“He is terrified,” says Trump biographer Michael D’Antonio. “This is 40 years of deceit coming home to torment him.” politi.co/2wekJWQ
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- Now is the time to say it as loudly as possible: Harvey is what climate change looks like.
- Jerry Falwell Jr. repeatedly claimed that photos in a story we ran yesterday — showing him in a Miami nightclub — were photoshopped. That prompted a Miami-based website to dig into their photo archives, where they found even more photos of him: politi.co/34wnHXj
- Trump made $50,000 per episode for season one of "The Apprentice." For season two, “he wanted a million dollars an episode,” said Jeff Zucker, then the head of NBC. He settled for $60,000 an episode. “We ended up paying him what we wanted to pay him.” politi.co/2Hc8aPr
- Khizr Khan didn't use the teleprompter. There was nothing to put on it, because he had written nothing down.
- From Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Joe Kennedy II, and Maeve Kennedy McKean: "RFK Jr. is our brother and uncle. He's tragically wrong about vaccines."
- In his new memoir, John McCain concedes that the war in Iraq he fought so hard to launch and then escalate now “can’t be judged as anything other than a mistake, a very serious one, and I have to accept my share of the blame for it.”
- “It is our job,” Kavanaugh wrote in an email to his colleagues in Ken Starr’s office, “to make [Clinton's] pattern of revolting behavior clear — piece by painful piece.”
- "I've been studying authoritarian regimes for three decades, and I know the signs of a coup when I see them," writes former Trump administration official Fiona Hill
- Reines: Immersive debate prep taught me being Trump means never having to face the consequences of your actions
- The attorney general has made a total hash of the Mueller report, undermining the very department he runs, writes @matthewamiller:
- "As a former federal prosecutor, when I look at Mueller’s work, I don’t see a murky set of facts. I see a case meticulously laid out by a prosecutor who knew he was not allowed to bring it." More from @renato_mariotti:
- “If Ivanka Trump wants to recuse herself from the tough questions, here’s what she should do: Withdraw from the very public political life she has chosen.”
- "Graham told himself: by staying close to Trump, he could influence him and prevent horribly bad decisions," writes @SykesCharlie. Then came Trump's decision to abandon the Kurds.
