20. Christopher Wray, “Responding Effectively to the Chinese Economic Espionage Threat.”
21. Maria Bartiromo telephone interview with John Demers, July 9, 2020.
22. Telephone interview with Maria Bartiromo, July 25, 2020.
23. Julia Limitone, “Pompeo Slams Huawei: US Won’t Partner with Countries That Use Its Technology,” Technology, Fox Business, Feb. 21, 2019, https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/pompeo-slams-huawei-us-wont-partner-with-countries-that-use-its-technology.
24. Mornings with Maria, hosted by Maria Bartiromo, Fox Business Network, Dec. 12, 2019.
25. Chua Kong Ho, “Huawei Founder Ren Zhengfei on Why He Joined China’s Communist Party and the People’s Liberation Army,” South China Morning Post, Jan. 16. 2019, https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/2182332/huawei-founder-ren-zhengfei-why-he-joined-chinas-communist-party-and.
26. Christopher Wray, “Responding Effectively to the Chinese Economic Espionage Threat.”
27. Gordon Corera, “Eric Schmidt: Huawei Has Engaged in Unacceptable Practices,” BBC News, June 18, 2020, https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-53080113.
28. Sunday Morning Futures, hosted by Maria Bartiromo, Fox News Chanel, May 10, 2020.
29. Sunday Morning Futures, hosted by Maria Bartiromo, Fox News Channel, Feb. 23, 2020.
30. Sunday Morning Futures, hosted by Maria Bartiromo, Fox News Channel, June 21, 2020.
31. Ibid.
32. Mornings with Maria, hosted by Maria Bartiromo, Fox Business Network, May 31, 2020.
33. Jimmy Lai, telephone interview with Maria Bartiromo.
34. Ibid.
35. Ibid.
36. Mornings with Maria, hosted by Maria Bartiromo, Fox Business Network, May 28, 2019.
37. Sunday Morning Futures, hosted by Maria Bartiromo, Fox News Channel, July 19, 2020.
38. Mornings with Maria, hosted by Maria Bartiromo, Fox Business Network, Oct. 2, 2018.
39. Sunday Morning Futures, hosted by Maria Bartiromo, Fox News Channel, Dec. 16, 2018.
40. Mornings with Maria, hosted by Maria Bartiromo, Fox Business Network, Oct. 2, 2018.
41. Sunday Morning Futures, hosted by Maria Bartiromo, Fox News Channel, June 21, 2020.
42. Background interview with Maria Bartiromo and James Freeman.
43. Sunday Morning Futures, hosted by Maria Bartiromo, Fox News Channel, June 21, 2020.
44. Cate Cadell, “Hikvision, a Surveillance Powerhouse, Walks U.S.-China Tightrope,” Reuters, Aug. 28, 2019, https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hikvision-china-insight/hikvision-a-surveillance-powerhouse-walks-u-s-china-tightrope-idUSKCN1VJ05C.
45. Background interview with Maria Bartiromo and James Freeman.
46. Thomas W. Lippman, “Bush Makes Clinton’s China Policy an Issue,” Washington Post, Aug. 20, 1999, https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/campaigns/wh2000/stories/chiwan082099.htm.
47. Carl M. Cannon, “What We Did in China,” National Journal 30, no. 29 (July 18, 1998), 1668–75.
48. “Transcript of Clinton Press Conference, July 2, in Hong Kong,” U.S. Newswire, July 3, 1998.
49. Ibid.
50. U.S. National Security and Military/Commercial Concerns with the People’s Republic of China, Vol. 1, Select Committee, United States House of Representatives, submitted by Mr. Cox of California, Chairman, top secret report date: Jan. 3, 1999; declassified report release date: May 25, 1999, ii–iv, https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GPO-CRPT-105hrpt851/pdf/GPO-CRPT-105hrpt851.pdf.
51. Jamie Dimon, interview with Maria Bartiromo and James Freeman, June 1, 2020.
52. Telephone interview with Maria Bartiromo and James Freeman, May 24, 2020.
53. Background interview with Maria Bartiromo and James Freeman.
54. President Donald Trump, telephone interview with Maria Bartiromo and James Freeman, July 16, 2020.
Chapter 7: The Media’s Trump Boom
1. Jim Rutenberg, “Trump Is Testing the Norms of Objectivity in Journalism,” New York Times, Aug. 7, 2016, https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/08/business/balance-fairness-and-a-proudly-provocative-presidential-candidate.html.
2. Ibid.
3. Review of Four FISA Applications and Other Aspects of the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane Investigation (Redacted for Public Release), Office of the Inspector General, U.S. Department of Justice, Oversight and Review Division (20-012), Dec. 2019 (revised), ix, https://www.justice.gov/storage/120919-examination.pdf.
4. Ibid., 67.
5. Ibid., viii.
6. Ibid., ix.
7. Ibid., ix.
8. Ibid., x.
9. Ibid., 6.
10. Ibid., 234.
11. Ibid., 182.
12. Ibid., 177.
13. Ibid., 178.
14. James Freeman, “The Unbelievable James Comey,” Opinion/Best of the Web, Wall Street Journal, Dec. 10, 2018, https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-unbelievable-james-comey-1544478713.
15. Review of Four FISA Applications and Other Aspects of the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane Investigation, 178.
16. Ibid., 179.
17. Ibid., 180.
18. Benjamin Mullin, “BuzzFeed Editor Defends Publishing Explosive Allegations Against Donald Trump,” Poynter, Jan. 10, 2017, https://www.poynter.org/ethics-trust/2017/buzzfeed-editor-defends-publishing-explosive-allegations-against-donald-trump/.
19. David Bauder, “CNN at War with Trump over What Reporting Un-leashed,” Associated Press, Jan. 12, 2017, https://apnews.com/a012c643821e48c98ec3155493eb2e52/CNN-at-war-with-Trump-over-what-reporting-unleashed.
20. Anderson Cooper 360°, hosted by Anderson Cooper, Interview with Rep. Elijah Cummings, CNN, transcript, Jan. 10, 2017, http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1701/10/acd.01.html.
21. Ibid.
22. Review of Four FISA Applications and Other Aspects of the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane Investigation, x.
23. Anderson Cooper 360°, hosted by Anderson Cooper, Interview with Rep. Elijah Cummings, CNN, transcript, Jan. 10, 2017.
24. The Rachel Maddow Show, hosted by Rachel Maddow, MSNBC, transcript, Jan. 10, 2017, http://www.msnbc.com/transcripts/rachel-maddow-show/2017-01-10.
25. Ibid.
26. Review of Four FISA Applications and Other Aspects of the FBI’s Crossfire Hurricane Investigation, 176–77n322.
27. Ibid., 181.
28. Report of Investigation of Former Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey’s Disclosure of Sensitive Investigative Information and Handling of Certain Memoranda, Office of the Inspector General, U.S. Department of Justice, Oversight and Review Division (19-02), Aug. 2019, 19–20, https://www.oversight.gov/sites/default/files/oig-reports/o1902.pdf.
29. Ibid., 3.
30. Hardball with Chris Matthews, hosted by Chris Matthews, MSNBC, transcript, Jan. 12, 2017, http://www.msnbc.com/transcripts/hardball/2017-01-12.
31. Ibid.
32. “IG Footnotes: Serious Problems with Dossier Sources Didn’t Stop FBI’s Page Surveillance,” Chuck Grassley, United States Senator for Iowa, Apr. 15, 2020, https://www.grassley.senate.gov/news/news-releases/ig-footnotes-serious-problems-dossier-sources-didn-t-stop-fbi-s-page-surveillance.
33. David Ignatius, “Why Did Obama Dawdle on Russia’s Hacking?,” Opinions, Washington Post, Jan. 12, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking/2017/01/12/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html.
34. David Ignatius, “Why Did Obama Dawdle on Russia’s Hacking?,” Opinions, Washington Post, Jan. 12, 2017, https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-did-obama-dawdle-on-russias-hacking/2017/01/12/75f878a0-d90c-11e6-9a36-1d296534b31e_story.html.
35. Glenn Thrush and Michael M. Grynbaum, “Trump Ruled the Tabloid Media. Washington Is a Different Story,” New York Times, Feb. 25, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/25/us/politics/trump-press-conflict.html.
36. Ibid.
37. Ibid.
38. Andrew Higgins, “Trump Embraces ‘Enemy of the People,’ a Phrase with a Fraught History,” New York Times, Feb. 26, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/26/world/europe/trump-enemy-of-the-people-stalin.html?mod=article_inline.
39. Michael M. Grynbaum, “In Trump-CNN Battle, 2 Presidents Who Love a Spectacle,” New York Times, Feb. 26, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/26/business/media/cnn-jeff-zucker-trump.html.
40. Report of Investigation of Former Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey’s Disclosure of Sensitive Investigative Information and Handling of Certain Memoranda, 20.
41. Timothy Egan, “Erasing Obama,” Opinion, New York Times, Jan. 6, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/06/opinion/erasing-obama.html.
42. Maureen Dowd, “Game of Trump,” Opinion, New York Times, July 15, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/15/opinion/sunday/game-of-trump.html.
43. Michelle Goldberg, “Odds Are, Russia Owns Trump,” Opinion, New York Times, Nov. 27, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/27/opinion/trump-patriot-russia.html.
44. Yascha Mounk, “The Real Coup Plot Is Trump’s,” Opinion, New York Times, Dec. 20, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/20/opinion/trump-republican-coup.html.
45. Paul Krugman, “The New Climate of Treason,” The Conscience of a Liberal (blog), New York Times, July 14, 2017, https://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/07/14/the-new-climate-of-treason/.
46. Paul Krugman, “Judas, Tax Cuts and the Great Betrayal,” Opinion, New York Times, May 12, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/12/opinion/judas-tax-cuts-and-the-great-betrayal.html.
47. Mornings with Maria, hosted by Maria Bartiromo, Fox Business Network, Apr. 12, 2017.
48. Paul Krugman, “Faust on the Potomac,” Opinion, New York Times, Jan.
