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The DOJ," the president's source told him, "was filled with women who hated him.

and the almost samizdat sharing, or gobsmacked retelling, of otherwise private and deep-background conversations

based on conversations that took place over a period of eighteen months with the president,

the president's views of foreign policy and the world at large were among its most random, uninformed, and seemingly capricious aspects.

that looseness with the truth, if not with reality itself, are an elemental thread of the book.

hurry. * * * Bannon had delved deeply into the nature

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Many of the accounts of what has happened in the Trump White House are in conflict with one another; many, in Trumpian fashion, are baldly untrue.

Trump, a man whose many neuroses included a horror of forgetfulness or senility,

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.

he thought emotionally, not strategically.

His sons, Don Jr. and Eric—jokingly behind their backs known to Trump insiders as Uday and Qusay, after the sons of Saddam Hussein—

Trump, said Bannon, noting the obvious, was the least disciplined man in politics.

Other than Trump himself, Bannon was certainly the oldest inexperienced person ever to work in the White House.

Trump was the one variable that, in management terms, simply could not be controlled. He was like a recalcitrant two-year-old. If you tried to control him, it would only have the opposite effect.

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

The leaking culture had become so open and overt—most of the time everybody could identify everybody else's leaks—that it was now formally staffed.

He is not didactic, like Sidney or Jonson. He doesn't tell you what he thinks, or what you should think, and he never preaches. Rather he sets up oppositions, multiple viewpoints, and then holds his mirror up to nature.

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The greatest enemy of the US government is the truth.

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

Rumor had it that he was homosexual; in reality, in recent years, he was simply a garden-variety alcoholic.

To love a book is, above all, to love its author: we want to meet him again, we want to spend our days with him.

Aggression often masks a desire to seduce – I'd read that in Boris Cyrulnik, and Boris Cyrulnik isn't fucking around.