Wolff claimed in his book that Trump never really expected to win the election but was more concerned with becoming famous and a martyr for standing up to Hillary Clinton. The Campaign would make his family including Ivanka and her husband celebrities and Steve Bannon the chief of the tea party. Even Melania who was assured that her husband would never win would be able to return to what she did best socializing and lunching. All trump wanted was to leverage his defeat for wealth and fame
In one passage Wolff quotes the National security advisor Michael Flynn as stating to friends that taking $45,000 from the Russians for a speech “would only be a problem if we won”.
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According to Wolff, Trump found the white house scary. He would always lock himself away from his staff in his bedroom and even reprimanded cleaning staff for picking up his shirts from the floor. He would be in bed by 6.30 eating cheeseburgers and watching three TV’s. His main point of contact with the outside world was his phone.
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Trump outlined a whole new set of rules for everyone in the white house out of fear that he would be poisoned. Nobody was allowed to touch anything even his toothbrush. His longtime fear of being poisoned is why he always ate food from McDonalds. He also insisted on guiding the housekeeping when they should do his sheets and “he would always strip his own bed.”
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Wolff describes how Sam Nunberg, Supposedly Trump's buddy and former advisor a Republican policy analysts was sent to explain to Trump the basics of the US constitution. This is what Nunberg said
“I got as far as the fourth amendment,” says his sometime aide Sam Nunberg, “before his finger is pulling down on his lip and his eyes are rolling back in his head.”
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