![]() ![]() How much of that stuff is actually true is a different question - one that’s much tougher to answer. ![]() In other words, the book does seem to be a collection of stuff Wolff heard. And Wolff is often deliberately vague about his sourcing. Some people are disputing quotes attributed to them. Some anecdotes and details in the book don’t seem to match known facts others seem outright impossible to verify. (A source for one of Wolff’s anecdotes, Sam Nunberg, has previously admitted to spreading made-up Trump campaign gossip.) And we don’t really know how much effort Wolff put into trying to nail down whether the juicy stuff we heard was actually true. Sources can misstate the facts accidentally, or deliberately. Bannon evidently talked to Wolff a great deal, and he hasn’t disputed any of the controversial quotes attributed to him that have already earned him a presidential tongue lashing.īut of course gossip is often wrong or inaccurate. He seems to have been in the room for some of the events he depicts. ![]() Wolff did get access to the White House - reporters have seen him coming and going there this year. A fair amount of it does clearly seem to be accurate. As fact? As “trashy tabloid fiction,” as the White House argues? Or as something in between?įrom what I’ve read so far, my view is that we should interpret the book as a compendium of gossip Wolff heard. Indeed, some of the things Wolff describes in the excerpts sound so outlandish - and also happen to be so hazily sourced - that there’s already a vigorous discussion in the political world about how, exactly, this book should be interpreted. Wolff spruces things up, though, with new quotes, anecdotes, and purported personal details - many of which are eye-popping and unflattering. The excerpts from the book released earlier this week tell a mostly familiar big-picture story of chaos during the presidential transition and in Trump’s early months in the White House. And the Washington Post’s Carol Leonnig writes this morning that Trump’s lawyers have sent a cease-and-desist letter to the book’s publisher, demanding to stop its publication. New York magazine published a lengthy excerpt from it Wednesday, the Hollywood Reporter ran a column by Wolff on the book Thursday, and the Guardian, the Washington Post, and CNBC have all run quotes from it.įormer Trump adviser Steve Bannon, meanwhile, has come under fire from the Trump family for quotes he seems to have given to Wolff. Though just released this morning, it’s already been dominating the political news cycle for a few days. The book in question is Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, by longtime media writer Michael Wolff. A dishy new book purports to reveal the inner secrets of the Trump White House - and has already provoked President Donald Trump to a furious response. ![]()
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