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Rejecting a New York Magazine story which said his run for the Republican statesmanlike information successful 2024 was each but moribund a small much than a period aft helium announced it, Donald Trump subjected the writer to misogynistic abuse.
Olivia Nuzzi, Trump said, was “a shaky and unattractive wack job”.
The erstwhile president besides called Nuzzi’s communicative “Fake News”, insisted “her ‘anonymous sources’ don’t beryllium (true with galore writers)” and said: “I’m happily warring hard for our GREAT USA!”
The Guardian, however, has seen messages successful which a seasoned Trump run insider says determination is “some close worldly in” Nuzzi’s portion and, erstwhile told “time catches up with each of us”, answers: “True.”
Nuzzi’s story, The Final Campaign, ran nether a pointed subtitle: “Inside Donald Trump’s sad, lonely, thirsty, broken, fundamentally unreal tally for reelection. (Which isn’t to accidental helium can’t win.)”
The portion quoted galore anonymous advisers, including 1 who said: “It’s not there. In this business, you tin person it and person it truthful blistery and it tin spell overnight and it’s gone and you can’t get it back. I deliberation we’re conscionable seeing it’s gone. The magic is gone.”
When specified insiders were asked wherefore Trump was moving for the White House again, Nuzzi wrote, “Few … are definite of the answers.
“‘It seems similar a joke,’ said 1 ex–Trump loyalist, a erstwhile White House official. ‘It feels similar he’s going done the motions due to the fact that helium said helium would.’”
She besides said Trump was “sensitive astir smallness” and compared his isolation astatine Mar-a-Lago successful Florida to the predicament of Norma Desmond, the quality played by Gloria Swanson in Sunset Boulevard, a movie Trump is known to adore.
Nuzzi wrote of “a washed-up prima locked distant successful a mansion from the 1920s, acrophobic of the satellite outside, acrophobic it volition punctual him that clip has passed”.
Trump faces extended ineligible jeopardy, from the January 6 probe and 4 House referrals to the Department of Justice; from the department’s ain investigation; from an probe of his predetermination subversion successful Georgia; from investigations of his concern and taxation affairs; and successful the lawsuit of a writer who alleges helium raped her, an allegation helium denies.
Nuzzi besides wrote that Trump, 76, does sometimes permission his edifice – to spell to his play people successful Doral. There, Nuzzi wrote, helium “meets regularly with an impressive, ideologically divers scope of argumentation wonks, diplomats, and governmental theorists for conversations astir the planetary system and subject conflicts and law instrumentality and I’m kidding. He goes determination to play golf.
“‘He conscionable goes, plays golf, comes back, and fucks off. He has retreated to the play people and to Mar-a-Lago,’ 1 advisor said. ‘His satellite has gotten overmuch smaller. His satellite is so, truthful small.’”
Trump inactive polls powerfully with Republicans, though helium present has a superior rival successful the notional GOP primary: Ron DeSantis, politician of Florida.
Nuzzi has repeatedly made headlines with stories astir Trump and his adjacent allies, including, successful 2019, a bid of startling exchanges with Rudy Giuliani, the erstwhile New York politician who became Trump’s lawyer and is present successful legal jeopardy of his own.
Speaking to CNN connected Monday, Nuzzi was asked however she thought Trump would respond to her piece.
“It’s similar an 8,000- oregon 9,000 word-piece,” she said. “I don’t cognize that he’s going to beryllium sitting down to work it. I deliberation he’ll astir apt conscionable look astatine the cover, look astatine the header and deliberation ‘Eh, fake news,’ and determination connected from there.”
Trump did telephone the portion fake quality but helium besides resorted to abuse.
Writing connected his Truth Social platform, the erstwhile president said helium agreed to an interrogation with “a erstwhile precise good, but present connected its ‘last legs’ and failing, New York Magazine.
“The newsman was a shaky and unattractive wack job, known arsenic ‘tough’ but dumb arsenic a rock, who really wrote a decent communicative astir maine a agelong clip ago. Her name, Olivia Nuzzi.”
On Monday night, Nuzzi responded – but not with a written rejoinder.
Seemingly replying to Trump’s assertion she was “dumb arsenic a rock”, the writer tweeted 2 pictures of Trump astatine the White House successful August 2017, during a star eclipse.
Trump was not wearing shades. In some pictures, helium stared consecutive astatine the sun.
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