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The president has zero psychological ability to recognize empathy or pity in any way.

In Bannon's evaluation, Trump was Archie Bunker, but a really focused Archie Bunker.

Barr paused and delivered his summary line: "They just think you're a fucking asshole." Trump did not seem taken aback or insulted.

I wish I could persuade you," Dowd said. "Don't testify. It's either that or an orange jump suit.

About $4 trillion, Trump said, even more—possibly $5 trillion. Cohn had a chart that showed it was $2.6 trillion.

Yeah," Trump told advisers, speaking about Giuliani, "he's crazy. He says crazy shit. I get it. But none of the sane lawyers can represent me because they've been pressured

And the fact is, I don't want him looking like an idiot. And I'm not going to sit there and let him look like an idiot. And you publish that transcript, because everything leaks in Washington, and the guys overseas are going to say, I told you he was an idiot. I told you he was a goddamn dumbbell. What

The president maintained his upbeat rhetoric in the early weeks of the virus had been deliberate. "I wanted to always play it down," Trump told me, as I reported earlier in this book. "I still like playing it down, because I don't want to create a panic.

the deputy attorney general was the person who oversaw the FBI.

with Bannon that if the Trump campaign

Jon Meacham's 2018 book, The Soul of America.

The expression on Nixon's face signaled apprehension. He had a way of smiling with his mouth but not his eyes, Butterfield noticed.

Bannon believed Graham was the best deal maker for Republicans, but he was the establishment. Graham didn't like Bannon's nationalist agenda, telling him, "Bannon, that America First is bullshit. This is all bullshit

When my book comes out next year," I said, "this assessment will be such old news, it will not be news at all. It will be irrelevant." It is news now, I said.

GOP-pushed audit

interfere in the U.S. election

He was a great—so I understand that stuff. You know, genetically.

in to his office, no good luck, Alex

Graham said, I can get an affidavit tomorrow saying the world is flat.

Barr paused and delivered his summary line: "They just think you're a fucking asshole.

Do you know why Tillerson was able to say he didn't call the president a 'moron'?" McConnell would dryly ask colleagues in his Kentucky drawl. "Because he called him a 'fucking moron.

In one corner the piano tuner scattered arpeggios live handfuls of beads.

Don't let my soul be riddled / by deceit: kill it or, / like fog, it will seep through / a heap of white chaff.

Could it be that for a moment of too-broad sympathy he had enslaved himself forever?