Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Meltdown

Mad About Bari Weiss • Biden’s 2020 Bid? • The Trump Apology [View this email in your browser]( [Advertisement]( [Powered by LiveIntent]( [AdChoices]( Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Meltdown Good morning, dear reader! Jack Dorsey doffed his beanie for a [visit to the White House](. Kamala Harris is [calling for impeachment](. And Elon Musk is sounding [vaguely unhinged](. But who wants to talk about yesterday’s news, anyway? Today, we lead with Gabriel Sherman’s latest dispatch from the West Wing, where Donald Trump is plotting a lawsuit against Don McGahn and revenge against his enemies. Evgenia Peretz profiles Bari Weiss, the (classical) liberal the left loves to hate. And Joe Pompeo goes in search of a New York Times apocryphal “apology” to Trump. We hope that you’re enjoying what you’re reading. Have a great day! [“Trump’s Furious with Don”: Inside the Mar-a-Lago Meltdown]( By [Gabriel Sherman]( [The president is raging against his former staff and wants to sue Don McGahn—but staff think he and his lawyers blew it. “You didn’t have to send me in there,” said one witness. But Giuliani says: Nothing to see here!]( [Mad About Bari Weiss: The New York Times Provocateur the Left Loves to Hate]( By [Evgenia Peretz]( [The Times op-ed writer is a Trump-loathing theater nerd who studied at a feminist yeshiva and used to date Kate McKinnon. She also led a controversial protest at Columbia, and popularized the “intellectual dark Web.” The contradictions of a social-media lightning rod.]( [How Trump Weaponized the Times’s Post-Election Non-Apology to Readers]( By [Joe Pompeo]( [A message composed in haste to shocked subscribers after Trump’s election has become one of Trump’s favorite Twitter cudgels. But the Times says it “never apologized.”]( [Kushner: So Russia Bought “a Couple of Facebook Ads,” So What]( By [Bess Levin]( [According to the First Son-in-Law, Bob Mueller did more damage to this country than Russia ever could.]( [Joe Biden Seems Confused About His Own 2020 Launch]( By [Tina Nguyen]( [Biden advisers say the candidate will “project a ‘determined’ air” when he announces on Wednesday, or maybe Thursday, or whenever he gets his act together. For someone selling himself as a leader, Biden is strangely indecisive about the details.]( [Advertisement]( [Powered by LiveIntent]( [AdChoices]( [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Instagram]( [LinkedIn]( This e-mail was sent to you by The Hive. To ensure delivery to your inbox (not bulk or junk folders), please add our e-mail address, vanityfair@newsletter.vf.com, to your address book. View our [Privacy Policy]( [Unsubscribe]( Copyright © Condé Nast 2019. One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.