For those of you who were critical that nobody paid enough attention to the generals at the beginning of the war, has it occurred to you that you don't want to make that mistake at the end of the war?...
There are people who take rumors and embellish them in a way that can be devastating. And this pollution has to be eradicated by people in our business as best we can.
Conway agreed with Bannon that if the Trump campaign could make the race about Hillary, not Trump, they would win with those hidden Trump voters. If the race stayed about Trump, we’ll probably lose.
White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer, who was a commander in the Naval Reserves, tried several times to persuade Mattis to appear on Sunday talk shows on behalf of the administration. The answer wa...
Sometimes, the more you protect your force, the less secure you may be. Sometimes, the more force is used, the less effective it is.
For Priebus, it was the worst meeting among many terrible ones. Six months into the administration, he could see vividly that they had a fundamental problem of goal setting. Where were they going? The...
Coming back from the G20 summit, Trump was editing an upcoming speech with Porter. Scribbling his thoughts in neat, clean penmanship, the president wrote, TRADE IS BAD. Though he never said it in a sp...
Cohn concluded that Trump was, in fact, going backwards. He had been more manageable the first months when he was a novice.
The failure of the system to deal quickly was attributable to Nixon's lying, stonewalling and refusal to come clean. So it took 26 months for the final truth to be known.
The president has zero psychological ability to recognize
Deep Throat's information, and in my view, courage, allowed the newspaper to use what he knew and suspected.
Using these unnamed sources, if done properly, carefully and fairly, provides more accountability in government.
Next, Cohn repeated what everyone was saying: Interest rates were going to go up over the foreseeable future. I agree, Trump said. We should just go borrow a lot of money right now, hold it, and then...
Bannon, Kushner and Mnuchin, the former Goldman Sachs executive, presented Trump with a plan for him to give $25 million to the campaign. No way, Trump said. Fuck that. I’m not doing it. Where were th...
Bannon said. As for running for president, Zero chance. First off, those two action items. The fucker will not write one check. He’s not a guy who writes checks.
Actually you’ve never voted in a primary except once in your entire life, Bossie said, citing the record.
A word of explanation about how the information in this book was obtained, evaluated and used. This book is designed to present, as best my reporting could determine, what really happened. The core of...
I give lectures for money, but all the money goes to charity. So, I make no money from it.
A heartfelt thanks to Evelyn M. Duffy, my assistant on five books that have covered four presidents. President Trump presents a particular hurdle because of the deep emotions and passions he brings ou...
1. Achieve political stability that will include a political settlement with the insurgent Taliban. 2. Push for institutional actions by the Afghan government to counter the Taliban. 3. Increase press...