![]() ![]() It’s that some of the people closest to the Trumps have felt so jilted by them, so burned, so wrung out, that they’re willing to spill their guts about their own family or closest friends. What has struck me most about these books is not what salacious stories they have to share, though the stories are delicious and damning as advertised. Three variations on the form are hitting the market this summer: books from Mary Trump, the president’s niece Michael Cohen, his longtime fixer and now Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, a former close friend and adviser of first lady Melania Trump-three accounts from the most inside insiders of Trumpworld. I say this with both affection for and intimate knowledge of the genre because I myself contributed to it. The successful books of this genre have often followed a form: Reporters teasing the juiciest, scariest, most revealing accounts from people who know Trump or worked with him or served under him, the “adults in the room” who whispered anonymously about the horrible things they witnessed, but who did nothing about them beyond said whispering. And apart from the cottage industry of Trump–themed books-all the fire and fury that’s been fit to print, dominate cable-news coverage, and hover on bestsellers lists. The era of Donald Trump has been bad for everyone and everything, mostly, apart from the superrich and their tax bills, the real estate developers and their tax breaks, and the white supremacists, who seem to have been granted permission from the top to say the quiet part out loud.
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