‘Fire and Fury’ book terrifying and funny

principal sources. By the way, all the current Trumpgenerated flack about Mr. Wolff’s book being basically fiction is just silly. There are minor mistakes in it. I would put these down to careless haste. But there is too much “beef” in the book for it not to be fact-based as well as bile-based.

Threaded through the anecdotal pieces of the book that have provoked so much fury within the Trump camp, there are at least two themes that would make people with their future in mind lose sleep, or even television time. The first is that the investigation being carried out by ex-FBI chief and special counsel Robert S. Mueller is serious stuff. Apart from the

that accompanied the suggestion in the book that the June 9, 2016, meeting in Trump Tower that included son Donald J. Trump Jr. and Russians constituted treason, it is clear that Mr. Wolff thinks that the Russian probe plus possible 2018 Republican election losses will lead to impeachment. He points to likely money-laundering and Mr. Trump’s still shielded tax returns as keys to the door that Mr. Mueller will find.

The second point in the book that has to worry people is that Mr. Trump clearly sees himself as a two-term president. Oh, and Mr. Bannon plans to run for president himself in 2020. We suppose Mr. Wolff putting in that nugget was the price of getting some of Mr. Bannon’s more lurid stories. Whatever it is, it will be hard to participate in American political conversations in coming days without having read this book. So do it. It’s fun, as well as terrifying, unless you would like to think that America won’t face any crisis requiring decisions over the next three years.