“This was sexy and exciting in 2015, 2016,” said Sam Nunberg, a former Trump adviser who worked for him early in his first run. “But for people that have known Donald Trump for a long time like me, I was always worried that he wouldn’t wear well. And he’s at that place now, I think, where he’s not wearing well.”Mr. Trump seems disinclined to trust anyone else’s judgment on this score, a hesitation born of experience. Throughout his business career, Mr. Trump embraced the label of risk-taker while often eliding the reality of who was assuming much of the risk, spinning failures as successes in the popular imagination. Gwenda Blair, a biographer of the Trump family, recalled the lessons the president learned from Roy Cohn, the notorious lawyer who mentored him.

Source: New York Times June 20, 2020 06:56 UTC