431

INDEX

ABC, 25, 31–32, 40, 84–85, 94, 95,

100, 172, 172, 229–30, 278–

79, 286

Abedin, Huma, 208, 212

Abu Dhabi, 228, 234, 290

Access Hollywood, 194–95

Acosta, Jim, 103, 120, 176, 190

ACU Strategic Partners, 230, 231

Adamant, 37

Affliction Entertainment, 19

Agalarov, Aras, 37, 44–47, 49–61,

64, 66–68, 74, 78, 84, 94, 98,

105–6, 140, 146, 224, 282

Agalarov, Emin, 44–46, 49–52, 54,

55, 59–60, 64, 67, 68, 70, 73,

84, 105, 139, 140, 145–47, 223–

24, 264–66, 277–78, 282–84

aiding and abetting, 4, 188–89, 291

Ailes, Roger, 68

Akhmetshin, Rinat, 148–50, 262,

270, 272–73, 284

Alfa Bank, 59, 153, 181, 311

Alfa Capital Partners, 126

Alferova, Yulya, 45, 49–50, 52–53,

59–60, 63, 68, 98

Alptekin, Kamil Ekim, 117, 121

American Jewish Committee, 172

Apollo Global Management, 229,

231–32

Apprentice, The, 60, 61, 63, 82, 298

Arif, Tevfik, 17, 30, 31, 39

Arnold, Benedict, 4

Arnold, Tom, 47, 59–61

Arsov, Trajche, 211–12

Artemenko, Andrii V., 249, 253–55,

291

artnet News, 34

Art of the Deal, The (Trump), 14

al-Assad, Bashar, 220, 234, 240,

272

Assange, Julian, 156, 173, 181, 196–

99, 202, 216, 292

Associated Press, 25, 26, 29, 58, 309

Association of Accredited Public

Policy Advocates to the Euro-

pean Union, 185

Association of Former Intelligence

Officers, 62

Atlantic, 136, 164, 175, 198, 199,

292

Aven, Pyotr, 59

Axios, 301

Azerbaijan, 54, 120, 230

Baer, Robert, 74

Baker, James, 299–300

Bank of Russia, 92

Banks, Arron, 156

Index432

Bannon, Steve, 116, 127, 150, 155,

165, 171–73, 180, 181, 190,

193, 196, 207, 212, 213, 221,

223, 228, 229, 233, 235, 241,

242, 266, 267, 285–86, 290,

312, 316

Baranov, Andrey, 256

Barrack, Thomas, 104, 105, 115,

218, 228, 231, 270, 286, 298

Baylis, Kerrie, 46

Bayrock Group, 17, 18, 23, 29, 30

BBC, 40, 69, 71, 77, 78, 256, 259,

294

Bechard, Shera, 269

Beck, Glenn, 197

Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic

Studies (BESA), 120–21

Behrends, Paul, 127

Belkovsky, Stanislav, 73

Bernstein, Carl, 140

Bertrand, Natasha, 96

Beyrle, John, 24–25

Bharara, Preet, 48

bin Laden, Osama, 31

Black, Leon, 229, 231

Black Cube, 205, 260

Black Manafort and Stone, 104

Blackwater, 111, 118

Blitzer, Wolf, 202

Bloomberg, 18, 20, 22, 49, 59, 82,

125, 130, 265, 292, 303

Blumenthal, Richard, 250

Blunt, Roy, 131

Boente, Dana, 291

Bogacheva, Anna, 212

Boston Magazine, 23

Breen, Thomas, 122

Breitbart, 155, 185, 187, 207, 212,

213

Brennan, John, 74, 181, 184–85, 299

Brexit, 142–43, 155–57, 258

Bridges, LLC, 82

Briefing, The (Spicer), 106

Broidy, Elliott, 93, 269

Brookfield Asset Management, 232

Brownell, Pete, 86, 98

Burnett, Mark, 60, 61, 298

Burt, Richard, 59, 126, 134, 153, 311

Business Insider, 29, 92, 96, 136–37,

176, 241, 256, 270, 299

Butina, Maria, 9, 81–83, 87, 88, 92,

125, 137, 139, 144, 151–52,

177, 222, 270, 294, 311

BuzzFeed, 63, 69, 71, 117, 121, 169,

170, 200, 211–12, 219, 237–

38, 255, 267

CAATSA (Countering America’s

Adversaries Through Sanc-

tions Act), 288–89

Cambridge Analytica, 142, 154–55,

172–73, 181, 196, 284, 311–

12

Cameron, David, 137–38

Camp, L. Jean, 311

Caputo, Michael, 195, 196, 210, 215

Carlson, Tucker, 203

Carson, Ben, 87, 117

CBS, 35–36, 73, 76, 107, 241, 247,

256

Center for Security Policy (CSP),

111, 119

Center for Strategic and Interna-

tional Studies, 118

Index 433

Center for the National Interest,

124–26, 129, 132–34

Chaika, Yuri, 146

Chait, Jonathan, 14, 24

Charlotte Observer, 21

Chicago Tribune, 29

China, 19, 84, 183, 201, 233

Christie, Chris, 111, 220–21, 240,

241, 248, 273

CIA (Central Intelligence Agency),

31, 69, 71, 74, 78, 81, 91, 99,

113, 118, 179, 181, 190, 192,

219, 237, 242, 259, 318

City Club of Chicago, 91

Clapper, James, 246, 251–52, 256,

260, 299

Clarke, David A., 86, 98

Clay, Rick, 87, 139

Clement, Peter, 179–80

Clinton, Bill, 186, 197, 208, 209,

214, 245

Clinton, Hillary, 65, 75, 101, 106,

116, 141, 146–49, 152, 154,

195–99, 213–14, 224, 234,

237, 238, 242–43, 273, 281,

282, 296, 310

emails of, 116, 122, 129, 132,

139–41, 143, 148, 149, 159,

162, 172–73, 177, 178–92,

193–94, 196, 197, 200, 202–

10, 212–13, 267, 276

loss of election, 194, 296

Pizzagate and, 186–87, 193,

207–13

Clinton Foundation, 196, 197, 209

Clovis, Sam, 87, 107–10, 113, 115–

17, 119, 128, 129, 132, 136,

138, 143, 157, 173, 180, 181,

190, 203, 262, 274, 316

CNBC, 33

CNN, 38, 61, 74, 90, 91, 103, 105,

109, 112, 114, 118, 120, 123,

127, 132, 133, 140, 165, 171,

172, 176, 179, 183, 190, 192,

195, 198, 200, 202, 235, 256,

257, 265, 279, 292, 300–301

Coalition Provisional Authority, 111

Coats, Dan, 304

Cohen, Marshall, 140

Cohen, Michael, 19, 29, 31, 44, 48,

52, 55, 59–61, 66, 84–86, 92–

97, 139, 140, 149, 163, 167–

70, 192, 200–201, 216–17,

249, 253–55, 259, 260, 263,

268–70, 291, 293–94

convictions for, 293

Colbert, Stephen, 73, 76

collusion:

as criminal offense, 3, 4, 6, 7

as impeachable offense, 4

in Trump-Russia case, 3–11

use of term, 3, 6

Collusion (Harding), 30

Comet Ping Pong, see Pizzagate

Comey, James, 72, 74, 76, 130–31,

193, 202–7, 238, 244–47,

251–52, 255, 256, 262–64,

267, 273–74, 291, 298–301

firing of, 245–46, 251, 252, 261,

279, 299

Conan, 76

Congress, U.S., 9, 11

see also House of Representa-

tives; Senate

Index434

Conservative Political Action Con-

ference, 46–47

conspiracy, 4–5, 146, 291, 296, 305,

316, 317

conspiracy theories:

deep state, 7, 288

FBI and, 268

Construction.RU, 66

contest rigging, 38–39

contributions by foreign nationals,

146–47

Conway, Kellyanne, 116, 173, 180,

181, 190, 242

Cooper, Anderson, 90

Copson, Alex, 230

Corallo, Mark, 150, 203

Cordero, Carrie, 221

Corker, Bob, 172

Corn, David, 48

Costner, Kevin, 64

Coulter, Ann, 136

Credico, Randy, 197–98, 215–16

Crimea, 50, 131–33, 145, 170, 174,

199, 294–95

criminal cases, 5, 10

criminal statutes, 6

aiding and abetting, 4, 188–89, 291

causing a crime against the

United States, 189

collusion, 3, 4, 6, 7

conspiracy, 4–5, 146, 291, 296,

305, 316, 317

contributions by foreign nation-

als, 146–47

making false statements to fed-

eral law enforcement officers,

191

rigging televised contests, 38–39

treason, 10

Crocus City, 94, 98

Crocus Group, 44, 45, 47–48, 58,

67, 264

Cropsey, Seth, 144

Crowe, Russell, 64

Cruz, Ted, 104

C-SPAN, 195, 197

Culpo, Olivia, 44

Cummings, Elijah, 248

Cyprus, 121, 159

Czech Republic, 169–70

Dagan, Yossi, 122

Dahl, Tera, 165, 172, 177

Daily Beast, 52, 73, 121, 196, 257,

301

Daily Caller, 55, 72, 112, 203–4,

206

Daily Dot, 75

Daily Mail, 36, 45–46, 53, 54, 64,

78

Daniels, Stormy, 61, 270

Davidson, Keith M., 61

Davis, Lanny, 140

DCLeaks, 139, 283, 296

Dearborn, Rick, 87–88, 139, 151,

152, 177

deep state conspiracy theories, 7

democracy, 314, 318–19

Democracy Now!, 119

Democratic Congressional Cam-

paign Committee, 173, 296

Democratic National Committee

(DNC), 51, 141, 149, 173,

237, 238, 281

Index 435

Russian hacking of, 113, 127,

128, 134, 142, 152, 173, 180–

82, 187–88, 190, 191, 198,

201, 266, 296

Democratic National Convention,

113

Democratic Party, 314, 318, 319

midterm elections of 2018 and,

305–6, 319

Denman, Diana, 171, 175–77

Dennison, David, 269

Deripaska, Oleg, 17, 107, 126–27,

134, 142, 166–67, 182, 259,

297, 300, 307–9

DeVos, Betsy, 214, 236

DIA (Defense Intelligence Agency),

31, 99, 100

diGenova, Joseph, 203–6, 267

Dmitriev, Kirill, 229, 234, 235, 278–

79, 285, 286

Dodson, James, 22–23, 41–42

Dollimore, Oliver, 211

donations by foreign nationals,

146–47

Dosug, 70, 75

Dowd, John, 46

Downer, Alexander, 122, 143

D’Souza, Dinesh, 303

Dubinin, Yuri, 14, 24

Duma, 75, 133

Dvorkovich, Arkady, 166

Eagle Wings, 209

Egypt, 230–31, 248–49, 276

elections:

midterm (2018), 305–6, 319

presidential (2012), 13, 80, 313

presidential (2016), see presiden-

tial election of 2016

Emelianenko, Fedor, 19

Epshteyn, Boris, 78

Epstein, Jeffrey, 186, 207, 213–14

Erickson, Paul, 9, 82, 87, 89, 139,

151–52, 177, 222, 294

Erovinkin, Oleg, 256–57

Essential Consultants, LLC, 268–69

Estonia, 76

eTurboNews (eTN), 19, 20, 32

European Council on Foreign Rela-

tions (ECFR), 117, 121

European Parliament (EP), 157

European Union (EU), 141–44, 159,

185, 258

Brexit and, 142–43, 155–57, 258

Express, 36

ExxonMobil, 233

FAA (Federal Aviation Administra-

tion), 105

Facebook, 154–55, 187, 207–9, 211,

212, 220, 262–64, 276, 312

Russian equivalent of, 150, 160,

265

Face the Nation, 241

fake news, 72, 154, 204, 207–8,

210–12, 214, 220, 226, 283–

84

false statements to federal law en-

forcement officers, 191

Farage, Nigel, 143, 156–57, 292

FBI, 23, 30–32, 40–41, 51, 58, 71,

72, 74, 76, 82, 88, 107–9,

112–14, 119, 122, 130, 150,

162–63, 173, 179, 182, 184,

Index436

FBI (Continued)

186, 190, 193, 194, 200–208,

212–13, 237, 238, 242, 244–48,

250, 251, 256, 259, 262, 266–

68, 273, 275, 276, 291, 295,

296, 298–301, 303, 311, 318

FBIAnon, 209

Fear (Woodward), 312

federal criminal statues, see criminal

statutes

Fedorova, Oxana, 15–16, 28, 34–38

Financial Times, 64, 146, 273

FININT (financial intelligence), 189

Fire and Fury (Wolff), 68, 150, 312

FISA, 107, 114, 273–74

FiveThirtyEight, 194

Florida, 21–22

Flynn, Michael, 86–87, 98–101,

102, 107–9, 111, 113–17, 119,

121, 154, 173, 177, 179–81,

190, 193, 209, 213–14, 218,

220–23, 225, 228, 230–31,

233, 236–37, 240–42, 244,

247–51, 253–54, 262, 267,

270, 271, 273–76, 285–86,

290–91, 296, 316

firing of, 244, 245, 249–51, 253

plea deal of, 275–76

Flynn, Michael, Jr., 211

Flynn Intelligence Group, 117

FOIA, 205

Forbes, 18, 30, 31, 51, 55, 58–59, 67

Forbes Russia, 37

Foreign Agents Registration Act

(FARA), 275

Foreign Policy, 198, 225

Foreign Policy Initiative, 144

4chan, 209

Fox & Friends, 202

Fox News, 50, 56, 64, 68, 90, 165,

169, 202, 203, 205, 247, 249

France, 233

Franken, Al, 131

Freedman, Matthew, 240

FreedomFest, 83, 84, 90, 92

Fridman, Mikhail, 59

Friedman, Roger, 169

Frontier Services Group, 229–30

FSB, 15, 19, 74, 81, 91, 170, 181,

184, 225, 284

Fusion GPS, 50–51, 156, 262, 266,

267, 300

Futerfas, Alan, 88

G20 summit, 262, 279–80

Garner, Eric, 186

Garten, Alan, 84–85, 94

Gates, Rick, 161, 164, 218, 228,

261–62, 270, 286, 296, 297

Gateway Pundit, 211

Gazprom, 108, 126, 153

Giuliani, Rudy, 4, 7, 193, 194, 202–

5, 207, 210, 213, 267, 303

Glencore, 130, 166, 227–28, 232–33

Global Partners in Diplomacy, 172,

177

Goldman, Ben, 211

Goldstone, Rob, 44, 55, 84, 105–6,

140, 145–47, 150–51, 160,

192, 224–25, 264–66, 272–73,

282, 283

Golf, 22–23, 41

Golubev, Vladimir, 16, 28, 30,

35–38

Index 437

Google Trends, 212

Gopnik, Adam, 76–77

Gordeev, Sergei, 85

Gordon, J. D., 103, 112, 120, 136–

37, 152, 153, 163, 165, 171,

172, 175–77, 236, 316

Gorka, Sebastian, 209

Gorkov, Sergei, 19, 225, 271, 272

Gorokhov, Nikolair, 258

Graff, Rhona, 146, 150, 160, 224, 265

Graham, Thomas, 22

Greece, 121, 139, 141–45, 151, 157–

59, 185, 212, 257, 276

Green, Mike, 118

Greenberg, Henry, 195–96

Greenberg, Maurice R. “Hank,” 125

Gref, Herman, 49, 57, 59

Gregory, Joe, 86, 98

Groner, Eli, 119

Grozev, Christo, 256–57

GRU, 99, 100, 170, 259, 295–96

Guardian, 30, 32, 40, 44, 45, 47, 64,

71, 100, 156, 169, 184, 215,

255, 268

Guber, Peter, 62

Guccifer 2.0, 139, 194, 197, 296

Haaretz, 57, 122, 233, 260

Haberman, Maggie, 94

hackers, see Russian hackers

Hagmann, Douglas, 212–13

Hall, Steven, 81–82, 91, 99–100

Halper, Stefan, 122, 268

Hannity, Sean, 56, 90, 91, 93, 169

Harding, Luke, 30

Harris, Joshua, 231

Hatch Act, 202

Helsinki “summit,” 304

Hewitt, Hugh, 56

Hicks, Hope, 19, 153, 158, 165, 172,

220, 292, 302–3

Hill, 135, 300

Holt, Lester, 246, 252

Homeland Security, Department of,

(DHS), 262–64

Hotel National, 14, 24

House of Representatives, 4, 142,

300

CAATSA and, 288–89

Intelligence Committee, 94, 177,

216, 235, 262

Judiciary Committee, 7

midterm elections and, 305–6,

319

Oversight and Government Re-

form Committee, 7

Permanent Select Committee on

Intelligence, 7, 96, 108, 165,

184, 262, 266, 274, 278–79,

285, 292

House of Trump, House of Putin

(Unger), 23

Howard Stern Show, The, 27, 36

Hudson Institute, 144

Huffington Post, 96–97, 255

HUMINT (human intelligence), 189

Hungarian Free Press, 184

Hungary, 177, 179, 184, 185, 187,

281

Hunt for the Trump Tapes, The, 60

Illing, Sean, 154

impeachment, 4, 293, 301, 306,

315–17

Index438

Independent, 157, 256

Infowars, 187, 207, 212

Ingraham, Laura, 203, 204

Intercept, 119

Interfax, 183, 219

International Business Times, 36

International Herald Tribune, 60

Internet Research Agency (IRA),

115, 211–12, 259, 294–95

Interpol, 49

Ioffe, Julia, 175

IP3 International, 231

Iran, 180, 218–19, 234, 271–72, 290

Iraq, 111

Irish Examiner, 61

Isikoff, Michael, 48, 49

ISIS, 252

Islam, 111, 118, 120, 137

Israel, 117, 119–22, 159, 205, 225,

234, 237, 245, 248–49, 252,

260, 276, 281

Italy, 130, 168–70, 185, 212

Jackson, Amy Berman, 297

Japan, 14, 225

Jerusalem Post, 120

Jolie, Angelina, 64

Jones, Alex, 197, 212, 213

Jordan, 230

Judicial Watch, 205

Justice Department (DOJ), 8, 116,

154, 184, 186, 201–3, 240,

245, 248, 290, 293, 295, 299–

303, 316, 318

Kadtke, James, 121

Kaiser, Brittany, 173

Kakaounaki, Marianna, 144

Kammenos, Panos, 141, 142, 144–

45, 159

Karamanlis, Kostas, 144

Kasich, John, 104

Kaspersky Lab, 100

Kathimerini, 144, 158, 159

Kaveladze, George, 266

Kaveladze, Ike, 44–45, 55, 148–49,

264–66, 273

Keene, David, 82, 86, 98

Kellogg, Keith, 111, 118

KGB, 62, 73, 74, 76, 256

Khan, German, 59

Khomenko, Alexander, 58

Kikilias, Vassilis, 159

Kilimnik, Konstantin, 126–27, 139,

164, 166–67, 171, 297

Kirsanova Realty, 17

Kislyak, Sergey, 92, 124, 127–28,

130, 131, 136, 137, 163, 170–

72, 174–75, 177, 221–23, 225,

230, 235, 237, 241, 244, 247–

49, 252, 271, 272, 274–76

Klyushin, Artem, 45, 59, 63, 70, 75

Kogan, Aleksandr, 155, 312

kompromat (potential blackmail ma-

terial), 69–79, 142, 259, 293

Kotzias, Nikos, 144, 158

Kozhin, Vladimir, 44, 47–48, 57

Krivov, Sergei, 257–58

Kubic, Charles, 111, 177

Kushner, Charles, 240–41

Kushner, Jared, 19, 87–88, 104, 111,

125–28, 140–42, 147, 150,

152, 154, 172, 190, 196, 218,

220–22, 225, 228, 229, 231–

Index 439

35, 240–42, 244, 250, 262,

270–73, 276, 282, 290–91,

312, 316

Kislyak and, 127–28, 131, 244,

271, 272

Kutepova-Jamrom, Natalia, 110

Kuzmichev, Alexei, 59

Kyrgyzstan, 104

LaBella, Chuck, 47, 59, 60–64

Landau, Yigal, 117, 121

Lanza, Bryan, 183

Larson, Lars, 202

Las Vegas Review-Journal, 211

Laufman, David, 299

Laura Ingraham Show, The, 203

Lavrov, Sergei, 133, 252, 259, 280

Lawfare, 275

Leahy, Patrick, 274

Leto, Jared, 64

Letterman, David, 26

Leviev, Lev, 57

Levy, Joshua, 257

Lewandowski, Corey, 105, 129, 153,

165, 262, 266, 278, 282

Liberty Writers News, 211

LifeZette, 203

Logan Act, 218, 222, 249–50, 293

Lokhova, Svetlana, 100

London Center of International Law

Practice (LCILP), 109, 172

Lorber, Howard, 14

Los Angeles Times, 150, 217, 236

Lowell, Abbe, 272

Luzhkov, Yuri, 24–25

Lynch, Loretta, 206

MacCallum, Martha, 202

Macedonia, 211–12

Machado, Alicia, 28

Magnitsky, Sergei, 258

Magnitsky Act, 224–25, 271, 282–

84

see also sanctions

Make America Number 1 PAC, 155

Malanin, Andrey, 257

Malloch, Ted, 292

Manafort, Paul, 17, 33, 104–7, 109,

114, 115, 124, 126–27, 129–

30, 132, 134–38, 139, 140,

147, 150–51, 160–61, 164–67,

170–72, 176, 181, 182, 193–

96, 199–201, 216–17, 238,

259, 261–62, 265, 273, 281–

82, 294, 297, 303, 307, 308

conviction of, 297

guilty plea of, 305

Mandiner, 177

Mangiante, Simona, 109, 119, 121–

22, 145, 159

Mar-a-Lago, 104–5, 223, 237, 275

Marino, Tom, 172

Mashburn, John, 132, 177

Mashkevitch, Alexander, 22

Mavroidis, Petros, 141

Mayflower Hotel, 175

Trump’s foreign policy speech

at, 59, 113, 124–38, 139, 141,

185, 223, 271, 311

McCabe, Andrew G., 205, 208, 291,

299, 301

McCabe, Jill, 205

McCain, John, 170, 174, 175, 244–

45, 287

Index440

McClatchy, 23, 86, 98, 170, 260

McCord, Mary, 300

McDougal, Karen, 72

McFarland, K. T., 144, 177, 222–23,

237, 274, 275

McFarlane, Robert “Bud,” 124, 144,

218, 222–23, 228, 231, 270,

286

McFaul, Michael, 87

McGahn, Don, 217, 247–48, 251,

264, 279

McMaster, H. R., 111

Medvedev, Dmitry, 167, 307–8

Mercer, Rebekah, 155

Mercer, Robert, 155

MFA (Russian Ministry of Foreign

Affairs), 129

Middle East, 113, 120, 231, 248,

286, 298

see also specific countries

Mifsud, Joseph, 109, 110, 117, 121,

128, 129, 132, 134, 137, 139–

40, 151, 170, 178, 208, 261,

279, 310

Migranyan, Andranik, 133

Miller, Jason, 172

Miller, Stephen, 129, 132, 137, 157,

262, 279

Millian, Sergei, 71, 78, 172

Mirax Group, 84, 92

Miss Universe pageant, 15–17, 25–

30, 35–39, 43–46, 48, 50, 52,

54, 56, 60–64, 69, 70, 76–77,

90, 91, 98, 168, 282, 283, 294

Miss USA pageant, 44, 52, 54, 55

Mitsotakis, Kyriakos, 144, 145

Mizusawa, Bert, 111, 177

Mogilevich, Semion, 23

Mohammed bin Salman (MBS),

231, 234

Mohammed bin Zayed (MBZ), 228–

29, 234, 235, 285, 286

Moore, Martin, 154

Moore, Michael D., 213

Moscow Millionaire Fair, 18

Moss, Randy, 122

Mossad, 237

Mother Jones, 44, 48, 55, 64, 82,

216

MSNBC, 68, 74, 130, 215, 252

Mueller, Robert, 8, 24, 32, 40–

41, 80, 88, 93, 96, 98, 103,

114–16, 119, 121, 164, 166,

170, 191, 194, 197–98, 212,

215–17, 229, 232, 245, 259,

260, 261, 262, 264, 266, 270,

272–74, 276, 278–79, 281,

286, 287, 288, 290–98, 302–6,

310–11, 316–20

Murinson, Alexander, 120–21

Muslim Brotherhood, 111

Muslims, 111, 118, 120, 137

Nader, George, 93, 120, 228–29,

233, 234, 242, 269, 278–79,

285, 286

NAFTA, 258

Nation, 29, 39, 199

National Background Investigations

Bureau, 270

National Diversity Coalition, 211

National Enquirer, 217

National Interest, 125, 132–33

National Prayer Breakfast, 83

Index 441

National Press Club (NPC), 26, 47,

50, 61, 124, 129–30, 133, 135

National Rifle Association (NRA),

80–83, 86–89, 91, 98, 139,

151–52, 177

National Security Advisory Com-

mittee, 102–23, 128, 131,

136, 137, 152, 153, 170, 171,

174–77, 178, 179, 183, 184,

236, 279

NATO, 156, 258

Navalny, Alexei, 307–8

Nazi Germany, 72

NBC, 26, 47, 59, 62, 63, 87, 97, 99,

105, 191, 200, 231, 241, 246,

252, 305

Nemtsov, Boris, 33

Netanyahu, Benjamin, 119

New Economic School, 163

Newman, Omarosa Manigault, 61,

302, 312

New Republic, 20

Newsweek, 27, 39, 110, 135, 145,

252, 256, 274–75

New York Daily News, 27, 217

New Yorker, 15, 24, 46, 76–77, 99,

194–95, 234

New York Magazine, 14, 24, 29, 39–

41, 134, 195, 269

New York Observer, 23, 204

New York Police Department

(NYPD), 23, 185–86, 193,

194, 208, 209, 212–13

New York Post, 35, 42, 52

New York Times, 24, 33, 44, 50, 53,

56, 65, 73, 76, 87, 88, 93, 94,

104, 105, 110, 112–14, 118,

133, 135, 137, 150, 160, 184,

193, 205, 210, 220, 223, 225,

231–32, 236, 238–40, 251,

253–54, 267–69, 279, 284,

297–300, 302, 308, 309

Nicholson, Jack, 64

Nix, Alexander, 155, 181, 312

nondisclosure agreements (NDAs),

312

North Korea, 287

NPR, 92, 145, 176, 295

NSA, 90, 237, 242, 251

nuclear facilities, 218, 228, 230,

231, 233–35, 248, 270, 275,

286

Nuland, Victoria, 307

Nunberg, Sam, 49, 215, 295

Nunes, Devin, 166, 285

Obama, Barack, 49, 52, 69, 70, 76–

77, 111, 114, 152, 186, 220,

222, 228, 236, 237, 244, 247–

50, 263, 270, 275

Trump’s statements on Putin and,

83–84, 90, 91

Trump’s surveillance accusation

against, 204–5, 222, 245

Trump’s tweet on, 164

Obama, Michelle, 69, 70, 76

O’Brien, Conan, 76

October surprise, 193–217

Office of the Special Counsel, 8

Ohr, Bruce, 300–301

Olympics, 39, 47

Operation Crossfire Hurricane, 122

O’Reilly, Bill, 90

Osgood, Michael, 213

Index442

Page, Carter, 107–8, 111–12, 114,

118, 119, 126, 130, 139, 152–

53, 163–66, 170–72, 177,

178–79, 183–84, 226–28, 233,

236, 242, 250, 256, 262, 274,

277, 316

Page, Lisa, 299

Palin, Sarah, 92

Papachelas, Alexis, 158

Papadopoulos, George, 41, 87, 103,

109–10, 112–23, 125, 126,

128, 129, 132–34, 139–45,

151–53, 157–60, 164, 170,

172, 177, 178, 182, 184–85,

190, 208, 212, 219, 230–31,

236, 248–49, 257, 259, 260,

261–62, 268, 274–75, 279,

309–11, 317

interview with Russian media,

183

plea documents of, 276–77

Putin and, 142–45, 159

Paraskevopoulos, Dimitrios, 141

pardons, 303, 318, 319

Parnell, Sean, 92

Parscale, Brad, 154

Pasek, Justine, 28

Patten, W. Samuel, 297

Pavlopoulos, Prokopis, 144

Pecker, David, 217

Pence, Mike, 221, 236, 241, 247–49,

274

Perry, Katy, 64

Peskov, Dmitry, 47, 86, 167–68,

220, 259, 288

Petrushin, Sergey, 196

Phalen, Charles, 270–71

Phares, Walid, 111, 118, 119, 163,

172, 177

Pirro, Jeanine, 165, 247

Pizzagate, 186–87, 193, 207–13

Pobeda oil field, 233

Podesta, John, 197, 202

Politico, 50, 52, 59, 93, 116, 126, 135–

36, 148, 150, 153, 160, 169–70,

194, 195, 200, 217, 221, 224

Politico Europe, 132–33

PolitiFact, 32, 192, 196

Polonskaya, Olga, 109, 128, 134,

139, 277

Pompeo, Mike, 192, 289–90

Poroshenko, Petro, 294

Powe, Alicia, 211

Prague, 169–70, 260

Pravda, 37–38

presidential election of 2012, 13, 80,

313

presidential election of 2016, 101, 317

debates in, 182, 201

Election Day, 21, 68, 193–94

Trump’s victory in, 68, 194, 240,

258, 296, 315

Presidential Records Act, 231

Priebus, Reince, 145, 200, 223, 262,

273–74

Priestap, Bill, 300

Prikhodko, Sergey Eduardovich,

307–9

Prince, Erik, 102, 111, 118–20, 127,

181, 185–87, 193, 207, 210,

213–14, 218, 229–31, 234–36,

261, 262, 267, 290–91, 311,

316

testimony of, 277–79, 284–86

Index 443

PropOrNot, 211

ProPublica, 228

Project Zulu, 230

Psy Group, 284

Public Radio International, 75

Purdy, Matt, 254

Pushkov, Alexey, 133

Putin, Vladimir, 15, 19, 22, 23, 25,

32–33, 37–39, 44, 46–51, 58,

64–65, 74, 76, 80, 85–87, 95,

96, 98, 100, 101, 107–10, 112,

114, 120, 123, 126–34, 137,

146, 151, 152, 166–68, 181,

182, 224, 225, 233–37, 242,

253, 263, 270, 278, 284, 289–

91, 294–95, 307–8, 314

Agalarov and, 53–56, 60, 61

European Union and, 142, 156

Farage and, 156–57

Fedorova and, 15–16, 28, 34–37, 39

in Greece, 142–45, 151

Gref and, 59

at Helsinki “summit” with

Trump, 304

Ivanka Trump’s Kremlin tour

and, 17, 28–29, 31, 253

Leviev and, 57

Papadopoulos and, 142–45, 159

Rykov and, 75

Seagal and, 62–63

Steele dossier and, 257–60

Torshin and, 81, 91, 125

Trump’s first call with as presi-

dent, 242

Trump’s meeting with, 129, 139,

151, 157, 160–61, 185, 262,

175, 276, 279–80, 304

Trump’s speakerphone conversa-

tion with, 60, 61

Trump’s statements on how well

he knows, 25–26, 83–84, 90–

91, 190

Trump’s statements on Obama

and, 83–84, 90, 91

Van Ronkel and, 62, 64

Qatar, 218, 227–28, 231–35, 241

Qatar Investment Authority (QIA),

130, 166, 228, 231–35

Quartz, 191

Ratio Oil Exploration, 117, 121

Reagan, Ronald, 144

Real Estate Weekly, 57

Republican National Committee

(RNC), 88, 93, 126, 135, 206,

213, 269, 302–3

Republican National Convention,

103, 104, 137, 162–77, 199–

200, 255

Republican Party, 81–83, 314, 317–

18

midterm elections of 2018 and,

305–6

Reuters, 22, 42, 48, 75, 109, 128,

271, 274

rigging of televised contests, 38–39

Ritz-Carlton Moscow, 49, 51, 55,

59, 69–74, 76–78, 247

Roberts, Thomas, 130

Robinson, Eugene, 298

Rogers, Mike, 240

Rogozin, Dmitry, 86, 98

Rohrabacher, Dana, 127, 142

Index444

Rolling Stone, 19, 27, 81–82, 91,

151, 187, 193, 207–10, 212,

272, 277–78

Romanov, Alexander, 82

Romney, Mitt, 89

Rosen, Rotem, 30–31, 46, 56–57

Rosenstein, Rod, 8, 245, 252, 261,

264, 288, 292, 301, 318–20

Rosneft, 124, 130, 166, 179, 183,

223, 227–28, 232–33, 242,

256, 308

Rostec, 230

Rozov, Andrei, 66, 84, 85, 92, 95,

97, 167, 168

RT, 87, 100, 101, 102, 248, 270

Rtskhiladze, Giorgi, 85

Ruffin, Phil, 52, 60, 98

Russian Direct Investment Fund

(RDIF), 229, 234

Russian equivalent of Facebook,

150, 160, 265

Russian hackers, 113, 127, 128,

134, 139, 142, 152, 162, 173,

179–83, 185, 187, 190, 191,

195, 198–99, 201–2, 262–66,

289, 296

Guccifer 2.0, 139, 194, 197, 296

Trump’s remarks on, 182, 201,

238

Russian Institute for Strategic Stud-

ies (RISS), 128–29, 139, 141,

142

Russian International Affairs Coun-

cil, 128

Russian officials, deaths of, 257–58

Russian Roulette (Corn and Isikoff),

48

Ryabkov, Sergei, 219–20

Rybicki, James, 300

Rybka, Nastya, 142, 307–9

Rybolovlev, Dmitry, 21, 34

Rykov, Konstantin, 70, 75

Safron, Jonathan, 116

St. Petersburg International Eco-

nomic Forum, 167–68

Saletan, William, 161

sanctions:

CAATSA, 288–89

on Russia, 33, 43, 50, 79, 80, 83–

86, 92, 97, 98, 110, 127, 130–

32, 141, 143–45, 149, 158,

159, 163, 175, 177–79, 183,

185, 191–92, 218–19, 223–25,

227–28, 230, 232–38, 241,

242, 247–50, 253–54, 258,

262–63, 270, 271, 274–77,

282–83, 289–90

Sanders, Bernie, 197

Sapir, Alex, 30–31, 46, 56–56

Sapir, Tamir, 30, 31, 57

Sapir Organization, 57

Sarka, Kata, 72

Sater, Felix, 17–18, 23, 28–32, 39–

41, 78, 84–86, 92, 94–97, 101,

139, 167–68, 249, 253–55,

259

Saudi Arabia, 14, 93, 159, 218, 228,

230–35, 241, 269, 270, 281,

291

Savage, Michael, 25

Sberbank, 49, 50, 57, 59

Scahill, Jeremy, 119

Scarborough, Joe, 68

Index 445

Scavino, Dan, 150, 160, 224, 265

Schengen Area, 169

Schiff, Adam, 165, 166, 177, 216,

285

Schiller, Keith, 44, 49, 55, 60, 70,

73, 98, 302–3

Schmitz, Joseph, 110, 118–19, 171–

72, 177, 179–81, 184, 187,

236, 316

Schwarzenegger, Arnold, 64

Sciutto, Jim, 140

SCL Group, 154

Scott, Darrell, 210–11

Seagal, Steven, 62–63

Sechin, Igor, 166, 227–28, 256–57,

308

Sekulow, Jay, 7

Senate, 4

Armed Services Committee, 171,

174, 175

CAATSA and, 288–89

Intelligence Committee, 96, 131,

266

Judiciary Committee, 7, 20, 96,

132, 149, 206, 224, 236, 257,

262, 265, 266, 268, 272, 273,

277, 278, 281, 283

Judiciary Subcommittee on

Crime and Terrorism, 7

midterm elections and, 305–6

Select Committee on Intelligence,

7, 8, 41, 206, 262, 272, 302

sensitive compartmented informa-

tion facility (SCIF), 222

Sessions, Jeff, 107–9, 112, 115, 123,

130–31, 136–37, 151–53, 163,

170–72, 174–75, 177, 236,

245, 251, 252, 262–64, 288,

290, 292, 301, 317, 318

Seychelles, 102, 235, 278–79, 286,

290

Shapiro, Allen, 62

Sharia law, 111, 118

Shnaider, Alex, 18

Shugart, Paula, 36, 38, 45

Sidorkov, Konstantin, 150, 160

SIGINT (signals intelligence), 169,

189

Simes, Dimitri, 125–26, 132–34

Simpson, Glenn, 156, 257, 262,

266–68

Singapore, 130, 223

el-Sisi, Abdel Fattah, 230

60 Minutes, 26, 60

Slate, 161, 232, 268–69, 292

Smith, Peter W., 116, 173, 180, 181,

190

Snoop Dogg, 64

Snowden, Edward, 90

social media, 47, 55, 59, 70, 75, 115,

142, 150, 160, 202, 207–11,

265, 283, 301

see also Facebook; Twitter

Soldatov, Andrei, 73, 255–56

Sotheby’s International Realty, 17

Southern Poverty Law Center, 111

Soviet Union, 73

speaking indictment, 294

Spectator, 71, 77

Spicer, Sean, 106, 165, 223, 248, 262

Stalin, Josef, 32–33

Starr, Kenneth, 245

State Department, 97, 133, 159, 179,

180, 186, 220, 240, 289, 311

Index446

Steele, Christopher, 51, 77, 238,

261, 266–67, 300–302

dossier of, 51, 55, 58, 59, 69–72,

74, 76–78, 130, 142, 156,

162–63, 166, 169–70, 179,

183, 185, 200, 219, 226, 227,

232, 237–38, 244–47, 251–52,

255–60, 261, 262, 267, 300–

302

Ohr and, 300–301

withdrawal of FBI partnership,

266–67

Stein, Jill, 101

Stephanopoulos, George, 25, 172

Stern, Howard, 27, 36

Stewart, Corey, 210

Stone, Roger, 105, 181, 187, 194–

99, 207, 210, 215–16, 292,

296, 303, 316

Streshinskiy, Dimitriy, 229–30

Strzok, Peter, 299

Supreme Court, 319

SVR, 102, 108, 170

Sydney Morning Herald, 28

Syria, 102, 110, 118, 133, 199, 218–

20, 234, 240, 252, 271, 272, 290

Szemerkényi, Réka, 184

Tait, Matt, 173

Tapper, Jake, 132

TASS, 133

Telegraph, 15, 34–35, 256

Thailand, 307–9

theory of the case, 9

in Trump-Russia case, 9–10

Tillerson, Rex, 233, 242, 280, 289

Time, 26, 74, 144

Times of Israel, 122

Times of London, 137

Timofeev, Ivan, 109, 128, 129, 134,

139, 164, 276–77

TMZ, 27

Toensing, Victoria, 117, 203

Tokhtakhounov, Alimzhan, 48–49

Torshin, Alexander, 81–83, 87–88,

91–92, 98, 125, 139, 152, 177

To Vima, 141, 144

treason, 10

Treasury Department, 9, 88

Treisman, Daniel, 17, 28–29, 31

True Pundit, 205, 206, 213

Trump, Donald:

compromising recordings of

(kompromat), 69–79, 142, 259,

293

elected president, 68, 194, 240,

258, 296, 315

ex-mistresses of, 268–70

first call to Putin as president, 242

first foreign policy speech of

(Mayflower Speech), 59, 113,

124–38, 139, 141, 185, 223,

271, 311

at Helsinki “summit” with Putin,

304

impact on America, 313–20

impeachment possibility, 4, 293,

301, 306, 315–17

inaugural funds of, 270, 298

National Security Advisory Com-

mittee of, see National Secu-

rity Advisory Committee

nondisclosure agreements used

by, 312

Index 447

pardons used by, 303, 318, 319

presidential campaign of, 80–

101, 314, 315

presidential candidacy announced

by, 67, 80, 83, 90, 295

presidential run considered by,

13, 43, 49–50, 52, 65–66, 295,

313

presidential transition of, 204–5,

218–43, 275, 276, 291, 314,

315

president’s daily brief (PDB) of,

231

Putin’s meeting with, 129, 139,

151, 157, 160–61, 185, 262,

175, 276, 279–80, 304

Putin’s speakerphone conversa-

tion with, 60, 61

Republican nomination of, 96,

163, 168

remarks on hackers, 182, 201,

238

resignation possibility, 316, 317

“Russia, if you’re listening” re-

mark of, 162, 173, 190, 191

statements on how well he knows

Putin, 25–26, 83–84, 90–91,

190

statements on Putin and Obama,

83–84, 90, 91

tax returns of, 9

Twitter feed of, 6, 51, 54, 57, 66,

72, 91, 149, 163–64, 216–17,

236, 242–43, 288, 298, 302,

319

Trump, Donald, Jr., 16–17, 19–22,

32, 34, 50, 51, 66–68, 81, 82,

88, 94, 97, 120, 139–41, 147–

52, 160, 181, 183, 187, 190,

193, 196, 199, 208, 210, 213,

229, 234, 250, 265–67, 273,

279, 303, 316

Goldstone and, 145–47, 192, 265,

282, 283

testimonies of, 261, 262, 277–78,

281–84

at Trump Tower meeting, 140,

224, 281–84, 312

Trump, Eric, 22–23, 41–42, 51, 67

Trump, Ivanka, 22, 104, 111, 150,

220, 240

Kremlin tour of, 17, 28–29, 31,

253

Trump, Melania, 36, 88, 152, 298

Trump Organization, 13, 16–17, 19–

24, 29, 30, 32, 34, 41–42, 45,

48, 51, 68, 71, 84–85, 94, 167,

172, 217, 261, 267, 268, 282,

291–92, 313

Trump-Russia scandal and investiga-

tion, 3–11, 261–86, 287–312,

315–20

impeachment and, 4, 293, 301,

306, 315–17

proof of collusion in, 3–11

theory of, 9–10

whistle-blowers in, 312

Trump Tower, 17, 18, 23, 30, 48

June 9, 2016 meeting at, 55, 127,

140–41, 148–50, 160, 224,

262, 264–66, 271, 272, 277–

78, 281–84, 312

Obama surveillance accusation

and, 204–5, 222, 245

Index448

Trump Tower Moscow, 18, 29, 31,

37, 43, 46–50, 56–59, 66–68,

85, 86, 98

Turkey, 248, 249, 275, 281

Twitter, 7, 9, 49–50, 52, 53, 59–61,

68, 75, 83, 98, 136, 145, 187,

198, 199, 207, 209–11, 213,

262, 264

Trump’s use of, 6, 51, 54, 57, 66,

72, 91, 149, 163–64, 216–17,

236, 242–43, 288, 298, 302,

319

Tzitzikos, George, 159

Uganda, 230

Ukraine, 17, 18, 33, 103–6, 120,

126, 133, 170, 171, 174–77,

181, 227, 234, 249, 253, 293–

94, 297

Unger, Craig, 23

Unhinged (Newman), 312

United Arab Emirates (UAE), 93,

119, 120, 142, 218, 228, 233–

35, 242, 269, 279, 281, 285–

86, 290, 291

United Kingdom, 233

United Nations (UN), 225

USA Today, 172, 177, 277

U.S. News & World Report, 236

Valdai Discussion Club, 110, 129,

133

Van der Zwaan, Alex, 296–97

Vanity Fair, 41–42, 88, 93, 217, 232,

289

Van Ronkel, Bob, 62–64

Van Zandt, Maureen, 169

Van Zandt, Steven, 168–69

Vekselberg, Viktor, 59, 268–70, 291

Verhofstadt, Guy, 157

Veselnitskaya, Natalia, 127, 148–50,

224, 269–71, 273, 281, 282,

284

VICE News, 60, 64

Vnesheconombank (VEB), 18–29,

225, 229, 233, 242, 271

Vox, 140, 154, 164, 175, 296

VR Systems, 182

VTB, 85–86, 97

Wade, Alex, 211

Wade, Paris, 211

Wall Street Journal, 118, 242

Washington Examiner, 115–16, 240,

273

Washington Monthly, 30, 57, 75, 197

Washington Post, 14, 19, 24, 28, 31,

40, 46, 47, 53, 56, 59, 64, 72,

76, 85, 99, 103, 107, 108, 113,

115, 117, 120, 128, 131, 143–

45, 149, 152–53, 155, 156,

160, 164, 167–68, 183, 196,

211, 225, 236, 252–54, 273–

75, 290, 298, 303, 304

Washington Times, 82

Watts, Clint, 212

Weekly Standard, 81

Weinberger, Caspar, 144

Weiner, Anthony, 185–86, 206, 208,

213

Weisselberg, Allen, 217, 291–92

West, Kanye, 64

West, Nigel, 78

WhatsApp, 231

Index 449

whistle-blowers, 312

White-Cain, Paula, 210

WikiLeaks, 113, 133, 155, 156, 172–

73, 180–81, 183, 187–88, 192,

194–99, 202, 216, 221, 272,

292, 312

Wikistrat, 120–21, 205, 210, 260

Winter Olympics, 39, 47

WMAL, 204

Wolff, Michael, 68, 150, 312

Wongpin, Suttipong, 308–9

Wood, Andrew, 245

Wood, Paul, 40, 69, 71, 77, 78

Woodward, Bob, 312

Woolley, Samuel, 209–10

World Cup, 39, 53, 58–59

WorldNetDaily, 197

Wray, Christopher, 301

Wylie, Christopher, 173

Wynn, Steve, 206, 213

Yahoo News, 49, 66, 72, 83, 96, 276

Yakunin, Vladimir, 127

Yanukovych, Viktor, 33

Yates, Sally, 244, 247, 250, 251, 299

Yeltsin, Boris, 15, 25, 195

Yoho, Ted, 172

Zamel, Joel, 120, 121, 205, 210,

228–29, 234, 260, 279, 283–84

Zembla, 100

Zuckerberg, Mark, 220