The following article by Constance Grady was posted on the Vox website January 5, 2018:
The Authors Guild has released a blistering statement on Trump’s libel suit threats against Michael Wolff.
On Thursday, a lawyer working for President Donald Trump sent a cease-and-desist letter to journalist Michael Wolff. Wolff had just released excerpts from his new book, Fire and Fury, depicting the Trump administration as a chaotic swirl of incompetence and exploitation, and Trump’s lawyer threatened a libel suit if Wolff and his publisher, Henry Holt and Co., did not stop distribution of the book immediately.
The president has alleged on Twitter that Wolff’s book is “phony” and “full of lies, misrepresentations and sources that don’t exist.” But the letter from Trump’s counselseems to have been fairly counterproductive — in response, Henry Holt and Co. simply moved up Fire and Fury’s publication date from January 9 to January 5 and basked in all the press coverage. Continue reading “Trump is threatening to sue a journalist. The Authors Guild says, “That’s what tyrants do.””