We were now thirty minutes away from what might be the most important speech of the Trump presidency, a speech that could determine his reelection, and it was still being written. There was no time for fact-checking, vetting, or notifying friends and allies on the Hill or abroad. There was hardly any time for the president to read it and make changes to it. It was a total clusterfuck from start to finish because Ivanka and her crew wanted her father to be on TV.

