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The Times article about the failure: Ibid.
Trump had appeared on a series: David A. Fahrenthold and Frances Stead Sellers, “How Bannon Flattered and Coaxed Trump on Policies Key to the Alt-Right,” The Washington Post, November 15, 2016.
In an August 8 speech: Donald J. Trump, “Remarks to the Detroit Economic Club,” August 8, 2016. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=119744.
It had been great when Trump released: Louis Nelson, “Trump Outlines 10-Point Plan to Reform Veterans Affairs Department,” Politico, July 11, 2016.
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But the New York Daily News had: Jennifer Fermino, “Senior Donald Trump Adviser Appears to Be Fan of NYC Bondage, Swinger’s Club,” New York Daily News, April 12, 2016.
“I need you to look at something”: Andrew E. Kramer, Mike McIntire and Barry Meier, “Secret Ledger in Ukraine Lists Cash for Donald Trump’s Campaign Chief,” The New York Times, August 14, 2016.
The Times article on Manafort: Ibid.
For all the abuse: Bob Cusack, “Trump Slams RNC Chairman, Calls 2016 Process ‘A Disgrace,’?” The Hill, April 12, 2016.
The New York Times reported: Jonathan Martin, Jim Rutenberg and Maggie Haberman, “Donald Trump Appoints Media Firebrand to Run Campaign,” The New York Times, August 17, 2016.
On August 22, Time magazine: View the cover online at http://time.com/magazine/us/4447970/august-22nd-2016-vol-188-no-7-u-s/.
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The information in this chapter comes primarily from multiple deep background interviews with firsthand sources.
The in-depth and wide-ranging 2017 Yahoo News/Huffington Post oral history project “64 Hours in October: How One Weekend Blew up the Rules of American Politics” was a helpful resource throughout this chapter. It was reported by Michael Isikoff, Dylan Stableford, Hunter Walker, Holly Bailey, Liz Goodwin, Lisa Belkin, Garance Franke-Ruta and Gabby Kaufman, and written by Dylan Stableford. Read it here: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/yahoo-64-hours-october-american-politics_us_59d7c567e4b072637c43dd1c.
The first showed up: Pam Fessler, “10 Months After Election Day, Feds Tell States More About Russian Hacking,” NPR, September 22, 2017.
In July of 2016, WikiLeaks: Eric Lipton, David E. Sanger and Scott Shane, “The Perfect Weapon: How Russian Cyberpower Invaded the U.S.,” The New York Times, December 13, 2016; Ellen Nakashima, “Cybersecurity Firm Finds Evidence That Russian Military Unit Was Behind DNC Hack,” The Washington Post, December 22, 2016.
The next day, August 5: Michael J. Morell, “I Ran the C.I.A. Now I’m Endorsing Hillary Clinton,” The New York Times, August 5, 2016.
At 3 p.m. on Friday: Joint Statement from the Department of Homeland Security and Office of the Director of National Intelligence on Election Security, Department of Homeland Security [archived], October 7, 2016.
But one hour later: David A. Fahrenthold, “Trump Recorded Having Extremely Lewd Conversation About Women in 2005,” The Washington Post, October 8, 2016.
“I expected it to be something”: Yahoo News Staff, “64 Hours in October: How One Weekend Blew Up the Rules of American Politics,” Yahoo News/Huffington Post, October 6, 2017.
Trump issued a brief statement: David A. Fahrenthold, “Trump Recorded Having Extremely Lewd Conversation About Women in 2005,” The Washington Post, October 8, 2016.
After midnight—and hours: “Transcript of Donald Trump’s Videotaped Apology,” The New York Times, October 8, 2016.
Just before 1 p.m., Pence: Yahoo News Staff, “64 Hours in October: How One Weekend Blew Up the Rules of American Politics,” Yahoo News/Huffington Post, October 6, 2017.
Two hours later, Melania Trump: Ibid.
At 3:40 p.m., Trump tweeted: Ibid.
Will you stay in the race?: Ibid.
Priebus, Christie, even the reliable: Brent Griffiths, “Trump Campaign Manager Reemerges to Show Support for GOP Nominee,” Politico, October 9, 2016; State of the Union transcript, CNN, October 9, 2016.
Giuliani gave, or tried: Meet the Press transcript, NBC, October 9, 2016.
The “transformational” presidential campaign: Fox News Sunday transcript, Fox News, October 9, 2016.
When CNN’s Jake Tapper: State of the Union transcript, CNN, October 9, 2016.
He had pulled out every stop: This Week transcript, ABC, October 9, 2016.
CHAPTER 5
The information in this chapter comes primarily from multiple deep background interviews with firsthand sources.
The in-depth and wide-ranging 2017 Yahoo News/Huffington Post oral history project “64 Hours in October: How One Weekend Blew Up the Rules of American Politics” was a helpful resource throughout this chapter.
Giuliani had said twice: State of the Union transcript, CNN, October 9, 2016; Meet the Press transcript, NBC, October 9, 2016.
Just before 7:30 p.m.: Yahoo News Staff, “64 Hours in October: How One Weekend Blew Up the Rules of American Politics,” Yahoo News/Huffington Post, October 6, 2017.
At 7:26, Trump tweeted: Ibid.
Early on, CNN’s Anderson Cooper: Presidential Debate at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, transcript, Commission on Presidential Debates, October 9, 2016.