Tag: Michael Wolff

Rush to defend Trump from book’s claims creates more debate

The following article by Mallory Shelbourne was posted on the Hill website January 7, 2018:

Trump administration officials on Sunday are playing defense for their boss against shocking allegations reported in a new book detailing the first year of Trump’s presidency.

Multiple individuals close to President Trump hit the Sunday show circuit, including two Cabinet officials, but White House policy adviser Stephen Miller became the talk of the morning after Jake Tapper abruptly cut off a contentious interview with the Trump aide during CNN’s “State of the Union.” Continue reading “Rush to defend Trump from book’s claims creates more debate”

Wolff: Concept of 25th Amendment ‘alive every day’ in Trump’s White House

The following article by Mallory Shelbourne was posted on the Hill website January 7, 2018:

Michael Wolff, author of the blockbuster new book about President Trump, said in a new interview that the concept of the 25th Amendment is “alive every day” in Trump’s White House.

“This is alarming in every way. And then this went on, ‘OK, this is a little 25th Amendment.’ So the 25th Amendment is a concept that is alive every day in the White House,” Wolff told NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

Under the 25th Amendment, the vice president and a majority of the Cabinet may proclaim the president is unfit to serve and therefore remove the president from office.

Continue reading “Wolff: Concept of 25th Amendment ‘alive every day’ in Trump’s White House”

As Trump fumes, White House staff spread blame on Wolff book

The following article by Andrew Restuccia and Matthew Nussbaum was posted on the Politico website January 4, 2018:

President Donald Trump’s lawyers are threatening a ferocious legal assault on Michael Wolff and those who cooperated with him, including Steve Bannon. | Andrew Harnik/AP Photo

White House staffers are poring over copies of Michael Wolff’s forthcoming book, scanning the index for their names and crossing their fingers that they aren’t mentioned.

The president, for his part, is still fuming behind the scenes, even though in remarks to reporters Thursday he appeared to be pleased that Steve Bannon, his newly forsaken former chief strategist, called him a “great man” in a recent radio interview. Continue reading “As Trump fumes, White House staff spread blame on Wolff book”

5 surprising allegations from the new book about Trump’s presidency

The following article by Brett Samuels was posted on the Hill website January 3, 2018:

White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders takes reporters’ questions at a news conference in the White House briefing room this month. (Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images)

Washington, D.C., on Wednesday was dominated by a series of explosive excerpts from a forthcoming book focused on the early days inside the Trump administration.

Michael Wolff’s upcoming book, “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House,” depicts a president who did not expect to defeat Hillary Clinton in November 2016 and who clashed with White House staff. Excerpts of the book were published Wednesday.

Wolff acknowledges in the book’s introduction that it contains conflicting and untrue statements. He writes that certain accounts reflect “a version of events I believe to be true.”  Continue reading “5 surprising allegations from the new book about Trump’s presidency”

Donald Trump Didn’t Want to Be President

The following article by Michael Wolff was posted on the New York Magazine website January 3, 2018. Illustrations By :

One year ago: the plan to lose, and the administration’s shocked first days.

Election Night: It “looked as if he had seen a ghost.”

On the afternoon of November 8, 2016, Kellyanne Conway settled into her glass office at Trump Tower. Right up until the last weeks of the race, the campaign headquarters had remained a listless place. All that seemed to distinguish it from a corporate back office were a few posters with right-wing slogans.

Conway, the campaign’s manager, was in a remarkably buoyant mood, considering she was about to experience a resounding, if not cataclysmic, defeat. Donald Trump would lose the election — of this she was sure — but he would quite possibly hold the defeat to under six points. That was a substantial victory. As for the looming defeat itself, she shrugged it off: It was Reince Priebus’s fault, not hers. Continue reading “Donald Trump Didn’t Want to Be President”

Trump lawyer seeks to block insider book on White House

The following article by Josh Dawsey and Ashley Parker was posted on the Washington Post website January 4, 2018:

President Trump used to have kind words for his former chief strategist Stephen K. Bannon, but things changed with his scathing statement on Jan. 3. (Jenny Starrs/The Washington Post)

A lawyer representing President Trump sought Thursday to stop the publication of a new behind-the-scenes book about the White House that has already led Trump to angrily decry his former chief strategist Stephen K. Bannon. Continue reading “Trump lawyer seeks to block insider book on White House”