“That's right out of the Trump playbook: if you want to know what he's going to do, see what he's accusing other people of doing—usually falsely. He's a master of bearing false witness. He operates within the limits of his imagination, and his imagination is spurred by the awful things he can imagine other people doing. ... He's had the idea then that, 'Oh, you can do this. And oh, in my mind, they've already done it, so I can go do it.'”

-- Michael Lewis on The Bulwark Podcast, March 21, 2025, episode “Government Workers Aren't the Corrupt Ones.”