Susan Glasser has a great profile of Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, much of which comes from reporting from her forthcoming book with Peter Baker: The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017 -2021.
“A sixty-year-old onetime real-estate developer from North Carolina who had spent the previous seven years in Congress, he was beefy and tall, with a winning smile and an easygoing manner. But his affable demeanor disguised a ruthless ambition, and, once he quit Congress and took over Trump’s perpetually fractious team, his new colleagues found him to be a cutthroat infighter determined to consolidate power.”
This is telling: “A former Republican leadership aide once told the journalists Anna Palmer and Jake Sherman that Meadows was the most dishonest person he had ever met at the Capitol, ‘convicted criminals included.’”
Save to Favorites