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Michael Wolff _ Siege: Trump Under Fire
The inside joke became-echoing Karl Rove as Bush's brain and later Steve Bannon as Trump's brain-that now it was Sean Hannity who had become Trump's resident genius. Trump had ended up with someone even stupider than he was. Yet this was fitting, because Trump deeply resented the implication that he ever needed to depend on someone else's acumen or intelligence-or, really, that there could possibly be anyone who was smarter than he was. But with Hannity as his sidekick, he could feel quite certain that no one would think he was relying on someone smarter. {This, in fact, was a frequent internal debate: Who was stupider, Trump or Hannity?}
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Michael Wolff _ Siege: Trump Under Fire
Trump could only be part of an organization that attended to him with unalloyed devotion; he could not really imagine another type. He insisted that the White House operate more like the Trump Organization, an enterprise dedicated to his satisfaction and committed to following and covering for his peripatetic and impulsive interests. Trump's management practices were entirely self-centered, not task-oriented or organizationally based. An outward focus, or focus of any sort, was not his concern or his method. Barring a grievance that might strike him in the night, Trump arrived late to the office and then on most days enjoyed a lineup of staged meetings with a person or group in the Oval Office or Roosevelt Room, the purpose of which was to praise, congratulate, and distract him.
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Michael Wolff _ Siege: Trump Under Fire
He had little doubt that Trump was guilty of most of what he was accused of. "How did he get the dough for the primary and then for the general with his 'liquidity' issues?" asked Bannon with his hands out and his eyebrows up. "Let's not dwell.
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Michael Wolff _ Siege: Trump Under Fire
For Trump and his most dedicated confederates there was only one truly reliable issue: illegal immigration. In Trump's short political history, the issue had never failed to inspire and activate core voters."
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Michael Wolff _ Siege: Trump Under Fire
The Kushner family's desperate need for cash was turning U.S. foreign policy into an investment banking scheme dedicated to the refinancing of the Kushner family debt.
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Michael Wolff _ Siege: Trump Under Fire
Trump certainly ran his business as though it were a criminal enterprise.
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Michael Wolff _ Siege: Trump Under Fire
He defended himself by ridiculing others.
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Michael Wolff _ Siege: Trump Under Fire
Trump saw the world through the filter of other people's weaknesses.
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Michael Wolff _ Siege: Trump Under Fire
People who had the money to bribe, who fundamentally believed that anyone could be bribed, and who had outsize influence on the legal structures that might otherwise restrict bribery, had become major foreign policy players in key parts of the world.
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Michael Wolff _ Siege: Trump Under Fire
son. The aide went on giddily talking about the special bond golfing dads have with their sons until it was clear that he was getting the Trump freeze-an ability to pretend you didn't exist while at the same time intimating that he might kill you if you did. By contrast, Melania's singular focus was her son. Together, mother and son occupied a bubble inside the Trump bubble. She assiduously protected Barron from his father's remoteness. Ever cold-shouldered by Trump's adult children, Melania
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Michael Wolff _ Siege: Trump Under Fire
To have worked anywhere near him is to be confronted with the most extreme and disorienting behavior possible. That is hardly an overstatement. Not only is Trump not like other presidents, he is not like anyone most of us have ever known.
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Michael Wolff _ Siege: Trump Under Fire
Fooling some of the people all of the time defined Trump's hard-core base.
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