Gold, secrets, never-ending meetings: Inside the Trump White House

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If you follow news about Donald Trump, you'll find there's plenty of it all the time, and you get used to impulsive decisions, surprising developments, and sudden changes of course. Tariffs rise and fall with dizzying speed. The Iranian leaders he was calling rational days ago he now regards as scum. The pattern is so familiar that when I learned that New York Times Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swann had written a new book about Trump's second term in office.

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