The most piquant part of Michael Wolff’s gossipy new book, Fire and Fury: Inside The Trump White House, is the ease with which he insinuated himself into the White House. Wolff explains that Trump initially thought he was interested in landing a job. When Wolff said he actually wanted to write a book about the administration, Trump expressed bafflement that anyone would want to write one but said it was OK for Wolff to talk with administration officials.
Fox News is reporting that the communications team ‘urged all of the senior advisors to cooperate. They thought this was going to be a positive book for the President’. So Wolff apparently hung out in the lobby of the West Wing and got great access. It has to make you wonder: if a journalist like Wolff could snooker the administration this easily, what can foreign adversaries accomplish?
His book has, of course, detonated with concussive force in Washington.
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