THE BIG READ: On the stump with Donald Trump

Why the billionaire estate mogul is crushing the US Republican field. By Bill Powell

We were finally sitting in Donald Trump’s office for our final interview at the end of a month-long reporting odyssey.

A colleague and I had tailed him pretty much everywhere he went. I flew with him down to Atlantic City in his retrofitted French military helicopter, rode with him in his limos and chatted with him in his various offices and at his home. We were reporting a cover profile for Newsweek.