Quotes from Maggie Haberman

Trump knew that he was being told something he did not fully comprehend, and instead of acknowledging that, he shouted down the teachers.

By autumn 2015, those who remained around Trump were rarely constraints on his behavior, and sometimes served to abet his worst instincts.

Trump was neither Jewish nor Swedish; Fred Trump, a first-generation American born to German parents, had developed the habit of telling people the family was Swedish because they had so many Jewish tenants and, after World War II, he did not want to repel them. Donald perpetuated the fiction for many years.