Fear: Trump in the White House

initial intelligence report not suggesting, 67

presidential campaign, meetings with Russians during, 197–98, 345, 349

specific instances suggesting, 172–73

Russian election interference. See also Mueller investigation

Access Hollywood tape eclipsing, 30

Clinton emails, 63, 67, 172–73

Congress briefed about, 29

first public release of information about, 28–29

Flynn’s discussion of sanctions for, with Russian ambassador, 80–82

initial evidence of, 27–29

intelligence report on, 62–71

Putin’s passive response to sanctions for, 81–82

sanctions imposed by Obama for, 80, 81, 83, 330

Trump addressing missing Clinton emails and, 172–73

Trump’s view of, 65, 174, 330

as “witch hunt,” 65, 174, 330

Ryan, Paul, 31, 44, 130, 159, 239, 248, 286, 291, 292, 294, 356

Salman (Saudi king), 114

Sanders, Sarah Huckabee, 202–3, 241

SAP (Special Access Programs), xviii, 83, 92, 180, 224, 305, 306

sarin gas attack in Syria, air strike in retaliation for (April 2017), 146–54

Sater, Felix, 199

Saturday Night Massacre (1973), 216

Saudi Arabia, 110–14, 183, 196, 298, 303, 307

Scaramucci, Anthony, 233–34

Scarborough, Joe, 153, 205

Scavino, Dan, 206, 234, 235

Schmidt, Michael, 164

Schumer, Chuck, 286, 318

SCIF (Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility), 83, 150, 207, 261

Scott, Tim, 293

SEALs, 51, 72–75, 243

Secret Service, 35–36, 175

Sekulow, Jay, 328, 333, 343, 345–46, 349, 351, 354

Senate Armed Services Committee, 65, 99, 105, 255

Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF), 83, 150, 207, 261

service economy versus industrial/manufacturing jobs, 136–38

Sessions, Jeff

on Afghanistan, 120, 126, 255, 257

Bannon on, 299

on immigration, 188, 267

in presidential campaign, 46

recusal of, 168, 176, 213, 216

resignation called for, 213–16

Russian election interference/collusion/Mueller investigation, 164, 166, 168, 174, 327, 347, 349

Trump’s attacks on, 174, 176, 213–16, 299, 347

sexual scandals

Access Hollywood tape, 29–37, 39, 43

of Clintons, 36, 38–39, 165, 352

Russian prostitutes/“golden showers” accusation, 64–65, 68–71

#TimesUp and #MeToo movements, Bannon on Trump as perfect foil for, 299–300

Trump on handling, 175

Shelton, Kathy, 38, 39

“shithole countries” remark, 320–21

Singapore, 220

el-Sisi, Abdel Fattah, 324

Situation Room meetings, 81, 83, 124, 158, 179, 182, 191, 227, 305, 311

60 Minutes (TV show), 32, 311

Slaughter, Anne-Marie, 153

Sony Pictures Entertainment, North Korean cyber attack on, 97–98

South Africa, Hezbollah in, 109

South Korea. See also North Korea, nuclear proliferation in

Afghanistan compared, 313

case for free trade with, 220

economy of, 305

importance of U.S. alliance with, 219, 305–8

KORUS, Trump’s desire to terminate, xvii–xxii, xxiii, 105–7, 142, 224, 233, 264–65, 300, 304–8

THAAD missile defense system in, xxi–xxii, 106, 224, 285, 304

troops in, Trump’s desire to pull out, 230

U.S. dependents, consideration of withdrawing, 178, 302–3

U.S. troops in, Trump’s desire to withdraw, xvii–xviii, 224, 230, 263, 264, 285, 305

Winter Olympics (2018), 308

South Lawn (White House), 323

soybeans, 158, 341

Special Access Programs (SAP), xviii, 83, 92, 180, 224, 305, 306

Spicer, Sean, 133, 191

Starbucks, 136

steel tariffs, 135, 142, 160–61, 233, 266–67, 273–74, 277, 335, 336–37

Steele, Christopher, and Steele dossier, 63–64, 327

Sterling, VA, Trump National Golf Club, 166

Stiglitz, Joseph, 233

stock market, 194, 232, 242, 302, 334, 339

Stone, Roger, 172

Strategic & Policy Forum, 247–48

strength/weakness, Trump’s concern about, xxii, 12, 34, 37, 66, 149, 152, 169, 175, 176, 214, 223, 242, 244, 247, 268, 281

Strike Option Five, 53

Submarine Launched Ballistic Missiles, 60

Surabian, Andy, 19–20

Sweeney, Kevin, 196

Syria

air strike in retaliation for sarin gas attack (April 2017), 146–54

brutality of Assad regime in, 131

Hezbollah in, 109

ISIS in, 51

jihadists migrating to Afghanistan from, 312

Russia and, 28, 147, 149, 150–51, 153, 154

Saudi Arabia funding operations in, 303, 307

Tillerson on, 229

Trump’s desire to pull out of, 229, 298

Taiwan, 305

Taliban, 116, 118–19, 121–23, 125–27, 255, 258, 260, 311–13

Tank meeting on foreign policy (Pentagon), 218–26

Tapper, Jake, 36

tariffs, 135, 142, 158–61, 174, 175, 207–9, 232–33, 266–67, 273–74, 277, 334–37, 339–42

tax on American consumers, tariffs as, 334

Tax Policy Center, 295

tax reform, 289–95

Bannon on, 298

Cohn on, 57, 249–50, 251, 267, 289–95

Congress and, 267, 291–93, 294, 295

corporate tax rate, 57, 289–90, 294, 295, 298

increased economic growth as means of paying for, 291

individual personal income tax rates, 290–91, 295, 296

inversion, problem of, 57–58, 289

job creation and wage growth, 292, 296

middle-income families, relief for, 292, 295

names for bill, 294

pass-throughs, 292, 295

percentage of Americans not paying tax, 293–94

planning for, 291–93

in presidential campaign, 18

Priebus consulted by Trump on, 287

simplification of code, 292

tax credits and, 293–94

tax returns, Trump’s refusal to release, 356

Tea Party movement, 1, 2, 4, 5, 43

TEAK, 303

television watching, obsessive, of Trump, 158, 165, 195, 231, 270, 299, 339