Rebekah took a helicopter from their Long Island estate out to a scheduled fundraiser—with
It was the chaos of just doing things that actually got things done. Except, even if you assumed that not knowing how to do things didn’t much matter if you just did them, it was still not clear who w...
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 was a zero-sum ecosystem. In the world of Trump, anything that he deemed of value either accrued to him or had been robbed from him.
He was postliterate—total television.
He held his face in his hands for a moment and then looked up again. I’m pretty good at coming up with solutions, I came up with a solution for his broke-dick campaign in about a day, but I don’t see...
He had little to no experience in foreign policy, but he had no respect for the experts,
For Walsh, it was a daily process of managing an impossible task: almost as soon as she received direction from one of the three men, she would be countermanded by one or another of them.
Finally, there was a new rationale that Flynn should be fired not because of his Russian contacts, but because he had lied about them to the vice president. This was a convenient invention of a chain...
Christie had sent Jared’s father, Charles Kushner, to jail in 2005. Charlie Kushner, pursued by the feds for an income tax cheat, set up a scheme with a prostitute to blackmail his brother-in-law, who...
Bob Woodward’s 1994 book, The Agenda, is a blow-by-blow account of the first eighteen months of the Clinton White House, most of it focused on creating the Clinton budget, with the single largest bloc...
Bannon, for instance, even driven by his imperative just to get things done, did not use a computer. How did he do anything? Katie Walsh wondered. But that was the difference between big visions and s...
Bannon averred: When you take out all the never-Trump guys who signed all those letters and all the neocons who got us in all these wars … it’s not a deep bench.
60 Minutes (TV show) 666 Fifth Avenue
We could confidently call some of the most peculiar remarks ever delivered by an American president. I know a lot about West Point, I’m a person who very strongly believes in academics. Every time I s...
He acceded to anyone who seemed to know more about any issue he didn’t care about,
Trump did not enjoy his own inauguration. He had hoped for a big blowout.
The dream, long differed, of the Trump pivot, might actually happen without
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.
Not only did Trump disregard the potential conflicts of his business deals and real estate holdings, he audaciously refused to release his tax returns. Why should he if he wasn’t going to win? What’s...