“She’s an incredibly effective human being, but there’s definitely been deterioration in the last year. She’s in a very different mode now.” Rainer meets up with Paige backstage and gives her a gift — a necklace inscribed with the letter “P” in diamonds. “I thought you could wear it on our first date,” he says. “This is me asking you out.” Paige rebuffs him, saying she can’t accept the gift, and then scurries away to the set. Rainer looks confused — clearly no girl has ever said “no” to him before. (It turns out that Rainer gives initial necklaces to girls all the time and Paige knew what was up.) that the numbers had started near half a million dollars annually in 2016 and 2017, but have been nearly triple that so far in 2020. In 2018 and 2019, the deductions were around $630,000, but this year through August, they’ve reportedly totaled $1.447 million. Jane Mayer has articulated questions raised about how the age of Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) could be factoring into her capacity asa lawmakerMore broadly, Mayer’sDecember 10 piece