I believe the NYT got the dirt from someone fairly highly placed in the White House. (Some have suggested it was Reince. There are so many people there who are so disgusted with the way things are going, the only surprising thing is that they can keep anything confidential at all. They know that the Trump presidency has literally become its own satire.
I was reading about verbal briefings of the president - apparently he feels the need to give his own opinions on the subject, which are of course invariably wrong. Rather than correct him, everyone has learned to circle around to the subject later, giving the correct information, but pretending that this was Trump’s own position and that they agreed with him. Because reality is fluid for Trump - he doesn’t care about it, except insomuch as he’s right and people agree with him; the actual facts are insignificant. The White House staff know just what an idiot man-child he is, because they have to work around it to do anything at all.
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