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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| ad38a20 | Bannon, Conway, and Hicks--along with an assortment of more or less peculiar ideologues that had attached themselves to Trump and, of course, his family, all people without clearly monetizable reputations before their association with Trump--were, for better or worse, hitched to him. | Michael Wolff | ||
| d95ce60 | But most of the leaks, certainly the juiciest ones, were coming from the higher-ups--not to mention from the person occupying the topmost echelon. | Michael Wolff | ||
| f92e7b7 | He's not only crazy," declared Tom Barrack to a friend, "he's stupid." | Michael Wolff | ||
| 72e2d35 | Here's the deal," a close Trump associate told Priebus. "In an hour meeting with him you're going to hear fifty-four minutes of stories and they're going to be the same stories over and over again. So you have to have one point to make and you have to pepper it in whenever you can." | Michael Wolff | ||
| 2ea5a60 | The DOJ," the president's source told him, "was filled with women who hated him." | Michael Wolff | ||
| a3f6aa1 | Kushner saw the chance to convert the issue of the wall into a bilateral agreement addressing immigration-- | Michael Wolff | ||
| d89b2bd | Sean Spicer, whose job was literally to explain what people did and why, often simply could not--because nobody really had a job, because nobody could do a job. | Michael Wolff | ||
| f914148 | In Trump's 2011 CPAC address he specifically calls for a relaxation of immigration restrictions for Europeans . . . that we should re-create an America that was far more stable and more beautiful. . . . No other conservative politician would say those things . . . but on the other hand pretty much everyone thought it . . . so it's powerful to say it. . . . Clearly [there's] a normalization process going on. | Michael Wolff | ||
| 46b6c40 | National Policy Institute, which is sometimes described as a "white supremacist think tank," | Michael Wolff | ||
| 7207bbf | In an age when all successful political candidates are surrounded by, if not at the beck and call of, difficult, even sociopathic, rich people pushing the bounds of their own power--and the richer they were, the more difficult, sociopathic, and power-mad they might be--Bob and Rebekah Mercer were quite onto themselves. If Trump's ascent | Michael Wolff | ||
| efe2faa | and the almost samizdat sharing, or gobsmacked retelling, of otherwise private and deep-background conversations | Michael Wolff | ||
| c834781 | 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 or her. | Michael Wolff | ||
| c89ecdb | Donald Trump believed he had vastly more power, authority, and control than in fact he had, and he believed his talent for manipulating people and bending and dominating them was vastly greater than it was. Pushing this line of reasoning just a little further: senior staff believed the president had a problem with reality, and reality was now overwhelming him. | Michael Wolff | ||
| 312c89a | 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 program. The more your supporters loved you, the more your antagonists hated you. That's how it was supposed to work. And that's how it was working. | Michael Wolff | ||
| 2f1be8c | Bannon was curiously able to embrace Trump while at the same time suggesting he did not take him entirely seriously. He had first met Trump, the on-again off-again presidential candidate, in 2010; at a meeting in Trump Tower, Bannon had proposed to Trump that he spend half a million dollars backing Tea Party-style candidates as a way to further his presidential ambitions. | Michael Wolff | ||
| 4102a54 | The index that appeared in the print version of this title does not match the pages in your e-book. Please use the search function on your e-reading device to search for terms of interest. For your reference, the terms that appear in the print index are listed below. | Michael Wolff | ||
| 47248b8 | The dream, long differed, of the Trump pivot, might actually happen without | Michael Wolff | ||
| 18624d6 | Bannon had promised to come to this small dinner arranged by mutual friends in a Greenwich Village town house to see Roger Ailes, | Michael Wolff | ||
| ca9b813 | masher. | Michael Wolff | ||
| cb4cf07 | Much of the president's daily conversation was a repetitive rundown of what various anchors and hosts had said about him. | Michael Wolff | ||
| b321fb8 | If Ryan could be counted on to handle Congress, thought the president, well, phew, that takes care of that. | Michael Wolff | ||
| 3e0cd8d | One of Jared Kushner's many new patrons was Tony Blair, the former British prime minister, whom Kushner had gotten to know when, on the banks of the River Jordan in 2010, they both attended the baptism of Grace and Chloe Murdoch, the young daughters of Rupert Murdoch and his then wife, Wendi. | Michael Wolff | ||
| a209188 | But now there seemed to be a new understanding: Donald Trump believed he had vastly more power, authority, and control than in fact he had, and he believed his talent for manipulating people and bending and dominating them was vastly greater than it was. Pushing this line of reasoning just a little further: senior staff believed the president had a problem with reality, and reality was now overwhelming him. | Michael Wolff | ||
| 1e3f22d | But now, the new president-elect--after the most astonishing upset in American history--was on tenterhooks waiting for Murdoch. | Michael Wolff | ||
| b3b9fde | fundamental Bannonism: stop thinking you can somehow get along with your enemies. | Michael Wolff | ||
| 2598d8c | he acceded to anyone who seemed to know more about any issue he didn't care about, | Michael Wolff | ||
| 7777a86 | On March 27, the Office of American Innovation was created and Kushner was put in charge. Its stated mission was to reduce federal bureaucracy--that is, to reduce it by creating more of it, a committee to end committees. | Michael Wolff | ||
| 4c99a3f | Theory 4: But then there was the those-that-know-him-best theory, some version of which most Trumpers would come to embrace. He was just star-fucking. | Michael Wolff | ||
| 7c8724f | Trump is less a person than a collection of terrible traits. | Michael Wolff | ||
| 0952cd8 | It's worse than you can imagine. An idiot surrounded by clowns. | Michael Wolff | ||
| aecb4b5 | Trump's wounded feelings--his sense of being shunned and unloved on the very day he became president--helped send that message. When he came off the podium after delivering his address, he kept repeating, "Nobody will forget this speech." George W. Bush, on the dais, supplied what seemed likely to become the historic footnote to the Trump address: "That's some weird shit." | Michael Wolff | ||
| 2853e22 | Like the entire Saudi leadership, MBS had, practically speaking, no education. | Michael Wolff | ||
| cb24be9 | Nobody now believed that firing Comey was a good idea; | Michael Wolff | ||
| d9026b3 | In an age when all successful political candidates are surrounded by, if not at the beck and call of, difficult, even sociopathic, rich people pushing the bounds of their own power--and the richer they were, the more difficult, sociopathic, and power-mad they might be-- | Michael Wolff | ||
| 30c6899 | the three men working hardest to maneuver the president--Bannon, Kushner, and Priebus. | Michael Wolff | ||
| 5dfd6b4 | the week of July 24 was a head-slammer. First, it opened the next episode in what had become a comic-opera | Michael Wolff | ||
| 47f97c3 | He clearly did not understand that what conservative media elevated, liberal media would necessarily take down. | Michael Wolff | ||
| 9cc942e | Hicks, sponsored by Ivanka and ever loyal to her, was in fact thought of as Trump's real daughter, while Ivanka was thought of as his real wife. More functionally, but as elementally, Hicks was the president's chief media handler. She worked by the president's side, wholly separate from the White House's forty-person-strong communications office. The president's personal message and image were entrusted to her--or, more accurately, she was .. | Michael Wolff | ||
| cb7c7d7 | Insecurity was soothed by entitlement. | Michael Wolff | ||
| 5c59854 | 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. | Michael Wolff | ||
| 7721554 | China is where Nazi Germany was in 1929 to 1930. The Chinese, like the Germans, are the most rational people in the world, until they're not. And they're gonna flip like Germany in the thirties. You're going to have a hypernationalist state, and once that happens you can't put the genie back in the bottle. | Michael Wolff | ||
| 5c67f2a | Although the Republicans in the 2018 congressional races were looking, according to Bannon's numbers, at a 15-point deficit, it was Bannon's belief that the more extreme the right-wing challenge appeared, the more likely the Democrats would field left-wing nutters even less electable than right-wing nutters. | Michael Wolff | ||
| d52d9a4 | Bannon learned about the piece when fact-checkers from the magazine called him for comment about Scaramucci's accusation that he sucked his own cock.) | Michael Wolff | ||
| 8516471 | the president's views of foreign policy and the world at large were among its most random, uninformed, and seemingly capricious aspects. | Michael Wolff |