‘Not a typical president’
“He is not a typical president of the past, I think that’s well recognized— that’s also why the American people does not expect to be asked to resign
Tillerson was forced to mount his defense as Washington devoured a new supposed tell-all— Michael Wolff’s “Fire and Fury: rushed into bookstores after the
The book quickly sold out in people even lining up at midnight to get their hands on it and others has decried the instant best seller
Journalist Wolff, no stranger to controversy, quotes several key Trump aides expressing doubt about Trump’s ability to lead the world’s largest economy and mili
“Let me put a marker in the sand
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The 71- year- old Republican president, approaching the first anniversary of his inauguration, has responded to the book 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.
Criticism from aides
“I authorized Zero access to White House [actually turned him down many times] for author of phony book! I never spoke to him for -
But Wolff countered: “I ab Whether he realized it was an interview or not, I don’t know, but
The book includes extensive former chief strategist, and its publication sparked a very public break
Bannon is quoted accusing Trump’s eldest son Don Jr of “trea connected lawyer, and saying the president’s daughter Ivanka, who imagines running for president
But it is Trump himself who is
bitter tweet, calling Wolff “a total loser who made up stories in order to sell this really boring and
The book claims that for Trea former White House chief of staff Reince Priebus, the president - nomic advisor Gary Cohn, he was
The publication came as it emerged that at least a dozen briefed last month by a Yale University professor of psychiatry on
“Lawmakers were saying they have been very concerned about this, the president’s dangerousness, the dangers that his mental
‘Minute-by-minute’
The White House issued a scorched-earth dismissal of “Fire -
First lady Melania Trump’s - am, told CNN that it is “a work that peddles false statements and
Behind the scenes, though, Trump has been enraged by the betrayal by Bannon—a man who engineered the New York real estate mogul’s link to the nationalist far right and helped create a pro
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Bannon, who left the White House in August, is also quoted in the book as saying that the investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller into Russian interference in the 2016 election—and possible collusion by the Trump campaign—will focus
Wolff confidently defended himself against attacks on his credibility, which have included threats from Trump’s lawyers of
“My credibility is being questioned by a man who has less credibility than, perhaps, anyone who has ever walked on earth at
“I spoke to people who spoke to the president on a daily, some
“I am certainly absolutely in every way comfortable with everything I’ve reported in