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“Gary Cohn [said] in an email: ‘It’s worse than you can imagine … Trump won’t read anything—not one-page memos, not the brief policy papers, nothing. He gets up halfway through meetings with world leaders because he is bored.’”

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“Ahead of the election, the editors of this magazine wrote that the Republican candidate ‘appears not to read.’ Before the inauguration, Trump told Axios, ‘I like bullets or I like as little as possible. ...’”

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“The New York Times reported that National Security Council members had been instructed to keep policy papers to a single page and include lots of graphics and maps.”

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“Reuters reported that briefers had strategically placed the president’s name in as many paragraphs of briefing documents as possible so as to attract his fickle attention.”

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“Joe Scarborough wrote [that]he confronted Trump over poor debate performances, saying, “Can you read?” Met with silence, Scarborough pressed again: “I’m serious, Donald. Do you read? If someone wrote you a one-page paper on a policy, could you read it?”

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“Trump replied by brandishing a Bible from his mother and saying he read it all the time—probably a self-aware joke, given Trump’s proud impiety and displayed ignorance of the Bible.”

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“The refusal to read, and the resulting limits of Trump’s understanding of complicated issues ...means Trump is more likely to blunder on any given case, and Trump’s misstatements and missteps earn him mockery and undermine his stature around the world.”

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George Conway
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If in January 2017 @realDonaldTrump had been placed in charge of any business he didn’t own, he would have been fired long ago for being incompetent, corrupt, or psycho.
.@JamesFallows: “If Donald Trump were in virtually any other position of responsibility, action would already be under way to remove him .... The board at a public company would have replaced him outright or arranged a discreet shift out of power.“

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“(Of course, he would never have gotten this far in a large public corporation.) The chain-of-command in the Navy or at an airline or in the hospital would at least call a time-out, and check his fitness, ...”

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George Conway
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It amazes me that, three years in, anyone could ask, about any subject, “What is Trump’s strategy?” There is NEVER a strategy. He’s intellectually and psychologically incapable of strategy. He’s purely impulsive, as sociopaths an psychopaths typically are. He virtually admits ...
... that he wings everything. Along with his grandiosity, lack of empathy and remorse, and pathological lying, impulsivity is one of his core personality traits.

The press does the public a disservice when it engages in a fruitless search of rationality in Trump’s mind.
*sociopaths and psychopaths
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George Conway
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.@ProjectLincoln isn’t the “establishment” by any means; we’re simply for sanity, decency, and truth. The “establishment” is all in for @realDonaldTrump, at the expense of their consciences and souls.
But other than that, Steve’s right: If we can peel off 3-4%, #IMPOTUS is done.
We’ll do better than that: We know where the reluctant, conflicted conservative voters are.

And Steve’s also right that in the end, Trump will beat himself, because he can’t help it: Trump’s mental instability is our best weapon, and we won’t hesitate to use it against him.
(All of this assumes @realDonaldTrump makes it to November, and doesn’t completely break down before then.)
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1-In light of my reporting from DC sources @ working conditions in the WH recently, I got to thinking @ an email attributed to Gary Cohn, that circulated in Trump's 1st yr. I just found it in Wolff's book, 'Fire and Fury', from pg 186, here it is: #WednesdayWisdom
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Trump Hotels' website still lists Trump SoHo New York among its properties in the Our Hotels menu. Select its name though to access its page and there's a message about it being renamed

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