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35 “Project Rome”: “Psy Group, Project ‘Rome’: Campaign Intelligence & Influence Services Proposal,” https://int.nyt.com/data/documenthelper/360-trump-project-rome/574d679d1ff58a30836c/optimized/full.pdf.
36 “Roger, how are you?”: Senate Intelligence Committee Report, pp. 229–31.
37 “Russia, if you’re listening”: Morgan Winsor, Michael Edison Hayden, Candance Smith, and John Santucci, “Trump Says He Hopes Russian Hackers Find Clinton’s Deleted Emails,” ABC News, July 27, 2016, https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/donald-trump-spoken-vladimir-putin-urges-russian-president/story?id=40922483.
38 “Get to Assange”: District Court for the District of Columbia, United States of America v. Roger Jason Stone, Jr., Indictment, p. 4, www.documentcloud.org/documents/5694704-Stone-Indictment-012419.html. Hereafter cited as Stone Indictment.
39 “good shit happening”: Senate Intelligence Committee Report, p. 236.
40 “Word is friend in embassy”: Stone Indictment, p. 4.
41 “[m]ore to come than anyone realizes”: Senate Intelligence Committee Report, p. 239.
42 “Trust me, it will soon the [sic] Podesta’s time in the barrel”: Senate Intelligence Committee Report, p. 241.
43 Jared Kushner, met privately with Netanyahu: Barak Ravid, “Trump Tells Netanyahu: If Elected, U.S. Would Recognize Undivided Jerusalem as Israel’s Capital,” Haaretz, September 25, 2016, www.haaretz.com/israel-news/trump-to-pm-i-d-recognize-undivided-jerusalem-as-israeli-capital-1.5442362.
44 “recognize Jerusalem as the undivided capital of the State of Israel”: Ravid, “Trump Tells Netanyahu.”
45 Press accounts mentioned him: “Hanegbi Highlights Israeli Development Projects at Palestinian Donor Conference [in New York City],” BICOM, Britain Israel Communications and Research Center, September 21, 2016, www.bicom.org.uk/news/hanegbi-highlights-israeli-development-projects-palestinian-donor-conference/.
46 “naive and messianic”: Raoul Wootliff, “Israeli Minister Slams ‘Naïve and Messianic’ Obama,” Times of Israel, September 22, 2016, www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-minister-slams-naive-and-messianic-obama/.
47 “John Podesta was going to be in the barrel”: Senate Intelligence Committee Report, p. 244.
48 “more releases of damaging information”: Senate Intelligence Committee Report, p. 244.
49 “I suggested Stone could use me as an excuse”: Jerome R. Corsi, Silent No More: How I Became a Political Prisoner of Mueller’s “Witch Hunt” (Franklin, TN: Post Hill Press, 2019), p. 78.
50 “a nine page background memorandum on John Podesta”: Corsi, Silent No More.
51 “Together, we will stand up to enemies like Iran”: “Video: Trump Touts Link to Jewish Values in Video Shown at Rally in Jerusalem,” J. The Jewish News of Northern California, October 28, 2016, https://jweekly.com/2016/10/28/video-trump-touts-link-to-jewish-values-in-video-shown-at-rally-in-jerusale/.
52 “The Biblical Restaurant”: Website of The Harp of David restaurant, http://www.harpofdavid.co.il/.
53 “Donald Trump Says Israel Will Be Destroyed”: “Donald Trump Says Israel Will Be Destroyed Unless He Is Elected,” Jewish Telegraph Agency, September 6, 2016, www.jta.org/2016/09/06/politics/donald-trump-says-israel-will-be-destroyed-unless-he-is-elected.
54 the “seven spices” of ancient Canaan: GoJerusalem.com, www.gojerusalem.com/items/709/Davids-Harp-Restaurant/.
55 Friedman was chief fund-raiser for a yeshiva: Isabel Kershner and Sheryl Gay Stolberg, “David Friedman, Choice for Envoy to Israel, Is Hostile to Two-State Efforts,” New York Times, December 16, 2016, www.nytimes.com/2016/12/16/world/middleeast/david-friedman-us-ambassador-israel.html.
56 accused President Obama of “blatant anti-Semitism”; “kapos”: Marsha B. Cohen, “New Senior Adviser to US Ambassador to Israel: Ideology Trumps Experience,” Lobe Log, August 28, 2017, https://lobelog.com/new-senior-adviser-to-us-ambassador-to-israel-ideology-trumps-experience/.
57 “He has made clear that he will appeal”: Kershner and Stolberg, “David Friedman, Choice for Envoy to Israel, Is Hostile to Two-State Efforts.”
58 daily coordination with the Trump campaign: Andrew Tobin, “Trump Backers Launch Campaign in the West Bank,” J The Jewish News of Northern California, September 9, 2016, https://jweekly.com/2016/09/09/trump-backers-launch-campaign-in-the-west-bank/.
59 massive get-out-the-vote campaign: Andrew Tobin, “Donald Trump Supporters Launch Push for American ‘Swing State’ Votes in Israel,” Jewish Telegraph Agency, August 5, 2016, www.jta.org/2016/08/05/politics/donald-trump-supporters-launch-push-for-american-swing-state-votes-in-israel.
60 “Trump: Make Israel Great Again”: Jonathan Marcus, “Trump and the Middle East: An Impossible Disengagement,” BBC News, December 30, 2016, www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38407226.
61 illegal West Bank settlement of Karnei Shomron: Andrew Tobin, “Trump Backers Launch Campaign in the West Bank,” J. The Jewish News of Northern California, September 9, 2016, https://jweekly.com/2016/09/09/trump-backers-launch-campaign-in-the-west-bank/.
62 James A. Baker: Raphael Ahern, “How Israel’s Leading Republic Learned to Love The Donald,” Times of Israel, August 11, 2016, www.timesofisrael.com/how-israels-leading-republican-learned-to-love-the-donald/.
63 Sarah Silverman: “Head of GOP in Israel Says ‘Self-Hating Jew’ Sarah Silverman ‘Needs a Muzzle,’” Jewish Journal, March 26, 2017, https://jewishjournal.com/culture/arts/hollywood/217137/head-gop-israel-says-self-hating-jew-sarah-silverman-needs-muzzle/.
64 “ultimate goal is to recruit”: Judy Maltz, “Trump Campaign in Israel Enlists ‘Thousands’ of Right-Wingers to Get Out the Vote,” Haaretz, September 19, 2016, www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2016-09-19/ty-article/.premium/trump-campaign-in-israel-enlists-right-wingers-to-win-votes/0000017f-e87c-da9b-a1ff-ec7f60120000.
65 Tzvika Brot: “Trump Launches Campaign in Israel: ‘Israelis Can Win Elections,’” Walla News (in Hebrew), August 3, 2016, https://news.walla.co.il/item/2984929.
66 “A foreign national shall not direct”: See 11 CFR § 110.20—Prohibition on contributions, donations, expenditures, independent expenditures, and disbursements by foreign nationals (52 U.S.C. 30121, 36 U.S.C. 510). See also “‘Things of Value’ and the Foreign Contribution Ban, Congressional Research Service, October 28, 2019, https://sgp.fas.org/crs/misc/LSB10358.pdf.
67 with close ties to Prime Minister Netanyahu: Judy Maltz, “The Political Ties of the Trump Campaign Team in Israel,” Haaretz, August 29, 2016, www.haaretz.com/world-news/.premium-the-political-ties-of-the-trump-campaign-team-in-israel-1.5430494.
68 Netanyahu once offered him the prestigious job: Maltz, “The Political Ties of the Trump Campaign Team in Israel.”
69 she had previously served as spokesperson: Maltz, “The Political Ties of the Trump Campaign Team in Israel.”
70 even admitted on Army Radio in Israel: Chaim Levinson, “Israeli GOP Group Accepts Donations from Non-Americans; Experts Question Legality,” Haaretz, October 27, 2016, www.haaretz.com/world-news/experts-question-legality-of-non-u-s-donations-to-israeli-gop-group-1.5454085.
71 “advised the Israeli team during the campaign”: Nechama Duek, “The Israelis Who Helped Elect Trump,” Ynetnews, November 13, 2016, www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4878263,00.html.
72 It is “illegal for any non-U.S. citizen to make a contribution”: Levinson, “Israeli GOP Group Accepts Donations from Non-Americans.”
73 They even announced publicly: Levinson, “Israeli GOP Group Accepts Donations from Non-Americans.”
74 Nor did the group’s website contain: Levinson, “Israeli GOP Group Accepts Donations from Non-Americans.”
75 In the United States, however, donors are required: Levinson, “Israeli GOP Group Accepts Donations from Non-Americans.”
76 “To us, Israel is the 51st state”: Levinson, “Israeli GOP Group Accepts Donations from Non-Americans.”
77 “Israel is a very red state”: Raphael Ahren, “Is the Fifty-First State Red or Blue?,” Haaretz, July 25, 2008, https://web.archive.org/web/20160513170847/http:/www.haaretz.com/is-the-fifty-first-state-red-or-blue-1.250377.
78 “Israeli intervention in US elections vastly overwhelms”: Andrew Buncombe, “Israeli Intervention in US Elections ‘Vastly Overwhelms’ Anything Russia Has Done,” Independent, July 30, 2018, www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/israel-us-elections-intervention-russia-noam-chomsky-donald-trump-a8470481.html.
79 “[Seventy] million Americans are sobbing tonight”: Marc Zell, tweet, November 7, 2020, https://twitter.com/GOPIsrael/status/1325238174587752451?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
80 In March 2022, he flew to Israel: Allison Kaplan Sommer, “Israel’s Far Right, Shunned by AIPAC, Is Embraced by Mike Pence,” Haaretz, March 10, 2022, www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-israel-s-far-right-shunned-by-aipac-is-embraced-by-mike-pence-1.10666569.
81 Kach movement: U.S. Department of State, “Country Reports on Terrorism 2004,” April 2005, https://2009-2017.state.gov/documents/organization/45313.pdf. In May 2022, President Biden dropped Kahane Chai (formely Kach) from its list of “foreign terrorist organizations,” calling the group inactive and the move routine. But William Lafi Youmans, an associate professor at George Washington University, saw it instead as the United States “continuing its light approach towards right-wing violence against Palestinians.” “Kach and Kahane Chai splintered into various groups and political parties that continue to espouse, inspire and carry out acts of violence against Palestinian civilians.” See “US Removes Ultranationalist Israeli Group from ‘Terror’ List,” Al Jazeera, May 20, 2022, www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/5/20/us-removes-ultranationalist-israeli-group-from-terror-list.
82 was banned from running for the Knesset: Marcy Oster, “Israel’s Supreme Court Bars 2 Far-Right Candidates from Running for Knesset,” Jewish Telegraph Agency, August 26, 2019, www.jta.org/quick-reads/israels-supreme-court-bars-2-far-right-candidates-from-running-for-knesset.
83 “like a foreign leader coming to the US”: Matt Duss, tweet, March 9, 2022,https://twitter.com/mattduss/status/1501549447867768834?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1501549447867768834%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsweek.com%2Fpence-accused-pushing-jewish-supremacy-over-palestinians-israel-trip-1686578.
84 “empowering Jewish Supremacy”: Benzion Sanders, tweet, March 9, 2022, https://twitter.com/BenzionSanders/status/1501538018074763272?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1501538018074763272%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsweek.com%2Fpence-accused-pushing-jewish-supremacy-over-palestinians-israel-trip-1686578.
Chapter 28: The Agent
1 $33,400-a-person fund-raiser: Melissa Chan, “George Clooney Admits Money He Raised for Hillary Clinton Is ‘Obscene,’” Time, April 17, 2016, https://time.com/4297055/george-clooney-obscene-hillary-clinton/.
2 Jeffrey Katzenberg and Steven Spielberg; Haim Saban: Annie Karni and Kenneth P. Vogel, “Clinton Asks for $353K to Sit with the Clooneys,” Politico, March 24, 2016, www.politico.com/story/2016/03/hillary-clinton-george-clooney-fundraiser-221207.
3 Model Turned Superstar: Dave McNary, “Mance Media Launching ‘Model Turned Superstar’ on 4KUniverse Channel,” Yahoo News, April 27, 2016, https://uk.news.yahoo.com/celebrity/mance-media-launching-model-turned-superstar-4kuniverse-channel-151324798.html.
4 a clandestine agent working for a foreign spy: United States District Court for the District of Columbia, United States of America v. Ahmad “Andy” Khawaja, George Nader, et al., Indictment, May 7, 2019, Case 1:19-cr-374, https://cdn.cnn.com/cnn/2019/images/12/04/khawaja.et.al_indictment_unsealed.12.3.19.pdf.
5 The spy was George Nader: United States of America v. Ahmad “Andy” Khawaja, George Nader, et al.
6 “the most powerful leader in the Arab world”: David D. Kirkpatrick, “The Most Powerful Arab Ruler Isn’t M.B.S. It’s M.B.Z,” New York Times, June 2, 2019, www.nytimes.com/2019/06/02/world/middleeast/crown-prince-mohammed-bin-zayed.html.
7 “He may be the richest man in the world”: Kirkpatrick, “The Most Powerful Arab Ruler Isn’t M.B.S. It’s M.B.Z.”
8 Born in 1959 in the ancient: Sania Akkad and Ian Cobain, “George Nader: How a Convicted Pedophile Became Key to an Emirati Hook-up with Trump,” Middle East Eye, July 5, 2019, www.middleeasteye.net/big-story/george-nader-how-convicted-paedophile-became-key-emirati-hook-trump.
9 “George Nader did some very discreet work”: Rosalind S. Helderman, Rachel Weiner, and Devlin Barrett, “Complex Portrait of Special Counsel Cooperator Emerges in Newly Unsealed Child Pornography Case,” Washington Post, March 16, 2018, www.washingtonpost.com/politics/complex-portrait-of-special-counsel-cooperator-emerges-in-newly-unsealed-child-pornography-case/2018/03/16/d91541b0-2939-11e8-874b-d517e912f125_story.html.
10 He was also assisting the crown prince: David Hearst, “Exclusive: The Secret Yacht Summit That Realigned the Middle East,” Middle East Eye, December 27, 2018, www.middleeasteye.net/news/exclusive-secret-yacht-summit-realigned-middle-east.
11 credit card processor for fraudsters: “Allied Wallet Settles with FTC over Fraudulent Payment Allegations,” PYMNTS.com, May 21, 2019, www.pymnts.com/legal/2019/allied-wallet-settlement-ftc-fraud-allegations/.
12 home of Hollywood film director Rob Reiner: Ted Johnson, “Rob Reiner Hosts Hillary Clinton at Los Angeles Fundraiser,” Variety, November 5, 2015, https://variety.com/2015/biz/news/hillary-clinton-rob-reiner-fundraiser-1201634455/.
13 had his picture taken with a smiling, toothy Hillary Clinton: “CEO of Allied Wallet, Andy Khawaja, Meets with Hillary Clinton,” Alliedwallet.com, undated, www.alliedwallet.com/blog/press-releases/ceo-allied-wallet-andy-khawaja-meets-hillary-clinton/.
14 Nader began secretly pumping millions of illegal dollars: Unless otherwise indicated, details of Khawaja and Nader’s espionage/influence operation are contained in United States District Court for the District of Columbia, United States of America v. Ahmad “Andy” Khawaja, George Nader, et al., Indictment, May 7, 2019, Case 1:19-cr-374, https://cdn.cnn.com/cnn/2019/images/12/04/khawaja.et.al_indictment_unsealed.12.3.19.pdf.
15 more than $8,000 in dirty cash: Open Secrets, “Donor Lookup,” donations of Ahmad Khawaja, Allied Wallet, www.opensecrets.org/donor-lookup/results?name=ahmad+Khawaja&page=1.
16 Grande Belleza (Big Beauty): “15 Million Beverly Hills Mansion Boasting Endless Views Hits the Market,” Cision, May 14, 2022, www.prweb.com/releases/15_million_beverly_hills_mansion_boasting_endless_views_hits_the_market/prweb16559282.htm. See video at: https://vimeo.com/356789219.
17 It was also all paid for with Khawaja’s dirty money: See United States District Court for the Central District of California, Federal Trade Commission vs. Allied Wallet, Inc, et al., Case 2:19-cv-04355, www.ftc.gov/system/files/documents/cases/alliedwallet_proposed_stip_final_ord_aw_and_khawaja_5-21-19.pdf.
18 “We have created a little Frankenstein”: Kirkpatrick, “The Most Powerful Arab Ruler Isn’t M.B.S. It’s M.B.Z.”
19 He appointed him to the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom: “Andy Khawaja Appointed to USCIRF,” United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, June 25, 2018, www.uscirf.gov/news-room/releases-statements/andy-khawaja-appointed-uscirf.
20 sexually explicit videos featuring boys as young as two: See United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, United States of America v. George Aref Nader, Criminal Complaint, Under Seal, January 17, 2018, Case 1:18-mj-196, www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Nader-Complaint.pdf.
21 “sexual abuse and impairing morals”; Among the cases: See United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, United States of America v. George Aref Nader, Transcript of Detention Hearing, June 7, 2019, https://ecf.vaed.uscourts.gov/doc1/18919771941.
22 And according to U.S. prosecutors: Details of sexual charges are contained in the above court documents.
23 Finally, on November 7, 2019: See United States District Court for the District of Columbia, United States of America v. Ahmad “Andy” Khawaja, George Nader, et al., Indictment, May 7, 2019, Case 1:19-cr-374, https://cdn.cnn.com/cnn/2019/images/12/04/khawaja.et.al_indictment_unsealed.12.3.19.pdf.
24 “The amount paid to the Prosecutor’s Office’s account is not disclosed”: Dainius Sinkevičius, “Prosecutors Release US Billionaire Detained in Lithuania for Record Bail,” Delfi, October 20, 2020 (in Lithuanian), www.delfi.lt/news/daily/lithuania/uz-rekordinio-dydzio-uzstata-prokurorai-i-laisve-isleido-lietuvoje-sulaikyta-jav-milijardieriu.d?id=85619127.
25 a $150 million payment processing scheme: “Four Charged in Alleged $150 Million Payment Processing Scheme,” U.S. Department of Justice, August 26, 2021, www.justice.gov/opa/pr/four-charged-alleged-150-million-payment-processing-scheme.
26 $1.14 billion to Trump’s $712 million: “Election 2016, Money Raised as of December 31,” Washington Post, October 24, 2016, www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-mega-donors-helped-raise-1-billion-for-hillary-clinton/2016/10/22/a92a0ee2-9603-11e6-bb29-bf2701dbe0a3_story.html.
BOOK SEVEN: THE LIQUIDATORS
Chapter 29: The Crash
1 Sun Kailiang: “Sun Kailiang,” FBI Most Wanted List, www.fbi.gov/wanted/cyber/sun-kailiang.
2 Wang Dong; Gu Chunhui: Unless otherwise indicated, details of cyber activities of Unit 61398 are contained in United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania, United States of American v. Wang Dong, Sun Kailiang, Wen Xinyu, Huang Zhenyu, Gu Chunhui, Indictment, May 1, 2014, Criminal Case No. 14-118, www.justice.gov/iso/opa/resources/5122014519132358461949.pdf. See also “U.S. Charges Five Chinese Military Hackers for Cyber Espionage Against U.S. Corporations and a Labor Organization for Commercial Advantage,” Department of Justice, May 19, 2014.
3 Chinese Black Chamber: Herbert O. Yardley, The Chinese Black Chamber: An Adventure in Espionage (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1983).
