Vanity Fair political correspondent Gabriel Sherman’s newest Trump World/GOP insider quote-fest is up and hoooo boy. Here are the best parts:
- “‘Trump didn’t win over any voters, and he pissed off a lot of people,’ says a prominent Republican about the debate… ‘The thing about the debate is people got to see why no one that has any integrity can work for Trump. This is what Trump is like in the Oval Office every day. It’s why [John] Kelly left. It’s why [Jim] Mattis quit.'”
- “‘Trump thinks he won. He didn’t,’ said another Republican with ties to the campaign. ‘But does anyone have the balls to tell him that? No. They’d be fired.'”
- “Inside Trumpworld there’s a view that the past week is an inflection point in the campaign. It started on Sunday night with the bombshell New York Times report that Trump paid just $750 in federal income taxes in 2016 and 2017. ‘For Trump the Times story was worse than losing reelection,’ said the second Republican. ‘If you had told Donald back in 2015 that his tax returns would be exposed and he’d have all these investigations, I guarantee you he wouldn’t have run.'”
- “Parscale’s public meltdown happened while he is reportedly under investigation for stealing from the Trump campaign and the RNC. According to the source close to the campaign, the Trump family is worried that Parscale could turn on them and cooperate with law enforcement about possible campaign finance violations. ‘The family is worried Brad will start talking,'”