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
As always, Trump’s regard or scorn was infectious. If you were in favor, then whatever and whomever he associated with you was also in favor. If you weren’t, then everything associated with you was po...
The Russia story was—just two weeks into the new presidency—a dividing line with each side viewing the other as pushing fake news.
The Trump campaign had, perhaps less than inadvertently, replicated the scheme from Mel Brooks’s The Producers. In
On the most basic level, he simply could not link cause and effect.
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...
I think of Maggie Haberman—the New York Times reporter covering Trump—the way I think of my grandmother, said Nunberg. I always go running to her.
Rebekah took a helicopter from their Long Island estate out to a scheduled fundraiser—with
It was an operatic unraveling. So mortifying was this development that when Reince Priebus, the RNC head, was called to New York from Washington for an emergency meeting at Trump Tower, he couldn’t br...
The fundamental premise of nearly everybody who joined the Trump White House was, This can work. We can help make this work. Now, only three-quarters of the way through just the first year of Trump’s...
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.
In a way, Robert Mueller had come to accept the dialectical premise of Donald Trump—that Trump is Trump. It was circular reasoning to hold the president’s essential character against him. Put another...
His departure would return the Trump organization to pure family control—the family and its functionaries, without an internal rival for brand meaning and leadership. From the family’s point of view,...
Is Donald Trump an intellectual? Trust me, I’m like a smart person.
Trump for dinner every night, or at least made himself available—one bachelor there for the effective other bachelor. (Priebus would observe that in the beginning everyone would try to be part of thes...
Indeed, health care, a no-fun issue—suddenly becoming much less fun, if, as seemed increasingly possible, Ryan couldn’t deliver—palled before the clarity of Comey, and the fury, enmity, and bitterness...
Other than Trump himself, Bannon was certainly the oldest inexperienced person ever to work in the White House.
He could yet make a case for a straight line from Nixon to Trump.
No national emergency, no solution, no offer, no progress. Trump was, for the entire nation to see, trapped.
Then there was Bannon, conducting something of an alternate-universe operation,
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