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She deflected direct questions with the skill of a fencing champ, with little parries that left us still engaged but pointed a few degrees off center.

My wife gets pampered pretty well. She's had me trained since she was pregnant, when I started making her oatmeal with fresh berries every morning.

Hindu love? Is it by Rudyard Kipling?

Don't let him piss off the press, don't let him piss off the Republican Party, don't threaten congressmen because they will fuck you if you do, and most of all don't let him piss off the intel community," said one national Republican figure to Kushner. "If you fuck with the intel community they will figure out a way to get back at you and you'll have two or three years of a Russian investigation, and every day something else will leak out.

Ailes had a suggestion: "Speaker Boehner." (John Boehner had been the Speaker of the House until he was forced out in a Tea Party putsch in 2011.) "Who's that?" asked Trump.

fact-checkers from the magazine called him for comment about Scaramucci's accusation that he sucked his own cock.)

The Trump campaign had, perhaps less than inadvertently, replicated the scheme from Mel Brooks's The Producers.

Bannon was making his first official pubic appearance of the Trump presidency,

He was the ultimate antiliberal: an authoritarian who was the living embodiment of resistance to authority.

It's just a conspiracy theory." And, he added, the Trump team wasn't capable of conspiring about anything.

But if Halberstam defined the presidential mien, Trump defied it—and defiled it.

purpose of actually changing the country. Changing it quickly, radically, and truly.

If I told Trump that, he might have the job.

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.

Crazy was a potent enemy against the establishment, but how to predict what a crazy man will do?

The first woman president, Ivanka entertained, would not be Hillary Clinton, it would be Ivanka Trump.

He had no interest in precision, or even any ability to be precise.

the political antichrist, a figure of dark but buffoonish scandal,

his view, that he should say nothing—it was not his fault or responsibility, and he certainly didn't want to give a speech that might imply it was;

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.

On February 14, William P. Barr was sworn in as attorney general.

Donald Trump, whose cruelties, always great even when they were casual, were unbearable when he truly turned against you.

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

what if it was precisely the absence of intent and, instead, the swings of irrationality and mania that managed, even as his government collapsed, to hold so many people in thrall?