The case against collusion with the Russians and the case for it. It was a case, or the lack of one, not of masterminds and subterfuge, but of senseless and benighted people so guileless and unconcern...
Television host directing the president to do whatever might most compel a television audience—took the game a big step further.
Said the president in his first week in the White House during a late-night call. It’s all exaggerated. My exaggerations are exaggerated.
Resisters, working in the Trump White House, who had come to see themselves as patriots protecting the country from the president they worked for.
Purpose of actually changing the country. Changing it quickly, radically, and truly.
Persiflage.
Myrmidons,
Most of the leaks, certainly the juiciest ones, were coming from the higher-ups—not to mention from the person occupying the topmost echelon. The president couldn’t stop talking.
It confirmed Bannon’s worst fear: Trump, in his true heart, was a marshmallow.
In a world increasingly swayed by private wealth and personal brands.
He had never been able to tailor his behavior to what the goals at hand reasonably required.
Fact-checkers from the magazine called him for comment about Scaramucci’s accusation that he sucked his own cock.)
What has he gotten himself into with the Russians? pressed Ailes. Mostly, said Bannon, he went to Russia and he thought he was going to meet Putin. But Putin couldn’t give a shit about him. So he’s ke...
We serve at the president’s displeasure, another.
Trump’s home in Beverly Hills
Trump, one guest noted, always more salesman than politician, seemed to have the capacity to focus only on the good news.
Trump was effusive in his praise for Kushner. Jared’s gotten the Arabs totally on our side. Done deal, he assured one of his after-dinner callers before leaving on the trip. It’s going to be beautiful...
Trump simply could not abide the knowledge that somebody was getting a leg up at his expense. His was a zero-sum ecosystem. In the world of Trump, anything that he deemed of value either accrued to hi...
Trump quite profoundly seemed unable to distinguish between his political advantage and his personal needs—he thought emotionally, not strategically.
Trump loved to hear complain about the CIA and the haplessness of American spies, had been told by his friends that it had not been a good idea to take $45,000 from the Russians for a speech. Well, it...