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“Bannon described Trump as a simple machine. The On switch was full of flattery, the Off switch full of calumny.”
― Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House
― Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House

“The written word is so much like evidence — like something that can be used against you later.”
― Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing
― Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing

“Time spent with Trump on the campaign plane was often an epic dissing experience: everybody around him was an idiot.”
― Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House
― Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House

“Early in the campaign, in a Producers-worthy scene, Sam Nunberg was sent to explain the Constitution to the candidate: “I got as far as the Fourth Amendment before his finger is pulling down on his lip and his eyes are rolling back in his head.”
― Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House
― Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House

“The Trump campaign had, perhaps less than inadvertently, replicated the scheme from Mel Brooks’s The Producers. In that classic, Brooks’s larcenous and dopey heroes, Max Bialystock and Leo Bloom, set out to sell more than 100 percent of the ownership stakes in the Broadway show they are producing. Since they will be found out only if the show is a hit, everything about the show is premised on its being a flop. Accordingly, they create a show so outlandish that it actually succeeds, thus dooming our heroes.”
― Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House
― Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House

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