‘Fire and Fury’: Excerpts from tell-all book on Trump

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