Michael Wolff

“Another plane had to be rounded up and chartered to the fundraiser... a big Trump-Vance decal quickly plastered onto it... [and then] the worst plane ride in the collective experience of everybody on board, many who had spent much of their professional lives in the air. White-knuckle, head-banging lurches. Stomach-dropping turbulence. Sudden stone-falling drops in altitude and air pressure. People actually praying. Then, in the middle of it all, a report tracking the Trump team's peregrinations identified that they were riding on the former plane of Trump's old friend, the infamous sex abuser Jeffrey Epstein -- the one name he had struggled most not to be associated with. "I'm going to die," howled Trump, "on Jeffrey Epstein's plane!”
― Michael Wolff, All or Nothing: How Trump Recaptured America

“But certainty has power. Unwavering certainty. Psychotic certainty, even. Perhaps disgrace, too, has special power—if you refuse to accept your disgrace, it becomes righteousness. And perhaps delusion has power. And the larger the delusion is, the more power it may have. • • •”
― Michael Wolff, All or Nothing: How Trump Recaptured America