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ABC, 25, 31–32, 40, 84–85, 94, 95, Apprentice, The, 60, 61, 63, 82, 298 100, 172, 172, 229–30, 278– Arif, Tevfik, 17, 30, 31, 39 79, 286 Arnold, Benedict, 4 Abedin, Huma, 208, 212 Arnold, Tom, 47, 59–61 Abu Dhabi, 228, 234, 290 Arsov, Trajche, 211–12 Access Hollywood, 194–95 Artemenko, Andrii V., 249, 253–55, Acosta, Jim, 103, 120, 176, 190 291 ACU Strategic Partners, 230, 231 artnet News, 34 Adamant, 37 Art of the Deal, The (Trump), 14 Affliction Entertainment, 19 al-Assad, Bashar, 220, 234, 240, Agalarov, Aras, 37, 44–47, 49–61, 272 64, 66–68, 74, 78, 84, 94, 98, Assange, Julian, 156, 173, 181, 196– 105–6, 140, 146, 224, 282 99, 202, 216, 292 Agalarov, Emin, 44–46, 49–52, 54, , 25, 26, 29, 58, 309 55, 59–60, 64, 67, 68, 70, 73, Association of Accredited Public 84, 105, 139, 140, 145–47, 223– Policy Advocates to the Euro- 24, 264–66, 277–78, 282–84 pean Union, 185 aiding and abetting, 4, 188–89, 291 Association of Former Intelligence Ailes, Roger, 68 Officers, 62 Akhmetshin, Rinat, 148–50, 262, Atlantic, 136, 164, 175, 198, 199, 270, 272–73, 284 292 Alfa Bank, 59, 153, 181, 311 Aven, Pyotr, 59 Alfa Capital Partners, 126 Axios, 301 Alferova, Yulya, 45, 49–50, 52–53, Azerbaijan, 54, 120, 230 59–60, 63, 68, 98 Alptekin, Kamil Ekim, 117, 121 Baer, Robert, 74 American Jewish Committee, 172 Baker, James, 299–300 Apollo Global Management, 229, Bank of , 92 231–32 Banks, Arron, 156

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Bannon, Steve, 116, 127, 150, 155, Breitbart, 155, 185, 187, 207, 212, 165, 171–73, 180, 181, 190, 213 193, 196, 207, 212, 213, 221, Brennan, John, 74, 181, 184–85, 299 223, 228, 229, 233, 235, 241, Brexit, 142–43, 155–57, 258 242, 266, 267, 285–86, 290, Bridges, LLC, 82 312, 316 Briefing, The (Spicer), 106 Baranov, Andrey, 256 Broidy, Elliott, 93, 269 Barrack, Thomas, 104, 105, 115, Brookfield Asset Management, 232 218, 228, 231, 270, 286, 298 Brownell, Pete, 86, 98 Baylis, Kerrie, 46 Burnett, Mark, 60, 61, 298 Bayrock Group, 17, 18, 23, 29, 30 Burt, Richard, 59, 126, 134, 153, 311 BBC, 40, 69, 71, 77, 78, 256, 259, , 29, 92, 96, 136–37, 294 176, 241, 256, 270, 299 Bechard, Shera, 269 Butina, Maria, 9, 81–83, 87, 88, 92, Beck, Glenn, 197 125, 137, 139, 144, 151–52, Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic 177, 222, 270, 294, 311 Studies (BESA), 120–21 BuzzFeed, 63, 69, 71, 117, 121, 169, Behrends, Paul, 127 170, 200, 211–12, 219, 237– Belkovsky, Stanislav, 73 38, 255, 267 Bernstein, Carl, 140 Bertrand, Natasha, 96 CAATSA (Countering America’s Beyrle, John, 24–25 Adversaries Through Sanc- Bharara, Preet, 48 tions Act), 288–89 bin Laden, Osama, 31 , 142, 154–55, Black, Leon, 229, 231 172–73, 181, 196, 284, 311– , 205, 260 12 Black Manafort and Stone, 104 Cameron, David, 137–38 Blackwater, 111, 118 Camp, L. Jean, 311 Blitzer, Wolf, 202 Caputo, Michael, 195, 196, 210, 215 Bloomberg, 18, 20, 22, 49, 59, 82, Carlson, Tucker, 203 125, 130, 265, 292, 303 Carson, Ben, 87, 117 Blumenthal, Richard, 250 CBS, 35–36, 73, 76, 107, 241, 247, Blunt, Roy, 131 256 Boente, Dana, 291 Center for Security Policy (CSP), Bogacheva, Anna, 212 111, 119 Boston Magazine, 23 Center for Strategic and Interna- Breen, Thomas, 122 tional Studies, 118 Index 433

Center for , 138, 143, 157, 173, 180, 181, 124–26, 129, 132–34 190, 203, 262, 274, 316 Chaika, Yuri, 146 CNBC, 33 Chait, Jonathan, 14, 24 CNN, 38, 61, 74, 90, 91, 103, 105, Charlotte Observer, 21 109, 112, 114, 118, 120, 123, , 29 127, 132, 133, 140, 165, 171, , 19, 84, 183, 201, 233 172, 176, 179, 183, 190, 192, Christie, Chris, 111, 220–21, 240, 195, 198, 200, 202, 235, 256, 241, 248, 273 257, 265, 279, 292, 300–301 CIA (Central Intelligence Agency), Coalition Provisional Authority, 111 31, 69, 71, 74, 78, 81, 91, 99, Coats, Dan, 304 113, 118, 179, 181, 190, 192, Cohen, Marshall, 140 219, 237, 242, 259, 318 Cohen, Michael, 19, 29, 31, 44, 48, City Club of Chicago, 91 52, 55, 59–61, 66, 84–86, 92– Clapper, James, 246, 251–52, 256, 97, 139, 140, 149, 163, 167– 260, 299 70, 192, 200–201, 216–17, Clarke, David A., 86, 98 249, 253–55, 259, 260, 263, Clay, Rick, 87, 139 268–70, 291, 293–94 Clement, Peter, 179–80 convictions for, 293 Clinton, Bill, 186, 197, 208, 209, Colbert, Stephen, 73, 76 214, 245 collusion: Clinton, Hillary, 65, 75, 101, 106, as criminal offense, 3, 4, 6, 7 116, 141, 146–49, 152, 154, as impeachable offense, 4 195–99, 213–14, 224, 234, in Trump-Russia case, 3–11 237, 238, 242–43, 273, 281, use of term, 3, 6 282, 296, 310 Collusion (Harding), 30 emails of, 116, 122, 129, 132, Comet Ping Pong, see Pizzagate 139–41, 143, 148, 149, 159, Comey, James, 72, 74, 76, 130–31, 162, 172–73, 177, 178–92, 193, 202–7, 238, 244–47, 193–94, 196, 197, 200, 202– 251–52, 255, 256, 262–64, 10, 212–13, 267, 276 267, 273–74, 291, 298–301 loss of election, 194, 296 firing of, 245–46, 251, 252, 261, Pizzagate and, 186–87, 193, 279, 299 207–13 Conan, 76 Clinton Foundation, 196, 197, 209 Congress, U.S., 9, 11 Clovis, Sam, 87, 107–10, 113, 115– see also House of Representa- 17, 119, 128, 129, 132, 136, tives; Senate 434 Index

Conservative Political Action Con- rigging televised contests, 38–39 ference, 46–47 treason, 10 conspiracy, 4–5, 146, 291, 296, 305, Crocus City, 94, 98 316, 317 Crocus Group, 44, 45, 47–48, 58, conspiracy theories: 67, 264 deep state, 7, 288 Cropsey, Seth, 144 FBI and, 268 Crowe, Russell, 64 Construction.RU, 66 Cruz, Ted, 104 contest rigging, 38–39 C-SPAN, 195, 197 contributions by foreign nationals, Culpo, Olivia, 44 146–47 Cummings, Elijah, 248 Conway, Kellyanne, 116, 173, 180, Cyprus, 121, 159 181, 190, 242 Czech Republic, 169–70 Cooper, Anderson, 90 Copson, Alex, 230 Dagan, Yossi, 122 Corallo, Mark, 150, 203 Dahl, Tera, 165, 172, 177 Cordero, Carrie, 221 Daily Beast, 52, 73, 121, 196, 257, Corker, Bob, 172 301 Corn, David, 48 Daily Caller, 55, 72, 112, 203–4, Costner, Kevin, 64 206 Coulter, Ann, 136 Daily Dot, 75 Credico, Randy, 197–98, 215–16 Daily Mail, 36, 45–46, 53, 54, 64, Crimea, 50, 131–33, 145, 170, 174, 78 199, 294–95 Daniels, Stormy, 61, 270 criminal cases, 5, 10 Davidson, Keith M., 61 criminal statutes, 6 Davis, Lanny, 140 aiding and abetting, 4, 188–89, 291 DCLeaks, 139, 283, 296 causing a crime against the Dearborn, Rick, 87–88, 139, 151, United States, 189 152, 177 collusion, 3, 4, 6, 7 deep state conspiracy theories, 7 conspiracy, 4–5, 146, 291, 296, democracy, 314, 318–19 305, 316, 317 Democracy Now!, 119 contributions by foreign nation- Democratic Congressional Cam- als, 146–47 paign Committee, 173, 296 making false statements to fed- Democratic National Committee eral law enforcement officers, (DNC), 51, 141, 149, 173, 191 237, 238, 281 Index 435

Russian hacking of, 113, 127, presidential (2016), see presiden- 128, 134, 142, 152, 173, 180– tial election of 2016 82, 187–88, 190, 191, 198, Emelianenko, Fedor, 19 201, 266, 296 Epshteyn, Boris, 78 Democratic National Convention, Epstein, Jeffrey, 186, 207, 213–14 113 Erickson, Paul, 9, 82, 87, 89, 139, Democratic Party, 314, 318, 319 151–52, 177, 222, 294 midterm elections of 2018 and, Erovinkin, Oleg, 256–57 305–6, 319 Essential Consultants, LLC, 268–69 Denman, Diana, 171, 175–77 Estonia, 76 Dennison, David, 269 eTurboNews (eTN), 19, 20, 32 Deripaska, Oleg, 17, 107, 126–27, European Council on Foreign Rela- 134, 142, 166–67, 182, 259, tions (ECFR), 117, 121 297, 300, 307–9 (EP), 157 DeVos, Betsy, 214, 236 (EU), 141–44, 159, DIA (Defense Intelligence Agency), 185, 258 31, 99, 100 Brexit and, 142–43, 155–57, 258 diGenova, Joseph, 203–6, 267 Express, 36 Dmitriev, Kirill, 229, 234, 235, 278– ExxonMobil, 233 79, 285, 286 Dodson, James, 22–23, 41–42 FAA (Federal Aviation Administra- Dollimore, Oliver, 211 tion), 105 donations by foreign nationals, Facebook, 154–55, 187, 207–9, 211, 146–47 212, 220, 262–64, 276, 312 Dosug, 70, 75 Russian equivalent of, 150, 160, Dowd, John, 46 265 Downer, Alexander, 122, 143 Face the Nation, 241 D’Souza, Dinesh, 303 fake news, 72, 154, 204, 207–8, Dubinin, Yuri, 14, 24 210–12, 214, 220, 226, 283– Duma, 75, 133 84 Dvorkovich, Arkady, 166 false statements to federal law en- forcement officers, 191 Eagle Wings, 209 Farage, Nigel, 143, 156–57, 292 Egypt, 230–31, 248–49, 276 FBI, 23, 30–32, 40–41, 51, 58, 71, elections: 72, 74, 76, 82, 88, 107–9, midterm (2018), 305–6, 319 112–14, 119, 122, 130, 150, presidential (2012), 13, 80, 313 162–63, 173, 179, 182, 184, 436 Index

FBI (Continued) , 209 186, 190, 193, 194, 200–208, Fox & Friends, 202 212–13, 237, 238, 242, 244–48, , 50, 56, 64, 68, 90, 165, 250, 251, 256, 259, 262, 266– 169, 202, 203, 205, 247, 249 68, 273, 275, 276, 291, 295, , 233 296, 298–301, 303, 311, 318 Franken, Al, 131 FBIAnon, 209 Freedman, Matthew, 240 Fear (Woodward), 312 FreedomFest, 83, 84, 90, 92 federal criminal statues, see criminal Fridman, Mikhail, 59 statutes Friedman, Roger, 169 Fedorova, Oxana, 15–16, 28, 34–38 Frontier Services Group, 229–30 , 64, 146, 273 FSB, 15, 19, 74, 81, 91, 170, 181, FININT (financial intelligence), 189 184, 225, 284 Fire and Fury (Wolff), 68, 150, 312 Fusion GPS, 50–51, 156, 262, 266, FISA, 107, 114, 273–74 267, 300 FiveThirtyEight, 194 Futerfas, Alan, 88 Florida, 21–22 Flynn, Michael, 86–87, 98–101, G20 summit, 262, 279–80 102, 107–9, 111, 113–17, 119, Garner, Eric, 186 121, 154, 173, 177, 179–81, Garten, Alan, 84–85, 94 190, 193, 209, 213–14, 218, Gates, Rick, 161, 164, 218, 228, 220–23, 225, 228, 230–31, 261–62, 270, 286, 296, 297 233, 236–37, 240–42, 244, Gateway Pundit, 211 247–51, 253–54, 262, 267, Gazprom, 108, 126, 153 270, 271, 273–76, 285–86, Giuliani, Rudy, 4, 7, 193, 194, 202– 290–91, 296, 316 5, 207, 210, 213, 267, 303 firing of, 244, 245, 249–51, 253 Glencore, 130, 166, 227–28, 232–33 plea deal of, 275–76 Global Partners in Diplomacy, 172, Flynn, Michael, Jr., 211 177 Flynn Intelligence Group, 117 Goldman, Ben, 211 FOIA, 205 Goldstone, Rob, 44, 55, 84, 105–6, , 18, 30, 31, 51, 55, 58–59, 67 140, 145–47, 150–51, 160, Forbes Russia, 37 192, 224–25, 264–66, 272–73, Foreign Agents Registration Act 282, 283 (FARA), 275 Golf, 22–23, 41 Foreign Policy, 198, 225 Golubev, Vladimir, 16, 28, 30, Foreign Policy Initiative, 144 35–38 Index 437

Google Trends, 212 Helsinki “summit,” 304 Gopnik, Adam, 76–77 Hewitt, Hugh, 56 Gordeev, Sergei, 85 Hicks, Hope, 19, 153, 158, 165, 172, Gordon, J. D., 103, 112, 120, 136– 220, 292, 302–3 37, 152, 153, 163, 165, 171, Hill, 135, 300 172, 175–77, 236, 316 Holt, Lester, 246, 252 Gorka, Sebastian, 209 Homeland Security, Department of, Gorkov, Sergei, 19, 225, 271, 272 (DHS), 262–64 Gorokhov, Nikolair, 258 Hotel National, 14, 24 Graff, Rhona, 146, 150, 160, 224, 265 House of Representatives, 4, 142, Graham, Thomas, 22 300 Greece, 121, 139, 141–45, 151, 157– CAATSA and, 288–89 59, 185, 212, 257, 276 Intelligence Committee, 94, 177, Green, Mike, 118 216, 235, 262 Greenberg, Henry, 195–96 Judiciary Committee, 7 Greenberg, Maurice R. “Hank,” 125 midterm elections and, 305–6, Gref, Herman, 49, 57, 59 319 Gregory, Joe, 86, 98 Oversight and Government Re- Groner, Eli, 119 form Committee, 7 Grozev, Christo, 256–57 Permanent Select Committee on GRU, 99, 100, 170, 259, 295–96 Intelligence, 7, 96, 108, 165, Guardian, 30, 32, 40, 44, 45, 47, 64, 184, 262, 266, 274, 278–79, 71, 100, 156, 169, 184, 215, 285, 292 255, 268 House of Trump, House of Putin Guber, Peter, 62 (Unger), 23 Guccifer 2.0, 139, 194, 197, 296 Show, The, 27, 36 , 144 , 57, 122, 233, 260 Huffington Post, 96–97, 255 Haberman, Maggie, 94 HUMINT (human intelligence), 189 hackers, see Russian hackers Hungarian Free Press, 184 Hagmann, Douglas, 212–13 Hungary, 177, 179, 184, 185, 187, Hall, Steven, 81–82, 91, 99–100 281 Halper, Stefan, 122, 268 Hunt for the Trump Tapes, The, 60 , Sean, 56, 90, 91, 93, 169 Harding, Luke, 30 Illing, Sean, 154 Harris, Joshua, 231 impeachment, 4, 293, 301, 306, Hatch Act, 202 315–17 438 Index

Independent, 157, 256 Kakaounaki, Marianna, 144 Infowars, 187, 207, 212 Kammenos, Panos, 141, 142, 144– Ingraham, Laura, 203, 204 45, 159 Intercept, 119 Karamanlis, Kostas, 144 , 183, 219 Kasich, John, 104 International Business Times, 36 Kaspersky Lab, 100 International Herald Tribune, 60 Kathimerini, 144, 158, 159 (IRA), Kaveladze, George, 266 115, 211–12, 259, 294–95 Kaveladze, Ike, 44–45, 55, 148–49, Interpol, 49 264–66, 273 Ioffe, Julia, 175 Keene, David, 82, 86, 98 IP3 International, 231 Kellogg, Keith, 111, 118 Iran, 180, 218–19, 234, 271–72, 290 KGB, 62, 73, 74, 76, 256 , 111 Khan, German, 59 Irish Examiner, 61 Khomenko, Alexander, 58 Isikoff, Michael, 48, 49 Kikilias, Vassilis, 159 ISIS, 252 Kilimnik, Konstantin, 126–27, 139, Islam, 111, 118, 120, 137 164, 166–67, 171, 297 , 117, 119–22, 159, 205, 225, Kirsanova Realty, 17 234, 237, 245, 248–49, 252, Kislyak, Sergey, 92, 124, 127–28, 260, 276, 281 130, 131, 136, 137, 163, 170– , 130, 168–70, 185, 212 72, 174–75, 177, 221–23, 225, 230, 235, 237, 241, 244, 247– Jackson, Amy Berman, 297 49, 252, 271, 272, 274–76 Japan, 14, 225 Klyushin, Artem, 45, 59, 63, 70, 75 Jerusalem Post, 120 Kogan, Aleksandr, 155, 312 Jolie, Angelina, 64 kompromat (potential blackmail ma- Jones, Alex, 197, 212, 213 terial), 69–79, 142, 259, 293 Jordan, 230 Kotzias, Nikos, 144, 158 , 205 Kozhin, Vladimir, 44, 47–48, 57 Justice Department (DOJ), 8, 116, Krivov, Sergei, 257–58 154, 184, 186, 201–3, 240, Kubic, Charles, 111, 177 245, 248, 290, 293, 295, 299– Kushner, Charles, 240–41 303, 316, 318 Kushner, Jared, 19, 87–88, 104, 111, 125–28, 140–42, 147, 150, Kadtke, James, 121 152, 154, 172, 190, 196, 218, Kaiser, Brittany, 173 220–22, 225, 228, 229, 231– Index 439

35, 240–42, 244, 250, 262, MacCallum, Martha, 202 270–73, 276, 282, 290–91, Macedonia, 211–12 312, 316 Machado, Alicia, 28 Kislyak and, 127–28, 131, 244, Magnitsky, Sergei, 258 271, 272 Magnitsky Act, 224–25, 271, 282– Kutepova-Jamrom, Natalia, 110 84 Kuzmichev, Alexei, 59 see also sanctions Kyrgyzstan, 104 Make America Number 1 PAC, 155 Malanin, Andrey, 257 LaBella, Chuck, 47, 59, 60–64 Malloch, Ted, 292 Landau, Yigal, 117, 121 Manafort, Paul, 17, 33, 104–7, 109, Lanza, Bryan, 183 114, 115, 124, 126–27, 129– Larson, Lars, 202 30, 132, 134–38, 139, 140, Las Vegas Review-Journal, 211 147, 150–51, 160–61, 164–67, Laufman, David, 299 170–72, 176, 181, 182, 193– Show, The, 203 96, 199–201, 216–17, 238, Lavrov, Sergei, 133, 252, 259, 280 259, 261–62, 265, 273, 281– Lawfare, 275 82, 294, 297, 303, 307, 308 Leahy, Patrick, 274 conviction of, 297 Leto, Jared, 64 guilty plea of, 305 Letterman, David, 26 Mandiner, 177 Leviev, Lev, 57 Mangiante, Simona, 109, 119, 121– Levy, Joshua, 257 22, 145, 159 Lewandowski, Corey, 105, 129, 153, Mar-a-Lago, 104–5, 223, 237, 275 165, 262, 266, 278, 282 Marino, Tom, 172 Liberty Writers News, 211 Mashburn, John, 132, 177 LifeZette, 203 Mashkevitch, Alexander, 22 Logan Act, 218, 222, 249–50, 293 Mavroidis, Petros, 141 Lokhova, Svetlana, 100 Mayflower Hotel, 175 Center of International Law Trump’s foreign policy speech Practice (LCILP), 109, 172 at, 59, 113, 124–38, 139, 141, Lorber, Howard, 14 185, 223, 271, 311 , 150, 217, 236 McCabe, Andrew G., 205, 208, 291, Lowell, Abbe, 272 299, 301 Luzhkov, Yuri, 24–25 McCabe, Jill, 205 Lynch, Loretta, 206 McCain, John, 170, 174, 175, 244– 45, 287 440 Index

McClatchy, 23, 86, 98, 170, 260 Mogilevich, Semion, 23 McCord, Mary, 300 Mohammed bin Salman (MBS), McDougal, Karen, 72 231, 234 McFarland, K. T., 144, 177, 222–23, Mohammed bin Zayed (MBZ), 228– 237, 274, 275 29, 234, 235, 285, 286 McFarlane, Robert “Bud,” 124, 144, Moore, Martin, 154 218, 222–23, 228, 231, 270, Moore, Michael D., 213 286 Millionaire Fair, 18 McFaul, Michael, 87 Moss, Randy, 122 McGahn, Don, 217, 247–48, 251, , 237 264, 279 Mother Jones, 44, 48, 55, 64, 82, McMaster, H. R., 111 216 Medvedev, Dmitry, 167, 307–8 MSNBC, 68, 74, 130, 215, 252 Mercer, Rebekah, 155 Mueller, Robert, 8, 24, 32, 40– Mercer, Robert, 155 41, 80, 88, 93, 96, 98, 103, MFA (Russian Ministry of Foreign 114–16, 119, 121, 164, 166, Affairs), 129 170, 191, 194, 197–98, 212, Middle East, 113, 120, 231, 248, 215–17, 229, 232, 245, 259, 286, 298 260, 261, 262, 264, 266, 270, see also specific countries 272–74, 276, 278–79, 281, Mifsud, Joseph, 109, 110, 117, 121, 286, 287, 288, 290–98, 302–6, 128, 129, 132, 134, 137, 139– 310–11, 316–20 40, 151, 170, 178, 208, 261, Murinson, Alexander, 120–21 279, 310 Muslim Brotherhood, 111 Migranyan, Andranik, 133 Muslims, 111, 118, 120, 137 Miller, Jason, 172 Miller, Stephen, 129, 132, 137, 157, Nader, George, 93, 120, 228–29, 262, 279 233, 234, 242, 269, 278–79, Millian, Sergei, 71, 78, 172 285, 286 Mirax Group, 84, 92 NAFTA, 258 Miss Universe pageant, 15–17, 25– Nation, 29, 39, 199 30, 35–39, 43–46, 48, 50, 52, National Background Investigations 54, 56, 60–64, 69, 70, 76–77, Bureau, 270 90, 91, 98, 168, 282, 283, 294 National Diversity Coalition, 211 Miss USA pageant, 44, 52, 54, 55 National Enquirer, 217 Mitsotakis, Kyriakos, 144, 145 National Interest, 125, 132–33 Mizusawa, Bert, 111, 177 National Prayer Breakfast, 83 Index 441

National Press Club (NPC), 26, 47, 133, 135, 137, 150, 160, 184, 50, 61, 124, 129–30, 133, 135 193, 205, 210, 220, 223, 225, National Rifle Association (NRA), 231–32, 236, 238–40, 251, 80–83, 86–89, 91, 98, 139, 253–54, 267–69, 279, 284, 151–52, 177 297–300, 302, 308, 309 National Security Advisory Com- Nicholson, Jack, 64 mittee, 102–23, 128, 131, Nix, Alexander, 155, 181, 312 136, 137, 152, 153, 170, 171, nondisclosure agreements (NDAs), 174–77, 178, 179, 183, 184, 312 236, 279 North Korea, 287 NATO, 156, 258 NPR, 92, 145, 176, 295 Navalny, Alexei, 307–8 NSA, 90, 237, 242, 251 Nazi , 72 nuclear facilities, 218, 228, 230, NBC, 26, 47, 59, 62, 63, 87, 97, 99, 231, 233–35, 248, 270, 275, 105, 191, 200, 231, 241, 246, 286 252, 305 Nuland, Victoria, 307 Nemtsov, Boris, 33 Nunberg, Sam, 49, 215, 295 Netanyahu, Benjamin, 119 Nunes, Devin, 166, 285 New Economic School, 163 Newman, Omarosa Manigault, 61, Obama, Barack, 49, 52, 69, 70, 76– 302, 312 77, 111, 114, 152, 186, 220, New Republic, 20 222, 228, 236, 237, 244, 247– , 27, 39, 110, 135, 145, 50, 263, 270, 275 252, 256, 274–75 Trump’s statements on Putin and, New York Daily News, 27, 217 83–84, 90, 91 New Yorker, 15, 24, 46, 76–77, 99, Trump’s surveillance accusation 194–95, 234 against, 204–5, 222, 245 New York Magazine, 14, 24, 29, 39– Trump’s tweet on, 164 41, 134, 195, 269 Obama, Michelle, 69, 70, 76 New York Observer, 23, 204 O’Brien, Conan, 76 New York Police Department October surprise, 193–217 (NYPD), 23, 185–86, 193, Office of the Special Counsel, 8 194, 208, 209, 212–13 Ohr, Bruce, 300–301 , 35, 42, 52 Olympics, 39, 47 New York Times, 24, 33, 44, 50, 53, Operation Crossfire Hurricane, 122 56, 65, 73, 76, 87, 88, 93, 94, O’Reilly, Bill, 90 104, 105, 110, 112–14, 118, Osgood, Michael, 213 442 Index

Page, Carter, 107–8, 111–12, 114, Phares, Walid, 111, 118, 119, 163, 118, 119, 126, 130, 139, 152– 172, 177 53, 163–66, 170–72, 177, Pirro, Jeanine, 165, 247 178–79, 183–84, 226–28, 233, Pizzagate, 186–87, 193, 207–13 236, 242, 250, 256, 262, 274, Pobeda oil field, 233 277, 316 Podesta, John, 197, 202 Page, Lisa, 299 , 50, 52, 59, 93, 116, 126, 135– Palin, Sarah, 92 36, 148, 150, 153, 160, 169–70, Papachelas, Alexis, 158 194, 195, 200, 217, 221, 224 Papadopoulos, George, 41, 87, 103, Politico , 132–33 109–10, 112–23, 125, 126, PolitiFact, 32, 192, 196 128, 129, 132–34, 139–45, Polonskaya, Olga, 109, 128, 134, 151–53, 157–60, 164, 170, 139, 277 172, 177, 178, 182, 184–85, Pompeo, Mike, 192, 289–90 190, 208, 212, 219, 230–31, Poroshenko, Petro, 294 236, 248–49, 257, 259, 260, Powe, Alicia, 211 261–62, 268, 274–75, 279, Prague, 169–70, 260 309–11, 317 Pravda, 37–38 interview with Russian media, presidential election of 2012, 13, 80, 183 313 plea documents of, 276–77 presidential election of 2016, 101, 317 Putin and, 142–45, 159 debates in, 182, 201 Paraskevopoulos, Dimitrios, 141 Election Day, 21, 68, 193–94 pardons, 303, 318, 319 Trump’s victory in, 68, 194, 240, Parnell, Sean, 92 258, 296, 315 Parscale, Brad, 154 Presidential Records Act, 231 Pasek, Justine, 28 Priebus, Reince, 145, 200, 223, 262, Patten, W. Samuel, 297 273–74 Pavlopoulos, Prokopis, 144 Priestap, Bill, 300 Pecker, David, 217 Prikhodko, Sergey Eduardovich, Pence, Mike, 221, 236, 241, 247–49, 307–9 274 Prince, Erik, 102, 111, 118–20, 127, Perry, Katy, 64 181, 185–87, 193, 207, 210, Peskov, Dmitry, 47, 86, 167–68, 213–14, 218, 229–31, 234–36, 220, 259, 288 261, 262, 267, 290–91, 311, Petrushin, Sergey, 196 316 Phalen, Charles, 270–71 testimony of, 277–79, 284–86 Index 443

PropOrNot, 211 Trump’s speakerphone conversa- ProPublica, 228 tion with, 60, 61 Project Zulu, 230 Trump’s statements on how well Psy Group, 284 he knows, 25–26, 83–84, 90– Public Radio International, 75 91, 190 Purdy, Matt, 254 Trump’s statements on Obama Pushkov, Alexey, 133 and, 83–84, 90, 91 Putin, Vladimir, 15, 19, 22, 23, 25, Van Ronkel and, 62, 64 32–33, 37–39, 44, 46–51, 58, 64–65, 74, 76, 80, 85–87, 95, Qatar, 218, 227–28, 231–35, 241 96, 98, 100, 101, 107–10, 112, Qatar Investment Authority (QIA), 114, 120, 123, 126–34, 137, 130, 166, 228, 231–35 146, 151, 152, 166–68, 181, Quartz, 191 182, 224, 225, 233–37, 242, 253, 263, 270, 278, 284, 289– Ratio Oil Exploration, 117, 121 91, 294–95, 307–8, 314 Reagan, Ronald, 144 Agalarov and, 53–56, 60, 61 Real Estate Weekly, 57 European Union and, 142, 156 Republican National Committee Farage and, 156–57 (RNC), 88, 93, 126, 135, 206, Fedorova and, 15–16, 28, 34–37, 39 213, 269, 302–3 in Greece, 142–45, 151 Republican National Convention, Gref and, 59 103, 104, 137, 162–77, 199– at Helsinki “summit” with 200, 255 Trump, 304 Republican Party, 81–83, 314, 317– Ivanka Trump’s Kremlin tour 18 and, 17, 28–29, 31, 253 midterm elections of 2018 and, Leviev and, 57 305–6 Papadopoulos and, 142–45, 159 , 22, 42, 48, 75, 109, 128, Rykov and, 75 271, 274 Seagal and, 62–63 rigging of televised contests, 38–39 and, 257–60 Ritz-Carlton Moscow, 49, 51, 55, Torshin and, 81, 91, 125 59, 69–74, 76–78, 247 Trump’s first call with as presi- Roberts, Thomas, 130 dent, 242 Robinson, Eugene, 298 Trump’s meeting with, 129, 139, Rogers, Mike, 240 151, 157, 160–61, 185, 262, Rogozin, Dmitry, 86, 98 175, 276, 279–80, 304 Rohrabacher, Dana, 127, 142 444 Index

Rolling Stone, 19, 27, 81–82, 91, Ryabkov, Sergei, 219–20 151, 187, 193, 207–10, 212, Rybicki, James, 300 272, 277–78 Rybka, Nastya, 142, 307–9 Romanov, Alexander, 82 Rybolovlev, Dmitry, 21, 34 Romney, Mitt, 89 Rykov, Konstantin, 70, 75 Rosen, Rotem, 30–31, 46, 56–57 Rosenstein, Rod, 8, 245, 252, 261, Safron, Jonathan, 116 264, 288, 292, 301, 318–20 St. Petersburg International Eco- Rosneft, 124, 130, 166, 179, 183, nomic Forum, 167–68 223, 227–28, 232–33, 242, Saletan, William, 161 256, 308 sanctions: Rostec, 230 CAATSA, 288–89 Rozov, Andrei, 66, 84, 85, 92, 95, on Russia, 33, 43, 50, 79, 80, 83– 97, 167, 168 86, 92, 97, 98, 110, 127, 130– RT, 87, 100, 101, 102, 248, 270 32, 141, 143–45, 149, 158, Rtskhiladze, Giorgi, 85 159, 163, 175, 177–79, 183, Ruffin, Phil, 52, 60, 98 185, 191–92, 218–19, 223–25, Russian Direct Investment Fund 227–28, 230, 232–38, 241, (RDIF), 229, 234 242, 247–50, 253–54, 258, Russian equivalent of Facebook, 262–63, 270, 271, 274–77, 150, 160, 265 282–83, 289–90 Russian hackers, 113, 127, 128, Sanders, Bernie, 197 134, 139, 142, 152, 162, 173, Sapir, Alex, 30–31, 46, 56–56 179–83, 185, 187, 190, 191, Sapir, Tamir, 30, 31, 57 195, 198–99, 201–2, 262–66, Sapir Organization, 57 289, 296 Sarka, Kata, 72 Guccifer 2.0, 139, 194, 197, 296 Sater, Felix, 17–18, 23, 28–32, 39– Trump’s remarks on, 182, 201, 41, 78, 84–86, 92, 94–97, 101, 238 139, 167–68, 249, 253–55, Russian Institute for Strategic Stud- 259 ies (RISS), 128–29, 139, 141, , 14, 93, 159, 218, 228, 142 230–35, 241, 269, 270, 281, Russian International Affairs Coun- 291 cil, 128 Savage, Michael, 25 Russian officials, deaths of, 257–58 Sberbank, 49, 50, 57, 59 Russian Roulette (Corn and Isikoff), Scahill, Jeremy, 119 48 Scarborough, Joe, 68 Index 445

Scavino, Dan, 150, 160, 224, 265 245, 251, 252, 262–64, 288, Schengen Area, 169 290, 292, 301, 317, 318 Schiff, Adam, 165, 166, 177, 216, Seychelles, 102, 235, 278–79, 286, 285 290 Schiller, Keith, 44, 49, 55, 60, 70, Shapiro, Allen, 62 73, 98, 302–3 Sharia law, 111, 118 Schmitz, Joseph, 110, 118–19, 171– Shnaider, Alex, 18 72, 177, 179–81, 184, 187, Shugart, Paula, 36, 38, 45 236, 316 Sidorkov, Konstantin, 150, 160 Schwarzenegger, Arnold, 64 SIGINT (signals intelligence), 169, Sciutto, Jim, 140 189 SCL Group, 154 Simes, Dimitri, 125–26, 132–34 Scott, Darrell, 210–11 Simpson, Glenn, 156, 257, 262, Seagal, Steven, 62–63 266–68 Sechin, Igor, 166, 227–28, 256–57, Singapore, 130, 223 308 el-Sisi, Abdel Fattah, 230 Sekulow, Jay, 7 60 Minutes, 26, 60 Senate, 4 Slate, 161, 232, 268–69, 292 Armed Services Committee, 171, Smith, Peter W., 116, 173, 180, 181, 174, 175 190 CAATSA and, 288–89 Snoop Dogg, 64 Intelligence Committee, 96, 131, Snowden, Edward, 90 266 social media, 47, 55, 59, 70, 75, 115, Judiciary Committee, 7, 20, 96, 142, 150, 160, 202, 207–11, 132, 149, 206, 224, 236, 257, 265, 283, 301 262, 265, 266, 268, 272, 273, see also Facebook; 277, 278, 281, 283 Soldatov, Andrei, 73, 255–56 Judiciary Subcommittee on Sotheby’s International Realty, 17 Crime and Terrorism, 7 Southern Poverty Law Center, 111 midterm elections and, 305–6 , 73 Select Committee on Intelligence, speaking , 294 7, 8, 41, 206, 262, 272, 302 Spectator, 71, 77 sensitive compartmented informa- Spicer, Sean, 106, 165, 223, 248, 262 tion facility (SCIF), 222 Stalin, Josef, 32–33 Sessions, Jeff, 107–9, 112, 115, 123, Starr, Kenneth, 245 130–31, 136–37, 151–53, 163, State Department, 97, 133, 159, 179, 170–72, 174–75, 177, 236, 180, 186, 220, 240, 289, 311 446 Index

Steele, Christopher, 51, 77, 238, Times of Israel, 122 261, 266–67, 300–302 Times of London, 137 dossier of, 51, 55, 58, 59, 69–72, Timofeev, Ivan, 109, 128, 129, 134, 74, 76–78, 130, 142, 156, 139, 164, 276–77 162–63, 166, 169–70, 179, TMZ, 27 183, 185, 200, 219, 226, 227, Toensing, Victoria, 117, 203 232, 237–38, 244–47, 251–52, Tokhtakhounov, Alimzhan, 48–49 255–60, 261, 262, 267, 300– Torshin, Alexander, 81–83, 87–88, 302 91–92, 98, 125, 139, 152, 177 Ohr and, 300–301 To Vima, 141, 144 withdrawal of FBI partnership, treason, 10 266–67 Treasury Department, 9, 88 Stein, Jill, 101 Treisman, Daniel, 17, 28–29, 31 Stephanopoulos, George, 25, 172 True Pundit, 205, 206, 213 Stern, Howard, 27, 36 Trump, Donald: Stewart, Corey, 210 compromising recordings of Stone, Roger, 105, 181, 187, 194– (kompromat), 69–79, 142, 259, 99, 207, 210, 215–16, 292, 293 296, 303, 316 elected president, 68, 194, 240, Streshinskiy, Dimitriy, 229–30 258, 296, 315 Strzok, Peter, 299 ex-mistresses of, 268–70 Supreme Court, 319 first call to Putin as president, 242 SVR, 102, 108, 170 first foreign policy speech of Sydney Morning Herald, 28 (Mayflower Speech), 59, 113, Syria, 102, 110, 118, 133, 199, 218– 124–38, 139, 141, 185, 223, 20, 234, 240, 252, 271, 272, 290 271, 311 Szemerkényi, Réka, 184 at Helsinki “summit” with Putin, 304 Tait, Matt, 173 impact on America, 313–20 Tapper, Jake, 132 impeachment possibility, 4, 293, TASS, 133 301, 306, 315–17 Telegraph, 15, 34–35, 256 inaugural funds of, 270, 298 Thailand, 307–9 National Security Advisory Com- theory of the case, 9 mittee of, see National Secu- in Trump-Russia case, 9–10 rity Advisory Committee Tillerson, Rex, 233, 242, 280, 289 nondisclosure agreements used Time, 26, 74, 144 by, 312 Index 447

pardons used by, 303, 318, 319 88, 94, 97, 120, 139–41, 147– presidential campaign of, 80– 52, 160, 181, 183, 187, 190, 101, 314, 315 193, 196, 199, 208, 210, 213, presidential candidacy announced 229, 234, 250, 265–67, 273, by, 67, 80, 83, 90, 295 279, 303, 316 presidential run considered by, Goldstone and, 145–47, 192, 265, 13, 43, 49–50, 52, 65–66, 295, 282, 283 313 testimonies of, 261, 262, 277–78, presidential transition of, 204–5, 281–84 218–43, 275, 276, 291, 314, at , 140, 315 224, 281–84, 312 president’s daily brief (PDB) of, Trump, Eric, 22–23, 41–42, 51, 67 231 Trump, Ivanka, 22, 104, 111, 150, Putin’s meeting with, 129, 139, 220, 240 151, 157, 160–61, 185, 262, Kremlin tour of, 17, 28–29, 31, 175, 276, 279–80, 304 253 Putin’s speakerphone conversa- Trump, Melania, 36, 88, 152, 298 tion with, 60, 61 Trump Organization, 13, 16–17, 19– Republican nomination of, 96, 24, 29, 30, 32, 34, 41–42, 45, 163, 168 48, 51, 68, 71, 84–85, 94, 167, remarks on hackers, 182, 201, 172, 217, 261, 267, 268, 282, 238 291–92, 313 resignation possibility, 316, 317 Trump-Russia scandal and investiga- “Russia, if you’re listening” re- tion, 3–11, 261–86, 287–312, mark of, 162, 173, 190, 191 315–20 statements on how well he knows impeachment and, 4, 293, 301, Putin, 25–26, 83–84, 90–91, 306, 315–17 190 proof of collusion in, 3–11 statements on Putin and Obama, theory of, 9–10 83–84, 90, 91 whistle-blowers in, 312 tax returns of, 9 Trump Tower, 17, 18, 23, 30, 48 Twitter feed of, 6, 51, 54, 57, 66, June 9, 2016 meeting at, 55, 127, 72, 91, 149, 163–64, 216–17, 140–41, 148–50, 160, 224, 236, 242–43, 288, 298, 302, 262, 264–66, 271, 272, 277– 319 78, 281–84, 312 Trump, Donald, Jr., 16–17, 19–22, Obama surveillance accusation 32, 34, 50, 51, 66–68, 81, 82, and, 204–5, 222, 245 448 Index

Trump Tower Moscow, 18, 29, 31, Van Zandt, Steven, 168–69 37, 43, 46–50, 56–59, 66–68, Vekselberg, Viktor, 59, 268–70, 291 85, 86, 98 Verhofstadt, Guy, 157 Turkey, 248, 249, 275, 281 Veselnitskaya, Natalia, 127, 148–50, Twitter, 7, 9, 49–50, 52, 53, 59–61, 224, 269–71, 273, 281, 282, 68, 75, 83, 98, 136, 145, 187, 284 198, 199, 207, 209–11, 213, VICE News, 60, 64 262, 264 Vnesheconombank (VEB), 18–29, Trump’s use of, 6, 51, 54, 57, 66, 225, 229, 233, 242, 271 72, 91, 149, 163–64, 216–17, Vox, 140, 154, 164, 175, 296 236, 242–43, 288, 298, 302, VR Systems, 182 319 VTB, 85–86, 97 Tzitzikos, George, 159 Wade, Alex, 211 Uganda, 230 Wade, Paris, 211 Ukraine, 17, 18, 33, 103–6, 120, Wall Street Journal, 118, 242 126, 133, 170, 171, 174–77, , 115–16, 240, 181, 227, 234, 249, 253, 293– 273 94, 297 Washington Monthly, 30, 57, 75, 197 Unger, Craig, 23 Washington Post, 14, 19, 24, 28, 31, Unhinged (Newman), 312 40, 46, 47, 53, 56, 59, 64, 72, United Arab Emirates (UAE), 93, 76, 85, 99, 103, 107, 108, 113, 119, 120, 142, 218, 228, 233– 115, 117, 120, 128, 131, 143– 35, 242, 269, 279, 281, 285– 45, 149, 152–53, 155, 156, 86, 290, 291 160, 164, 167–68, 183, 196, , 233 211, 225, 236, 252–54, 273– United Nations (UN), 225 75, 290, 298, 303, 304 USA Today, 172, 177, 277 Washington Times, 82 U.S. News & World Report, 236 Watts, Clint, 212 Weekly Standard, 81 Valdai Discussion Club, 110, 129, Weinberger, Caspar, 144 133 Weiner, Anthony, 185–86, 206, 208, Van der Zwaan, Alex, 296–97 213 Vanity Fair, 41–42, 88, 93, 217, 232, Weisselberg, Allen, 217, 291–92 289 West, Kanye, 64 Van Ronkel, Bob, 62–64 West, Nigel, 78 Van Zandt, Maureen, 169 WhatsApp, 231 Index 449 whistle-blowers, 312 WorldNetDaily, 197 White-Cain, Paula, 210 Wray, Christopher, 301 WikiLeaks, 113, 133, 155, 156, 172– Wylie, Christopher, 173 73, 180–81, 183, 187–88, 192, Wynn, Steve, 206, 213 194–99, 202, 216, 221, 272, 292, 312 Yahoo News, 49, 66, 72, 83, 96, 276 , 120–21, 205, 210, 260 Yakunin, Vladimir, 127 Winter Olympics, 39, 47 Yanukovych, Viktor, 33 WMAL, 204 Yates, Sally, 244, 247, 250, 251, 299 Wolff, Michael, 68, 150, 312 Yeltsin, Boris, 15, 25, 195 Wongpin, Suttipong, 308–9 Yoho, Ted, 172 Wood, Andrew, 245 Wood, Paul, 40, 69, 71, 77, 78 Zamel, Joel, 120, 121, 205, 210, Woodward, Bob, 312 228–29, 234, 260, 279, 283–84 Woolley, Samuel, 209–10 Zembla, 100 World Cup, 39, 53, 58–59 Zuckerberg, Mark, 220