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toward polls is “post-truth,” then report that Trump is a possible Russian
spy, I will have few grounds to complain when Trump’s supporters
decide to get their news from alt-right conspiracy websites instead.
651 Jane Mayer, “Donald Trump’s Ghostwriter Tells All,” The New
Yorker (July 25, 2016).
652 Damn you, Ginsburg! Damn you, Breyer! Why didn’t you
fools retire when you had the chance?
653 James Risen, “If Donald Trump Targets Journalists, Thank
Obama,” The New York Times (Dec. 30, 2016).
654 William J. Broad and David E. Sanger, “Debate Over Trump’s
Fitness Raises Issue of Checks on Nuclear Power,” The New
York Times (Aug. 4, 2016). Bruce Blair of the Program on
Science and Global Security at Princeton University writes
that “Under the Constitution, no one could veto a bad call
by a President Trump. The 90 launch officers who are always
on duty in the Great Plains, along with their counterparts in
submarines patrolling the oceans, would have no choice but
to execute the most morally reprehensible order ever issued
in the history of warfare.” Bruce G. Blair, “Trump and the
Nuclear Keys,” The New York Times (Oct. 12, 2016).
655 Rachel Becker, “What’s standing between Donald Trump and
nuclear war?” The Verge (Dec. 22, 2016).
656 James Bamford, “Donald Trump Has the Keys to the Most
Invasive Surveillance State in History, Foreign Policy (Jan. 6,
2017).
657 Ian Cobain, “Obama’s secret kill list – the disposition matrix,”
The Guardian (July 14, 2013).
658 Conor Friedersdorf, “How Team Obama Justifies The Killing
of a 16-year-old American,” The Atlantic (Oct. 24, 2012).
Former White House Press Secretary and senior Obama
reelection adviser Robert Gibbs said that the teenaged al-Awlaki
should have “had a more responsible father” if he hadn’t
wanted to be killed by a drone.
659 Nick Gass, “Trump on Russia hack: ‘I wish I had that power,’”
Politico (July 27, 2016).
660 Jeremy Diamond, “Trump doubles down on calls for mosque
surveillance,” CNN (June 15, 2016).
661 Cheryl K. Chumley, “Donald Trump on Edward Snowden:
Kill the ‘traitor,’” The Washington Times (July 2, 2013).
662 Readers will note that I do not much discuss the “alt-right”
in this book. This is because I don’t tend to believe that they