Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff

Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House

by Michael Wolff

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Politics & Power

How much can you trust an account the White House denied and CNN's Jake Tapper urged skepticism about? Wolff built his portrait of Trump's first year from more than 200 interviews and West Wing access as an observer, and it starts from a campaign where nobody, Trump included, expected to win.

Core ideas
  • Warring factions: Steve Bannon's rivalry with Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump runs through the book, with Bannon quoted calling the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting with Russians treasonous.
  • A president at a distance: Decisions like firing James Comey sit alongside Trump's TV watching and his limited engagement with briefings.
  • The fallout: Trump's lawyer threatened a libel suit before release, and afterward Bannon distanced himself from his quotes and left Breitbart News.
Published2018
Pages322
ISBN9781250158062
ReadAug 2024

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