New York Occasions: “This account of how Mr. Trump is utilizing his affect with Republicans on Capitol Hill is predicated on interviews with greater than a dozen individuals accustomed to the interactions, most of whom insisted on anonymity to debate personal conversations. They described an method wherein Mr. Trump, who has spent years exhibiting Republicans that he can both be their biggest champion or their worst political enemy, focuses intently on wooing and socializing with G.O.P. lawmakers, counting on the implicit however not often acknowledged risk of ruining them to get his method once they stray from his calls for.”
“They usually mentioned Mr. Trump’s techniques had been extra carrot than stick. He depends on the trimmings of the presidency — rides on Air Power One; visits with their spouses to his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Seaside, Fla.; White Home tchotchkes; and seemingly limitless Sharpie signatures on Trump-branded merchandise — to make Republicans members of Congress really feel particular and indebted to him.”
