Donald Trump used to call me his psychologist.

The reason, he’d say, is that I sweet-talked him out of suing so often. I had to: I was a top editor at the Wall Street Journal, a newspaper he read fairly closely, and then executive editor of The Post, a paper he took an interest in as he started making investments in Virginia and Washington and then got more active in politics.

There were certain topics that Trump wanted off-limits, and legal threats were how he tried to keep them that way.

more at Source: What I learned as Donald Trump’s media ‘psychologist’ – The Washington Post