A reporter's ability to keep the bond of confidentiality often enables him to learn the hidden or secret aspects of government.
The president has zero psychological ability to recognize
Republican senator Bob Corker had told reporters the president has not yet been able to demonstrate the stability nor some of the competence needed to succeed in office.
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...
Trump said, Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here? He had just met with the prime minister of Norway. Why not more Norwegians?
Watergate provides a model case study of the interaction and powers of each of the branches of government. It also is a morality play with a sad and dramatic ending.
As an extreme measure, Hicks, Porter, Gary Cohn and White House social media director Dan Scavino proposed they set up a committee. They would draft some tweets that they believed Trump would like. If...
Actually you’ve never voted in a primary except once in your entire life, Bossie said, citing the record.
About 15 minutes before the Tomahawks would hit, a warning was sent to the Russians at the airfield. When the call was made, the Russian who picked up the phone at the airfield sounded intoxicated.
The number of illegal activities were so large that one was bound to come out and lead to the uncovering of the others. Nixon was too willing to use the power of government to settle scores and get ev...
Trump gave some private advice to a friend who had acknowledged some bad behavior toward women. Real power is fear. It’s all about strength. Never show weakness. You’ve always got to be strong. Don’t...
Trump, who doesn’t touch type or use a keyboard,
Trump said he wished he had fired Comey at the beginning of the administration but now he wanted Comey out. Bannon disagreed and offered this argument to Trump alone in the Oval Office: Seventy-five p...
But in the man and his presidency Dowd had seen the tragic flaw. In the political back-and-forth, the evasions, the denials, the tweeting, the obscuring, crying Fake News, the indignation, Trump had o...
All the air seemed to have come out of Tillerson. He could not abide Trump’s attack on the generals. The president was speaking as if the U.S. military was a mercenary force for hire. If a country wou...
Grievance was a big part of Trump’s core, very much like a 14-year-old boy who felt he was being picked on unfairly. You couldn’t talk to him in adult logic. Teenage logic was necessary.
Mattis and Gary Cohn had several quiet conversations about The Big Problem: The president did not understand the importance of allies overseas, the value of diplomacy or the relationship between the m...
Ailes said they were there for their weekly debate prep. The first presidential debate against Hillary Clinton was a month and a half away, on September 26. Debate prep? Bannon said. You, Christie and...
Cohn had a packet of Goldman Sachs–style charts and tables to educate the president on taxes. Trump was not interested and did not read it.
Cohn removed the letter draft from the Resolute Desk. He placed it in a blue folder marked KEEP. I stole it off his desk, he later told an associate. I wouldn’t let him see it. He’s never going to see...
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