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Perhaps the most troubling pieces: Comey’s June 8, 2017, testimony to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence is available at https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3860393/Comey-Opening-Statement-June-8.pdf. Comey’s memos are available at https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/4442900/Ex-FBI-Director-James-Comey-s-memos.pdf.

In a celebrated July 27 news conference: Donald J. Trump, “News Conference in Doral, Florida,” July 27, 2016. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=118047.

He later tweeted, “If Russia”: View Trump’s tweet at https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/758335147183788032.

The next day he said: Nick Gass, “Trump on Russia Hacking Comments: ‘Of Course I’m Being Sarcastic,’ ” Politico, July 27, 2016.

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Within the intelligence and military world: Bob Woodward, Obama’s Wars (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2010), p. 56.

Just over a month later: See the CNS North Korea Missile Test Database, available for download at http://www.nti.org/analysis/articles/cns-north-korea-missile-test-database/.

That afternoon, McMaster chaired: Author review of contemporaneous notes by a participant.

Less than two months later: Michelle Ye Hee Lee, “North Korea’s Latest Nuclear Test Was So Powerful It Reshaped the Mountain Above It,” The Washington Post, September 14, 2017.

During the campaign, on February 10

: Matt Stevens, “Trump and Kim Jong Un, and the Names They’ve Called Each Other,” The New York Times, March 9, 2018.

He was captured nine months later: Saddam Hussein was tried for crimes against humanity, found guilty and hanged three years later.

From October 17 to 19, 2017: David Cenciotti, “Here Are Some Interesting Details About the Way U.S. B-2 Bombers Trained Over the U.S. to Strike North Korea,” The Aviationist, October 30, 2017.

This question echoed: Wolf Blitzer, “Search for the ‘Smoking Gun,’ ” CNN, January 10, 2003.

Chain migration, formally called: William A. Kandel, “U.S. Family-Based Immigration Policy,” Congressional Research Service, February 9, 2018, https://fas.org/sgp/crs/homesec/R43145.pdf.

Two thirds (68 percent): Ibid.

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Gary Cohn gathered the principals: Author review of contemporaneous notes by a participant.

In a late-afternoon Rose Garden: Donald J. Trump, “Remarks Announcing United States Withdrawal from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Paris Agreement,” June 1, 2017. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=125881.

On June 15, 2017, The Washington Post: Sari Horwitz, Matt Zapotosky and Adam Entous, “Special Counsel Is Investigating Jared Kushner’s Business Dealings,” The Washington Post

, June 15, 2017.

Priebus continued to tell Trump: In early 2018, Jared’s interim Top Secret security clearance was taken away as the FBI continued a very aggressive background investigation. But in May, the FBI granted Jared a permanent Top Secret clearance, suggesting his troubles in the special counsel probe were over—a startling turn in his favor.

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Over the weekend of July 8 and 9: The first article was by Jo Becker, Matt Apuzzo and Adam Goldman, “Trump Team Met with Lawyer Linked to Kremlin During Campaign,” The New York Times, July 8, 2017. The second, by the same reporters, was “Trump’s Son Met with Russian Lawyer After Being Promised Damaging Information on Clinton,” The New York Times, July 9, 2017.

On July 17 Trump tweeted: View Trump’s tweet at https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/886950594220568576.

McGahn, Priebus: Author obtained document.

On July 20 Bloomberg dropped: Greg Farrell and Christian Berthelsen, “Mueller Expands Probe to Trump Business Transactions,” Bloomberg, July 20, 2017.