Peril

by Bob Woodward

“These internal relationships that you form when you’re so little, last forever,”

“And here we all are in our seventies.

White House communications director Alyssa Farah grew weary of the charade and McEntee’s pressure. She was happy to sell Trump’s agenda, but the West Wing was hurtling toward a strange new reality. A fantasy. “I felt like we were lying to the public,” Farah said to an acquaintance. “Good, hardworking, salt of the earth people that supported the president, who don’t have a lot of time or money or energy to invest in politics, are being sold a bill of goods.”