For Bannon, the Strange-Moore race had been a test of the Trump cult of personality.
Certainly Trump continued to believe that people were following him, that he was the movement
—and that his support was worth 8 to 10 points in any race. Bannon had decided to test this
thesis and to do it as dramatically as possible. All told, the Senate Republican leadership and
others spent $32 million on Strange’s campaign, while Moore’s campaign spent $2 million.
Trump, though aware of Strange’s deep polling deficit, had agreed to extend his support in a
personal trip. But his appearance in Huntsville, Alabama, on September 22, before a Trump-size
crowd, was a political flatliner. It was a full-on Trump speech, ninety minutes of rambling and
improvisation—the wall would be built (now it was a see-through wall), Russian interference in
the U.S. election was a hoax, he would fire anybody on his cabinet who supported Moore. But,
while his base turned out en masse, still drawn to Trump the novelty, his cheerleading for Luther
Strange drew at best a muted response. As the crowd became restless, the event threatened to
become a hopeless embarrassment.
Reading his audience and desperate to find a way out, Trump suddenly threw out a line about
Colin Kaepernick taking to his knee while the national anthem played at a National Football
League game. The line got a standing ovation. The president thereupon promptly abandoned
Luther Strange for the rest of the speech. Likewise, for the next week he continued to whip the
NFL. Pay no attention to Strange’s resounding defeat five days after the event in Huntsville.
Ignore the size and scale of Trump’s rejection and the Moore-Bannon triumph, with its hint of
new disruptions to come. Now Trump had a new topic, and a winning one: the Knee.
* * *
The fundamental premise of nearly everybody who joined the Trump White House was, This can work. We can help make this work. Now, only three-quarters of the way through just the first year of Trump’s term, there was literally not one member of the senior staff who could any longer be confident of that premise. Arguably—and on many days indubitably—most members of the senior staff believed that the sole upside of being part of the Trump White House was to help prevent worse from happening.
In early October, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s fate was sealed—if his obvious
ambivalence toward the president had not already sealed it—by the revelation that he had called the president “a fucking moron.”
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 guilty of. Everyone, in his or her own way, struggled to express the baldly obvious fact that
the president did not know enough, did not know what he didn’t know, did not particularly care,
and, to boot, was confident if not serene in his unquestioned certitudes. There was now a fair
amount of back-of-the-classroom giggling about who had called Trump what. For Steve
Mnuchin and Reince Priebus, he was an “idiot.” For Gary Cohn, he was “dumb as shit.” For H.
- McMaster he was a “dope.” The list went on.
Tillerson would merely become yet another example of a subordinate who believed that his own abilities could somehow compensate for Trump’s failings.
Aligned with Tillerson were the three generals, Mattis, McMasters, and Kelly, each seeing
themselves as representing maturity, stability, and restraint. And each, of course, was resented by
Trump for it. The suggestion that any or all of these men might be more focused and even
tempered than Trump himself was cause for sulking and tantrums on the president’s part.
The daily discussion among senior staffers, those still there and those now gone—all of whom
had written off Tillerson’s future in the Trump administration—was how long General Kelly
would last as chief of staff. There was something of a virtual office pool, and the joke was that
Reince Priebus was likely to be Trump’s longest-serving chief of staff. Kelly’s distaste for the
president was open knowledge—in his every word and gesture he condescended to Trump—the
president’s distaste for Kelly even more so. It was sport for the president to defy Kelly, who had
become the one thing in his life he had never been able to abide: a disapproving and censorious
father figure.
* * *
There really were no illusions at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Kelly’s long-suffering antipathy
toward the president was rivaled only by his scorn for the president’s family—“Kushner,” he
pronounced, was “insubordinate.” Cohn’s derisive contempt for Kushner as well as the president
was even greater. In return, the president heaped more abuse on Cohn—the former president of
Goldman Sachs was now a “complete idiot, dumber than dumb.” In fact, the president had also
stopped defending his own family, wondering when they would “take the hint and go home.”
But, of course, this was still politics: those who could overcome shame or disbelief—and, despite all Trumpian coarseness and absurdity, suck up to him and humor him—might achieve unique political advantage. As it happened, few could.
By October, however, many on the president’s staff took particular notice of one of the few remaining Trump opportunists: Nikki Haley, the UN ambassador. Haley—“as ambitious as Lucifer,” in the characterization of one member of the senior staff—had concluded that Trump’s tenure would last, at best, a single term, and that she, with requisite submission, could be his heir apparent. Haley had courted and befriended Ivanka, and Ivanka had brought her into the family circle, where she had become a particular focus of Trump’s attention, and he of hers. Haley, as had become increasingly evident to the wider foreign policy and national security team, was the family’s pick for secretary of state after Rex Tillerson’s inevitable resignation. (Likewise, in this shuffle, Dina Powell would replace Haley at the UN.)
The president had been spending a notable amount of private time with Haley on Air Force
One and was seen to be grooming her for a national political future. Haley, who was much more
of a traditional Republican, one with a pronounced moderate streak—a type increasingly known as a Jarvanka Republican—was, evident to many, being mentored in Trumpian ways. The danger here, offered one senior Trumper, “is that she is so much smarter than him.”
What now existed, even before the end of the president’s first year, was an effective power vacuum. The president, in his failure to move beyond daily chaos, had hardly seized the day. But, as sure as politics, someone would.
In that sense, the Trumpian and Republican future was already moving beyond this White House. There was Bannon, working from the outside and trying to take over the Trump movement. There was the Republican leadership in Congress, trying to stymie Trumpism—if not slay it. There was John McCain, doing his best to embarrass it. There was the special counsel’s office, pursuing the president and many of those around him.
The stakes were very clear to Bannon. Haley, quite an un-Trumpian figure, but by far the
closest of any of his cabinet members to him, might, with clever political wiles, entice Trump to
hand her the Trumpian revolution. Indeed, fearing Haley’s hold on the president, Bannon’s side
had—the very morning that Bannon had stood on the steps of the Breitbart town house in the
unseasonable October weather—gone into overdrive to push the CIA’s Mike Pompeo for State
after Tillerson’s departure.
This was all part of the next stage of Trumpism—to protect it from Trump.
* * *
General Kelly was conscientiously and grimly trying to purge the West Wing chaos. He had
begun by compartmentalizing the sources and nature of the chaos. The overriding source, of
course, was the president’s own eruptions, which Kelly could not control and had resigned
himself to accepting. As for the ancillary chaos, much of it had been calmed by the elimination
of Bannon, Priebus, Scaramucci, and Spicer, with the effect of making it quite a Jarvanka-
controlled West Wing.
Now, nine months in, the administration faced the additional problem that it was very hard to hire anyone of stature to replace the senior people who had departed. And the stature of those who remained seemed to be more diminutive by the week.
Hope Hicks, at twenty-eight, and Stephen Miller, at thirty-two, both of whom had begun as effective interns on the campaign, were now among the seniormost figures in the White House. Hicks had assumed command of the communications operation, and Miller had effectively replaced Bannon as the senior political strategist.
After the Scaramucci fiasco, and the realization that the position of communications director would be vastly harder to fill, Hicks was assigned the job as the “interim” director. She was given the interim title partly because it seemed implausible that she was qualified to run an already battered messaging operation, and partly because if she was given the permanent job everyone would assume that the president was effectively calling the daily shots. But by the middle of September, interim was quietly converted to permanent.
In the larger media and political world, Miller—who Bannon referred to as “my typist”—was
a figure of ever increasing incredulity. He could hardly be taken out in public without engaging
in some screwball, if not screeching, fit of denunciation and grievance. He was the de facto
crafter of policy and speeches, and yet up until now he had largely only taken dictation.
Most problematic of all, Hicks and Miller, along with everyone on the Jarvanka side, were
now directly connected to actions involved in the Russian investigation or efforts to spin it,
deflect it, or, indeed, cover it up. Miller and Hicks had drafted—or at least typed—Kushner’s
version of the first letter written at Bedminster to fire Comey. Hicks had joined with Kushner and his wife to draft on Air Force One the Trump-directed press release about Don Jr. and Kushner’s meeting with the Russians in Trump Tower.
In its way, this had become the defining issue for the White House staff: who had been in what inopportune room. And even beyond the general chaos, the constant legal danger formed part of the high barrier to getting people to come work in the West Wing.
Kushner and his wife—now largely regarded as a time bomb inside the White House—were
spending considerable time on their own defense and battling a sense of mounting paranoia, not
least about what members of the senior staff who had already exited the West Wing might now
say about them. Kushner, in the middle of October, would, curiously, add to his legal team
Charles Harder, the libel lawyer who had defended both Hulk Hogan in his libel suit against
Gawker, the Internet gossip site, and Melania Trump in her suit against the Daily Mail. The
implied threat to media and to critics was clear. Talk about Jared Kushner at your peril. It also
likely meant that Donald Trump was yet managing the White House’s legal defense, slotting in
his favorite “tough guy” lawyers.
Beyond Donald Trump’s own daily antics, here was the consuming issue of the White House: the ongoing investigation directed by Robert Mueller. The father, the daughter, the son-in-law, his father, the extended family exposure, the prosecutor, the retainers looking to save their own skins, the staffers who Trump had rewarded with the back of his hand—it all threatened, in Bannon’s view, to make Shakespeare look like Dr. Seuss.
Everyone waited for the dominoes to fall, and to see how the president, in his fury, might react and change the game again.
* * *
Steve Bannon was telling people he thought there was a 33.3 percent chance that the Mueller investigation would lead to the impeachment of the president, a 33.3 percent chance that Trump would resign, perhaps in the wake of a threat by the cabinet to act on the Twenty-Fifth Amendment (by which the cabinet can remove the president in the event of his incapacitation), and a 33.3 percent chance that he would limp to the end of his term. In any event, there would certainly not be a second term, or even an attempt at one.
“He’s not going to make it,” said Bannon at the Breitbart Embassy. “He’s lost his stuff.”
Less volubly, Bannon was telling people something else: he, Steve Bannon, was going to run
for president in 2020. The locution, “If I were president . . .” was turning into, “When I am
president . . .”
The top Trump donors from 2016 were in his camp, Bannon claimed: Sheldon Adelson, the
Mercers, Bernie Marcus, and Peter Thiel. In short order, and as though he had been preparing for
this move for some time, Bannon had left the White House and quickly thrown together a rump
campaign organization. The heretofore behind-the-scenes Bannon was methodically meeting
with every conservative leader in the country—doing his best, as he put it, to “kiss the ass and
pay homage to all the gray-beards.” And he was keynoting a list of must-attend conservative
events.
“Why is Steve speaking? I didn’t know he spoke,” the president remarked with puzzlement and rising worry to aides.
Trump had been upstaged in other ways as well. He had been scheduled for a major 60
Minutes interview in September, but this was abruptly canceled after Bannon’s 60 Minutes
interview with Charlie Rose on September 11. The president’s advisers felt he shouldn’t put
himself in a position where he would be compared with Bannon. The worry among staffers—all
of them concerned that Trump’s rambling and his alarming repetitions (the same sentences
delivered with the same expressions minutes apart) had significantly increased, and that his
ability to stay focused, never great, had notably declined—was that he was likely to suffer by
such a comparison. Instead, the interview with Trump was offered to Sean Hannity—with a
preview of the questions.
Bannon was also taking the Breitbart opposition research group—the same forensic accountant types who had put together the damning Clinton Cash revelations—and focusing it on what he characterized as the “political elites.” This was a catchall list of enemies that included as many Republicans as Democrats.
Most of all, Bannon was focused on fielding candidates for 2018. While the president had
repeatedly threatened to support primary challenges against his enemies, in the end, with his
aggressive head start, it was Bannon who would be leading these challenges. It was Bannon
spreading fear in the Republican Party, not Trump. Indeed, Bannon was willing to pick outré if
not whacky candidates—including former Staten Island congressman Michael Grimm, who had
done a stint in federal prison—to demonstrate, as he had demonstrated with Trump, the scale,
artfulness, and menace of Bannon-style politics. Although the Republicans in the 2018
congressional races were looking, according to Bannon’s numbers, at a 15-point deficit, it was
Bannon’s belief that the more extreme the right-wing challenge appeared, the more likely the
Democrats would field left-wing nutters even less electable than right-wing nutters. The
disruption had just begun.
Trump, in Bannon’s view, was a chapter, or even a detour, in the Trump revolution, which had always been about weaknesses in the two major parties. The Trump presidency—however long it lasted—had created the opening that would provide the true outsiders their opportunity. Trump was just the beginning.
Standing on the Breitbart steps that October morning, Bannon smiled and said: “It’s going to be wild as shit.”
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I am grateful to Janice Min and Matthew Belloni at the Hollywood Reporter, who, eighteen
months ago, got me up one morning to jump on a plane in New York and that evening interview
the unlikely candidate in Los Angeles. My publisher, Stephen Rubin, and editor, John Sterling, at
Henry Holt have not only generously supported this book but shepherded it with enthusiasm and
care on an almost daily basis. My agent, Andrew Wylie, made this book happen, as usual,
virtually overnight.
Michael Jackson at Two Cities TV, Peter Benedek at UTA, and my lawyers, Kevin Morris and Alex Kohner, have patiently pushed this project forward.
A libel reading can be like a visit to the dentist. But in my long experience, no libel lawyer is
more nuanced, sensitive, and strategic than Eric Rayman. Once again, almost a pleasure.
Many friends, colleagues, and generous people in the greater media and political world have
made this a smarter book, among them Mike Allen, Jonathan Swan, John Homans, Franklin
Foer, Jack Shafer, Tammy Haddad, Leela de Kretser, Stevan Keane, Matt Stone, Edward Jay
Epstein, Simon Dumenco, Tucker Carlson, Joe Scarborough, Piers Morgan, Juleanna Glover,
Niki Christoff, Dylan Jones, Michael Ledeen, Mike Murphy, Tim Miller, Larry McCarthy,
Benjamin Ginsberg, Al From, Kathy Ruemmler, Matthew Hiltzik, Lisa Dallos, Mike Rogers,
Joanna Coles, Steve Hilton, Michael Schrage, Matt Cooper, Jim Impoco, Michael Feldman, Scott
McConnell, and Mehreen Maluk.
My appreciation to fact-checkers Danit Lidor, Christina Goulding, and Joanne Gerber.
My greatest thanks to Victoria Floethe, for her support, patience, and insights, and for her good grace in letting this book take such a demanding place in our lives.
INDEX
Abbas, Mahmoud, 231, 299 Abe, Shinzō, 106
Abraham Lincoln, USS, 182
Abramovich, Roman, 80
Adelson, Sheldon, 6, 141-43, 178, 289, 309
Afghanistan, 42, 263-68, 275-76
Agalarov, Aras, 254
Agenda, The (Woodward), 116
Ailes, Beth, 1, 4, 223-24
Ailes, Roger, 1-8, 11, 24, 26, 57, 59-60, 147, 164, 178-79, 195-98, 210, 212, 222-23 Alabama, 301-3
Al Shayrat airfield strike, 193-94
alt-right, 59, 116, 121, 128-29, 137-38, 174, 180, 296 American Prospect, 297
Anbang Insurance Group, 211
anti-Semitism, 140-44, 296
Anton, Michael, 105-6, 185, 229
Apprentice, The (TV show), 30, 76, 92, 109, 200 Arif, Tevfik, 100
Armey, Dick, 81
Arthur Andersen, 278
Art of the Deal, The (Trump and Schwartz), 22 Assad, Bashar al-, 183, 190
Atlantic City, 30, 99, 210 Atwater, Lee, 57
Australia, 78
Ayers, Nick, 240
Azerbaijan, 254
Bahrain, 231
Baier, Bret, 159-60
Baker, James, 27, 34
Baker, Peter, 277
Bannon, Steve, 185, 209, 247
Afghanistan and, 263-68
agenda of, in White House, 115-21, 275-77 agenda of, post-firing, 301-10
alt-right and, 137-38
background of, 55-60
campaign and, 3, 12-13, 17-18, 55, 86, 112-13, 201 Charlottesville and, 294-96
China and, 7-8, 297
Cohn and, 144, 146, 186
Comey firing and, 169-70, 211-15, 217-18, 232-33, 245-46, 261 CPAC and, 126-34
eve of inauguration and, 4-10
first weeks of presidency and, 52-55, 60-65, 67-70 Flynn and, 95, 103, 106
immigration and, 61-65, 77, 113
inauguration and, 42-43, 148
influence of, 70, 85, 108-10, 188
isolationism of, 227
Israel and, 140-43
Ivanka and, 146-48, 186-87, 211, 218-19, 221, 257
Jarvanka vs., 140, 174-82, 235-39, 243, 257, 261-62, 272, 274, 277, 280-81, 289-91 Kelly and, 287-91, 294-97
Kushner and, 69-70, 72, 77, 87, 110, 132, 134, 140-48 Kuttner call and firing of, 297-300, 307
media and, 38, 90-91, 93, 195-97, 206-9, 222 NSC and, 103, 176, 190-92
Obamacare and, 165-67, 170-72, 175
Paris Climate Accord and, 238-39
Pence and, 124
Priebus and, 33-34, 110
role of, in early presidency, 31-35
Russia investigation and, 7, 95, 97, 101, 154-55, 157, 170, 211, 233-46, 254-55, 257, 260-62, 278-81, 308 Ryan and, 161-63
Saudi Arabia and, 229-30
Scaramucci and, 268, 271, 274, 277, 281-85
Sessions and, 155, 241-42, 277-78
Syria and, 190-94
Trump on, 122-23
Trump pressured to fire, 173-82
Trump’s personality and, 21, 23, 35, 45, 47-48, 148-49, 158 Trump’s Times interview and, 277-78
White House appointments and, 4, 36, 86-87, 89, 189, 285 Barra, Mary, 88
Barrack, Tom, 27-29, 33, 42, 85, 233, 240 Bartiromo, Maria, 205
Bass, Edward, 56
Bayrock Group, 100-102
Bedminster Golf Club, 165, 213-14, 216, 287-94, 297, 302, 307 Beinart, Peter, 297
Benghazi, 97
Berkowitz, Avi, 143
Berlusconi, Silvio, 100
Berman, Mark, 78
Best and the Brightest, The (Halberstam), 53-54 Bezos, Jeff, 35
Biosphere 2, 56
Blackstone Group, 35, 78, 87, 298 Blackwater, 265
Blair, Tony, 156-58, 228
Blankfein, Lloyd, 144
Bloomberg, Michael, 117
Boehner, John, 26, 161
Boeing, 88
Bolton, John, 4-5, 189
border wall, 77-78, 228, 280, 303
Bossie, David, 58, 144, 177, 234, 237, 301 Bowles, Erskine, 27
Boyle, Matthew, 298-300
Boy Scouts of America, 284
Brady, Tom, 50
Brand, Rachel, 279
Breitbart, Andrew, 58-59
Breitbart News, 2, 32, 58-59, 62, 121, 126-29, 138, 160-62, 167, 179-80, 196, 207-8, 237, 266, 275, 297-98, 309 Brennan, John, 6, 41
Brexit, 5
Britain, 70, 157
Brooks, Mel, 15
Bryan, William Jennings, 45
Brzezinski, Mika, 66-69, 121, 176, 247-49 Brzezinski, Zbigniew, 66
Buckley, William F., 127
Bush, Billy, 10, 13-14, 34, 86, 96, 161
Bush, George H. W., 26, 27, 34, 126
Bush, George W., 16, 27, 44, 82, 90, 126, 128, 138, 182, 184, 199, 205, 225, 227, 264 Bush, Jeb, 21, 56, 138
business councils, 35, 87-88, 239, 298
Camp David, 84
Canada, 107, 228
Card, Andrew, 27
Carlson, Tucker, 140, 205
Carter, Arthur, 74-75
Carter, Graydon, 74, 199
Carter, Jimmy, 27, 66
Caslen, Robert L., Jr., 189
Celebrity Apprentice (TV show), 22
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 6, 17, 42, 48-51, 65, 102, 104, 263, 265, 267 Charlottesville rally, 292-96, 298
chemical weapons, 183-84, 190-93, 265 Cheney, Dick, 27
China, 6-8, 39, 100, 193-94, 211, 226, 228, 258, 267, 269-70, 297 Chopra, Deepak, 80
Christie, Chris, 16, 24-25, 30-31, 210, 242, 279 Christoff, Niki, 78
Churchill, Winston, 50
Circa news website, 159, 257
Clapper, James, 41, 214-15
Clinton, Bill, 23, 27, 54, 58, 90, 116, 123, 128, 158, 225, 228
impeachment of, 201, 233, 280
Clinton, Hillary, 3, 11-12, 18, 35, 69, 76, 87, 94, 97, 112, 134, 141, 144, 164, 204, 206, 233, 253, 269 Comey and, 169, 213, 216, 220, 245
Russian hacking of emails, 254, 259-60
Clinton Cash (Schweizer), 309
CNBC, 143, 207
CNN, 37, 39, 92, 159, 237, 298
Cohen, Michael, 278-80
Cohn, Gary, 89, 143-46, 170-71, 176, 186-87, 190, 229, 235, 258, 261, 270, 276, 285, 290, 296, 304-5 Cohn, Roy, 73, 141
Collins, Gail, 92
Comey, James, 6, 11, 168-70, 211-20, 223-24, 229, 232-33, 237, 242-45, 261-62, 280, 307 Commerce Department, 133
Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), 126-39 Conway, George, 201-2
Conway, Kellyanne, 9-10, 12, 18, 20, 33, 37, 39, 43, 45, 48, 60, 64, 81, 84, 86-87, 91, 93, 96-97, 107, 109, 112, 122, 127, 129,
132, 134, 146, 170, 175-76, 185, 188, 198-203, 205, 207, 209, 261, 269, 291
Corallo, Mark, 238, 257, 259-60, 280-81
Corker, Bob, 43
Corzine, Jon, 56, 144
Coulter, Ann, 29, 128, 138, 201, 205 Couric, Katie, 203
Cruz, Ted, 12, 201
DACA, 280
Daily Mail, 15, 308
Daley, Bill, 27
Davis, Lanny, 233, 238
Dean, John, 212-13
Defense Intelligence Agency, 101
Democratic National Committee (DNC), 101
Democratic Party, 37, 97, 212, 310
Deripaska, Oleg, 17, 101, 240
Devil’s Bargain, The (Green), 276, 289
DeVos, Betsy, 21, 129
DeYoung, Karen, 105-6
Dickerson, John, 209
Digital Entertainment Network, 56
Director of National Intelligence, 86, 214 Disney, 42, 88
Dowd, Mark, 281
Dubai, 39
Dubke, Mike, 208, 273
Duke, David, 141
Dunford, Joseph, 182
Egypt, 6, 81, 227, 231
elections
of 2008, 62, 111
of 2016, 18, 101-2, 309 of 2017, 301-2
of 2018, 171, 309-10
of 2020, 308-9
Emanuel, Rahm, 27
Enron, 278
environmental regulation, 182, 295 Epstein, Edward Jay, 102
Epstein, Jeffrey, 28
Europe, 5, 142
European Union, 99
executive orders (EOs), 120, 133
climate change, 182
immigration and travel ban, 61-65, 68, 70, 78, 95, 113, 117 executive privilege, 245, 278
Export-Import Bank, 271
Facebook, 21
Farage, Nigel, 275
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 6, 11, 42, 96, 98, 101-2, 156, 159, 168-70, 210-20, 235, 244-46, 255, 281 Federalist Society, 86
Federal Reserve, 276
Fields, James Alex, Jr., 293
Financial Times, 278
First Amendment, 136
Five, The (TV show), 273
Florida, 60
Flynn, Michael, 4, 16-17, 95-96, 101-7, 154-55, 172, 176, 188-89, 191, 210, 220-21, 225, 227, 244, 280 Foer, Franklin, 99-102
Ford, Gerald, 27, 90
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance (FISA) Court, 95 Fourth Amendment, 16
Fox Business Channel, 205, 268, 270
Fox News, 1-3, 8, 24, 127-28, 140, 159, 195-97, 205, 217, 223, 237, 272, 284, 298 Franken, Al, 151-52
Freedom Caucus, 161, 171 Fusion GPS, 37, 99
G20 summit, 257
Gaddafi, Muammar, 270 Gamergate, 59
Gawker, 308
Gaza, 6
Gazprom, 101
Geffen, David, 12, 178
General Electric (GE), 88
General Motors, 88
Georgia (post-Soviet), 226
Gingrich, Newt, 177
Giuliani, Rudy, 16, 30, 86-87, 210, 242, 279 Glover, Juleanna, 78
Glover Park Group, 203
Goldman Sachs, 55-56, 81-82, 119, 143-49, 174, 179, 184, 270, 305 Goldman Sachs Foundation, 82
Goldwater, Barry, 127
Gore, Al, 123
Gorka, Sebastian, 129
Gorsuch, Neil, 85-87, 133
Grimm, Michael, 310
Guardian, 276
Guilfoyle, Kimberly, 223, 272-73, 284
H-1B visas, 36
Haberman, Maggie, 91-92, 206-7, 277 Hagin, Joe, 186, 229
Hahn, Julia, 236
Haig, Alexander, 27
Halberstam, David, 53-55
Haldeman, H. R., 27
Haley, Nikki, 305-6
Hall, Jerry, 19
Halperin, Mark, 217
Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, king of Bahrain, 231 Hanley, Allie, 127, 139
Hannity, Sean, 68, 195-96, 222-24, 309 Harder, Charles, 308
Haspel, Gina, 157
Health and Human Services Department (HHS), 166 Hemingway, Mark, 38
Heritage Foundation, 162
Heyer, Heather, 293
Hicks, Hope, 13, 26, 109, 150-54, 158, 160, 185, 188, 198-201, 203-9, 213, 216-17, 229, 235, 247, 258-59, 261-62, 271, 277,
279, 281, 297, 307
Hiltzik, Matthew, 203-4, 207 Hitler, Adolf, 127
HNA Group, 269
Hogan, Hulk, 22, 308
Homeland Security Department, 63, 86, 133, 218, 285, 288 Hoover, J. Edgar, 219
Hubbell, Webster, 97
Hull, Cordell, 105
Hussein, Saddam, 27
Hutchison, Kay Bailey, 81
IBM, 88
Icahn, Carl, 20, 141, 211
Iger, Bob, 88, 238
immigration and travel ban, 36, 62-65, 68, 70, 78, 95, 113, 116-17, 138, 288 infrastructure, 224, 295
Ingraham, Laura, 201, 205, 222
intelligence community, 6-7, 41-42, 98, 101-2, 104, 153, 159, 219 Internet Gaming Entertainment (IGE), 56-57
In the Face of Evil (documentary), 58 Iran, 4, 191, 225-27
Iraq, 42, 49, 128, 138, 182 ISIS, 7, 49, 219
isolationism, 118, 174, 184, 191, 227
Israel, 4, 6, 140-43, 211, 219, 227, 230, 265, 281, 289
Jackson, Andrew, 44, 67, 158
Jackson, Michael, 28, 42 Japan, 39, 106
Jarrett, Valerie, 129
Jefferson, Thomas, 293
Jerusalem, 6
Jews, 73, 140-45, 157, 293
John Birch Society, 127
Johnson, Boris, 70
Johnson, Jamie, 79-80
Johnson, Lyndon B., 6-7, 53, 66, 158, 167 Johnson, Woody, 12
Jones, Paula, 201
Jordan, 6
Jordan, Hamilton, 27
Jordan, Vernon, 78
Justice Department (DOJ), 94-96, 98, 105, 151, 154-56, 168-69, 210, 216-17, 242
Kaepernick, Colin, 303
Kalanick, Travis, 88
Kaplan, Peter, 74-76
Kasowitz, Marc, 238, 259-60, 280-81 Kazakhstan, 281
Keaton, Alex P., 128
Kelly, John, 4, 63, 109, 188, 218, 285, 287-91, 294-97, 299-300, 304-7 Kennedy, John F., 53, 84
Kent, Phil, 92
Khan Sheikhoun chemical attack, 183-84, 188-93 Kim Jong-un, 293
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 50-51 Kirk, Russell, 127
Kislyak, Sergey, 95, 106, 151, 154-55, 218, 236
Kissinger, Henry, 41, 77, 142, 145, 193, 226-28
Koch brothers, 178
Kudlow, Larry, 143, 207
Ku Klux Klan (KKK), 294-95 Kurtz, Howard, 217
Kushner, Charlie, 17, 31, 72, 210-11, 257, 281 Kushner, Jared
background of, 28, 71-76, 80-81
Bannon and, 8, 12, 52-53, 68, 110, 115, 132-34, 140, 145-47, 154, 173-74, 176, 179-82, 187, 191, 207-8, 235-36, 238-
39, 243, 245-47, 274, 276, 281, 289, 291, 297
business affairs of, 17-18, 102, 211, 256, 281 business council and, 35, 87-88
Charlottesville rally and, 294
China and, 193, 211, 228
Christie and, 31
Comey and, 168-70, 210-14, 216-18, 232, 243, 245, 280, 307 CPAC and, 132-34
electoral victory and, 10, 12, 18-19, 45, 60, 103, 112 intelligence community and, 41-42, 48, 156-57
Kelly and, 288-91, 294, 305-6
McMaster and, 176, 189, 192-93, 235, 266, 289
media and, 68-69, 76, 146, 202-3, 207, 277-79
Mexico and, 77-78
Middle East and, 70, 140-43, 145, 157, 182, 192, 194, 211, 266, 268 Murdoch and, 73, 156, 179
Obamacare and, 72, 166-68
Office of American Innovation and, 181, 207 policy and, 115-25, 226, 228
role of, in White House, 29-30, 40-41, 64, 69-72, 77, 93, 109, 172, 285
Russia and, 24, 106, 154-56, 170, 236, 239, 253-58, 261, 271, 273, 278, 280, 283-84, 307-8 Saudi Arabia and, 225-29
Trump’s speech to Congress and, 149-51
White House staff and, 33, 110, 121, 140, 143-49, 186, 253, 268, 271-74, 282-83, 286 Kushner, Josh, 69, 166
Kushner Companies, 256
Kuttner, Robert, 297-98
labor unions, 67-68
Ledeen, Michael, 104
Lee, Robert E., 293
Lefrak, Richard, 27
Le Pen, Marine, 100
Lewandowski, Corey, 11-13, 17, 26, 28-29, 204, 234, 237-38, 252-53, 255 Lewinsky, Monica, 233
Libya, 6, 42
Lighthizer, Robert, 133
Limbaugh, Rush, 128, 222 Lowe, Rob, 42
Luntz, Frank, 201
Manafort, Paul, 12, 17, 28, 101, 210, 240, 253-56, 278, 280 Manhattan, Inc., 74
Manigault, Omarosa, 109
Mar-a-Lago, 4, 69, 99, 106, 159, 189, 193-94, 210, 228, 248-49 Marcus, Bernie, 309
Mattis, James, 4, 21, 103, 109, 188, 264-65, 288, 296, 304-5 May, Theresa, 258
McCain, John, 112, 306
McCarthy, Joe, 73
McConnell, Mitch, 32, 117, 301-2 McCormick, John, 167
McGahn, Don, 95, 212-14, 217 McLaughlin, John, 10
McMaster, H. R., 109, 176, 185, 188-93, 211, 235, 258, 263-68, 276-77, 288-89, 298-99, 304-5 McNerney, Jim, 88
Meadows, Mark, 161, 163, 171 Medicare, 165
Melton, Carol, 78
Mensch, Louise, 160
Mercer, Rebekah, 12, 58-59, 121, 127, 135, 139, 177-80, 201, 208, 309 Mercer, Robert, 12, 58-59, 112, 177-80, 201, 309
Mexico, 39, 62, 77, 93, 228
Middle East, 29, 70, 140, 145, 157, 190, 211, 224-33, 242, 264 Mighty Ducks, The (TV show), 56
military contractors, 265, 267
Miller, Jason, 234, 237-38, 299
Miller, Stephen, 61, 64-65, 89, 133, 148, 209, 213, 229, 258, 307 Mnuchin, Steve, 13, 133, 290, 296, 304
Mohammed bin Nayef, crown prince of Saudi Arabia (MBN), 228, 231
Mohammed bin Salman, crown prince of Saudi Arabia (MBS), 224-31
Moore, Roy, 302-4
Morgan, Piers, 22
Morning Joe (TV show), 32, 66-67, 121, 189, 247-48 MSNBC, 66, 106, 247
Ms. Universe contest, 38-39
Mueller, Robert, 220-21, 223, 229-30, 232-33, 238-41, 243, 256, 258, 261-62, 277-80, 306, 308 Mulvaney, Mick, 116, 171, 185, 285
Murdoch, Chloe, 156
Murdoch, Grace, 156
Murdoch, Rupert, 2, 8, 19-20, 32, 36, 60-61, 73-74, 80-81, 93, 121, 147, 156-57, 178-79, 195-98, 223, 289, 298 Murdoch, Wendi, 19, 80, 156
Murphy, Mike, 56
Musk, Elon, 35, 78, 88, 238
National Economic Council, 89, 143-44
National Environment Policy Act (1970), 182 National Football League, 303-4
nationalists, 133-34, 138, 174, 276, 293, 301-2 National Policy Institute, 127
National Republican Senatorial Committee, 112 National Security Advisor
Brzezinski as, 66
Flynn as, 4, 17, 95, 101-7, 191
McMaster as, 176, 188-89
Rice as, 6, 41
National Security Agency (NSA), 102, 223
National Security Council (NSC), 42, 103, 105, 176, 185-86, 190-91, 193, 265, 267 Navarro, Peter, 133
Nazi Germany, 7
NBC, 66, 92
neoconservatives, 4, 128, 227
neo-Nazis, 137, 292-95
Netanyahu, Benjamin, 6, 142, 231 New Republic, 98, 297
Newsom, Gavin, 272
New Yorker, 37, 56, 151, 154, 215, 284-85 New York magazine, 74
New York Observer, 72-76, 141
New York Post, 15, 74, 113, 207
New York Times, 37, 51, 90-92, 96, 151-53, 196, 205, 207, 211, 236, 237, 257, 259-60, 266, 271, 277 Nixon, Richard M., 2, 8, 26-27, 41, 54, 90, 93, 212-13, 222
Nooyi, Indra, 88-89
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), 77 North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), 99
North Korea, 291-93, 297
Nunberg, Sam, 11, 13, 16, 22, 144, 237-38, 248, 282, 291, 300 Nunes, Devin, 170
Obama, Barack, 27, 35-36, 41-45, 54, 61-63, 67, 90, 101, 104, 128, 164, 187, 215, 250, 269, 295
birth certificate and, 62, 295
DOJ and, 94-96, 210, 279
executive orders and, 61
farewell speech, 36
Flynn and, 101
immigration and, 63
Middle East and, 6-7, 42, 183, 190, 225, 227, 231, 263-66 Russia and, 95, 151-54, 156
Trump inauguration and, 43-44
White House Correspondents’ Dinner and, 198 wiretapping and, 157-60
Obamacare repeal and replace, 72, 116-17, 164-67, 170-71, 175, 224, 283, 285, 290 Office of American Innovation, 180-81, 207
Office of Management and Budget (OMB), 116, 185, 285 O’Neill, Tip, 167
opioid crisis, 291
O’Reilly, Bill, 195-96, 222
Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development, 271 Oscar insurance company, 72
Osnos, Evan, 154
Page, Carter, 101
Palestinians, 227, 230-32 Panetta, Leon, 27
Paris Climate Accord, 182, 238-39, 301
PayPal, 21
Pelosi, Nancy, 78
Peña Nieto, Enrique, 77-78, 228 Pence, Karen, 124, 209
Pence, Mike, 92, 95, 106-7, 123-24, 171, 209, 218, 240 Pentagon, 7, 55
Perelman, Ronald, 73, 141
Perlmutter, Ike, 141
Petraeus, David, 263-64
Pierce, Brock, 56-57
Planned Parenthood, 117
Playbook, 171
Podesta, John, 27
Politico, 171
Pompeo, Mike, 49, 51, 157, 306
populists, 6, 24, 31, 100, 113, 118, 142, 174-75, 177, 276, 301
Powell, Dina, 81-82, 145-46, 176-77, 184-88, 190, 192-94, 229, 235-36, 258, 261, 265-67, 276, 279, 285, 296, 306 Preate, Alexandra, 1, 32, 130, 207-8, 238, 249, 275, 278-79, 299
Pre-Election Presidential Transition Act (2010), 24 Price, Tom, 165-66, 171, 291
Priebus, Reince, 77, 86, 144, 146, 150, 166, 171-73, 176, 203, 205, 207, 209, 229, 238, 257, 296, 304
business councils and, 89
campaign and, 9-10, 13, 18, 112-13
chief of staff appointment and, 26, 32-34, 60, 64-65, 67-70, 109-10, 117-24, 243-44, 305 CPAC and, 127, 130-34
Flynn and, 95, 106
inauguration and, 45, 52
Obama wiretapping story and, 159-60 resignation of, 282-85, 307
Russia investigation and, 171, 211-14, 216-17, 232-34, 261-62 Scaramucci and, 270-72, 282-85
Prince, Erik, 265, 267
Private Eye magazine, 74
Producers, The (film), 15-16 Pruitt, Scott, 21
Putin, Vladimir, 7, 8, 24, 37-38, 99-102, 153, 155
Qatar, 230-31
Raffel, Josh, 142, 207, 258-59, 279
Reagan, Ronald, 26, 27, 34, 58, 90, 126-27, 144, 201, 222 Remnick, David, 154
Renaissance Technologies, 58
Republican National Committee (RNC), 10-11, 13, 26, 28, 30, 32-33, 52, 112, 119, 172, 205 Republican National Convention, 21, 26, 28, 253
Republican Party, 2, 18, 30, 40-41, 81, 86, 98, 111-12, 117-21, 128, 161-67, 171-72, 201, 290, 303
fracturing of, 179-80, 253, 283, 306, 309-10
Rhodes, Ben, 41, 154, 159, 185, 215 Rice, Susan, 7, 41, 153
Rometty, Ginni, 88
Rose, Charlie, 309
Rosen, Hillary, 78
Rosenstein, Rod, 212, 214, 216-21, 279 Ross, Wilbur, 78, 133, 229-30
Roth, Steven, 27, 141
Rove, Karl, 57, 238
Rumsfeld, Donald, 27
Russia, 24, 37-39, 92, 151-56, 160, 190-91, 236-46, 273, 303, 307-8
Bannon on, 6-7, 238-40, 278-83
Comey and, 168-70, 210-20, 242, 244-45
Don Jr. Trump Tower meeting and, 253-61, 271-72, 307 Foer’s theories on, 99-102
Flynn and, 17, 95, 102-7, 154-56
investigations begun, 41, 94-107
Kushner and, 41-42, 80, 102, 154-56, 168-70, 210-14, 218, 226, 236-37, 245-46, 254-56, 273, 278, 281, 283-84, 307-8 money trail and, 278-83
Mueller appointed special counsel, 220-21, 223, 229-30, 232-33, 238, 239, 241, 243, 261-62, 278-80 Obama wiretapping story and, 157-60
sanctions and, 105-7, 226
Sessions and, 151-52, 155-56, 245-46 Syria and, 190-91, 226
Steele dossier and, 37-39, 92-93, 102, 151, 156
Russian oligarchs, 17, 81, 100-101, 254
Ryan, Paul, 32, 117-21, 159-67, 170-72, 224
Sandberg, Sheryl, 187, 236
Sanders, Bernie, 5
Sanders, Sarah Huckabee, 229
Sater, Felix, 100-101, 278
Saturday Night Live (TV show), 89, 91, 93, 208, 276 Saudi Arabia, 6, 224-32, 236
Saval, Nikil, 276
Scaramucci, Anthony, 268-74, 277, 281-86, 288, 307
Scarborough, Joe, 32, 47, 66-69, 81, 121, 147, 176, 247-49 Scavino, Dan, 229
Schiller, Keith, 217, 229
Schlapp, Matt, 127, 129, 131-33 Schlapp, Mercedes, 129
Schmidt, Michael, 277
Schwartz, Arthur, 249, 298-300 Schwartz, Tony, 22
Schwarzman, Stephen, 35, 78, 87-88, 298 Secret Service, 84
Seinfeld (TV series), 56
Sekulow, Jay, 281
Sessions, Jeff, 4, 59, 61-62, 64, 94, 138, 151-52, 155-56, 170, 212, 214, 216-18, 220, 241-42, 245-46, 261, 277, 279-80, 302 Sinclair organization, 159
Sisi, Abdel Fattah el-, 231
60 Minutes (TV show), 309
666 Fifth Avenue, 211, 281
Skybridge Capital, 269-70
Slate, 98-99
Slovenia, 15
Smith, Justin, 78
Snowden, Edward, 42, 95
Soros, George, 178
Special Operations, 265
Spencer, Richard, 127, 129-30, 137-39, 292-94
Spicer, Sean, 10, 47-48, 64, 91, 96, 122, 132, 160, 205-7, 211, 217-18, 223, 229, 251-52, 257-58, 261, 272-73, 282, 286, 296,
307
Spy magazine, 74
Starr, Ken, 233
State Department, 63, 86, 228-29, 231 Steele, Christopher, 37, 99
Steele dossier, 37-39, 92-93, 102, 151, 156 steel industry, 67-68
Steinmetz, Benny, 211
Stone, Roger, 13, 17, 55, 288
Strange, Luther, 302-4
Strategic and Policy Forum, 87-89 Suzy magazine, 15
Swan, Jonathan, 299
Syria, 42, 183-84, 188-93, 219, 226, 265
Taliban, 267
tax reform, 87, 167, 224, 290
Tea Party, 5, 18, 26, 33, 58-59, 128, 161-63 Thiel, Peter, 21, 222, 309
Thrush, Glenn, 91, 277
Tillerson, Rex, 4, 21, 86, 211, 225, 229, 265, 267, 296, 304-6 Time magazine, 50, 56, 93, 130, 147, 276
Time Warner, 78, 92
trade, 116, 174, 276
transgender ban, 284
Treasury Department, 133 Trotta, Liz, 223
Trudeau, Justin, 107, 228
Truman, Harry, 61
Trump, Barron, 14
Trump, Don, Jr., 17-18, 27, 204, 252-61, 271, 278-79, 307 Trump, Donald
Abe meeting at Mar-a-Lago and, 106 Afghanistan and, 263-68
Ailes on, 2-8
Ailes’s funeral and, 222-24
Alabama GOP Senate run-off, 301-4 Apprentice and, 30, 76
Bannon and, 1-8, 31-32, 35, 52-53, 59-65, 93, 122, 146-47, 158, 187, 190-91, 232-37, 289, 301, 308-10 Bannon firing and, 173-83, 298-300
Billy Bush tape and, 13-14, 34
business and finances of, 17-18, 36-37, 39, 99, 100, 102, 240, 252-53, 277-79 business councils and, 87-89, 298
cabinet appointments and, 4-5, 86
campaign and, 3, 12-18, 59-60, 66-67, 99, 101, 112, 114, 134, 157, 201-4 Canada and, 228
chaotic leadership style of, 108-24
Charlottesville and, 293-96, 298
China and, 193-95, 228, 297-98
Comey and, 168-69, 210-20, 224, 232-33, 242, 244-46 Congress and, 116-18
Conway and, 146-47, 200-203 CPAC and, 126-39
DOJ and, 155-56, 168-69
electoral victory of, 3, 9-20, 24, 34-39
executive orders and, 61-65, 120
fake news and, 39, 48, 135-36, 152, 168, 215, 237 Flynn and, 103-4, 106-7
foreign policy and, 184, 226-28
future of presidency of, 308-10
Gorsuch nomination and, 85-87
Haley and, 305-6
Hannity interview and, 309
Harrisburg trip and, 209
immigration and, 61-65, 68, 117
inauguration and, 1, 40-44, 47-51, 251
information and influences on, 70-71, 108-9, 113-16, 188, 192-93 intelligence briefings and, 115
intelligence community and, 41-42 Israel and, 231
Ivanka and, 69-71, 79-80, 181, 187, 237, 252, 257-58, 290 Jews and, 140-44
Kelly as chief of staff and, 285-91, 294-97, 304-7
Kislyak meeting in Oval Office and, 218-19
Kushner and, 40, 69-73, 93, 122, 126, 142, 145, 179, 181-82, 211, 252-53, 290 McMaster and, 188-90, 193, 289
media and, 34-35, 39, 46-47, 51, 74-76, 89-93, 96-99, 195-209, 215, 224, 247-51, 260 Melania and, 14-15, 43
Mercers and, 178-80
Mexico and, 77-78, 228
Mueller investigation and, 220-21, 223, 229-30, 232-33, 238-41, 243, 256, 258, 261-62, 277-80, 306, 308 Murdoch and, 19-20, 60-61
New York Times interview of, 277
NFL controversy and, 303-4
nightly phone calls and, 85, 92, 121-23, 158, 188, 210, 215, 230, 279 normalizing influences on, 138, 179, 183-88
North Korea and, 106, 291-93, 298
Obamacare and, 164-71, 175, 224, 283
Obama wiretapping accusation and, 157-60 O’Reilly and, 196-97
pardon power and, 256
Paris Climate Accord and, 238-39 Pence and, 123
personality and behavior of, 21-24, 35, 54-55, 70-73, 83, 114, 158, 232, 242-31, 248, 303 phone calls with foreign leaders, 78
political style of, 45-48, 249-51 popular vote and, 34
press secretary and, 110, 205-6, 272-74
Priebus as chief of staff and, 26-34, 109-10, 122, 146, 187, 243, 285 Republican Party and, 112, 163
right wing and, 196-97, 222-23, 237
Russia and, 24, 37-39, 41, 95-107, 151-54, 168, 190-91, 212, 218-21, 236-42, 244-45, 253-62, 271-72, 278-79, 283,
303, 307-8
Saudi Arabia and, 224-32
Scaramucci and, 269-71, 273-74, 282-84
Scarborough and Brzezinski and, 66-69, 247-49 Sessions and, 155-56, 241-42, 245, 277, 284 sexual harassment and, 23, 238
sons and, 252-53
speaking style of, 135-37
speech at Huntsville for Strange, 303-4 speech to Boy Scouts, 284
speech to CIA, 48-51, 65
speech to joint session of Congress, 147-50
staff doubts about, 186, 232-33, 242-43, 304-5 staff infighting and, 122-23
Syria and, 183-84, 188-93 tax reform and, 224
tax returns and, 18, 278
television and, 113, 150, 188, 197
transition and, 24-36, 103, 110, 112, 144
White House Correspondents’ dinner and, 198-99, 208-9 White House living quarters and, 70, 83-85, 90-92
women as confidants of, 199-200
Yates and, 94-96, 98, 214-16
Trump, Eric, 17, 27, 252-53
Trump, Freddy (brother), 72
Trump, Fred (father), 72, 90, 295
Trump, Ivanka, 13, 15, 17-19, 64
Afghanistan and, 266-68
background of, 73, 75, 78-81, 141, 179
Bannon and, 145, 147, 174, 176, 179-81, 187, 208, 235-39, 243, 261-62, 267, 274, 276, 280-81, 289, 291, 297 Charlottesville rally and, 294
China dinner and, 194
Christie and, 31
Comey and, 170, 210-13, 216-17, 233, 237, 245, 261-62 Haley and, 305
Kelly and, 288-90, 306
media and, 156, 202-3, 207, 272-73, 277-79 Obamacare and, 166
Paris Climate Accord and, 239
Powell and, 81-82, 140, 145-46, 186-88
Russia and, 239, 256-58, 261-62, 273, 307-8 Saudi Arabia and, 229, 231
Syria and, 190, 192
White House role of, 68-71, 78-81, 118-19, 181, 187, 200, 252, 285
White House staff and, 124, 146-48, 202-3, 268, 272-73, 282-83, 286, 289
Trump, Melania, 14-15, 18, 29, 43-44, 84, 229, 231, 291, 308
Trump International Hotels, 43, 200-201, 298, 300
Trump SoHo, 210
Trump Tower, 25, 35-37, 60, 83-84, 100, 108
Don Jr. meeting with Russians at, 253-61, 271-72, 307 Kislyak meeting with Kushner and Flynn at, 154
surveillance of, 158-59
Turkey, 104, 226
Twenty-Fifth Amendment, 297, 308
Uber, 78, 88
Ukraine, 101, 226, 240
U.S. Congress, 41, 61, 98, 120, 147-49, 152, 163, 165, 166, 216-17, 238-39, 244, 306, 310 U.S. Constitution, 16
U.S. House of Representatives Budget Committee, 162
Intelligence Committee, 168, 170
Obamacare repeal and, 161-62, 171-72
Ways and Means Committee, 162
U.S. Senate, 59, 94
Judiciary Committee, Crime and Terrorism Subcommittee, 214-15 Foreign Relations Committee, 43
Intelligence Committee, 242, 244-45 Obamacare and, 283, 285
US Steel, 67
U.S. Supreme Court, 85-86, 251
University of Virginia, “Unite the Right” rally at, 293-94 unmasking, 96, 160
Vanity Fair, 74, 75, 199 Venezuela, 293
Vietnam War, 53, 264
Vogue, 35
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, 201, 269 Walker, Scott, 33
Wall Street 2 (film), 270
Walsh, Katie, 10, 18, 52, 64, 110-17, 119-25, 144, 161, 163, 168, 171-72, 181-82, 187, 239, 303 Washington Post, 35, 37, 56, 78, 95-97, 105-6, 151-52, 155, 206, 211, 236, 237, 266
Washington Times, 129
Watergate scandal, 212-13, 278 Weekly Standard, 38
Weinstein, Harvey, 203
Weissmann, Andrew, 278
Welch, Jack, 88
West Bank, 6
White House communications director
Dubke as, 208
Hicks as, 297, 307
Scaramuccci as, 273-74, 281-86
White House Correspondents’ Dinner, 198-99, 208 White House ethics office, 270
White House Office of Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs, 270-71 white supremacy, 127, 138, 293-96
Whitewater affair, 58, 97
WikiLeaks, 153, 254
Wintour, Anna, 35-36
Wirthlin, Richard, 201
Women Who Work (Ivanka Trump), 79 Woodward, Bob, 54, 116
World Bank, 257
World Wrestling Entertainment, 22 Wynn, Steve, 30
Xi Jinping, 193, 228, 258
Yaffa, Joshua, 154
Yahoo! News, 37
Yanukovych, Viktor, 101
Yates, Sally, 94-96, 98, 104, 214-16
Yemen, 6
Yiannopoulos, Milo, 128-28, 138
Zhukova, Dasha, 80
Zucker, Jeff, 92
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
MICHAEL WOLFF has received numerous awards for his work, including two National Magazine
Awards. He has been a regular columnist for Vanity Fair, New York, The Hollywood Reporter,
British GQ, USA Today, and The Guardian. He is the author of six prior books, including the
bestselling Burn Rate and The Man Who Owns the News. He lives in Manhattan and has four
children.
Table of Contents
Title
Copyright
Contents
Author’s Note
Prologue: Ailes and Bannon
- Election Day
- Trump Tower
- Day One
- Bannon
- Jarvanka
- At Home
- Russia
- Org Chart
- CPAC
- Goldman
- Wiretap
- Repeal and Replace
- Bannon Agonistes
- Situation Room
- Media
- Comey
- Abroad and At Home
- Bannon Redux
- Mika Who?
- Mcmaster and Scaramucci
- Bannon and Scaramucci
- General Kelly
Epilogue: Bannon and Trump Acknowledgments
Index
About the Author