In January of 2018, the publication of Michael Wolff’s book, Fire and Fury, drawn from inside access to Trump’s dysfunctional White House and relying heavily on the account of Steve Bannon, portrayed such a capricious president that Trump responded with one of the most memorable comments of his tenure, proclaiming himself “a very stable genius,” which then became the title of yet another shocking insider book about his presidency by the Washington Post’s Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig. Trump liked the phrase so much he used it about himself repeatedly. In May of 2019, the same week as
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