“It’s just a conspiracy theory.” And, he added, the Trump team wasn’t capable of conspiring about anything.” — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“The dream, long differed, of the Trump pivot, might actually happen without” — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Trump, said Bannon, noting the obvious, was the least disciplined man in politics.” — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
Politics is ultimately not that complicated a profession; it's where the mediocre distinguish themselves. — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Then there was Bannon, conducting something of an alternate-universe operation,” — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
One point about understanding Donald Trump is that he is always representing something which has only a casual connection to what he… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“fact-checkers from the magazine called him for comment about Scaramucci’s accusation that he sucked his own cock.)” — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Jared and Ivanka had made an earnest deal between themselves: if sometime in the future the time came, she’d be the one… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Much of the president’s daily conversation was a repetitive rundown of what various anchors and hosts had said about him.” — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“The kids”—Jared and Ivanka—exhibited an increasingly panicked sense that the FBI and DOJ were moving beyond Russian election interference and into family… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Few people who knew Trump had illusions about him. That was almost his appeal: he was what he was. Twinkle in his… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“After months of defending Bannon against liberal media innuendo, Kushner had concluded that Bannon was an anti-Semite. That was the bottom-line issue.” — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Trump just did not, as Spicer later put it, give a fuck. You could tell him whatever you wanted, but he knew… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“In early February, an Obama administration lawyer friendly with Sally Yates remarked with some relish and considerable accuracy: “It certainly is an… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Why did we do this on a Friday when it would hit the airports hardest and bring out the most protesters? almost… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
Curiously, many Democrats have acceded to Clintonism not because of their cold practicality and political professionalism, but because the Clintons are the… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
The most important virtue in politics was once thought to be likeability. But in Corbyn, dislikeable was king. Actually, dislikeability reached its… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“But Thiel, who gave a speech supporting Trump at the Republican Convention in Cleveland, reported back that, even having been forewarned, he… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“In Trump’s 2011 CPAC address he specifically calls for a relaxation of immigration restrictions for Europeans . . . that we should… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
Donald Trump has been both a peculiar and characteristic American figure for more than three decades. Inheriting a small New York real-estate… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Trump, in a smart move, picked up his media reputation and relocated it from a hypercritical New York to a more value-free… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Donald Trump’s marriage was perplexing to almost everybody around him—or it was, anyway, for those without private jets and many homes. He… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“On December 14, a high-level delegation from Silicon Valley came to Trump Tower to meet the president-elect, though Trump had repeatedly criticized… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“PayPal cofounder and Facebook board member Peter Thiel—really the only significant Silicon Valley voice to support Trump—was warned by another billionaire and… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“This—insulting Donald Trump’s intelligence—was both the thing you could not do and the thing—drawing there-but-for-the-grace-of-God guffaws across the senior staff—that everybody was… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Bannon, who styled himself as a kind of black hole of silence, had also become a sort of official black-hole voice, everybody’s… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Indeed, the protesters who believed they were seeing the company’s relationship with Trump in political terms were actually seeing this in conventional… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Conway, who continued to hold the president’s favor and to be his preferred defender on the cable news shows, had publicly declared… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“But most of the leaks, certainly the juiciest ones, were coming from the higher-ups—not to mention from the person occupying the topmost… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“this was the fundamental hypothesis of the senior staff, shared by Walsh and everyone else: Trump must know what he was doing,… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
The most characteristic aspects of the Clintons, a political couple who might otherwise largely see themselves as practical-minded centrist consensus builders, is,… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“To Walsh, the proud political pro, the chaos, the rivalries, and the president’s own lack of focus and lack of concern were… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“In business meetings, observers would be nonplussed that Charlie and Jared Kushner invariably greeted each other with a kiss and that the… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Kushner was the driver of the Trump doctrine. His test cases were China, Mexico, Canada, and Saudi Arabia. He offered each country… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“By the second week of the Trump presidency, everybody in the White House seemed to be maintaining their own list of likely… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
Trump's election was dispiriting and confounding to most traditional political players - perhaps nobody more so than Murdoch. Still, Murdoch did what… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
Many of the accounts of what has happened in the Trump White House are in conflict with one another; many, in Trumpian… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“It certainly is an odd circumstance if you live your life without regard for being elected and then get elected—and quite an… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Time spent with Trump on the campaign plane was often an epic dissing experience: everybody around him was an idiot.” — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Kushner became the representative in the White House of the liberal status quo. He was something like what used to be called… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
Donald Trump doesn't necessarily stay mad for very long. He's a transactional guy. If you can offer him something, he will take it. Or… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“it confirmed Bannon’s worst fear: Trump, in his true heart, was a marshmallow.” — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“An important aspect of Kaplan’s New York Observer and its self-conscious inside media baseball was that the paper became the prime school for a… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“The candidate who billed himself as a billionaire—ten times over—refused even to invest his own money in it.” — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
If institutions don't grow, they... well, I don't know what happens to them, because they always grow. I suppose the point is that we… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Even though Trump liked to portray his business as an empire, it was actually a discrete holding company and boutique enterprise,” — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“the organizational premise of the Trump White House: the family would always prevail.” — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Trump, who referred to the Chinese leader as “Mr. X-i”; the president was told to think of him as a woman and call him… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Donald Trump, even more than his father, was perceived as a vulgarian—after all, he put his name on his buildings, quite a déclassé thing… — 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 search function… — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
“Trump liked to say that one of the things that made life worth living was getting your friends’ wives into bed.” — Michael Wolff Copy Share Image
