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A former senior aide to Melania Trump who helped oversee Donald Trump’s inauguration has written an “explosive” memoir detailing her 15-year friendship with the first lady, according to reports. Stephanie Winston Wolkoff was appointed as an unpaid adviser to the first lady shortly after Donald Trump won the 2016 election, and she played a high-profile […] More
If intelligence, thoughtfulness, an encyclopedic knowledge of voter suppression techniques and an elegant writing style were the main qualifications for the vice-presidency, Stacey Abrams would be odds-on-favorite to be Joe Biden’s running mate. Abrams is already a proven vote getter. When she became the first major party black woman nominee for governor in Georgia, in […] More
Love of science, not Trump’s ignorance, will make America great again Amid a pandemic, the president rails against reason itself. The passions of his predecessors throw his failure into sharp relief More
President’s brother, Robert Trump, is trying to stop publication of niece’s ‘revelatory’ tell-all book Mary Trump’s publisher has promised a ‘revelatory, authoritative portrait of Donald J Trump and the toxic family that made him’. Photograph: Drew Angerer/Getty Images Mary Trump filed an immediate appeal on Tuesday, after a judge in New York issued a preliminary […] More
The inevitable fallout between the president and his national security adviser makes for a punchy but self-aggrandising memoir ‘Bad cop and worse cop’: Donald Trump and John Bolton in the White House, May 2018. Photograph: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images Any hairdresser could have told them it wouldn’t work. Trump initially refused to hire John Bolton because […] More
Interview Lisa O’Kelly Four years ago, the author predicted that Trump would transform the US into an autocracy. Now, Gessen believes the country is in a revolutionary moment Read an extract from Masha Gessen’s Surviving Autocracy ‘They both have this contempt for excellence, they both have a hatred of government’: Presidents Trump and Putin at […] More
John Bolton Judge allows publication of tell-all but slams author’s behaviour Aide: ‘That guy should turn in his seersucker suit for a jumpsuit’ The Room Where It Happened: a broadside to sink Trump? John Bolton – wearing a seersucker suit – waits in the Oval Office in July 2019. Photograph: Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA White House […] More
The Room Where It Happened review: John Bolton fires broadside that could sink Trump The ex-national security adviser is no hero or martyr and certainly no prose stylist either. What counts is how damaging his memoir will be Donald Trump speaks as John Bolton, national security adviser, listens in August 2019. Photograph: Andrew Harrer/EPA John […] More
