MM Suarez’s Reviews > Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump > Status Update

"Throughout his life, D***** T**** had monetized everything he could. Fame, which he craved on a cellular level, was hard to buy outright. But wealth was the full measure of a person for T****. He had spent years arousing suspicions that he inflated his personal net worth and level of liquidity to project the image of a financial heavy-hitter."

“T**** was using an unproven claim to advance his long-running effort to seize control over the economic policy machinery of the United States.”

“But the reality was that retribution—against critics, prosecutors, investigators, journalists, and even late-night talk show hosts—was always at the top of T****’s second-term agenda.”