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October 3, 2022
He was also guided by a belief in repetition;
those who got closest to him and chose to stay there often suggested they had been sucked in by a version best described as the “Good” Trump.
He is charismatic and can be charming,
“Bad” Trump always revealed himself.
he has had only a handful of moves throughout his entire adult life. There is the counterattack, there is the quick lie, there is the shift of blame, there is the distraction or misdirection, there is the outburst of rage, there is the performative anger, there is the designed-just-for-headlines action or claim, there is the indecisiveness masked by a compensatory lunge, there is the backbiting about one adviser with another adviser, creating a wedge between them. The challenge is figuring out at any given moment which trick he is using.
Obsessed with other people’s secrets, Trump is an expert at finding their weaknesses and exerting pressure on those weak points,
One of the most peculiar aspects of Trump over time has been his ability, not always intentional and often not stated explicitly, to get the people around him to adopt his behavior. Many in his world have started to practice qualities that only Trump has been able to get away with.
he revealed himself to be an unreliable narrator of his own history from its early moments. His comments went unchecked for years, but for good reason: why would anyone think such details might be untrue?
As a schoolboy, Donald became known for an aggressive temper and a bullying instinct.
Giuliani, who painted himself as an outsider shaking up the system, did not go quietly. After narrowly losing by roughly fifty thousand votes, he complained bitterly that he had been cheated by a shadowy “they” who supported the Black mayor. “They stole that election from me,”
Trump worked with remarkable creativity over several years to force out residents so he could raze the structure and build a new one on the site. He allegedly forced tenants to use the service elevator, cut off heat and water during winter months, and placed newspaper ads suggesting empty apartments could be used to shelter the homeless.
