New York Times reporter Jonathan Swan suggested during a "60 Minutes Australia" interview released last week that President Donald Trump has "Napoleonic" ambition and a political survivability that should humble journalists.Swan and fellow Times reporter Maggie Haberman discussed their new book, "Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump," and Swan offered speculation on the rest of the president's term and cautioned other journalists to have some humility."So there's still a sense that, even if Democrats take the House from Trump, they really can't touch him," Swan said in the interview."And, like you said, his family's made a lot of money.
He's wealthier than he's ever been.He has immunity conferred by the Supreme Court.
And there's no prospect, even if he does get impeached, there's no prospect of a conviction.""I think Donald Trump's obituary has been written so many times — his political obituary — by so many people," Swan continued."And by this point, if you don't have some humility around that, I think, you know, you're operating in a fairly delusional way.
This is someone who has incredible survival capacities, who's able to regenerate himself, and he's still got two and a half years left as the most powerful man on the planet, with no intention of receding at all."HOW TRUMP SURVIVES: BATTLING THE MEDIA, FORMER ALLIES AND ASSASSINATION ATTEMPTSFor over a decade, even when he was not in office, President Donald Trump has dominated American politics, having led a movement that shook the political landscape.(Kent Nishimura/Reuters)As he spoke about the future of Trump’s term, he noted that the president's next step may be taking on the Cuban regime. "So there are many things he could do," he said.
"The most obvious in foreign policy is Cuba.They've been looking at potential regime change in Cuba, but who knows? It's a big world out there, and we don't want to start being pundits and prognosticating."Swan also described a past enc...