He was a rebel, a disruptor, and, living outside the rules, contemptuous of them. A close Trump friend who was also a good Bill Clinton friend found them eerily similar—except that Clinton had a respe...
Early on, before getting down to attacking each other, Bannon and Kushner were united in their separate offensives against Priebus. Kushner’s preferred outlet was Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski’s...
Among Trump’s first moves as president was to have a series of inspirational photographs in the West Wing replaced with images of big crowd scenes at his inaugural ceremony.
And that evening, the president traveled to West Virginia to deliver a speech before the Boy Scouts of America. Once more, his speech was totally at odds with time, place, and good sense. It prompted...
Expertise was the last refuge of liberals, ever defeated by the big picture.
The Best and the Brightest
Still, Sean Hannity had 5.8 million viewers on the night of the Blasey Ford–Kavanaugh hearing. That’s a lot of fucking hobbits, said Bannon.
He’s a guy who really hated school, said Bannon. And he’s not going to start liking it now.
And it was not only calls from friends worried about him, but staffers calling people to call him and say Simmer down. Who do you have in there? said Joe Scarborough in a frantic call. Who’s the perso...
In an age when all successful political candidates are surrounded by, if not at the beck and call of, difficult, even sociopathic, rich people pushing the bounds of their own power—and the richer they...
The kids—Jared and Ivanka—exhibited an increasingly panicked sense that the FBI and DOJ were moving beyond Russian election interference and into family finances. Ivanka is terrified, said a satisfied...
The theory, suddenly presented as just this side of a likelihood, was that the Russians had suborned Donald Trump during a trip to Moscow with a crude blackmail scheme involving prostitutes and videot...
Shortly after eight o’clock that evening, when the unexpected trend—Trump might actually win—seemed confirmed, Don Jr. told a friend that his father, or DJT, as he called him, looked as if he had seen...
Estimated Hannity’s net worth at $300 million to $400 million. From his earliest days as a big earner at the network, Hannity had invested in rental properties across the country. He may own every shi...
But the point really was that Trump had wanted to confront and humiliate the FBI director. Cruelty was a Trump attribute.
The Best and the Brightest. (One of the
The president did not truly listen to anybody. The more you talked, the less he listened.
In the world of Trump, anything that he deemed of value either accrued to him or had been robbed from him.
And the almost samizdat sharing, or gobsmacked retelling, of otherwise private and deep-background conversations
He wasn’t a tough guy. He was a big warm-hearted monkey, said Bannon, with rather faint praise.
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