PoliticsThursday 07.14.22

Trump Came Up Behind Me and Poured a Glass of Wine Down My Back | Hell & High Water

John Heilemann talks with Marie Brenner, Vanity Fair writer-at-large and author of the new book, “The Desperate Hours: One Hospital's Fight to Save a City on the Pandemic's Front Lines,” about her estimable career as a journalist and just how little Donald Trump has changed since she wrote a truth-telling magazine piece on him in 1990 titled "After the Gold Rush." Brenner recounts a run-in she had with Trump after the piece was published in which a younger, but-nonetheless-brash version of the former President took revenge on her in a public, scene-making, cowardly — and perfectly Trumpian — fashion.

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