against him ai and i had tapes. and you had tapes. of the depositions and so forth. but talk about trump, when he s up against something he doesn t understand because you experienced that with your own n book about trump and his business. well, the tricky thing here is he is constantly up against things he doesn t understand because he s impatient, he s ignorant, and he has no real sense that he s vulnerable to anything. he s been protected his whole life, first by wealth, then by celebrity, and now by the presidency. and he s never really suffered the consequences of his phenomenally bad decision-making. until he actually stares it in the face. it clicked with him a couple wc months ago that don jr. might ee un suddenly be vulnerable in the mueller investigation. in our case i don t think he ever thought the new york times or my publisher would he retain attorneys to back me up. he then never thought they would get him for two days, for two eight-hour depositions in which we