With Russia’s full-scale war on Ukraine still raging eight months after he promised to end it, President Donald Trump has gone from berating Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky and rolling out the red carpet for Russia’s Vladimir Putin to seemingly changing his entire outlook with the press of a “post” button. “I think Ukraine, with the support of the European Union, is in a position to fight and WIN...

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Self-effacement, restraint and empathy normally do not mix with high ambition. Ambition – in one form or another, for self or cause – is a requisite for accessing the corridors of power. The narcissist is different. The true narcissist is a readily identifiable personality type, one of the most clearly etched in clinical psychology. Fairly common in the general population, they have been...

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Schwartz reminded himself that he was being paid to tell Trump’s story, not his own, but the more he worked on the project the more disturbing he found it. In his journal, he describes the hours he spent with Trump as “draining” and “deadening.” Schwartz told me that Trump’s need for attention is “completely compulsive,” and that his bid for the Presidency is part of a continuum. “He’s managed...

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