Also be the easiest one to achieve, since virtually every Republican was already publicly committed to voting for repeal. But Bannon,
You could tell him whatever you wanted, but he knew what he knew, and if what you said contradicted what he knew, he simply didn’t believe you.
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, the Egyptian strongman, ably stroked the president and said, You are a unique personality that is capable of doing the impossible. (To Sisi, Trump replied, Love your shoes. Boy,...
All news was to some extent fake—he understood that very well, because he himself had faked it so many times in his career. This was why he had so naturally cottoned to the fake news label. I’ve made...
He acceded to anyone who seemed to know more about any issue he didn’t care about,
The president, on the verge of starting a war with the FBI, the DOJ, and many in Congress, was going rogue.
On the afternoon of November 8, 2016, Kellyanne Conway—Donald Trump’s campaign manager and a central, indeed starring, personality of Trumpworld—settled into her glass office at Trump Tower. Right up...
The country built on the virtue and the character and the strength of the American workingman circa 1955–65 was the ideal he meant to defend and restore: trade agreements, or trade wars, that supporte...
So clear was his inability to take any criticism or to participate in any honest argument about policy that the attempt was almost never made.
I now understand what it is like to be in the court of the Tudors, reflected Bannon.
Hence, within twenty-four hours of the inauguration, the president had invented a million or so people who did not exist. He sent his new press secretary, Sean Spicer—whose personal mantra would short...
For whatever reason, almost everyone I contacted—senior members of the White House staff as well as dedicated observers of it—shared large amounts of time with me and went to great effort to help shed...
The three senior guys in the campaign, an incredulous Bannon went on, thought it was a good idea to meet with a foreign government inside Trump Tower in the conference room on the twenty-fifth floor—w...
Pushing a proffered glass of wine away—I don’t drink—
His strategic belief was that there was no reason not to heap excessive puffery on a prospect. But if the prospect was ruled out as a buyer, there was no reason not to heap scorn and lawsuits on him o...
Is Donald Trump an intellectual? Trust me, I’m like a smart person.
Hence, she and everyone else was translating a set of desires and urges into a program, a process that required a lot of guess work. It was, said Walsh, like trying to figure out what a child wants.
If Trump cared about something, he usually already had a fixed view based on limited information. If he didn’t care, he had no view and no information.
The dream, long differed, of the Trump pivot, might actually happen without
Jay Sekulow then turned the points raised by the special counsel into a list of specific questions—and then leaked them, as though these were in fact the special counsel’s questions
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