How Bill Pulte learned the art of the attack, from his own family to Letitia James

WASHINGTON | Before Bill Pulte started targeting President Donald Trump’s political enemies, he practiced on his own family.

He accused his grandfather’s widow of insider trading. He was allegedly the driving force behind a website trashing an aunt as a “fake Christian.” And he publicly blasted another relative as “a fat slob,” “weirdo” and “grifter,” according to court records from a bitter legal feud Pulte pursued against PulteGroup, the multibillion-dollar homebuilding giant his grandfather founded.

In any other administration, that background could foreclose the possibility of landing a top government post. But in Trump’s Washington, the attention-seeking and hyper-online millennial has unexpectedly become a major player. The latest measure of his influence came this week when New Y