Pursuit of enemies has quickly emerged as a key theme of Trump 2.0 and Alex Isenstadt is happy to dish the dirt

Alex Isenstadt is a senior political reporter at Axios and an alumnus of Politico. For a decade, he has covered Donald Trump and the Republicans. In March 2015, an Isenstadt dispatch blared: “GOP hopefuls rush toward starting gates.” The story made no mention of the man who would win the 2016 election, lose in 2020, then win again in ’24.

But like all political reporters, Isenstadt has now mentioned Donald Trump plenty.

Revenge: The Inside Story of Trump’s Return to Power is published in the US by Hachette