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| cb5d094 | Communication of this message required a coordinated effort. Each person's willingness to talk to Woodward was cross-checked against the willingness of several others to talk to him. This was part of Woodward's standard method of establishing a critical mass of inside sources: he created a kind of in-group, and this also suggested that if you failed to participate, you would not only lose your opportunity to be part of the in-group but lose.. | Michael Wolff | ||
| 1d33c5d | 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. | Michael Wolff | ||
| faa2920 | I can't say, 'I want to put a Protestant on the Court for better representation.' No, you can't say that. But I should be able to. You should be able to have the main religion in this country represented on the Supreme Court. | Michael Wolff | ||
| 2783c27 | Still, Sean Hannity had 5.8 million viewers on the night of the Blasey Ford-Kavanaugh hearing. "That's a lot of fucking hobbits," said Bannon." | Michael Wolff | ||
| 942ab36 | In 1996, his second wife, Marla Maples, was caught one night with a Trump bodyguard on the beach near Mar-a-Lago under the lifeguard stand. This, Bannon was aware, had been a primal blow for Trump. | Michael Wolff | ||
| 587212e | In front of the grand jury, prosecutors from the special counsel's office drilled down into the details of Trump's sexual behavior--where, how often, with whom, and of what nature. This was, speculated one witness who described Trump's "nefarious activities" in testimony, as much a way to bias the grand jury against Trump the lowlife as it was to help chart the relationships" | Michael Wolff | ||
| c8a8525 | Bill Burck, for instance, represented Don McGahn, Steve Bannon, and Reince Priebus. As a consequence, all three men could communicate under the seal of their lawyer's privilege. | Michael Wolff | ||
| 6705f46 | There were too many members of the House. He couldn't remember their names. He launched into dramatic eye-rolling when told where they were from. "Flyovers," he said. "Men's shop salesmen." | Michael Wolff | ||
| 4bf9e73 | McConnell's contempt for Trump was boundless. He was not just the stupidest president McConnell had ever dealt with, he was the stupidest person McConnell had ever met in politics--and that was saying something. He and his wife, Elaine Chao, the secretary of transportation, regularly mocked and mimicked Trump, a set piece they would perform for friends. | Michael Wolff | ||
| c78faea | Nunberg was also a go-to, often astute, and always available source for almost every reporter covering Trump. Certainly Nunberg could be counted on to provide a confirmation of every negative story about Trump. When Trump criticized the media, he was in many instances criticizing Sam Nunberg. | Michael Wolff | ||
| 0015136 | On February 14, William P. Barr was sworn in as attorney general. | Michael Wolff | ||
| ac473ae | I think of Maggie Haberman"--the New York Times reporter covering Trump--"the way I think of my grandmother," said Nunberg. "I always go running to her." | Michael Wolff | ||
| 19c249e | Whatever you could say by the spring of 2018 about the Trump White House, Jared had, for the most part, successfully navigated it--the only person, other than his wife, to have done so. And in the back channels of a world that he was counting on to play an essential role in securing his wealth, he had had a singular impact. | Michael Wolff | ||
| cd7e4ed | Most members of Mueller's staff were already planning their exits. The once collegial mood among the nineteen attorneys who had worked on the investigation had turned, at best, sullen. Two years of investigation and internal debate had reduced the special counsel's broad mandate to a prudent, carefully defined pair of issues. | Michael Wolff | ||
| b0badce | Weissmann had promised to see the investigation through to the end. But now, bitterly disappointed, he would tell friends, by how narrowly Mueller had come to focus the scope of the investigation, he wanted to stay not a moment longer. | Michael Wolff | ||
| 5c05bf0 | Pecker was often mocked by Trump as "Little Pecker," and his mustache was the target of derisive and obscene remarks. (Curiously, Pecker bore a resemblance to Trump's father, who also wore a mustache.)" -- | Michael Wolff | ||
| 60880cb | Crazy was a potent enemy against the establishment, but how to predict what a crazy man will do? | Michael Wolff | ||
| d6367f4 | The fact that he had stayed out of jail showed, impressively for many, how easily the system could be played. Seen from this point of view, he really might be a genius. | Michael Wolff | ||
| b21d542 | 33,000 emails she deemed "personal" remained unaccounted for. Bannon, along with many other Republicans, suspected that in this cache of emails was a clear road map of how Bill and Hillary were funding the Clinton Foundation, trading, they suspected, on her position in the Obama administration for cash contributions." | Michael Wolff | ||
| 62a0cb0 | He had no ability to distinguish the important from the less important. There seemed to be no such thing as objective reality. | Michael Wolff | ||
| cb94294 | Immigration was not just Trumpism's sine qua non, it was the fundamental intellectual pillar that any dope could understand. | Michael Wolff | ||
| 4f4b155 | Trump did not want a White House that ran by any method other than to satisfy his desires. | Michael Wolff | ||
| 458f58b | Trump's need for constant affirmation and his almost complete inability to talk about anything but himself. | Michael Wolff | ||
| d1feba2 | An overriding characteristic of the Trump presidency was the fact that almost all conflicts became personalized. | Michael Wolff | ||
| 1e32599 | television host directing the president to do whatever might most compel a television audience--took the game a big step further. | Michael Wolff | ||
| 21478ab | Acting, in his view, was the greater and more important legal skill. | Michael Wolff | ||
| 046295d | the Trump bubble. Trump was incapable of admitting vulnerability--any at all. | Michael Wolff | ||
| 65cf428 | Trump demanded subservience, but when he got it he was suspicious of the person providing it. | Michael Wolff | ||
| f57dfb2 | Confused to find that the power of the presidency had limitations, he came to see the limitations as his own | Michael Wolff | ||
| adc8076 | The mantra was simple: if there was no Wall, there was no Trump. Stopping immigration was the Trump story. | Michael Wolff | ||
| 0dfffa9 | better understand the rules: they worked for Donald Trump, not for the president of the United States. | Michael Wolff | ||
| 2e8a297 | He believed he could spook the other side. | Michael Wolff | ||
| 91953d2 | Sooner or later, Trump felt contempt for anyone who showed him too much devotion. | Michael Wolff | ||
| fae26ab | Jay Sekulow then turned the points raised by the special counsel into a list of specific questions--and then leaked them, as though these were in fact the special counsel's questions | Michael Wolff | ||
| 7e9a10b | Trump needed to surround himself with the dysfunctional and the inept, because he was dysfunctional and inept. | Michael Wolff | ||
| 034bbca | the Khashoggi debacle provided yet another example of the bizarre and inexplicable relationships that Trump and his family had formed with bad guys around the world, | Michael Wolff | ||
| 05cffe7 | 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. | Michael Wolff | ||
| 7840746 | Lopez Obrador, a left-wing populist poised to challenge Trump, the right-wing populist. | Michael Wolff | ||
| 6cebc90 | Trump pardons were less judicial corrections or acts of forbearance and kindness than statements of defiance. | Michael Wolff | ||
| 67df8bb | They weren't operatives, they were believers, which is what Trump wanted them to be. | Michael Wolff | ||
| f8f8ef7 | The more acute the stress, the more active the leakers, the bigger the story. | Michael Wolff | ||
| 84e8509 | resisters, working in the Trump White House, who had come to see themselves as patriots protecting the country from the president they worked for. | Michael Wolff | ||
| 2eb0b86 | Real estate was the world's favorite money-laundering currency, | Michael Wolff | ||
| 8644f23 | Trump as the man nearly everyone knew him to be: erratic, unfocused, impetuous, likely not of sound mind. | Michael Wolff |