The dream, long differed, of the Trump pivot, might actually happen without
Is Donald Trump an intellectual? Trust me, I’m like a smart person.
He had little to no experience in foreign policy, but he had no respect for the experts,
They were all concerned that Trump did not understand what he was up against. That there was simply not enough method to his madness.
Walsh, sitting within sight of the Oval Office, was located at something like the ground zero of the information flow between the president and his staff. As Trump’s primary scheduler, her job was to...
Trump added another tic, a lifelong sense that people were constantly taking unfair advantage of him.
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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...
It was a badly kept secret in foreign policy circles that Mohammed bin Salman—MBS—had a cocaine problem and could disappear for days or longer on benders, or on long and frightening (at least for othe...
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.
Bannon had promised to come to this small dinner arranged by mutual friends in a Greenwich Village town house to see Roger Ailes,
Bannon invariably found some reason to study papers in the corner and then to have a last word; Priebus kept his eye on Bannon; Kushner kept constant tabs on the whereabouts of the others.
Most especially, he was miserable because of Donald Trump, whose cruelties, always great even when they were casual, were unbearable when he truly turned against you.
Being a Trump staffer had become an existential predicament: even if you wanted to get out, and almost all of them did, there was nowhere to go.
Elevated, liberal media would necessarily take down. Trump, goaded by Bannon, would continue to do the things that would delight conservative media and incur the wrath of liberal media. That was the p...
He was a clown-prince version of Jimmy Stewart in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. Trump believed, offering catnip to deep American ire and resentment, that one man could be bigger than the system.
The first woman president, Ivanka entertained, would not be Hillary Clinton, it would be Ivanka Trump.
Dopey Don Jr. (Fredo, as Steve Bannon would dub him, in one of his frequent Godfather borrowings) was simply trying to prove he was a player and a go-to guy.
Even before there was reason to suspect Sally Yates, they suspected her. The transition report said Trump wouldn’t like the fifty-six-year-old Atlanta-born University of Georgia career Justice Departm...
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...
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