New York, the world’s largest Jewish city.
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...
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.
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...
For Trump and his most dedicated confederates there was only one truly reliable issue: illegal immigration. In Trump’s short political history, the issue had never failed to inspire and activate core...
Bannon was making his first official pubic appearance of the Trump presidency,
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...
A close Trump friend who was also a good Bill Clinton friend found them eerily similar—except that Clinton had a respectable front and Trump did not. One manifestation of this outlaw personality, for...
The world needs borders—or the world should return to a time when it had borders. When America was great. Trump had become the platform for that message.
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...
And even Trump treated him rather like a dog who kept creeping back into the house.
You might attach many superlatives to Vice—it may be the hottest, savviest, coolest, richest, Brooklyn-est new media company on the block (Vice, according to Smith, is now the biggest employer in Will...
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 is less a person than a collection of terrible traits.
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...
Trump didn’t read. He didn’t really even skim. If it was print, it might as well not exist. Some believed that for all practical purposes he was no more than semiliterate.
Trump demanded subservience, but when he got it he was suspicious of the person providing it.
Trump added another tic, a lifelong sense that people were constantly taking unfair advantage of him.
This intelligence, it was rumored, consisted of spreadsheets kept by Susan Rice that listed the Trump team’s Russian contacts; borrowing a technique from WikiLeaks, the documents were secreted on a do...
Theory 5: The Russians, holding damaging information about Trump, were blackmailing him. He was a Manchurian Candidate.