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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 these dinners, but within a few months, they had become a torturous duty to be avoided.) Part of Jared and Ivanka's calculation about the relative power and influence of a formal job in the West Wing versus an outside advisory role was the knowledge that influencing Trump required you to be all in. From phone call to phone call--and his day, beyond organized meetings, was almost entirely phone calls--you could lose him. The subtleties here were immense, because while he was often most influenced