad su strani mediji objavili da su u američkoj Kongresnoj knjižnici otkriveni japanski dokumenti iz vremena Drugog svjetskog rata.

U tim je dokumentima eksplicitno pisalo da je Shimizu 1940-ih radio na ciklotronu na razvoju atomske bombe za japansku mornaricu, ali je zaključio da je to nemoguće napraviti. Možete zamisliti koji je bio stres za Shimizua kad je došao u Hirošimu. Mislio je da je atomsku bombu nemoguće napraviti, a onda je došao u Hirošimu i prvi izmjerio posljedice eksplozije – rekao je Pisk.

Školovanje u Leipzigu

Kad je atomska bomba eksplodirala nad Hirošimom, Krunoslav Pisk bio je dječačić od nepune dvije godine. – Moja obitelj je bila građanska, no kad sam rođen, otišli smo u Donju Stubicu kod roditelja moje majke, koji su bili trgovci, pa je bilo lakše živjeti. Ne mogu se sjetiti kad sam prvi put čuo za atomsku bombu, ali sam već u gimnaziji čitao tekstove i knjige Ivana Supeka pa me to na neki način i usmjerilo na studij fizike na Prirodoslovno-matematičkom fakultetu.

Supek je na predavanjima puno govorio o događajima iz vremena stvaranja atomske bombe te o svome školovanju u Leipzigu kod Wernera Heisenberga. Inače, sjećam se da sam u širem krugu moje familije jednom čuo da se rat mogao okrenuti jer su Nijemci imali tajno oružje. No, pretpostavljam da je to bilo pod utjecajem tiska u Hrvatskoj tijekom Drugog svjetskog rata -rekao je Pisk.

Povjesničari već desetljećima raspravljaju zašto nacisti nikad nisu napravili atomsku bombu. Neki tvrde da je nobelovac Werner Heisenberg (1901. – 1976.), koji je bio na čelu njemačkoga projekta stvaranja atomske bombe, namjerno usporavao projekt kako bi spriječio naciste u opaskom naumu da zavladaju svijetom. No, kad su 1993. godine postali javno dostupni transkripti iz Farm Halla, postalo je razvidno da je njemački atomski program zaostajao za savezničkim barem tri godine.

Farm Hall je kuća u jednom engleskom selu gdje su nakon kapitulacije nacista, nekoliko mjeseci boravili vodeći njemački fizičari. Kuća je imala prislušne uređaje, što Nijemci nisu znali, pa su govorili bez zadrške. Transkripti sadrže i tekst predavanja što ga je Heisenberg održao kolegama kad se doznalo da su Amerikanci bacili atomske bombe na Hirošimu i Nagasaki. Upravo je to predavanje pokazalo da je proračun koji su imali Heisenberg i njegovi saradnici bio kriv.

– Danas znamo da Nijemci nisu došli daleko s razvojem atomskog oružja, ali je i dalje enigma što je sve znao Heisenberg. Pitao sam Supeka je li ikad o tome razgovarao s Heisenbergom kojeg na Zapadu nisu voljeli jer je ostao u Njemačkoj tijekom Hitlerova režima. Heisenberg nije bio za Hitlera, ali nije htio ni da Njemačka izgubi rat, što je bilo teško pomiriti.

Supek mi je rekao: ‘Da, razgovarao sam s njim o tome’. No, Heisenberg mi je odgovorio: ‘Čujte, Supek, da niste počeli pisati romane, bili biste dobar fizičar’. Drugim riječima, Heisenberg to nikome nije želio reći, čak ni svome bivšem studentu Ivanu Supeku s kojim je ostao prijatelj do kraja života – ispričao je Krunoslav Pisk.

Naš sugovornik već godinama pokušava dokučiti i tajne jugoslavenskog nuklearnog programa. Iako je nakon Drugog svjetskog rata bila jedna od najsiromašnijih zemalja u Europi, bivša je Jugoslavija razvijala nuklearni program radi stvaranja atomske bombe. Jugoslavija je s prvim nuklearnim programom startala 1947. godine.

Dokazi o vojnom usmjerenju jugoslavenskog nuklearnog programa su u dokumentu pod naslovom “O dva bitna uslova za razvitak atomske energije” iz 1953. godine, što su ga potpisali Stevan Dedijer, Pavle Savić i Nizozemac Robert J. Walen, viši znanstveni suradnik u Vinči. U tome se dokumentu navodi da je prvi od dva cilja jugoslavenskoga programa razvoja atomske energije “proizvodnja atomskog oružja”. Drugi je cilj bio “uporaba atomske energije u gospodarstvu”. No, početkom 1960-ih Tito je iznenada obustavio program razvoja nuklearnog oružja, a razlozi za to još se propituju.

– Jugoslavija je definitivno imala aspiraciju napraviti bombu i pokušala je to tri puta: nakon Drugog svjetskog rata pa do početka 1960-ih, zatim između 1974. i 1982. te od 1982. do 1987. godine. No, problem je manjak arhivskih dokumenata u kasnijim razdobljima pa je stoga vrlo dragocjena knjiga srpskog povjesničara dr. Dragomira Bondžića ‘Između ambicija i iluzija: Nuklearna politika Jugoslavije 1945.-1990.’, prva na našim prostorima koja se u cijelosti bavi jugoslavenskim nuklearnim programom.

U toj se knjizi spominje da je Savezni sekretarijat za obranu u listopadu 1974. godine prema Titovoj direktivi izradio elaborat, kodnog imena Zadatak Kozara, u kome se spominju tri scenarija kako bi Jugoslavija mogla razviti atomsko oružje, a da se izbjegne vidljivo kršenje Međunarodnog ugovora o neširenju atomskog oružja. Zaključak je da se ide u civilni nuklearni program unutar kojeg će se skriti vojni dio. Jer, mali je korak između dobrog civilnog programa i da napravite bombu, što su uostalom napravile mnoge zemlje. Iz dokumenata u Bondžićevoj knjizi razvidno je da su u Zadatak Kozara s IRB-a bili uključeni dr. Ivo Šlaus i dr. Petar Strohal – rekao je Pisk.

Ipak, novac za nuklearni program odvojen je tek nakon Titove smrti, 1981. godine. U sklopu jugoslavenskog nuklearnog programa 1980-ih postojala su dva programa: Program A, koji je bio vojni s ciljem izrade atomske bombe, i program B, koji bi se mogao nazvati mirnodopskim, a obuhvaćao je sve nuklearne tehnologije. Na IRB-u, Program A bio je usmjeren posebno na razvoj neutronske komponente bombe, a na tome je radila skupina sastavljena od manje od deset fizičara, elektroinženjera i tehničara s IRB-a. Za smještaj tajnih djelatnosti na programu A sagrađena je nova zgrada na IRB-u, nazvana “Fesobil”.

– Naziv zgrade nastao je prema Radoslavu Despotoviću Fesu, glavnom čovjeku koji je pridonio da se ona podigne. Budući da je zgrada sagrađena nakon černobilske katastrofe, a bila je povezana s primijenjenim radom s radioaktivnim materijalima, odnosno povezana s nuklearnim elektranama, kombinacijom između nadimka Fes i nuklearne elektrane Černobil nastalo je ime Fesobil – objasnio je Krunoslav Pisk koji je pravu istinu o programu A doznao tek početkom 1990-ih.

“Idemo napraviti bombu”

– Jedan od mojih najboljih prijatelja, dr. Đuro Miljanić (1942. – 2016.), voditelj skupine na IRB-u koja je razvijala neutronsku komponentu bombe, 1990. ili 1991. godine ispričao mi je sve o nuklearnom programu 1980-ih. Nikad nisam osjećao ljutnju prema Đuri što sam naknadno doznao istinu o tome što se radilo na IRB-u. Jer, moram reći da ne znam što bih ja napravio da je mene netko pozvao iz vrha države da se pridružim tajnom projektu razvoja atomske bombe.

Primjerice, što bi bilo da je meni predsjednik Tuđman, koji se sa mnom šalio na račun atomske bombe, ozbiljno rekao: ‘Kruno, idemo napraviti bombu’. Ne znam što bih učinio – zaključio je Pisk. Potvrdu o postojanju tajnog jugoslavenskog nuklearnog programa dobio je i od dr. Božidara Matića (1937. – 2016.), ministra znanosti u saveznoj vladi Branka Mikulića te čelnog čovjeka Energoinvesta od 1989. do 1993. godine.

– Kad sam 1992. ili 1993. godine telefonski razgovarao s Božom Matićem, koji je tada bio u opkoljenom Sarajevu, potvrdio mi je postojanje nuklearnog programa kodnog imena Sutjeska. Inače, u članku objavljenom 2000. godine u časopisu Bulletin of Nuclear Scientists, Đuro Miljanić je s Williamom Potterom i Ivom Šlausom opisao jugoslavenski nuklearni program nakon 1980-ih i ulogu sarajevske kompanije Energoinvest. Iz onoga što su mi Božo Matić i Đuro Miljanić rekli, spoznao sam da se u razvoju jugoslavenske atomske bombe nije došlo daleko, ali da je realizacija bila moguća.

Projekt Sutjeska bio je u potpunosti vojni i vjerujem da će se jednog dana, kad se otvore arhivi bivše Jugoslavenske narodne armije, naći dokumenti koji će nam potvrditi osobna svjedočanstva ljudi koji su bili upućeni u jugoslavenski nuklearni program – zaključio je Krunoslav Pisk prenosi Jutarnji.

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Kary B. Mullis, 74, Dies; Found a Way to Analyze DNA and Won Nobel

Kary B. Mullis, a biochemist who won the 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering a way to analyze DNA easily and cheaply and thus pave the way for major advances in medical diagnostics, molecular biology and forensic science, died on Aug. 7 at his home in Newport Beach, Calif. He was 74.

The cause was heart and respiratory failure brought on by pneumonia, his wife, Nancy Cosgrove Mullis, said.

The process for analyzing DNA that Dr. Mullis invented is called polymerase chain reaction, or PCR. It replicates a single strand of DNA millions of times, enabling scientists to pinpoint a segment of the strand and amplify it for identification. Polymerase, an enzyme that synthesizes polymers and nucleic acids, is essential in creating DNA and RNA, the molecules that are responsible for coding DNA.

Before PCR, amplifying DNA took weeks, because it had to be generated in bacteria. Once Dr. Mullis’s process was perfected, it took only hours, opening up a world of possibilities.

Today, his method is used to detect genetic mutations that can lead to diagnoses of diseases, like sickle cell anemia; analyze ancient sources of DNA, like bones; assist in obtaining crime scene evidence; and determine paternity.

It was used as well to decode and map the entire human DNA as part of the Human Genome Project, the landmark international research effort that ran from 1990 to 2003.

As he told the story in his Nobel lecture, Dr. Mullis found his inspiration one night in 1983 while driving to his cabin in Mendocino, Calif.

At the time, Dr. Mullis was a lab director for Cetus Corporation, one of the first biotechnology companies, which had been founded in Berkeley, Calif. His lab made short strands of DNA molecules called oligonucleotides, and had become so efficient at it that it was making more than the company could use. Worried that some of his lab workers might be laid off because of their overproductivity, Dr. Mullis was searching for a way to use more of the molecules.

As he drove, he considered the challenges scientists faced in decoding and identifying problems in human DNA. There are billions of DNA base pairs, he knew, but they had proved exceedingly difficult to analyze because there was no easy way to focus on small groups of them.

Dr. Mullis knew that the oligonucleotides bond easily with DNA. The problem was how to isolate the DNA that scientists might want to analyze. Dr. Mullis, pondering ways to control the oligonucleotides, suddenly realized that they didn’t have to be controlled at all. The bonding would have a useful side effect: It would double the amount of DNA that scientists were interested in. The process could then be repeated over and over, expanding the DNA sample exponentially. It would be like pumping up a microbe to the size of a dinosaur.

Indeed, the science of PCR, because it allows for the unlimited replication of small bits of DNA, was one of the inspirations of “Jurassic Park,” the Michael Crichton novel about a theme park of cloned dinosaurs that Steven Spielberg turned into a movie franchise.

Though Dr. Mullis came up with the concept of PCR, proving that it worked was another matter; months after his breakthrough, he had still not done so. He had not written a paper to validate his idea.

“Mullis as an experimentalist is sort of hit and miss,” Thomas J. White, who got Dr. Mullis his job at Cetus, told The New York Times in 1998.

As a result, two other Cetus scientists, Randall K. Saiki and Henry A. Erlich, were put on the project, and the three published a paper about the process in 1985. No one, however, disputed that it was Dr. Mullis who had first figured it out.

For his discovery, Cetus awarded Dr. Mullis $10,000, but the company later sold the rights to his PCR process to the pharmaceutical giant F. Hoffmann-La Roche for $300 million. Dr. Mullis, believing he had been denied a just reward, remained bitter about it for the rest of his life.

He shared his Nobel Prize with Michael Smith, a British-born scientist, who was also cited for advances in DNA research.

In 1995, defense lawyers in the murder trial of O.J. Simpson enlisted Dr. Mullis as an expert witness because his PCR method had been used to analyze blood samples in the case. But he was ultimately not called to testify; prosecutors had made it clear that if he did take the stand they would try to undermine his credibility by bringing up his acknowledged history of drinking and drug use.

Kary Banks Mullis was born on Dec. 28, 1944, in Lenoir, N.C. He was the second of four sons of Cecil and Bernice Alberta (Barker) Mullis. His father was a furniture salesman. The family moved to Columbia, S.C., when Kary was 5. He got his start in science there one summer when, at 13, he designed and made his own rockets, inspired by the launch of the Soviet satellite Sputnik.

Dr. Mullis attended Dreher High School in Columbia and the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, graduating in 1966 with a degree in chemistry. He then headed to California, arriving in Berkeley around the time of the Summer of Love in 1967. As he spoke and wrote about it in later years, he used L.S.D. liberally. He earned his Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1972.

Dr. Mullis took a detour from science after that, trying his hand at writing fiction and then managing a bakery for two years. He then headed for Kansas, where his wife at the time was enrolling in medical school. He did a postdoctoral research fellowship in pediatric cardiology at the University of Kansas Medical Center, finishing in 1977. He returned to California and went to work at Cetus in 1979.

After the discovery of PCR, his career trailed off. He quit Cetus in 1986 and thereafter mostly stuck to the lecture circuit.

Dr. Mullis’s marriages to Richards Haley, Gail Hubbell and Cynthia Gibson ended in divorce. He married Nancy Cosgrove in 1997. Along with her, he is survived by a daughter, Louise Olsen; two sons, Christopher and Jeremy; two brothers, Brent and David; and two grandchildren. Another brother, Robert, died several years ago.

Dr. Mullis was naturally contrarian and none too fond of many scientists. “Scientists are doing an awful lot of damage to the world in the name of helping it,” he told The Times in 1998. “I don’t mind attacking my own fraternity because I am ashamed of it.”

One reviewer called Dr. Mullis’s 1998 book an “autobiography of the nervous system of an extraordinary chemist.”

He was skeptical of climate science and expressed doubts that H.I.V. causes AIDS, though Ms. Mullis said he had been misunderstood. “He thought it was premature to assign blame to one tiny retrovirus,” she said.

In 1998, Dr. Mulls gathered some of his controversial ideas — and unfiltered moments — into a book, “Dancing Naked in the Mind Field.” In one anecdote, on receiving the prestigious Japan Prize for his research, he recalled meeting the empress of Japan and calling her “Sweetie.”

In The New York Times Book Review, the science writer Dick Teresi called the book “darkly joyous” and an “autobiography of the nervous system of an extraordinary chemist.”

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Commercial Building Automation Market to boom exhibiting a CAGR of 4.3% From 2016-2024

Global Commercial Building Automation Market: Snapshot

The global commercial building automation market is highly likely to experience surge in demand for energy-conservative processes and reduction of overall operating costs, especially in the government buildings’ segment. Government initiatives for constructing green buildings and the rising primary focus on green building by more companies are the key contributors to the growth of the global commercial building automation market. Other factors driving it include a gain in demand for building automation within the small and medium sized buildings segments after the growing use of include energy consumption analytics, the need to improve occupant comfort level and mental satisfaction for environment-conscious buyers.

The global commercial building automation market is likely to reach US$77.63 bn by the end of 2016. In terms of revenue, this market is expected to reach US$108.49 bn by 2024, after expanding at a steady CAGR of 4.3% from 2016 to 2024.

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Commercial Building Automation Market: Rising Primary Focus on Green Building by More Companies

The global commercial building automation market is growing at a significant rate as the need for energy-efficient buildings in increasing. Companies and governments of various regions have shifted their focus on constructing green building which has led to the growth of commercial building automation market. Various initiatives such as mergers and acquisitions, launching improved products, and penetrating into new markets played a crucial role in the development of commercial building automation market. The market is highly fragmented owing to the presence of large number of regional players. Few of the prominent players operating in the global commercial building automation market include Honeywell International Inc. (U.S), ABB Ltd. (Switzerland), Ingersoll Rand Plc. (Ireland), Robert Bosch GmbH (Germany), Hubbell Inc. (U.S), Siemens AG (Germany), Johnson Controls International plc. (U.S), Schneider Electric SE (France), and Cisco Systems Inc. (U.S) among others.

The commercial building automation market was valued at US$77.63 billion in 2016 and is anticipated to reach at US$108.49 billion by the end of 2024 globally. The market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 4.3% steadily during the forecast period. According to product segment, the global commercial building automation market is bifurcated into interfacing components, HVAC systems, light sensors, power supply, security & surveillance, and room automation. Among these, HVAC system segment is likely to dominate the market in the forecast period.

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Index

INDEX

Abbas, Mahmoud, 231, 299

Abe, Shinzō, 106

Abraham Lincoln, USS, 182

Abramovich, Roman, 80

Adelson, Sheldon, 6, 141–43, 178, 289, 309

Afghanistan, 42, 263–68, 275–76

Agalarov, Aras, 254

Agenda, The (Woodward), 116

Ailes, Beth, 1, 4, 223–24

Ailes, Roger, 1–8, 11, 24, 26, 57, 59–60, 147, 164, 178–79, 195–98, 210, 212, 222–23

Alabama, 301–3

Al Shayrat airfield strike, 193–94

alt-right, 59, 116, 121, 128–29, 137–38, 174, 180, 296

American Prospect, 297

Anbang Insurance Group, 211

anti-Semitism, 140–44, 296

Anton, Michael, 105–6, 185, 229

Apprentice, The (TV show), 30, 76, 92, 109, 200

Arif, Tevfik, 100

Armey, Dick, 81

Arthur Andersen, 278

Art of the Deal, The (Trump and Schwartz), 22

Assad, Bashar al-, 183, 190

Atlantic City, 30, 99, 210

Atwater, Lee, 57

Australia, 78

Ayers, Nick, 240

Azerbaijan, 254

Bahrain, 231

Baier, Bret, 159–60

Baker, James, 27, 34

Baker, Peter, 277

Bannon, Steve, 185, 209, 247

Afghanistan and, 263–68

agenda of, in White House, 115–21, 275–77

agenda of, post-firing, 301–10

alt-right and, 137–38

background of, 55–60

campaign and, 3, 12–13, 17–18, 55, 86, 112–13, 201

Charlottesville and, 294–96

China and, 7–8, 297

Cohn and, 144, 146, 186

Comey firing and, 169–70, 211–15, 217–18, 232–33, 245–46, 261

CPAC and, 126–34

eve of inauguration and, 4–10

first weeks of presidency and, 52–55, 60–65, 67–70

Flynn and, 95, 103, 106

immigration and, 61–65, 77, 113

inauguration and, 42–43, 148

influence of, 70, 85, 108–10, 188

isolationism of, 227

Israel and, 140–43

Ivanka and, 146–48, 186–87, 211, 218–19, 221, 257

Jarvanka vs., 140, 174–82, 235–39, 243, 257, 261–62, 272, 274, 277, 280–81, 289–91

Kelly and, 287–91, 294–97

Kushner and, 69–70, 72, 77, 87, 110, 132, 134, 140–48

Kuttner call and firing of, 297–300, 307

media and, 38, 90–91, 93, 195–97, 206–9, 222

NSC and, 103, 176, 190–92

Obamacare and, 165–67, 170–72, 175

Paris Climate Accord and, 238–39

Pence and, 124

Priebus and, 33–34, 110

role of, in early presidency, 31–35

Russia investigation and, 7, 95, 97, 101, 154–55, 157, 170, 211, 233–46, 254–55, 257, 260–62, 278–81, 308

Ryan and, 161–63

Saudi Arabia and, 229–30

Scaramucci and, 268, 271, 274, 277, 281–85

Sessions and, 155, 241–42, 277–78

Syria and, 190–94

Trump on, 122–23

Trump pressured to fire, 173–82

Trump’s personality and, 21, 23, 35, 45, 47–48, 148–49, 158

Trump’s Times interview and, 277–78

White House appointments and, 4, 36, 86–87, 89, 189, 285

Barra, Mary, 88

Barrack, Tom, 27–29, 33, 42, 85, 233, 240

Bartiromo, Maria, 205

Bass, Edward, 56

Bayrock Group, 100–102

Bedminster Golf Club, 165, 213–14, 216, 287–94, 297, 302, 307

Beinart, Peter, 297

Benghazi, 97

Berkowitz, Avi, 143

Berlusconi, Silvio, 100

Berman, Mark, 78

Best and the Brightest, The (Halberstam), 53–54

Bezos, Jeff, 35

Biosphere 2, 56

Blackstone Group, 35, 78, 87, 298

Blackwater, 265

Blair, Tony, 156–58, 228

Blankfein, Lloyd, 144

Bloomberg, Michael, 117

Boehner, John, 26, 161

Boeing, 88

Bolton, John, 4–5, 189

border wall, 77–78, 228, 280, 303

Bossie, David, 58, 144, 177, 234, 237, 301

Bowles, Erskine, 27

Boyle, Matthew, 298–300

Boy Scouts of America, 284

Brady, Tom, 50

Brand, Rachel, 279

Breitbart, Andrew, 58–59

Breitbart News, 2, 32, 58–59, 62, 121, 126–29, 138, 160–62, 167, 179–80, 196, 207–8, 237, 266, 275, 297–98, 309

Brennan, John, 6, 41

Brexit, 5

Britain, 70, 157

Brooks, Mel, 15

Bryan, William Jennings, 45

Brzezinski, Mika, 66–69, 121, 176, 247–49

Brzezinski, Zbigniew, 66

Buckley, William F., 127

Bush, Billy, 10, 13–14, 34, 86, 96, 161

Bush, George H. W., 26, 27, 34, 126

Bush, George W., 16, 27, 44, 82, 90, 126, 128, 138, 182, 184, 199, 205, 225, 227, 264

Bush, Jeb, 21, 56, 138

business councils, 35, 87–88, 239, 298

Camp David, 84

Canada, 107, 228

Card, Andrew, 27

Carlson, Tucker, 140, 205

Carter, Arthur, 74–75

Carter, Graydon, 74, 199

Carter, Jimmy, 27, 66

Caslen, Robert L., Jr., 189

Celebrity Apprentice (TV show), 22

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 6, 17, 42, 48–51, 65, 102, 104, 263, 265, 267

Charlottesville rally, 292–96, 298

chemical weapons, 183–84, 190–93, 265

Cheney, Dick, 27

China, 6–8, 39, 100, 193–94, 211, 226, 228, 258, 267, 269–70, 297

Chopra, Deepak, 80

Christie, Chris, 16, 24–25, 30–31, 210, 242, 279

Christoff, Niki, 78

Churchill, Winston, 50

Circa news website, 159, 257

Clapper, James, 41, 214–15

Clinton, Bill, 23, 27, 54, 58, 90, 116, 123, 128, 158, 225, 228

impeachment of, 201, 233, 280

Clinton, Hillary, 3, 11–12, 18, 35, 69, 76, 87, 94, 97, 112, 134, 141, 144, 164, 204, 206, 233, 253, 269

Comey and, 169, 213, 216, 220, 245

Russian hacking of emails, 254, 259–60

Clinton Cash (Schweizer), 309

CNBC, 143, 207

CNN, 37, 39, 92, 159, 237, 298

Cohen, Michael, 278–80

Cohn, Gary, 89, 143–46, 170–71, 176, 186–87, 190, 229, 235, 258, 261, 270, 276, 285, 290, 296, 304–5

Cohn, Roy, 73, 141

Collins, Gail, 92

Comey, James, 6, 11, 168–70, 211–20, 223–24, 229, 232–33, 237, 242–45, 261–62, 280, 307

Commerce Department, 133

Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), 126–39

Conway, George, 201–2

Conway, Kellyanne, 9–10, 12, 18, 20, 33, 37, 39, 43, 45, 48, 60, 64, 81, 84, 86–87, 91, 93, 96–97, 107, 109, 112, 122, 127, 129, 132, 134, 146, 170, 175–76, 185, 188, 198–203, 205, 207, 209, 261, 269, 291

Corallo, Mark, 238, 257, 259–60, 280–81

Corker, Bob, 43

Corzine, Jon, 56, 144

Coulter, Ann, 29, 128, 138, 201, 205

Couric, Katie, 203

Cruz, Ted, 12, 201

DACA, 280

Daily Mail, 15, 308

Daley, Bill, 27

Davis, Lanny, 233, 238

Dean, John, 212–13

Defense Intelligence Agency, 101

Democratic National Committee (DNC), 101

Democratic Party, 37, 97, 212, 310

Deripaska, Oleg, 17, 101, 240

Devil’s Bargain, The (Green), 276, 289

DeVos, Betsy, 21, 129

DeYoung, Karen, 105–6

Dickerson, John, 209

Digital Entertainment Network, 56

Director of National Intelligence, 86, 214

Disney, 42, 88

Dowd, Mark, 281

Dubai, 39

Dubke, Mike, 208, 273

Duke, David, 141

Dunford, Joseph, 182

Egypt, 6, 81, 227, 231

elections

of 2008, 62, 111

of 2016, 18, 101–2, 309

of 2017, 301–2

of 2018, 171, 309–10

of 2020, 308–9

Emanuel, Rahm, 27

Enron, 278

environmental regulation, 182, 295

Epstein, Edward Jay, 102

Epstein, Jeffrey, 28

Europe, 5, 142

European Union, 99

executive orders (EOs), 120, 133

climate change, 182

immigration and travel ban, 61–65, 68, 70, 78, 95, 113, 117

executive privilege, 245, 278

Export-Import Bank, 271

Facebook, 21

Farage, Nigel, 275

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 6, 11, 42, 96, 98, 101–2, 156, 159, 168–70, 210–20, 235, 244–46, 255, 281

Federalist Society, 86

Federal Reserve, 276

Fields, James Alex, Jr., 293

Financial Times, 278

First Amendment, 136

Five, The (TV show), 273

Florida, 60

Flynn, Michael, 4, 16–17, 95–96, 101–7, 154–55, 172, 176, 188–89, 191, 210, 220–21, 225, 227, 244, 280

Foer, Franklin, 99–102

Ford, Gerald, 27, 90

Foreign Intelligence Surveillance (FISA) Court, 95

Fourth Amendment, 16

Fox Business Channel, 205, 268, 270

Fox News, 1–3, 8, 24, 127–28, 140, 159, 195–97, 205, 217, 223, 237, 272, 284, 298

Franken, Al, 151–52

Freedom Caucus, 161, 171

Fusion GPS, 37, 99

G20 summit, 257

Gaddafi, Muammar, 270

Gamergate, 59

Gawker, 308

Gaza, 6

Gazprom, 101

Geffen, David, 12, 178

General Electric (GE), 88

General Motors, 88

Georgia (post-Soviet), 226

Gingrich, Newt, 177

Giuliani, Rudy, 16, 30, 86–87, 210, 242, 279

Glover, Juleanna, 78

Glover Park Group, 203

Goldman Sachs, 55–56, 81–82, 119, 143–49, 174, 179, 184, 270, 305

Goldman Sachs Foundation, 82

Goldwater, Barry, 127

Gore, Al, 123

Gorka, Sebastian, 129

Gorsuch, Neil, 85–87, 133

Grimm, Michael, 310

Guardian, 276

Guilfoyle, Kimberly, 223, 272–73, 284

H-1B visas, 36

Haberman, Maggie, 91–92, 206–7, 277

Hagin, Joe, 186, 229

Hahn, Julia, 236

Haig, Alexander, 27

Halberstam, David, 53–55

Haldeman, H. R., 27

Haley, Nikki, 305–6

Hall, Jerry, 19

Halperin, Mark, 217

Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, king of Bahrain, 231

Hanley, Allie, 127, 139

Hannity, Sean, 68, 195–96, 222–24, 309

Harder, Charles, 308

Haspel, Gina, 157

Health and Human Services Department (HHS), 166

Hemingway, Mark, 38

Heritage Foundation, 162

Heyer, Heather, 293

Hicks, Hope, 13, 26, 109, 150–54, 158, 160, 185, 188, 198–201, 203–9, 213, 216–17, 229, 235, 247, 258–59, 261–62, 271, 277, 279, 281, 297, 307

Hiltzik, Matthew, 203–4, 207

Hitler, Adolf, 127

HNA Group, 269

Hogan, Hulk, 22, 308

Homeland Security Department, 63, 86, 133, 218, 285, 288

Hoover, J. Edgar, 219

Hubbell, Webster, 97

Hull, Cordell, 105

Hussein, Saddam, 27

Hutchison, Kay Bailey, 81

IBM, 88

Icahn, Carl, 20, 141, 211

Iger, Bob, 88, 238

immigration and travel ban, 36, 62–65, 68, 70, 78, 95, 113, 116–17, 138, 288

infrastructure, 224, 295

Ingraham, Laura, 201, 205, 222

intelligence community, 6–7, 41–42, 98, 101–2, 104, 153, 159, 219

Internet Gaming Entertainment (IGE), 56–57

In the Face of Evil (documentary), 58

Iran, 4, 191, 225–27

Iraq, 42, 49, 128, 138, 182

ISIS, 7, 49, 219

isolationism, 118, 174, 184, 191, 227

Israel, 4, 6, 140–43, 211, 219, 227, 230, 265, 281, 289

Jackson, Andrew, 44, 67, 158

Jackson, Michael, 28, 42

Japan, 39, 106

Jarrett, Valerie, 129

Jefferson, Thomas, 293

Jerusalem, 6

Jews, 73, 140–45, 157, 293

John Birch Society, 127

Johnson, Boris, 70

Johnson, Jamie, 79–80

Johnson, Lyndon B., 6–7, 53, 66, 158, 167

Johnson, Woody, 12

Jones, Paula, 201

Jordan, 6

Jordan, Hamilton, 27

Jordan, Vernon, 78

Justice Department (DOJ), 94–96, 98, 105, 151, 154–56, 168–69, 210, 216–17, 242

Kaepernick, Colin, 303

Kalanick, Travis, 88

Kaplan, Peter, 74–76

Kasowitz, Marc, 238, 259–60, 280–81

Kazakhstan, 281

Keaton, Alex P., 128

Kelly, John, 4, 63, 109, 188, 218, 285, 287–91, 294–97, 299–300, 304–7

Kennedy, John F., 53, 84

Kent, Phil, 92

Khan Sheikhoun chemical attack, 183–84, 188–93

Kim Jong-un, 293

King, Martin Luther, Jr., 50–51

Kirk, Russell, 127

Kislyak, Sergey, 95, 106, 151, 154–55, 218, 236

Kissinger, Henry, 41, 77, 142, 145, 193, 226–28

Koch brothers, 178

Kudlow, Larry, 143, 207

Ku Klux Klan (KKK), 294–95

Kurtz, Howard, 217

Kushner, Charlie, 17, 31, 72, 210–11, 257, 281

Kushner, Jared

background of, 28, 71–76, 80–81

Bannon and, 8, 12, 52–53, 68, 110, 115, 132–34, 140, 145–47, 154, 173–74, 176, 179–82, 187, 191, 207–8, 235–36, 238–39, 243, 245–47, 274, 276, 281, 289, 291, 297

business affairs of, 17–18, 102, 211, 256, 281

business council and, 35, 87–88

Charlottesville rally and, 294

China and, 193, 211, 228

Christie and, 31

Comey and, 168–70, 210–14, 216–18, 232, 243, 245, 280, 307

CPAC and, 132–34

electoral victory and, 10, 12, 18–19, 45, 60, 103, 112

intelligence community and, 41–42, 48, 156–57

Kelly and, 288–91, 294, 305–6

McMaster and, 176, 189, 192–93, 235, 266, 289

media and, 68–69, 76, 146, 202–3, 207, 277–79

Mexico and, 77–78

Middle East and, 70, 140–43, 145, 157, 182, 192, 194, 211, 266, 268

Murdoch and, 73, 156, 179

Obamacare and, 72, 166–68

Office of American Innovation and, 181, 207

policy and, 115–25, 226, 228

role of, in White House, 29–30, 40–41, 64, 69–72, 77, 93, 109, 172, 285

Russia and, 24, 106, 154–56, 170, 236, 239, 253–58, 261, 271, 273, 278, 280, 283–84, 307–8

Saudi Arabia and, 225–29

Trump’s speech to Congress and, 149–51

White House staff and, 33, 110, 121, 140, 143–49, 186, 253, 268, 271–74, 282–83, 286

Kushner, Josh, 69, 166

Kushner Companies, 256

Kuttner, Robert, 297–98

labor unions, 67–68

Ledeen, Michael, 104

Lee, Robert E., 293

Lefrak, Richard, 27

Le Pen, Marine, 100

Lewandowski, Corey, 11–13, 17, 26, 28–29, 204, 234, 237–38, 252–53, 255

Lewinsky, Monica, 233

Libya, 6, 42

Lighthizer, Robert, 133

Limbaugh, Rush, 128, 222

Lowe, Rob, 42

Luntz, Frank, 201

Manafort, Paul, 12, 17, 28, 101, 210, 240, 253–56, 278, 280

Manhattan, Inc., 74

Manigault, Omarosa, 109

Mar-a-Lago, 4, 69, 99, 106, 159, 189, 193–94, 210, 228, 248–49

Marcus, Bernie, 309

Mattis, James, 4, 21, 103, 109, 188, 264–65, 288, 296, 304–5

May, Theresa, 258

McCain, John, 112, 306

McCarthy, Joe, 73

McConnell, Mitch, 32, 117, 301–2

McCormick, John, 167

McGahn, Don, 95, 212–14, 217

McLaughlin, John, 10

McMaster, H. R., 109, 176, 185, 188–93, 211, 235, 258, 263–68, 276–77, 288–89, 298–99, 304–5

McNerney, Jim, 88

Meadows, Mark, 161, 163, 171

Medicare, 165

Melton, Carol, 78

Mensch, Louise, 160

Mercer, Rebekah, 12, 58–59, 121, 127, 135, 139, 177–80, 201, 208, 309

Mercer, Robert, 12, 58–59, 112, 177–80, 201, 309

Mexico, 39, 62, 77, 93, 228

Middle East, 29, 70, 140, 145, 157, 190, 211, 224–33, 242, 264

Mighty Ducks, The (TV show), 56

military contractors, 265, 267

Miller, Jason, 234, 237–38, 299

Miller, Stephen, 61, 64–65, 89, 133, 148, 209, 213, 229, 258, 307

Mnuchin, Steve, 13, 133, 290, 296, 304

Mohammed bin Nayef, crown prince of Saudi Arabia (MBN), 228, 231

Mohammed bin Salman, crown prince of Saudi Arabia (MBS), 224–31

Moore, Roy, 302–4

Morgan, Piers, 22

Morning Joe (TV show), 32, 66–67, 121, 189, 247–48

MSNBC, 66, 106, 247

Ms. Universe contest, 38–39

Mueller, Robert, 220–21, 223, 229–30, 232–33, 238–41, 243, 256, 258, 261–62, 277–80, 306, 308

Mulvaney, Mick, 116, 171, 185, 285

Murdoch, Chloe, 156

Murdoch, Grace, 156

Murdoch, Rupert, 2, 8, 19–20, 32, 36, 60–61, 73–74, 80–81, 93, 121, 147, 156–57, 178–79, 195–98, 223, 289, 298

Murdoch, Wendi, 19, 80, 156

Murphy, Mike, 56

Musk, Elon, 35, 78, 88, 238

National Economic Council, 89, 143–44

National Environment Policy Act (1970), 182

National Football League, 303–4

nationalists, 133–34, 138, 174, 276, 293, 301–2

National Policy Institute, 127

National Republican Senatorial Committee, 112

National Security Advisor

Brzezinski as, 66

Flynn as, 4, 17, 95, 101–7, 191

McMaster as, 176, 188–89

Rice as, 6, 41

National Security Agency (NSA), 102, 223

National Security Council (NSC), 42, 103, 105, 176, 185–86, 190–91, 193, 265, 267

Navarro, Peter, 133

Nazi Germany, 7

NBC, 66, 92

neoconservatives, 4, 128, 227

neo-Nazis, 137, 292–95

Netanyahu, Benjamin, 6, 142, 231

New Republic, 98, 297

Newsom, Gavin, 272

New Yorker, 37, 56, 151, 154, 215, 284–85

New York magazine, 74

New York Observer, 72–76, 141

New York Post, 15, 74, 113, 207

New York Times, 37, 51, 90–92, 96, 151–53, 196, 205, 207, 211, 236, 237, 257, 259–60, 266, 271, 277

Nixon, Richard M., 2, 8, 26–27, 41, 54, 90, 93, 212–13, 222

Nooyi, Indra, 88–89

North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), 77

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), 99

North Korea, 291–93, 297

Nunberg, Sam, 11, 13, 16, 22, 144, 237–38, 248, 282, 291, 300

Nunes, Devin, 170

Obama, Barack, 27, 35–36, 41–45, 54, 61–63, 67, 90, 101, 104, 128, 164, 187, 215, 250, 269, 295

birth certificate and, 62, 295

DOJ and, 94–96, 210, 279

executive orders and, 61

farewell speech, 36

Flynn and, 101

immigration and, 63

Middle East and, 6–7, 42, 183, 190, 225, 227, 231, 263–66

Russia and, 95, 151–54, 156

Trump inauguration and, 43–44

White House Correspondents’ Dinner and, 198

wiretapping and, 157–60

Obamacare repeal and replace, 72, 116–17, 164–67, 170–71, 175, 224, 283, 285, 290

Office of American Innovation, 180–81, 207

Office of Management and Budget (OMB), 116, 185, 285

O’Neill, Tip, 167

opioid crisis, 291

O’Reilly, Bill, 195–96, 222

Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development, 271

Oscar insurance company, 72

Osnos, Evan, 154

Page, Carter, 101

Palestinians, 227, 230–32

Panetta, Leon, 27

Paris Climate Accord, 182, 238–39, 301

PayPal, 21

Pelosi, Nancy, 78

Peña Nieto, Enrique, 77–78, 228

Pence, Karen, 124, 209

Pence, Mike, 92, 95, 106–7, 123–24, 171, 209, 218, 240

Pentagon, 7, 55

Perelman, Ronald, 73, 141

Perlmutter, Ike, 141

Petraeus, David, 263–64

Pierce, Brock, 56–57

Planned Parenthood, 117

Playbook, 171

Podesta, John, 27

Politico, 171

Pompeo, Mike, 49, 51, 157, 306

populists, 6, 24, 31, 100, 113, 118, 142, 174–75, 177, 276, 301

Powell, Dina, 81–82, 145–46, 176–77, 184–88, 190, 192–94, 229, 235–36, 258, 261, 265–67, 276, 279, 285, 296, 306

Preate, Alexandra, 1, 32, 130, 207–8, 238, 249, 275, 278–79, 299

Pre-Election Presidential Transition Act (2010), 24

Price, Tom, 165–66, 171, 291

Priebus, Reince, 77, 86, 144, 146, 150, 166, 171–73, 176, 203, 205, 207, 209, 229, 238, 257, 296, 304

business councils and, 89

campaign and, 9–10, 13, 18, 112–13

chief of staff appointment and, 26, 32–34, 60, 64–65, 67–70, 109–10, 117–24, 243–44, 305

CPAC and, 127, 130–34

Flynn and, 95, 106

inauguration and, 45, 52

Obama wiretapping story and, 159–60

resignation of, 282–85, 307

Russia investigation and, 171, 211–14, 216–17, 232–34, 261–62

Scaramucci and, 270–72, 282–85

Prince, Erik, 265, 267

Private Eye magazine, 74

Producers, The (film), 15–16

Pruitt, Scott, 21

Putin, Vladimir, 7, 8, 24, 37–38, 99–102, 153, 155

Qatar, 230–31

Raffel, Josh, 142, 207, 258–59, 279

Reagan, Ronald, 26, 27, 34, 58, 90, 126–27, 144, 201, 222

Remnick, David, 154

Renaissance Technologies, 58

Republican National Committee (RNC), 10–11, 13, 26, 28, 30, 32–33, 52, 112, 119, 172, 205

Republican National Convention, 21, 26, 28, 253

Republican Party, 2, 18, 30, 40–41, 81, 86, 98, 111–12, 117–21, 128, 161–67, 171–72, 201, 290, 303

fracturing of, 179–80, 253, 283, 306, 309–10

Rhodes, Ben, 41, 154, 159, 185, 215

Rice, Susan, 7, 41, 153

Rometty, Ginni, 88

Rose, Charlie, 309

Rosen, Hillary, 78

Rosenstein, Rod, 212, 214, 216–21, 279

Ross, Wilbur, 78, 133, 229–30

Roth, Steven, 27, 141

Rove, Karl, 57, 238

Rumsfeld, Donald, 27

Russia, 24, 37–39, 92, 151–56, 160, 190–91, 236–46, 273, 303, 307–8

Bannon on, 6–7, 238–40, 278–83

Comey and, 168–70, 210–20, 242, 244–45

Don Jr. Trump Tower meeting and, 253–61, 271–72, 307

Foer’s theories on, 99–102

Flynn and, 17, 95, 102–7, 154–56

investigations begun, 41, 94–107

Kushner and, 41–42, 80, 102, 154–56, 168–70, 210–14, 218, 226, 236–37, 245–46, 254–56, 273, 278, 281, 283–84, 307–8

money trail and, 278–83

Mueller appointed special counsel, 220–21, 223, 229–30, 232–33, 238, 239, 241, 243, 261–62, 278–80

Obama wiretapping story and, 157–60

sanctions and, 105–7, 226

Sessions and, 151–52, 155–56, 245–46

Syria and, 190–91, 226

Steele dossier and, 37–39, 92–93, 102, 151, 156

Russian oligarchs, 17, 81, 100–101, 254

Ryan, Paul, 32, 117–21, 159–67, 170–72, 224

Sandberg, Sheryl, 187, 236

Sanders, Bernie, 5

Sanders, Sarah Huckabee, 229

Sater, Felix, 100–101, 278

Saturday Night Live (TV show), 89, 91, 93, 208, 276

Saudi Arabia, 6, 224–32, 236

Saval, Nikil, 276

Scaramucci, Anthony, 268–74, 277, 281–86, 288, 307

Scarborough, Joe, 32, 47, 66–69, 81, 121, 147, 176, 247–49

Scavino, Dan, 229

Schiller, Keith, 217, 229

Schlapp, Matt, 127, 129, 131–33

Schlapp, Mercedes, 129

Schmidt, Michael, 277

Schwartz, Arthur, 249, 298–300

Schwartz, Tony, 22

Schwarzman, Stephen, 35, 78, 87–88, 298

Secret Service, 84

Seinfeld (TV series), 56

Sekulow, Jay, 281

Sessions, Jeff, 4, 59, 61–62, 64, 94, 138, 151–52, 155–56, 170, 212, 214, 216–18, 220, 241–42, 245–46, 261, 277, 279–80, 302

Sinclair organization, 159

Sisi, Abdel Fattah el-, 231

60 Minutes (TV show), 309

666 Fifth Avenue, 211, 281

Skybridge Capital, 269–70

Slate, 98–99

Slovenia, 15

Smith, Justin, 78

Snowden, Edward, 42, 95

Soros, George, 178

Special Operations, 265

Spencer, Richard, 127, 129–30, 137–39, 292–94

Spicer, Sean, 10, 47–48, 64, 91, 96, 122, 132, 160, 205–7, 211, 217–18, 223, 229, 251–52, 257–58, 261, 272–73, 282, 286, 296, 307

Spy magazine, 74

Starr, Ken, 233

State Department, 63, 86, 228–29, 231

Steele, Christopher, 37, 99

Steele dossier, 37–39, 92–93, 102, 151, 156

steel industry, 67–68

Steinmetz, Benny, 211

Stone, Roger, 13, 17, 55, 288

Strange, Luther, 302–4

Strategic and Policy Forum, 87–89

Suzy magazine, 15

Swan, Jonathan, 299

Syria, 42, 183–84, 188–93, 219, 226, 265

Taliban, 267

tax reform, 87, 167, 224, 290

Tea Party, 5, 18, 26, 33, 58–59, 128, 161–63

Thiel, Peter, 21, 222, 309

Thrush, Glenn, 91, 277

Tillerson, Rex, 4, 21, 86, 211, 225, 229, 265, 267, 296, 304–6

Time magazine, 50, 56, 93, 130, 147, 276

Time Warner, 78, 92

trade, 116, 174, 276

transgender ban, 284

Treasury Department, 133

Trotta, Liz, 223

Trudeau, Justin, 107, 228

Truman, Harry, 61

Trump, Barron, 14

Trump, Don, Jr., 17–18, 27, 204, 252–61, 271, 278–79, 307

Trump, Donald

Abe meeting at Mar-a-Lago and, 106

Afghanistan and, 263–68

Ailes on, 2–8

Ailes’s funeral and, 222–24

Alabama GOP Senate run-off, 301–4

Apprentice and, 30, 76

Bannon and, 1–8, 31–32, 35, 52–53, 59–65, 93, 122, 146–47, 158, 187, 190–91, 232–37, 289, 301, 308–10

Bannon firing and, 173–83, 298–300

Billy Bush tape and, 13–14, 34

business and finances of, 17–18, 36–37, 39, 99, 100, 102, 240, 252–53, 277–79

business councils and, 87–89, 298

cabinet appointments and, 4–5, 86

campaign and, 3, 12–18, 59–60, 66–67, 99, 101, 112, 114, 134, 157, 201–4

Canada and, 228

chaotic leadership style of, 108–24

Charlottesville and, 293–96, 298

China and, 193–95, 228, 297–98

Comey and, 168–69, 210–20, 224, 232–33, 242, 244–46

Congress and, 116–18

Conway and, 146–47, 200–203

CPAC and, 126–39

DOJ and, 155–56, 168–69

electoral victory of, 3, 9–20, 24, 34–39

executive orders and, 61–65, 120

fake news and, 39, 48, 135–36, 152, 168, 215, 237

Flynn and, 103–4, 106–7

foreign policy and, 184, 226–28

future of presidency of, 308–10

Gorsuch nomination and, 85–87

Haley and, 305–6

Hannity interview and, 309

Harrisburg trip and, 209

immigration and, 61–65, 68, 117

inauguration and, 1, 40–44, 47–51, 251

information and influences on, 70–71, 108–9, 113–16, 188, 192–93

intelligence briefings and, 115

intelligence community and, 41–42

Israel and, 231

Ivanka and, 69–71, 79–80, 181, 187, 237, 252, 257–58, 290

Jews and, 140–44

Kelly as chief of staff and, 285–91, 294–97, 304–7

Kislyak meeting in Oval Office and, 218–19

Kushner and, 40, 69–73, 93, 122, 126, 142, 145, 179, 181–82, 211, 252–53, 290

McMaster and, 188–90, 193, 289

media and, 34–35, 39, 46–47, 51, 74–76, 89–93, 96–99, 195–209, 215, 224, 247–51, 260

Melania and, 14–15, 43

Mercers and, 178–80

Mexico and, 77–78, 228

Mueller investigation and, 220–21, 223, 229–30, 232–33, 238–41, 243, 256, 258, 261–62, 277–80, 306, 308

Murdoch and, 19–20, 60–61

New York Times interview of, 277

NFL controversy and, 303–4

nightly phone calls and, 85, 92, 121–23, 158, 188, 210, 215, 230, 279

normalizing influences on, 138, 179, 183–88

North Korea and, 106, 291–93, 298

Obamacare and, 164–71, 175, 224, 283

Obama wiretapping accusation and, 157–60

O’Reilly and, 196–97

pardon power and, 256

Paris Climate Accord and, 238–39

Pence and, 123

personality and behavior of, 21–24, 35, 54–55, 70–73, 83, 114, 158, 232, 242–31, 248, 303

phone calls with foreign leaders, 78

political style of, 45–48, 249–51

popular vote and, 34

press secretary and, 110, 205–6, 272–74

Priebus as chief of staff and, 26–34, 109–10, 122, 146, 187, 243, 285

Republican Party and, 112, 163

right wing and, 196–97, 222–23, 237

Russia and, 24, 37–39, 41, 95–107, 151–54, 168, 190–91, 212, 218–21, 236–42, 244–45, 253–62, 271–72, 278–79, 283, 303, 307–8

Saudi Arabia and, 224–32

Scaramucci and, 269–71, 273–74, 282–84

Scarborough and Brzezinski and, 66–69, 247–49

Sessions and, 155–56, 241–42, 245, 277, 284

sexual harassment and, 23, 238

sons and, 252–53

speaking style of, 135–37

speech at Huntsville for Strange, 303–4

speech to Boy Scouts, 284

speech to CIA, 48–51, 65

speech to joint session of Congress, 147–50

staff doubts about, 186, 232–33, 242–43, 304–5

staff infighting and, 122–23

Syria and, 183–84, 188–93

tax reform and, 224

tax returns and, 18, 278

television and, 113, 150, 188, 197

transition and, 24–36, 103, 110, 112, 144

White House Correspondents’ dinner and, 198–99, 208–9

White House living quarters and, 70, 83–85, 90–92

women as confidants of, 199–200

Yates and, 94–96, 98, 214–16

Trump, Eric, 17, 27, 252–53

Trump, Freddy (brother), 72

Trump, Fred (father), 72, 90, 295

Trump, Ivanka, 13, 15, 17–19, 64

Afghanistan and, 266–68

background of, 73, 75, 78–81, 141, 179

Bannon and, 145, 147, 174, 176, 179–81, 187, 208, 235–39, 243, 261–62, 267, 274, 276, 280–81, 289, 291, 297

Charlottesville rally and, 294

China dinner and, 194

Christie and, 31

Comey and, 170, 210–13, 216–17, 233, 237, 245, 261–62

Haley and, 305

Kelly and, 288–90, 306

media and, 156, 202–3, 207, 272–73, 277–79

Obamacare and, 166

Paris Climate Accord and, 239

Powell and, 81–82, 140, 145–46, 186–88

Russia and, 239, 256–58, 261–62, 273, 307–8

Saudi Arabia and, 229, 231

Syria and, 190, 192

White House role of, 68–71, 78–81, 118–19, 181, 187, 200, 252, 285

White House staff and, 124, 146–48, 202–3, 268, 272–73, 282–83, 286, 289

Trump, Melania, 14–15, 18, 29, 43–44, 84, 229, 231, 291, 308

Trump International Hotels, 43, 200–201, 298, 300

Trump SoHo, 210

Trump Tower, 25, 35–37, 60, 83–84, 100, 108

Don Jr. meeting with Russians at, 253–61, 271–72, 307

Kislyak meeting with Kushner and Flynn at, 154

surveillance of, 158–59

Turkey, 104, 226

Twenty-Fifth Amendment, 297, 308

Uber, 78, 88

Ukraine, 101, 226, 240

U.S. Congress, 41, 61, 98, 120, 147–49, 152, 163, 165, 166, 216–17, 238–39, 244, 306, 310

U.S. Constitution, 16

U.S. House of Representatives Budget Committee, 162

Intelligence Committee, 168, 170

Obamacare repeal and, 161–62, 171–72

Ways and Means Committee, 162

U.S. Senate, 59, 94

Judiciary Committee, Crime and Terrorism Subcommittee, 214–15

Foreign Relations Committee, 43

Intelligence Committee, 242, 244–45

Obamacare and, 283, 285

US Steel, 67

U.S. Supreme Court, 85–86, 251

University of Virginia, “Unite the Right” rally at, 293–94

unmasking, 96, 160

Vanity Fair, 74, 75, 199

Venezuela, 293

Vietnam War, 53, 264

Vogue, 35

Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, 201, 269

Walker, Scott, 33

Wall Street 2 (film), 270

Walsh, Katie, 10, 18, 52, 64, 110–17, 119–25, 144, 161, 163, 168, 171–72, 181–82, 187, 239, 303

Washington Post, 35, 37, 56, 78, 95–97, 105–6, 151–52, 155, 206, 211, 236, 237, 266

Washington Times, 129

Watergate scandal, 212–13, 278

Weekly Standard, 38

Weinstein, Harvey, 203

Weissmann, Andrew, 278

Welch, Jack, 88

West Bank, 6

White House communications director

Dubke as, 208

Hicks as, 297, 307

Scaramuccci as, 273–74, 281–86

White House Correspondents’ Dinner, 198–99, 208

White House ethics office, 270

White House Office of Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs, 270–71

white supremacy, 127, 138, 293–96

Whitewater affair, 58, 97

WikiLeaks, 153, 254

Wintour, Anna, 35–36

Wirthlin, Richard, 201

Women Who Work (Ivanka Trump), 79

Woodward, Bob, 54, 116

World Bank, 257

World Wrestling Entertainment, 22

Wynn, Steve, 30

Xi Jinping, 193, 228, 258

Yaffa, Joshua, 154

Yahoo! News, 37

Yanukovych, Viktor, 101

Yates, Sally, 94–96, 98, 104, 214–16

Yemen, 6

Yiannopoulos, Milo, 128–28, 138

Zhukova, Dasha, 80

Zucker, Jeff, 92

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

MICHAEL WOLFF has received numerous awards for his work, including two National Magazine Awards. He has been a regular columnist for Vanity Fair, New York, The Hollywood Reporter, British GQ, USA Today, and The Guardian. He is the author of six prior books, including the bestselling Burn Rate and The Man Who Owns the News. He lives in Manhattan and has four children.

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