43. Paul Singer and Paulina Firozi, “Turkish Faith Movement Secretly Funded 200 Trips for Lawmakers and Staff,” USA Today, October 29, 2015.

44. Author interview.

45. Singer and Firozi, “Turkish Faith Movement Secretly Funded.”

46. Alexander Burns and Maggie Haberman, “Mystery Man: Ukraine’s US Fixer,” Politico, March 5, 2014.

47. Rob Crilly, “Can Trump’s New Campaign Manager Do for The Donald What He Did for African Tyrants and a Ukrainian Kleptocrat?,” The Telegraph, April 23, 2016.

48. Paul Manafort, Political Prisoner: Persecuted, Prosecuted, but Not Silenced (New York: Skyhorse, 2022).

49. David Voreacos and Chris Dolmetsch, “Manafort Sued by Russian Billionaire Deripaska over TV Deal,” Bloomberg, January 10, 2018.

50. The unedited versions of the text messages can be found at https://bit.ly/ManafortDaughterTexts.

51. Franklin Foer, “Paul Manafort, American Hustler,” The Atlantic, March 2018.

52. The unedited versions of the text messages can be found at https://bit.ly/ManafortDaughterTexts.

PART IV: INSURRECTIONS

1. Gregory P. Downs, After Appomattox: Military Occupation and the Ends of War (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015).

13. POT OF GOLD

1. “Will: Disharmony Is Our Creed,” Sarasota Herald-Tribune, January 23, 2011.

2. Kristen Holmes, “Trump Calls for the Termination of the Constitution in Truth Social Post,” CNN, December 4, 2022.

3. Ben Freeman and Lydia Dennett, “Loopholes, Filing Failures, and Lax Enforcement: How the Foreign Agents Registration Act Falls Short,” Project on Government Oversight, Washington, DC, December 16, 2014.

4. Ibid.

5. “Sunlight Foundation Recommendations to the Dept. of Justice Regarding the Foreign Agents Registration Act,” Sunlight Foundation, Washington, DC, April 8, 2014.

6. Freeman and Dennett, “Loopholes, Filing Failures, and Lax Enforcement.”

7. Office of the Inspector General, U.S. Department of Justice, “Audit of the National Security Division’s Enforcement and Administration of the Foreign Agents Registration Act,” Audit Division 16–24, September 2016.

8. FARA’s digital database can be found at https://efile.fara.gov/ords/fara/f?p=1381:1:32995461174955

9. Ibid.

10. Freeman and Dennett, “Loopholes, Filing Failures, and Lax Enforcement.”

11. Ken Dilanian, Tom Winter, and Kenzi Abou-Sabe, “Ex-Trump Aide Manafort Bought New York Homes with Cash,” NBC News, March 28, 2017.

12. Paul Manafort, Political Prisoner: Persecuted, Prosecuted, but Not Silenced (New York: Skyhorse, 2022).

13. Casey Michel, American Kleptocracy: How the U.S. Created the World’s Greatest Money Laundering Scheme in History (New York: St. Martin’s, 2021).

14. Ben Jacobs, “Leader of Pro-Trump Super PAC Had Mortgage on Paul Manafort Property,” The Guardian, November 1, 2017.

15. “Report of the Select Committee on Intelligence, United States Senate, on Russian Active Measures Campaigns and Interference in the 2016 U.S. Election, Volume 5: Counterintelligence Threats and Vulnerabilities,” 116th Cong., 1st Sess., Report 116-XXX.

16. Manafort, Political Prisoner.

17. Ibid.

18. Glenn Thrush, “To Charm Trump, Manafort Sold Himself as an Affordable Outsider,” New York Times, April 8, 2017.

19. Manafort, Political Prisoner.

20. Ibid.

21. Ibid.

22. Nolan D. McCaskill, Alex Isenstadt, and Shane Goldmacher, “Paul Manafort Resigns from Trump Campaign,” Politico, August 19, 2016.

23. Meghan Keneally, “Timeline of Paul Manafort’s Role in the Trump Campaign,” ABC News, October 30, 2017.

24. Spencer S. Hsu, Rachel Weiner, and Matt Zapotosky, “Roger Stone Trial: Former Top Trump Official Details Campaign’s Dealings on WikiLeaks, and Suggests Trump Was in the Know,” Washington Post, November 12, 2019. Trump later pardoned Stone before he served time in prison.

25. Ken Dilanian, Charlie Gile, and Dareh Gregorian, “Prosecutor Says Roger Stone Lied Because ‘the Truth Looked Bad for Donald Trump,’” NBC News, November 6, 2019.

26. Stone sent his email to Manafort on August 3, 2016. The next day, Stone wrote “that he had dinner with Assange the night before,” according to CNN. See Andrew Kaczynski and Gloria Borger, “Stone, on Day He Sent Assange Dinner Email, Also Said ‘Devastating’ WikiLeaks Were Forthcoming,” CNN, April 4, 2018; Darren Samuelson and Josh Gerstein, “What Roger Stone’s Trial Revealed About Donald Trump and WikiLeaks,” Politico, November 12, 2019.

27. Rosalind S. Helderman, Tom Hamburger, and Rachel Weiner, “At Height of Russia Tensions, Trump Campaign Chairman Manafort Met with Business Associate from Ukraine,” Washington Post, June 19, 2017.

28. Aaron Blake, “‘How Do We Use [This] to Get Whole?’: The Most Intriguing New Paul Manafort–Russia Email,” Washington Post, September 20, 2017.

29. “Report of the Select Committee on Intelligence.”

30. Ibid.

31. Robert Waldeck, The Black Ledger: How Trump Brought Putin’s Disinformation War to America (New York: Cobra y Craneo, 2020).

32. Ibid.

33. Philip Bump, “New Evidence Revives an Old Question: What Counts as Trump-Russia Collusion?,” Washington Post, August 18, 2020.

34. Mattathias Schwartz, “Exclusive: Paul Manafort Admits He Passed Trump Campaign Data to a Suspected Russian Asset,” Business Insider, August 8, 2022.

35. Ibid.

36. U.S. Department of the Treasury, “Treasury Escalates Sanctions Against the Russian Government’s Attempts to Influence U.S. Elections,” press release, April 15, 2021.

37. Despite all evidence to the contrary, Manafort has continued to claim that Kilimnik is “not a Russian agent.” See Manafort, Political Prisoner.

38. Jim Rutenberg, “The Untold Story of ‘Russiagate’ and the Road to War in Ukraine,” New York Times Magazine, November 2, 2022.

39. “Report of the Select Committee on Intelligence.”

40. Federal Bureau of Investigation to Jason Leopold, BuzzFeed News, March 2, 2022 (“Litigation_6th_Release_-_Leopold.pdf”), https://buzzfeed.egnyte.com/dl/gbuL8jn18Z/.

41. Sharon LaFraniere, “Mueller Report Leaves Unanswered Questions About Contacts Between Russians and Trump Aides,” New York Times, April 18, 2019.

42. Salvador Rizzo, “What Attorney General Barr Said vs. What the Mueller Report Said,” Washington Post, April 19, 2020.

43. U.S. Department of Justice, “Report on the Investigation into Russian Interference in the 2016 Presidential Election” (Mueller Report), March 2019.

44. Waldeck, The Black Ledger.

45. Andrew E. Kramer, Mike McIntire, and Barry Meier, “Secret Ledger in Ukraine Lists Cash for Donald Trump’s Campaign Chief,” New York Times, August 14, 2016.

46. Jonny Wrate, “Trump’s Ex-Campaign Chief Accused of Money Laundering in Ukraine,” Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, March 21, 2017.

47. Manafort, Political Prisoner.

48. Ibid.

49. McCaskill, Isenstadt, and Goldmacher, “Paul Manafort Resigns.”

14. BLACK HOLE

1. Alexis de