Bestseller: Trump's fury?

[yinyang]

Copies of the book "Fire and Fury" by author Michael Wolff are displayed on a shelf at Book Passage on January 5, 2018 in Corte Madera, California./AFP

'Fire and Fury': Excerpts from tell-all book on Trump
Breaking News January 06, 2018 08:05
By Agence France-Presse
Washington

The following are excerpts from "Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House," an incendiary new book by Michael Wolff which was rushed into bookstores Friday after President Donald Trump failed to suppress it.

The book quickly sold out in shops in the US capital, with some lining up at midnight to get their hands on the instant best-seller, dismissed by Trump as "phony" and "full of lies."

Without addressing specifics, White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said there were things in the book that were "completely untrue," while Trump denounced comments attributed to Steve Bannon, saying his former chief strategist had "lost his mind."

Team Trump: running to lose

"'We're all losers,' Trump would say. 'All our guys are terrible, nobody knows what they're doing.'"

"'This thing,' he told the Mercers, 'is so fucked up'".
Trump was reportedly addressing the family of Bob Mercer, the ultra-conservative billionaire sponsors who swung behind his campaign in its final months -- and who reiterated their support in the wake of Wolff's bombshell book.

The shock of election night

"When the unexpected trend -- Trump might actually win -- seemed confirmed, Don Jr. told a friend that his father, or DJT, as he called him, looked as if he had seen a ghost. Melania, to whom Donald Trump had made his solemn guarantee, was in tears -- and not of joy."

"There was, in the space of little more than an hour, in Steve Bannon's not unamused observation, a befuddled Trump morphing into a disbelieving Trump and then into a horrified Trump. But still to come was the final transformation: Suddenly, Donald Trump became a man who believed that he deserved to be, and was wholly capable of being, the president of the United States."

Bannon on meeting with Russians

"'The three senior guys in the campaign,' an incredulous Bannon went on, 'thought it was a good idea to meet with a foreign government inside Trump Tower in the conference room on the 25th floor -- with no lawyers.

'They didn't have any lawyers. Even if you thought that this was not treasonous, or unpatriotic, or bad shit, and I happen to think it's all of that, you should have called the FBI immediately.'"

Bannon was referring to Trump's son Donald Jr, son-in-law Jared Kushner and campaign manager Paul Manafort.

Learning the constitution

"Early in the campaign, in a Producers-worthy scene, (campaign aide) Sam Nunberg was sent to explain the Constitution to the candidate: 'I got as far as the Fourth Amendment before his finger is pulling down on his lip and his eyes are rolling back in his head.'"

George W. Bush on Trump's inaugural address

"That's some weird shit."

Trump's Putin obsession

"'What has he gotten himself into with the Russians?' pressed (the late Fox News chairman Roger) Ailes. 'Mostly,' said Bannon, 'he went to Russia and he thought he was going to meet Putin. But Putin couldn't give a shit about him. So he's kept trying.'"

Trump's Murdoch obsession

"'I'll call him,' said Ailes. 'But Trump would jump through hoops for Rupert. Like for Putin. Sucks up and shits down. I just worry about who's jerking whose chain.'"

Murdoch on Trump?

"'What a fucking idiot,' said Murdoch, shrugging, as he got off the phone" after talking immigration issues with Trump.

Too much to think about

"'I wouldn't give Donald too much to think about,' said an amused Ailes. Bannon snorted. 'Too much, too little-doesn't necessarily change things.'"

Trump fears being poisoned

"He had a longtime fear of being poisoned, one reason why he liked to eat at McDonald's -- nobody knew he was coming and the food was safely pre-made."

Flattery and Egyptian shoes

"Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, the Egyptian strongman, ably stroked the president and said, 'You are a unique personality that is capable of doing the impossible.' (To Sisi, Trump replied, 'Love your shoes. Boy, those shoes. Man....')"

'Our man' in Saudi

"Within weeks of (Trump's Saudi) trip, MBS (Mohammed bin Salman), detaining MBN (Mohammed bin Nayef) quite in the dead of night, would force him to relinquish the Crown Prince title, which MBS would then assume for himself. Trump would tell friends that he and Jared had engineered a Saudi coup: 'We've put our man on top!'"

Ivanka's presidential ambitions

"Balancing risk against reward, both Jared and Ivanka decided to accept roles in the West Wing over the advice of almost everyone they knew. It was a joint decision by the couple, and, in some sense, a joint job. Between themselves, the two had made an earnest deal: If sometime in the future the opportunity arose, she'd be the one to run for president. The first woman president, Ivanka entertained, would not be Hillary Clinton; it would be Ivanka Trump."

- Her brothers' presidential nicknames -

"His sons, Don Jr. and Eric -- behind their backs known to Trump insiders as Uday and Qusay, after the sons of Saddam Hussein."

And the comb-over: explained by Ivanka

"She often described the mechanics behind it to friends: an absolutely clean pate -- a contained island after scalp-reduction surgery -- surrounded by a furry circle of hair around the sides and front, from which all ends are drawn up to meet in the center and then swept back and secured by a stiffening spray. The color, she would point out to comical effect, was from a product called Just for Men -- the longer it was left on, the darker it got. Impatience resulted in Trump's orange-blond hair color."

 

[yinyang]

Fresh Air
Bart van Leeuwen
About time somebody opened a fuckin' window!

 

[yinyang]

The emperor with no clothes?! Author reckons book may end his term?

Author: Book could end Trump's term

• Bangkok Post Published: 6/01/2018 at 05:32 PM
• Online news:

LONDON: The author of a book that is highly critical of Donald Trump's first year as US president says his revelations are likely to bring an end to Trump's time in the White House.

Michael Wolff told BBC radio that his conclusion in Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House -- that Trump is not fit to do the job -- was becoming a widespread view.

"I think one of the interesting effects of the book so far is a very clear emperor-has-no-clothes effect," Wolff said in an interview broadcast on Saturday.

"The story that I have told seems to present this presidency in such a way that it says he can’t do his job.


"Suddenly everywhere people are going 'Oh my God, it’s true, he has no clothes'. That's the background to the perception and the understanding that will finally end ... this presidency."

Trump has dismissed the book as full of lies. It depicts a chaotic White House, a president who was ill-prepared to win the office in 2016, and Trump aides who scorned his abilities.

Trump took to Twitter late on Friday to renew his attacks on Wolff, and on his former top aide Steve Bannon who was quoted in the book.

"Michael Wolff is a total loser who made up stories in order to sell this really boring and untruthful book," Trump said. "He used Sloppy Steve Bannon, who cried when he got fired and begged for his job. Now Sloppy Steve has been dumped like a dog by almost everyone. Too bad!"

Bannon, formerly Trump's chief strategist, is chairman of the so-called alt-right Breitbart News website

In his interview with the BBC, Wolff was asked if he believed that Bannon felt Trump was unfit to serve as president and would try to bring him down. "Yes," Wolff replied.

He also hit back at claims that the book was untruthful.

"This is what's called reporting. This is how you do it." he said. "You ask people, you get as close as you can to the event, you interview the people who were privy to the event, you interview other people who were privy to the event, you come to know the circumstance as well as anybody and then you report it."

 

[rectmobile]

People allow a book to dictate their thinking by an author? Book is no authority.

 

[yinyang]

People allow a book to dictate their thinking by an author? Book is no authority.

The author's expressing his opinion (just as you're entitled to yours). His book may not be the authority, but T's widely publicised antics aren't helping his cause either.

 

[Devil Within]

Watch: Author Behind Trump Admin Book Known For Making False Claims

 

[Devil Within]

TRUMP'S GORILLA CHANNEL

 

[whoami]

Ppl said dont judge a book by its cover. But dotard is an exception. Just look at hw cocky arrogant n stupid he is. o_O

 

[Froggy]

The democrats are so desperate

The economy speaks for itself if this guy is good or bad

 

[Narong Wongwan]

The book will not stick.
Nothing can get trump..... He is Teflon Trump.
His supporters dun give a fuck

 

[whoami]

The democrats are so desperate

The economy speaks for itself if this guy is good or bad

U must belong to the 70% sinkies too.

 

[rectmobile]

The author's expressing his opinion (just as you're entitled to yours). His book may not be the authority, but T's widely publicised antics aren't helping his cause either.

When a person make an effort to write a book on it, that is not a mere expression of opinion. He is trying to do some brainwashing on the public to go his way of thinking. I have faith on the public, they are not that stupid.

 

[zeebjii]

Ppl said dont judge a book by its cover. But dotard is an exception. Just look at hw cocky arrogant n stupid he is. o_O

Arrogant, yes. but stupid? He accomplished the impossible! It's like Low Thia Khiang becoming sinkie PM! But why do you hate him? Is it because he banned some muslims from entering his country?

 

[tun_dr_m]

No body really care much about Dotard and would not spend money nor time to read. There is enough info and facts for inevitable conclusion that Dotard is an idiot that will kill America most rapidly. Nothing can change this fact.

 

[scroobal]

There is numerous sites where someone can download a free PDF version of the book. The book is a surprise as the expected juicy stuff as suggested by the media is actually somewhat minor. You can chronologically see the flow with various acts done Trump and get some insights. The author is also scathing about Bannon and his conduct. In fact he crucified Bannon more than Trump.

What continues to amaze me is why the Trump administration gave the author unfettered access to the White House and the West Wing for nearly a year.

 

[dr.wailing]

There is numerous sites where someone can download a free PDF version of the book.

Don't download the PDF version of the bestseller. The retail version is offered both in epub format (Kobo Books, Barnes & Nobel Nook books, etc..) and azw format (Amazon Kindle). The link to my post of January 5 is https://www.sammyboy.com/threads/re...de-the-trump-white-house.249691/#post-2678533 In my post there are links to download the ebook and also the audiobook.

The PDF version of "Fire and Fury" is converted from either epub or azw format.

One must be careful when opening PDF files from untrusted sources because the former may contain malicious scripts that when run on your computer, steal personal information or wreak havoc.

 

[Froggy]

U must belong to the 70% sinkies too.

Yes I am as you can see from my posts.

PAP da Best!

I'm advocating more rigorously for 70% to be increase to 75%, please see my future posts.

 

[eatshitndie]

here are the facts and the truth about his so called "unfettered" access to the white house deep in the "inner sanctum". it's a bunch of lies and fake news. access yes, via steve bannon's request, but not direct access to the president in the oval office when the president is there. most of his garbage is based on hearsay, not direct interactions and observations in front of potus.

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-m...author-michael-wolff-have-access-white-house/

Did Fire and Fury author Michael Wolff have access to the White House?

By John Kruzel on Friday, January 5th, 2018 at 5:11 p.m.

Trump administration has scrambled to control damaging headlines based on Michael Wolff’s Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, which was rushed to shelves Jan. 5 over threats from President Donald Trump’s attorneys.

For his part, Trump sought to undermine Wolff’s credibility by calling into question the author’s access to the administration’s highest levels.

"I authorized Zero access to White House (actually turned him down many times) for author of phony book!" Trump tweeted Jan. 4. "I never spoke to him for book."

We decided to dissect Trump’s tweet by sifting through what’s known about Wolff’s White House access. We can’t know everything that goes on behind the scenes, but even the public record shows that Trump’s statement is inaccurate.

Wolff’s access to the White House

Trump’s tweet could give the impression that Wolff was denied access to the White House entirely. But as Trump’s own press secretary has acknowledged, the author had more than a dozen interactions with administration officials at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

Wolff claims that over an 18-month period, he conducted more than 200 interviews with Trump and senior staff. In the course of reporting his book, Wolff said he was able to take up "something like a semi-permanent seat on a couch in the West Wing."

Trump never explicitly allowed his visits nor barred him from the White House, Wolff said, which allowed Wolff to exploit this "non-disapproval" to gain access through "various senior staffers." Here’s the author’s account of his access, as written in the Hollywood Reporter (the circumstances of which we could not independently verify):

"Since the new White House was often uncertain about what the president meant or did not mean in any given utterance, his non-disapproval became a kind of passport for me to hang around — checking in each week at the Hay-Adams hotel, making appointments with various senior staffers who put my name in the ‘system,’ and then wandering across the street to the White House and plunking myself down, day after day, on a West Wing couch."

As excerpts of Wolff’s book began to circulate, journalists were eager to have the White House weigh in on the incendiary headlines.

During a White House press briefing, press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders faced questions about Wolff’s access from one journalist who recalled seeing Wolff in the building multiple times. Here’s their Jan. 3 exchange:

Margaret Brennan, CBS News: "Sarah, can you clarify? Because many of us here have seen Michael Wolff at the White House on multiple occasions. We’ve seen him first-hand. So we know he was here. Who gave him access to the White House? What was he here for? Can you explain any of that since we don’t have access to the logs?"

Sanders: "Yeah. So far, from what I can tell of the roughly just over a dozen interactions that he had with officials at the White House, I think close to 95 percent were all done so at the request of (former adviser) Mr. (Steve) Bannon."

Sanders underscored that Wolff had not been given unfettered access to the White House, saying he had been denied more than 30 requests for access, including at least two dozen requests to interview the president.

However, she did not dispute that Wolff had been "seen often" with Bannon in his White House office.

"I know there were a number of times where he met with Steve. And I think they have both said and repeated that that happened," she said in a Jan. 5 interview on Fox & Friends. "We looked at the logs. We know that they met on multiple occasions. He was frequently seen meeting with him. So I think that's a pretty indisputable fact on that front."

So, while it may be the case that Trump did not personally grant Wolff access, his own press secretary says the author had access to administration officials at the White House.

Did Wolff and Trump talk?

To the casual reader, Trump’s tweet could give the impression that he and Wolff never spoke — but that’s far from the case.

While it may be the case that Trump never talked to Wolff with the express understanding that their discussion would later be incorporated into a book, the two men certainly spoke, though the length and nature of their conversations is not entirely clear.

Wolff said he spent about three hours with Trump over the course of the campaign and at the White House.

"Whether he realized it was an interview or not, I don’t know, but it certainly was not off the record," Wolff said in a Jan. 5 interview on NBC’s Today. "I spoke to him after the inauguration, yes. And I had spoken to, I mean I spent about three hours with the president over the course of the campaign and in the White House, so my window into Donald Trump is pretty significant."

For her part, Sanders does not dispute that the two men spoke. According to Sanders, their only conversation since Trump became president took the form of a brief phone call, which, at that time, was not related to Wolff’s book.

"There was one brief conversation that had nothing to do, originally, with the book," Sanders said at a Jan. 3 White House press briefing. "It was, I think, around five to seven minutes in total since the president has taken office. And that’s the only interaction that he’s had."

 

[eatshitndie]

Bannon expresses regret over response to bombshell book
By Eli Watkins and Dan Merica, CNN
Updated 3:54 PM EST, Sun January 07, 2018

(CNN)Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon said Sunday he regretted not responding sooner to comments attributed to him that were critical of Donald Trump Jr. in an explosive new book on the White House.

"Donald Trump, Jr. is both a patriot and a good man," read Bannon's statement, which CNN obtained Sunday from a source close to Bannon. "He has been relentless in his advocacy for his father and the agenda that has helped turn our country around."

The statement later adds: "I regret that my delay in responding to the inaccurate reporting regarding Don Jr has diverted attention from the president's historical accomplishments in the first year of (Trump's) presidency."

Axios first reported Bannon's statement.

READ: Steve Bannon's full statement on comments attributed to him in 'Fire and Fury'

Bannon's statement comes as the President has called on friends and allies to choose between him and Bannon, a source told CNN. It also comes amid an effort to oust Bannon from his position as executive chairman at the conservative news site Breitbart because of his remarks in the book, a person familiar with the matter told CNN.

In the book, "Fire and Fury," author Michael Wolff quotes Bannon as saying the 2016 Trump Tower meeting between Trump campaign officials, including Trump Jr. and former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, and a Russian lawyer purportedly offering damaging information about Hillary Clinton was "treasonous." The book also attributes statements to him denigrating the President.

CNN has not independently verified all the assertions in Wolff's book.

Bannon said his comments about the Trump Tower meeting were not aimed at Trump Jr., but rather Manafort, "a seasoned campaign professional with experience and knowledge of how the Russians operate. He should have known they are duplicitous, cunning and not our friends."

Following the publication of Bannon's quotes in the book, which went on sale Friday, Trump has called friends and allies to make clear they must choose between him and his estranged former adviser, a source familiar with the calls told CNN. Axios previously reported the calls.

Trump has also taken to Twitter to attack Bannon, labeling him "Sloppy Steve," and said in a statement released by White House last Wednesday that Bannon had "lost his mind."

On his Sirius XM radio show later the same day, Bannon praised Trump and called him "a great man" -- a comment Trump touted the following morning.

"He called me a great man last night, so he obviously changed his tune pretty quick," Trump said.

The White House has attacked Wolff as well, and an attorney for Trump sent a "cease and desist" letter to him and the book's publisher. The attorney, Charles Harder, also said he sent a cease-and-desist letter to Bannon warning of potential legal action.

After leaving the White House, Bannon returned to his previous position as executive chairman of the right-wing website Breitbart, where he has boosted Trump and select conservatives. But his future there has come into question in the wake of Wolff's book. There has been a "hard push" to convince Breitbart CEO Larry Solov and Susie Breitbart, the widow of website founder Andrew Breitbart, to fire Bannon, a person familiar with the matter told CNN.

Billionaire conservative donor Rebekah Mercer, who owns a stake in Breitbart, publicly rebukedBannon and said they had not spoken "in many months."

Although Bannon's statement Sunday said his comments in the book were "not aimed at Don Jr.," a quote attributed to Bannon in the book predicted, "They're going to crack Don Junior like an egg on national TV."

Bannon also said in the statement that he continued to believe special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into potential coordination between Trump's associates and Russia to influence the 2016 election is "ridiculous" in nature and "a witch hunt."

In the book, Bannon is quoted as calling the Trump Tower meeting in June of 2016 "treasonous" and saying it should have been reported to the FBI.

"The three senior guys in the campaign thought it was a good idea to meet with a foreign government inside Trump Tower in the conference room on the 25th floor -- with no lawyers. They didn't have any lawyers," Bannon said in the book. "Even if you thought that this was not treasonous, or unpatriotic, or bad s***, and I happen to think it's all of that, you should have called the FBI immediately."

CNN's Kaitlin Collins, Jeff Zeleny and Oliver Darcy contributed to this report.

 

[yinyang]

Denial T defines himself as stable genius