Trump craved media approval. But, as Bannon emphasized, he was never going to get the facts right, nor was he ever going to acknowledge that he got them wrong, so therefore he was not going to get tha...
Trump could only be part of an organization that attended to him with unalloyed devotion; he could not really imagine another type. He insisted that the White House operate more like the Trump Organiz...
Trump as the man nearly everyone knew him to be: erratic, unfocused, impetuous, likely not of sound mind.
To Walsh, the proud political pro, the chaos, the rivalries, and the president’s own lack of focus and lack of concern were simply incomprehensible.
They were all concerned that Trump did not understand what he was up against. That there was simply not enough method to his madness.
There were too many members of the House. He couldn’t remember their names. He launched into dramatic eye-rolling when told where they were from. Flyovers, he said. Men’s shop salesmen.
The unspoken agreement among them: not only would Donald Trump not be president, he should probably not be.
The president’s worst impulses seem to run through Conway without benefit of a filter.
The president himself, absent any organizational rigor, often acted as his own chief of staff, or, in a sense, elevated the press secretary job to the primary staff job, and then functioned as his own...
The mantra was simple: if there was no Wall, there was no Trump. Stopping immigration was the Trump story.
The chance that Don Jr. did not walk these jumos up to his father’s office on the twenty-sixth floor is zero, said an astonished and derisive Bannon, not long after the meeting was revealed. The three...
The Kushner family’s desperate need for cash was turning U.S. foreign policy into an investment banking scheme dedicated to the refinancing of the Kushner family debt.
Steve Bannon was running the Steve Bannon White House, Jared Kushner was running the Michael Bloomberg White House, and Reince Priebus was running the Paul Ryan White House.
Speaker Boehner. (John Boehner had been the Speaker of the House until he was forced out in a Tea Party putsch in 2011.)
Sooner or later, Trump felt contempt for anyone who showed him too much devotion.
She was a nonevent on the campaign. She became a White House staffer and that’s when people suddenly realized she’s dumb as a brick. A little marketing savvy and has a look, but as far as understandin...
She treated her father with some lightness, even irony, and in at least one television interview she made fun of his comb-over. She often described the mechanics behind it to friends: an absolutely cl...
People who had the money to bribe, who fundamentally believed that anyone could be bribed, and who had outsize influence on the legal structures that might otherwise restrict bribery, had become major...
Pelosi, Bannon felt, saw the greater truth: the Trump administration would undo itself.
On May 17, twelve days after FBI director Comey was fired, without consulting the White House or the attorney general, Rosenstein appointed former FBI director Robert Mueller to oversee the investigat...