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81 " After that time, he was not in the real estate business as much as the Donald Trump business. He licensed his name to an enormous number of products—including clothing, wine, water, jewelry, steak, vodka, and a university (of sorts)—though none lasted very long or made much or any money for his partners. "
― Jeffrey Toobin , True Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Investigation of Donald Trump
82 " Mueller and his team were disciplined, restrained, and orderly; they avoided publicity, and their presentations to the public—especially the Mueller Report, which closed their work—hewed scrupulously to provable facts. Trump was in every way their opposite, and his public statements were medleys of invective and falsehood. "
83 " With regard to Ukraine, Giuliani steered Trump to disaster, in probably the greatest failure of lawyering in the history of presidential scandals. In other words, no Giuliani, no impeachment. "
84 " Still, for someone who lied as much as Trump did, he was a remarkably transparent figure. He never really pretended to be anything other than what he was—a narcissistic scoundrel. Yet he survived. "
85 " It may be an overstatement, though not much of one, to say that James Comey was responsible for both the election of Donald Trump and the appointment of Robert Mueller. "
86 " The Trump campaign was disorganized in the best of circumstances, and its policy apparatus was an especially neglected corner. (“Policy” on the campaign "
87 " The Trump campaign was disorganized in the best of circumstances, and its policy apparatus was an especially neglected corner. (“Policy” on the campaign was whatever Trump happened to say on any given day.) "
88 " As for his news conferences about the virus, Trump boasted, as thousands of his fellow citizens were dying, that “the ratings are through the roof according to, of all sources, the Failing New York Times, ‘Monday Night Football, Bachelor Finale’ type numbers. "
89 " The brief devoted little attention to defending Trump’s actual conduct. Nor, really, did Trump’s lawyers deny what he was alleged to have done. "
90 " Crossfire Hurricane was a counterintelligence operation—to find out what Russia was doing, not to find out what the Trump campaign was doing. In other words, in the summer of 2016, the FBI was investigating Russian efforts to manipulate individuals within the Trump campaign, but not the Trump campaign itself. "
91 " The closest he came to doing business in Russia was in 2007, when he signed a distribution deal for his Trump-branded vodka to be sold there. (It flopped in Russia, as it did elsewhere.) "
92 " For Trump, his presidency was more about him than what he could accomplish. For this reason, the only verdict that has ever mattered to Trump is the one rendered on Election Day. "
93 " In October 2015, a time when he had already been running for president for several months, Trump signed a nonbinding letter of intent to license the Trump name to a potential office tower in Moscow. "
94 " Trump’s psychological deficits—his narcissism, his lack of empathy, his short attention span—were almost comically conspicuous, and so, too, was his tendency to project his deficits onto others. "
95 " called, in her era, the generation gap. "
― Jeffrey Toobin , American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst
96 " Thanks in part to the tutelage of Roy Cohn, his first lawyer and the one he admired most, Trump approached the courtroom with his customary cynicism. All that mattered was winning, regardless of what norms, or people, he had to trample in the process. "
97 " The emails spoke for themselves. They showed that a close adviser to a leading Russian oligarch family offered the help of the Russian government to Trump in the 2016 election. The candidate’s son welcomed that assistance. "
98 " The Times story caused a sensation, not just because the emails contradicted Don junior’s explanations but because they offered the clearest proof yet of coordination—collusion—between the Trump campaign and Russia. "
99 " In most circumstances, the opportunity to represent the president of the United States is highly coveted, the kind of assignment that would lead many lawyers to find a way around conflicts. But Washington’s top lawyers formulated reasons to say no to Donald Trump. "
100 " Attorney-client privilege covered only conversations between lawyers and clients, so Jared and Ivanka’s presence meant that the conversations with Trump’s lawyers would not be privileged. But no one seemed to care, least of all the president. "
