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“He sent his new press secretary, Sean Spicer—whose personal mantra would shortly become “You can’t make this shit up”—to argue his case in a media moment that turned Spicer, quite a buttoned-down political professional, into a national joke, which he seemed destined to never recover from. To boot, the president blamed Spicer for not making the million phantom souls seem real.”
― Michael Wolff, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House

“Public life...lacks coherence and drama. (History, by contrast, attains coherence and drama only in hindsight.)”
― Michael Wolff, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House

“Some politicians have a gift for language. Trump is not one of those politicians. His sentences call to mind an aerial shot of a burning, derailed freight train. The syntax is mangled. The grammar is gone. “Donald Trump isn’t a simpleton, he just talks like one,” reads a Politico article from last August.”
― Katy Tur, Unbelievable: My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History

“Everyone lies at some point in their life. The important questions are where, about what, and how often?”
― James B. Comey, A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership