The Pre-Election Presidential Transition Act of 2010 established funding for presidential nominees to start the process of vetting thousands of candidates for jobs in a new administration, codifying p...
The two prosecutors also delved into the president’s personal life. How often did he cheat on his wife? With whom? How were trysts arranged? What were the president’s sexual interests?
One of Jared Kushner’s many new patrons was Tony Blair, the former British prime minister, whom Kushner had gotten to know when, on the banks of the River Jordan in 2010, they both attended the baptis...
Trump certainly ran his business as though it were a criminal enterprise.
Sooner or later, Trump felt contempt for anyone who showed him too much devotion.
Trump didn't read. He didn't really even skim. If it was print, it might as well not exist...He was postliterate -- total television.
The world needs borders—or the world should return to a time when it had borders. When America was great. Trump had become the platform for that message.
Trump had little or no interest in the central Republican goal of repealing Obamacare. An overweight seventy-year-old man with various physical phobias (for instance, he lied about his height to keep...
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...
Trump had no real relationship with either father or daughter. He’d had only a few conversations with Bob Mercer, who mostly talked in monosyllables; Rebekah Mercer’s entire history with Trump consist...
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...
Steve wants to force a million people out of the country and repeal the nation’s health law and lay on a bunch of tariffs that will completely decimate how we trade,
That was the way to crush the liberals: make them crazy and drag them to the left.
This was another—and to some quite the ultimate—example of how difficult it was for the president to function in a literal, definitional, lawyerly, cause-and-effect political world.
Trump pardons were less judicial corrections or acts of forbearance and kindness than statements of defiance.
Trump saw the world through the filter of other people’s weaknesses.
Pivoting from Trump himself, Bannon plunged on with the Trump agenda. Day one we’re moving the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem. Netanyahu’s all in. Sheldon—Sheldon Adelson, the casino billionaire, far-right...
The worry among staffers—all of them concerned that Trump’s rambling and his alarming repetitions (the same sentences delivered with the same expressions minutes apart) had significantly increased, an...
The firing of FBI director James Comey may be the most consequential move ever made by a modern president acting entirely on his own.
Priebus had an agenda of his own: heeding Senate leader Mitch McConnell’s prescription that this president will sign whatever is put in front of him, while also taking advantage of the White House’s l...
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