HAD ADORED THE PRESIDENT. I’d been very close to Mark Meadows. I had loved working in the White House. I deeply cared for the people there. I believed sincerely that we were serving the interests of the American people. I regretted the belligerence and crudity of some of the president’s messaging, the inappropriate, unpresidential tweets. But you can become inured to it, and I did. I often laughed with colleagues at his communications, when I should have seen them for what they were—mean-spirited. Politics is a team sport, and I was a willing teammate.
