I suppose we should discuss "Fire and Fury" by Michael Wolff

Also, I wouldn't mind diving deeper into some of the anecdotes from the book, such as "nobody thought Trump would win" and that Trump himself was shocked and dismayed when the results started turning on election night. Supposedly he did not want to be President.

I don't see how this is possible - his brand was going to be in tatters if he had lost. The estimates of his new DC hotel were brutal had he lost - his debt was almost unmanageable and he'd surely have had to declare bankruptcy on it given how it would have been boycotted had Hillary won. Ditto for Ivanka - her clothing line suffered a MAJOR blow that would have been worse had Trump lost. It would have all been for not had Trump not won the election. So I find it really hard to believe that competitors like Trump and Ivanka WANTED to lose the election.

I think Wolff takes a ton of liberties. But the anecdotal stuff like the fighting with Melania and the reclusive behavior by Trump is hard to spin (not that it ultimately matters in how he performs as President).

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I suppose we should discuss "Fire and Fury" by Michael Wolff

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Honestly could not give a shite if TRUMP was twice as crazy as this book says he is. He won the rust belt, beat Hillary, and enacted MAGA. He has given us great laughs and yuge league tax cuts. That is all that matters.

And the courts! My God he saved the courts! This is all two scoops stuff.

I read it too and It was unflattering to say the least.

I think Trump didn’t believe he would win - so he didn’t prepare himself for it - emotionally or work wise. The transition was chaotic. But he’s gotten it together since he hired Kelly. Nobody wants to take a loss in public. I just don’t believe that.

I think Bannon got fired and has sour grapes, and he’s good at publicity, but not politics. I think it stemmed from the fact that Bannon tried to, and wanted toncome btwn Trump and his kids for ego and his desire to run for President. I think he wanted Trump to defer to him, and him alone. Trump runs a family business. And consequently is used to relying on his kids for for advice. He was always going to be an outsider to them- to some extent. I believe that Ivanka does want to be President, which is why she went to work for him. What’s wrong with that? Hell at least she’s on his staff and a paid employee. Unlike Hillary Clinton who was First Lady, but still making policy decisions but not as a Federal employee.

If Trump was really crazy - Ivanka would have turned out like Paris Hilton. None of his children act like other entitled spoiled brats

Bannon has no business commenting on a meeting he did not attend. The thing that pisses me off the most is his speculation about that innocuous meeting. He gave no new info aside from siding with the D narrative on that.

According to the White House press briefing, Michael Wolff visited he White House more than a dozen times last year. That’s according to Sara Huckabee sanders. I’m sure they will do there best to slander and discredit him however.

Caught the guy has a reputation for creating quotes and situations out of thin air. It's all over his Wikipedia page. I wouldn't put much stock in his book.

Especially since the central premise is that a guy who was working on the campaign 20 hours a day for 16 months, spending millions of dollars, doing six events that day, didn't actually want to be president and wanted to lose.

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Tucker Carlson said last night that he knows Wolff and Wolff wouldn't report things that aren't true.

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then tucker is a moron because several things in the book have been discovered to be false and it hasn’t even been released

I'm a little shocked the topic isn't gaining any traction on this board of all places.


To my knowledge Michael Wolff is well respected and wouldn't just sling shite against a wall. the details in this book are SCATHING to trump. then again, every time I think it's end for trump he just persists.


Of course I finally watch cable news for the first time in awhile to see CNN was melting, and Fox was (shocker) talking about Hillary's emails

Disappointed to learn Corey Lewendoski was banging Hope Hicks. This on top of finding out Katie Pavlich was married a year ago. My fantasies are taking a beating!