Fear: Trump in the White House

Breitbart News Daily (radio show), 13

Brennan, John O., 28, 62, 63, 64, 68, 182–83

Britain. See United Kingdom

Broaddrick, Juanita, 38, 39

Brzezinski, Mika, 205, 206

Building and Construction Trades, 335

Bunker, Archie, Trump compared to, 3, 25

Bureau of Labor Statistics, 138

Bush, George H. W., 76

Bush, George W., 31, 64, 76, 93, 105, 116, 117, 137, 182, 185, 260, 274, 314, 318

Bush, Jeb, 17, 100

BuzzFeed, 69

Cabinet Room (White House), 251, 317, 337

Camp David, 146, 254

Campbell Soup, 248

Canada

case for free trade with, 220

Chinese intellectual property violations and, 272

NAFTA, 135, 142, 155–58, 160, 233, 264, 274

Caslen, Robert, 88–89

CBS, 246, 302

CBS This Morning, 65, 181

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

Afghanistan War and, 119, 123, 126, 255, 257–58

intelligence standards, 63–64

Iran nuclear deal and, 132

Iraq, WMD allegations against, 64

North Korea and, 180, 183, 308

permanent government institutions, power of, 162

Russian meddling in election and, 28–29, 62–71

Saddam Hussein, efforts to remove, 182–83

on Saudis, 111

Syria, Saudi Arabia funding operations in, 303

chain immigration (family reunification policy), 186–87, 268, 321

change agent, Trump as, 15, 297

Charlottesville, 238–52

CEO comments on, 247–48

Cohn’s response to, 248–51

Congressional comments on, 239–40

media coverage of Trump and, 253–54

military comments on, 246

Mnuchin on, 250

Porter’s response to presidential comments about, 247, 252

Trump comments on, 239, 240–47, 249

video watched by Trump, 248–49

white supremacist march in, 238–39

chemical weapons attack on Syrian rebels, air strike in retaliation for (April 2017), 146–54

Cheney, Dick, 49

Child Tax Credit, 293–94

China

Afghanistan’s mineral wealth and, 125, 309, 311

agricultural trade with, 158–61, 220, 341

antibiotics produced by, 275

Bannon on, 196, 297, 298

Bossert on trade with, 339–42

as currency manipulator, 223

cyber wars with, 339–40, 341

economy of, compared to U.S., 298

intellectual property violations, 301 investigation into, 272–73, 336, 337

jobs lost to, 6, 15

McMaster on, 232

North Korea and, 97, 102, 105, 179, 180, 272, 282

presidential election interference and, 65, 69

Syrian air strike and, 151, 153

tariffs and, 135, 159, 174

Tillerson on, 229

U.S., policy leaders’ views on, 196, 297

U.S. in Afghanistan and, 313

WTO disputes with, 276

Christian Broadcasting Network, 328

Christie, Chris, 12, 13, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 42

CIA. See Central Intelligence Agency

Citizens United, 1

Clapper, James, 27, 29, 62–64, 65, 67–68, 70, 93, 96–97, 147

Clean Power Plan, 192

climate change, Paris Accord on, 189–94

Clinton, Bill, 30, 32–33, 38, 39, 84, 93, 105, 164, 165, 181, 183, 321, 351, 352

Clinton, Hillary

Comey, firing of, 163, 164

on election night, 45–46, 47

email investigations, 163, 172–73, 327, 331, 350

Haitians accusing Clintons of corruption, 321

“Lock Her Up” chant against, 43, 60

Jill McCabe campaign donations attributed by Trump to, 84

North Korea and, 92

in presidential campaign, 9, 10, 13, 15–16, 17, 24, 25, 26, 29, 30, 33, 35, 36, 38, 39, 44, 134

Russian election meddling and, 60, 63, 67, 84, 172–73, 197, 349

on Trump and nuclear threat, 301

Ukraine presidential campaign sabotage in favor of, Russian propaganda about, 230

CNN, 17, 36, 38, 39, 85, 164, 165, 195, 205, 241, 299

Coats, Dan, 110, 180

Cobb, Ty, 171, 325–26, 348, 351, 353, 354

Cohen, Michael, 172, 199

Cohen, William, 181

Cohn, Gary

on Afghanistan’s mineral wealth, 310

bankruptcies of Trump and, 274–75

Charlottesville, response to, 243, 248–51

China’s intellectual property violations and, 272–73

as Democrat, 55–56, 60

disorder and disruption in White House and, 261, 264, 265, 266, 270, 271

on economy, 55–60, 274

foreign policy, Pentagon lunch and Tank meeting on, 218–26

jobs offered by Trump to, 58–60

KORUS, Trump’s desire to terminate, xvii, xviii–xix, xx–xxi, 233, 264, 265, 305

on NAFTA, 156, 158, 274

Navarro and, 277–78

NEC director, appointment as, 59–60

Paris Climate Accord and, 191–93

Pence and, 277

resignation of, 337–39

Russian election meddling/collusion/Mueller investigation and, 165, 230

Syrian air strike and, 150

on tariffs, 158, 160, 175, 208–9, 232–33, 266–67, 273–74, 277, 334, 335, 336, 337

on tax reform, 57, 249–50, 251, 267, 289–95

on trade/trade agreements/trade deficit, 135–38, 140, 141, 143, 273–78

Twitter, efforts to control president’s use of, 206

Cohn, Lisa, 60

Colbert, Stephen, 246

Collins, Susan, 206, 295

collusion with Russia. See Mueller investigation; Russia, collusion with

Colombia, Hezbollah in, 109

Comey, James

Hillary Clinton email investigations and, 163, 327, 331, 350

firing of, 162–66, 169, 216

Flynn investigation, Trump urging Comey to drop, 164, 169–70, 173

A Higher Loyalty, 66–67, 68–69, 70

on loyalty pledge, 317

Mueller investigation and, 326, 327, 328, 331, 345, 349, 350

Russia, intelligence report on, 62, 63, 66–67, 68–69, 70–71, 85

Congress. See also specific members of Congress by name

apologies of Graham for Republican majority, 101

Charlottesville, comments on, 239–40

free traders in, 267