Fear: Trump in the White House

Tillerson on, 229

Trump on state of regime in, 300

U.S. in Afghanistan and, 313

Yemen and, 72

Iran-contra, 165, 352

Iraqi Operations Group (The House of Broken Toys), 182, 183

Iraqi Republican Guard, 117, 181

Iraq/Iraq War

Afghanistan compared, 128

Bolton’s support for Iraq War, 87

under George W. Bush, 314

Dunford, in Iraq War, 100

Gulf War, 77, 117

Harvey as director for Middle East on, 108

Iran and, 182, 209, 298

Mattis and, 50, 51, 54

McMaster and, 117, 314

under Obama, 256

paying for commitments in, 310

Rice on, 185

Saddam Hussein, efforts to remove, 181–83

Tillerson on, 229

Trump’s desire to pull out of, 229

WMD allegations, 64

ISIS, 39, 51, 61, 83, 196, 222, 229, 256

Israel, 51, 109–11, 113, 114, 131, 298

J. P. Morgan/JPMorgan Chase, 136, 248

Jackson, Ronny, 266

Japan

American relationship with, 96, 179, 219

case for free trade with, 220

Chinese intellectual property violations and, 272

Hiroshima, 181

North Korean nuclear proliferation and, 92, 93, 179, 224, 302, 306

TPP and, 139

trade with, 179, 220

Jarrett, Valerie, 122

Jefferson, Thomas, 246, 253

Jefferson Memorial, 328

Jeffersonian democracy, 127

Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS), 138

jobs

agricultural products, trade in, 158–61, 220

in automotive industry, 276

China, jobs lost to, 6, 15

employment statistics under Trump, 175

in presidential campaign, 15

service economy versus industrial/manufacturing jobs, 136–38

tariffs affecting, 274, 335

tax reform and, 292, 296

trade agreements affecting, Trump’s views on, 134, 135, 137

Johnson, Jeh, 29, 30

Johnson, Ron, 295

Johnson, Woody, 10

JOLTS (Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey), 138

Jones, Paula, 38, 39

Jones, Seth G., 259

Kahl, Colin, 301

Kaine, Tim, 260

Kasowitz, Marc, 167, 168, 169, 204

Katsas, Greg, 192

Keane, Jack, 49–51

Keating Five ethics investigation, 168

Kellogg, Keith, 77, 88, 126, 255, 257

Kelly, John F.

on Afghanistan, 254, 310, 311

on Charlottesville, 240, 243, 246, 247, 249, 251, 253–54

as chief of staff, 234–36, 311

on Cobb, 326

Chris Crane and, 283

on disorder and disruption of White House staff, 261, 262–64, 265–66, 268, 269

on immigration, 185–86, 285, 319, 323

KORUS, Trump’s desire to terminate, 264, 265, 304, 306

on McMaster versus Tillerson, 303

media and, 285–86, 356

Mueller investigation and, 325, 326, 342, 346, 347

on NAFTA, 156

Navarro and, 277–78

Nielsen suggested as secretary of homeland security by, 284

on North Korea, 281–82

in Oval Office meetings, 265–66

Porter and, 261–63, 268–69

senior staff meetings of, 285–86

short attention span of, 285

tariffs and, 335–36, 337

tax reform and, 292

Tillerson warned about imminent removal by, 323

on transgender troops, 203

Trump, relationship with, 263, 265–67, 268–69, 283–87

Kennedy, Ted, 318

Kenya, Hezbollah in, 109

KEY2ACT, 42–43

Khans (Gold Star parents), 74

Kim Jong Il, 93

Kim Jong Un, 93, 95, 97, 98, 180, 181, 183, 184, 206, 279, 280–81, 282, 300–302

Kislyak, Sergey, 80, 81, 329, 330, 353

Kissinger, Henry, 297

KKK (Ku Klux Klan), 243, 246, 251

Kobach, Kris, 188

Koch brothers, 292

Korean War, 96

KORUS (United States–[South] Korea Free Trade Agreement), Trump’s desire to terminate, xvii–xxii, xxiii, 105–7, 142, 224, 233, 264–65, 300, 304–8

Ku Klux Klan (KKK), 243, 246, 251

Kushner, Jared

Bannon and Priebus, problems with, 144–45, 186, 194–95, 195–96, 237

finances investigated, 163, 194–95

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

foreign wars, Trump’s desire to pull out of, 229–30

on immigration, 185–88, 217

KORUS, Trump’s desire to terminate, xx

McMaster and, 88, 89, 229–30

Middle East interests of, 109

on NAFTA, 155, 156, 157

on NATO, 78

on Paris Climate Accord, 190

political acumen of, 217–18

in presidential election campaign, 20, 22, 26, 32, 33, 39, 40–41

Priebus resignation and, 236, 237

Russian election interference/collusion/Mueller investigation, 145, 165, 194–95, 197, 215

on Saudi Arabia, 110, 111–14

Sessions attack by Trump as smokescreen for Russian testimony of, 215

Syrian air strike and, 144–45, 150, 154

on trade/trade agreements/trade deficit, 138–39

in transition-period economy meeting, 55, 59

Kuttner, Robert, 259

Lavoy, Peter, 116, 120

leader’s command-and-control targeting, 181–84

leaking

Bannon and Kushner, conflict between, 144–45, 190

hacked Democratic Party emails, 28

Podesta emails, 30, 36

in presidential campaign, 14

Lebanon

Beirut, bombing of Marine Barracks in (1983), 52

Hezbollah, 54, 109–10, 113, 154, 229

National Security Strategy and, 298

Tillerson interventions on, 229

Lee, Mike, 294

Lee, Robert E., 238, 246

Lewinsky, Monica, 36, 165, 352

LGBT rights, 201–3

libel laws, 318–19

Libya, 195, 230

lie detectors, 64

lies and lying

Hillary Clinton coming across as lying, 16

Comey accused of, 169, 331

by Flynn, 82, 198, 330, 345

by Gates, 348

Mueller investigation and, 4, 299, 347, 348, 352

in polls, 45

Trump, as liar, 208–9, 235, 320, 338, 353, 357

Trump accusations of, 4, 169, 299, 331

to Woodward, about North Korea, 177–78, 181

Lighthizer, Robert E. (Bob), 142–43, 160, 266, 272, 274, 276

Lincoln, Abraham, 123, 237, 253

Lincoln Bedroom (White House), 328

Lindsey, Lawrence B., 137

lithium, 309