34. Ibid.
35. Ibid.
36. Ibid.
37. Matt Apuzzo, Michael S. Schmidt, Adam Goldman, and Eric Lichtblau, “Comey Tried to Shield the F.B.I. from Politics. Then He Shaped an Election,” New York Times, Apr. 22, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/22/us/politics/james-comey-election.html.
38. Review of Four FISA Applications and Other Aspects of the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane Investigation, xi.
39. “The 2018 Pulitzer Prize Winner in National Reporting: Staffs of the New York Times and the Washington Post,” The Pulitzer Prizes, n.d., https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/staffs-new-york-times-and-washington-post.
40. “Intel Committee Ranking Member Schiff Releases Democratic Response Memo,” Press Release, U.S. House of Representatives Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Feb. 24, 2018, https://intelligence.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=358.
41. Ibid.
42. Ibid.
43. Ibid.
44. Editorial Board, “All the Adam Schiff Transcripts,” Opinion, Wall Street Journal, May 12, 2020, https://www.wsj.com/articles/all-the-adam-schiff-transcripts-11589326164.
45. Letter from Donald F. McGahn II, Counsel to the President, to Devin Nunes, Chairman, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Feb. 2, 2018, https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4365338-Nunes-memo.html.
46. Sunday Morning Futures, hosted by Maria Bartiromo, Fox News Channel, Mar. 25, 2018.
47. President Donald Trump, telephone interview with Maria Bartiromo and James Freeman, July 16, 2020.
48. Interview of: Shawn Henry, Executive Session, Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, U.S. House of Representatives, Washington D.C., Tues., Dec. 5, 2017, https://intelligence.house.gov/uploadedfiles/sh21.pdf.
49. Review of Four FISA Applications and Other Aspects of the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane Investigation, ii.
50. Ibid., 53.
51. Sunday Morning Futures, hosted by Maria Bartiromo, Fox News Channel, Apr. 22, 2018.
52. Sharon LaFraniere, Mark Mazzetti, and Matt Apuzzo, “How the Russia Inquiry Began: A Campaign Aide, Drinks and Talk of Political Dirt,” New York Times, Dec. 30, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/30/us/politics/how-fbi-russia-investigation-began-george-papadopoulos.html.
53. Sunday Morning Futures, hosted by Maria Bartiromo, Fox News Channel, Apr. 22, 2018.
54. Kimberley A. Strassel, “The Curious Case of Mr. Downer,” Wall Street Journal, May 31, 2018, https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-curious-case-of-mr-downer-1527809075.
55. David Crowe, “Downer Raised Russia Concerns at US Embassy Without Government Approval,” Sydney Morning Herald, Apr. 18, 2020, https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/downer-raised-russia-concerns-at-us-embassy-without-government-approval-20200416-p54kho.html.
56. Department of Justice documents obtained by Judicial Watch under the Freedom of Information Act, FOIPA Request No. 1442326, Civil Action No. 19-CV-02743, Subject: The Electronic Communication Which Led to the Initiation of the Counterintelligence Investigation of the Trump Campaign (as Described in the 4/4/18 Letter from Nunes to Wray and Rosenstein), supplied by David M. Hardy, Section Chief, Record/Information Dissemination Section, Information Management Division, cover memo dated Mar. 17, 2020, https://www.judicialwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/JW-v-DOJ-reply-02743.pdf.
57. Review of Four FISA Applications and Other Aspects of the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane Investigation, 263.
58. Ibid., 51n64.
59. Ibid., 167.
60. Sunday Morning Futures, hosted by Maria Bartiromo, Fox News Channel, Oct. 28, 2018.
61. Review of Four FISA Applications and Other Aspects of the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane Investigation, ix.
62. Sunday Morning Futures, hosted by Maria Bartiromo, Fox News Channel, Oct. 6, 2019.
63. Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller, III, Report on the Investigation into Russian Interference in the 2016 Presidential Election, Vol. 1, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., Mar. 2019, 88–89, https://www.justice.gov/storage/report.pdf.
64. Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller, III, Report on the Investigation into Russian Interference in the 2016 Presidential Election, Vol. 1, 193.
65. Full Transcript: Mueller Testimony Before House Judiciary, Intelligence Committees,” NBC News, July 25, 2019, https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/full-transcript-robert-mueller-house-committee-testimony-n1033216.
66. Sunday Morning Futures, hosted by Maria Bartiromo, Fox News Channel, June 21, 2020.
67. Ibid.
68. Ibid.
69. Sunday Morning Futures, hosted by Maria Bartiromo, Fox News Channel, Dec. 22, 2019.
70. Letter from Charles E. Grassley, Chairman, Committee on Finance, to William Barr, Attorney General, Department of Justice, Apr. 27, 2020, via electronic transmission, https://www.grassley.senate.gov/sites/default/files/2020-04-27%20CEG%20to%20DOJ%20(Flynn).pdf.
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72. Sunday Morning Futures, hosted by Maria Bartiromo, Fox News Channel, June 21, 2020.
73. Call transcripts released by Senators Grassley and Johnson, May 29, 2020, https://d3i6fh83elv35t.cloudfront.net/static/2020/05/FlynnTranscripts.pdf.
74. Sunday Morning Futures, hosted by Maria Bartiromo, Fox News Channel, June 21, 2020.
75. Letter from Charles E. Grassley, Chairman, Committee on Finance, to William Barr, Attorney General, Department of Justice, Apr. 27, 2020.
76. Texts released by Senate Judiciary Committee, Jan. 25, 2018, https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2018-01-25%20CEG%20Letter%20to%20FBI%20Source%20Texts.pdf.
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83. Brock, “New FBI Document Confirms the Trump Campaign Was Investigated Without Justification.”
84. Ibid.
85. Department of Justice documents obtained by Judicial Watch under the Freedom of Information Act, FOIPA Request No. 1442326, Civil Action No. 19-CV-02743, Subject: The Electronic Communication Which Led to the Initiation of the Counterintelligence Investigation of the Trump Campaign.
86. Office of the Inspector General, U.S. Department of Justice, A Review of Various Actions by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Department of Justice in Advance of the 2016 Election, June 2018, 209, https://www.justice.gov/file/1071991/download.
87. “Clinton ‘Grossly Negligent’ in Comey’s Draft Statement on Email Probe,” Chuck Grassley, United States Senator from Iowa, Nov. 6, 2017, https://www.grassley.senate.gov/news/news-releases/clinton-%E2%80%98grossly-negligent%E2%80%99-comey%E2%80%99s-draft-statement-email-probe.
88. Sunday Morning Futures, hosted by Maria Bartiromo, Fox News Channel, June 21, 2020.
89. Mornings with Maria, hosted by Maria Bartiromo, Fox Business Network, July 28, 2020.
90. Sunday Morning Futures, hosted by Maria Bartiromo, Fox News Channel, Aug. 2, 2020.
91. President Donald Trump, telephone interview with Maria Bartiromo and James Freeman, July 16, 2020.
Chapter 3: American Business Unleashed
1. Paul Krugman, “What Happened on Election Day; Paul Krugman: The Economic Fallout,” Opinion, New York Times, Nov. 9, 2016, https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/cp/opinion/election-night-2016/paul-krugman-the-economic-fallout.
2. “The $600 Billion Man,” by James Freeman, Wall Street Journal, May 31, 2017, https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-600-billion-man-1496251287.
3. Ibid.
4. Ibid.
5. BLS Reports: Consumer Expenditures in 2017, U.S. Bureau of Labor
