In a career of trying to pry secrets, gossip, specificity and truth out of media executives, Ailes has been the most forthcoming,… — Michael Wolff Career Copy Share Image
“Trump liked to portray his business as an empire, it was actually a discrete holding company and boutique enterprise, catering more to… — Michael Wolff Bottom line Copy Share Image
“In politics somebody has to lose, but invariably everybody thinks they can win. And you probably can’t win unless you believe that… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“His departure would return the Trump organization to pure family control—the family and its functionaries, without an internal rival for brand meaning… — Michael Wolff Family Copy Share Image
“On March 27, the Office of American Innovation was created and Kushner was put in charge. Its stated mission was to reduce… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Bypassing lawyers, regulators, and the agencies and personnel responsible for enforcing it, President Trump—with Bannon’s low, intense voice behind him, offering a… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“China is where Nazi Germany was in 1929 to 1930. The Chinese, like the Germans, are the most rational people in the… — Michael Wolff China Copy Share Image
As the entertainment industry became more corporate and MBA-driven, Harvey Weinstein remained an unreconstructed specimen of the worst and most compelling character… — Michael Wolff Character Copy Share Image
“virtually the entire senior staff and cabinet of the Trump presidency, past and present, had traveled through the stages of adventure, challenge,… — Michael Wolff Adventure Copy Share Image
“It was an operatic unraveling. So mortifying was this development that when Reince Priebus, the RNC head, was called to New York… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Of the many Trump gashes in modern major-power governing, you could certainly drive a Trojan horse through his lack of foreign policy… — Michael Wolff Foreign policy Copy Share Image
“Trump did not enjoy his own inauguration. He had hoped for a big blowout. Tom Barrack, the would-be showman—in addition to Michael… — Michael Wolff Chief of staff Copy Share Image
“Kushner’s preferred outlet was Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski’s Morning Joe, one of the president’s certain morning shows. Bannon’s first port of… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Just doing things became a Bannon principle, the sweeping antidote to bureaucratic and establishment ennui and resistance. It was the chaos of… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“The Trump campaign had, perhaps less than inadvertently, replicated the scheme from Mel Brooks’s The Producers. In that classic, Brooks’s larcenous and… — Michael Wolff Broadway show Copy Share Image
“It’s worse than you can imagine. An idiot surrounded by clowns. Trump won’t read anything—not one-page memos, not the brief policy papers;… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Finally, it was the right-wing diva and Trump supporter Ann Coulter who took the president-elect aside and said, “Nobody is apparently telling… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Anyone studying the position would conclude that a stronger chief of staff is better than a weaker one, and a chief of… — Michael Wolff Chief of staff Copy Share Image
Along with Trump, there are few people, on either the right or the left, who would defend the system. The system is,… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“In an age when all successful political candidates are surrounded by, if not at the beck and call of, difficult, even sociopathic,… — Michael Wolff Politics Copy Share Image
“He was a clown-prince version of Jimmy Stewart in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. Trump believed, offering catnip to deep American ire… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Trump craved media approval. But, as Bannon emphasized, he was never going to get the facts right, nor was he ever going… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“And that evening, the president traveled to West Virginia to deliver a speech before the Boy Scouts of America. Once more, his… — Michael Wolff Boy scout Copy Share Image
I have known Boris Johnson since 2004. I wrote the first big profile about him in the American press. I've been edited… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“As Walsh saw it, Steve Bannon was running the Steve Bannon White House, Jared Kushner was running the Michael Bloomberg White House,… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
One of the secrets of Fox News' outsized success - it's the most profitable news organisation in the U.S. and, quite likely,… — Michael Wolff Fox Copy Share Image
“success of the speech confirmed the Jared and Ivanka strategy: look for common ground. It also confirmed Ivanka’s understanding of her father:… — Michael Wolff Common ground Copy Share Image
“A pro wrestling fan who became a World Wrestling Entertainment supporter and personality (inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame), Trump lived,… — Michael Wolff Fictional character Copy Share Image
“He had no ability to plan and organize and pay attention and switch focus; he had never been able to tailor his… — Michael Wolff Ability Copy Share Image
“Among Trump’s first moves as president was to have a series of inspirational photographs in the West Wing replaced with images of… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“The index that appeared in the print version of this title does not match the pages in your e-book. Please use the… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Hence, she and everyone else was translating a set of desires and urges into a program, a process that required a lot… — Michael Wolff Desire Copy Share Image
“It was nearly incomprehensible to him that the same people—that is, the media—who had violently criticized him for saying he might dispute… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“(Many of Trump’s positions in the campaign were taken from the Breitbart articles he had printed out for him.) Indeed, Bannon began… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“It was the first presidential instance of what the campaign regulars had learned over many months: on the most basic level, Trump… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“The unspoken agreement among them: not only would Donald Trump not be president, he should probably not be. Conveniently, the former conviction… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“most of the leaks, certainly the juiciest ones, were coming from the higher-ups—not to mention from the person occupying the topmost echelon.… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“If the media, self-righteously, saw it as the Holy Grail and silver bullet of Trump destruction, and the Trump White House saw… — Michael Wolff Holy grail Copy Share Image
“military figures like James Mattis, H. R. McMaster, and John Kelly: they found themselves working in an administration that was in every… — Michael Wolff Management Copy Share Image
“One of Jared Kushner’s many new patrons was Tony Blair, the former British prime minister, whom Kushner had gotten to know when,… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
