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I asked Donald Trump the question. Everyone asked Donald Trump the question.
Would he engage in retribution in a second term?
And we all got the same answer: He’d be too busy for that. His only retribution would be success.
Well, if Trump is not engaged in turning government against his political enemies, he’s doing a pretty good imitation of it.
Now, hardball politics is as old as the republic. The founders engaged in it. Abe Lincoln engaged in it. And you think LBJ never got his way by threatening to pull a grant or two for a congressman’s pet projects?
Look, one thing I’ve learned covering Trump for decades is that he loves to fight. In New York, back in the day, he would do battle with the likes of Ed Koch and Leona Helmsley, the “Queen