Posted on 01/04/2018 3:41:18 AM PST by Pinkbell
Michael Wolff has tapes to back up quotes in his incendiary book — dozens of hours of them.
Among the sources he taped, I'm told, are Bannon and former White House deputy chief of staff Katie Walsh.
So that's going to make it harder for officials to deny embarrassing or revealing quotes attributed to them in "Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House," out Tuesday.
In some cases, the officials thought they were talking off the record. But what are they going to do now?
Although the White House yesterday portrayed Wolff as a poseur, he spent hours at a time in private areas of the West Wing, including the office of Reince Priebus when he was chief of staff.
The White House says Wolff was cleared for access to the West Wing fewer than 20 times.
Wolff, a New Yorker, stayed at the Hay Adams Hotel when he came down to D.C., and White House sources frequently crossed Lafayette Park to meet him there.
Part of Wolff's lengthy index entry for Bannon:
(see at link)
Some reporters and officials are calling the book sloppy, and challenging specific passages.
How could Wolff possibly know for sure what Steve Bannon and the late Roger Ailes said at a private dinner? It turns out Wolff hosted the dinner for six at his Manhattan townhouse.
(Excerpt) Read more at axios.com ...
“Wow. So we can hear tapes of Bannon spouting disloyal BS instead of reading transcripts of it.”
True, and it reminds me of the puzzling belief amongst people that if someone, say Comey, WRITES down a recollection of a conversation, it automatically makes the composition solid truth, as supposed to someone who tells about it from memory, who could lie. The mere act of writing it down on paper removes any possibility of lying, because no one has ever wrote down anything false. Ever. In world history.
What’s kinda funny to me is that during the primary and general election cycles, I often mused that Trump really didn’t expect his candidacy to go anywhere but it got a life of its own, and at some point he decided to see if he could go all the way.
That said, it’s kinda irrelevant. It reminds me of that old phrase, “I’d never vote for a candidate that WANTED to be president.”
And we may have gotten just that. The guy is completely impossible to influence. He seems to do what he believes is right and tells the MSM, the GOPe and the dems to get on board or shut up.
He also turns out to be more conservative than Reagan!
I absolutely love it!
Right. The only comment to a reporter - no comment.
Bannon wasn’t just talking to this leftist lying writer but inviting him to the WH to his office. No wonder Bannon was fired after a few months, and apparently HE was the leaker.
And we were blaming it on the deep staters still left over, and it was Bannon.
Trump has at least one more year with a Republican majority in both houses to get funding for the border wall - the way this Congress has been going, there may be zero possibility of any legislative wins after November. This infighting helps no one but the Leftists. I don’t appreciate Bannon’s ego or his big mouth - right now he’s playing the part of useful distraction for the open borders crowd. All of these people - including Trump’s kids - need to shut up and work on the border wall.
The hysterical MSM is on the path to self-destruction with its insane focus on the POTUS playing golf, gossip, traveling, and twitter. Do they know the difference between meaningful journalism and petty garbage?
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Nope, and some here on FR don’t as well as you can tell this has been their main hot topic the last 24 hrs.
I mean Bannon has been gone for MONTHS and has had zero impact of effect on what POTUS is doing, and is the world falling apart?
No.
Everyone bought into the Bannon was architect of Trump has been made a fool of just like we did believing in Rove years ago.
Both men are all ego and really not responsible for anything notable. Most books I’ve read about the campaign credit the much hater Kushner for getting Trump to focus on the rustbelt.
The hysterical MSM is on the path to self-destruction with its insane focus on the POTUS playing golf, gossip, traveling, and twitter. Do they know the difference between meaningful journalism and petty garbage?
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yep
It isn’t blaming Trump for what others have done. But it is ultimately his fault for not realizing the importance of vetting in personnel selection. I go back to the days of John Herrington in the Reagan Administration. Trump needed a much better director and process for selection. It is obvious this has been a fiasco. Don’t let blind loyalty trump reason and facts and results.
Two names stand out to me that may have gotten people to talk with the writter, Ivanka and Jared.
Ivanka tends to reveal little when talking, I think she gets it. On the other hand, I have this feeling that Jared is in over his head when it comes to politics.
+1
Trump starts the new year beautifully with the hit on Huma followed by the massive hit on the fake media with the awards announcement. Magical, really.
Then, BOOM, this Wolf crap is plastered, ruining the mojo. The fact is its people Trump appointed that have equaled the damage that was expected from the racist fascists the usurper left behind.
Trump didn’t like Bolton because of his moustache. Good list though. I agree with you.
‘Don’t let blind loyalty trump reason and facts and results.’
Don’t let false/idiotic assumptions make your posts look stupid. Trump is not the person who forced Bannon off the rails. Your insistence on blaming Trump for Bannon’s personal choices is as irrational as assuming that anyone capable of making that distinction is blind.
At the end of it, Bannon looks like a fool.
Even Mueller can’t prove this crap and now Bannon is saying Russian collusion is treason? And who is Bannon helping with this? America?
He is hurting himself by using the language of the MSM that he despises. He sounds like a hysterical fool. He sounds like a narcissistic jack ass who has to be the center of attention.
Bannon isn’t Trump, and he will be flushed quicker than you can say “tantrum”.
They get it from here.
Tucker is much more a big City Liberal than people want to admit.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
At a minimum, Wolff isn't an entirely conventional liberal. For example, in 2004, while working for Vanity Fair, Wolff was was one of the very few journalists to admit that the Swift Vets' charges against John Kerry were "largely true."
Or the FBI...
“true and tapes come out, the media will have a field day.”
Don’t think so.
Whether real or fake, it’s too late for bombshell revelations about infighting in the early days of the Trump administration. Trump has already banked a good first year, surviving relentless fake news, Russia obsession, GOPe jealousy, swamp backlash, and unprecedented hate from enemies all around.
Proving now that there was infighting and disloyalty within his inner circle would be as irrelevant as finding irrefutable proof that the Y2K fears were well founded. The year 2000 came and went with no worldwide collapse of critical systems and data infrastructures, so proving now that Y2K fears were based on credible fears has no meaning.
Likewise, if Bannon was indeed a loose cannon threatening to crash the Trump administration in early 2917, so what? Bannon was fired, Trump is still standing.
I don’t see how the press has a field day with this. At best it’s an opportunity for a few marginalized journalists to say “I told you so” while nobody listens.
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