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 ...
Tucker said Wolff isn't a Liberal!!!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
What's wrong with these people, though? You work for the man. If he looks bad in the press, it doesn't help you, so why are you leaking negative info?
Look at this from the same source which confirms Bannon gave him the access and it was called "The Bannon Book":
How's this for palace intrigue? Despite knowing his trashing of President Trump was coming in Wolff's bombshell of a book, Bannon had continued talking to the president, and had even been telling friends he wanted to run Trump's reelection in 2020.
Bannon has described himself to friends as a "revolutionary" and not in an ironic way. He genuinely views himself as a transformational figure of history, who belongs in the history books. A source who knows Bannon well — and is mostly sympathetic to him — told us he thinks Bannon is even more narcissistic than Trump.
And how's this for a twist? Bannon has also told friends he'd run for president in 2020 if Trump does not, knowing the same book would include his on-the-record argument that Mueller could topple Trump.
He wants to be Trump's heir — and has a plan for positioning himself to pick up the president's unusual coalition. Bannon has been traveling the country, building his own base and name ID with his campaign to support insurgent Republicans who would run in primaries against Mitch McConnell's handpicked candidates.
The travel has had the double effect of putting Bannon in all the right places for a future run at office. It's no secret Bannon is a mischief-maker and fancies himself a Machiavellian operative. But this is some out-there behavior, and arguably the craziest episode of the Trump show:
The man who helped elect Trump last year, seemingly trying to destroy all of those around him, including the president's son and son-in-law, 12 months later.
Wolff's book was known internally as the Bannon book, because he opened the door to the author's extraordinary access. Jared Kushner, in particular, feared it would be used to settle scores. Damn, was he right.
https://www.axios.com/bannon-and-trump-monsters-they-cant-control-2522358583.html
You know what's sad in all this, Bannon, out of all the people Trump brought in, was the most dedicated to the movement and keeping the campaign promises that Trump ran on platform wise. I know he still believes in that platform. A mistake Trump made was letting too many establishment folks in the door. We needed more folks who were #MAGA folks. Trump and Bannon should have been natural allies working together.
Bannon wants candidates that will help Trump. Obviously Alabama ended in disaster, but we don't even know if those were true allegations, and I think he would have won without them. Strange wasn't a bad guy in my opinion, though, and he should have been left alone. Bannon is right in that regard to want Trump agenda supporting candidates. This book and this fracture doesn't help the movement at all and will make it harder for that goal to be achieved.
It's sad. I think perhaps Bannon's ego took over, and it did him no good.
Is taping without consent illegal in DC? In Canada you can secretly record as long as you are part of the conversation, but you can’t leave use a hidden mic and leave the room. I think in Massachusetts you need two-party consent.
I have no idea why that goofy theory ever gained ground anyway. Maybe I’ll have to eat my words, but I doubt it. I still feel confident he’s looking to bring down Trump.
True. Plus, why trust someone from the mainstream media WHO IS WRITING A BOOK ABOUT THE ADMINISTRATION not to put out all the dirt you throw out there?
One-sided taping without consent is illegal in many places.
He will probably face criminal prosecution and civil suits.
Yeah, and they feel they can use this book as fodder to help them. That is their new tactic as called by Roger Stone (he said he was told by people from high up in certain publications) months ago. Russia may not work out in their favor, so it’s on to Plan B.
Nope. He’s good in DC. It’s a one party consent area:
https://www.rcfp.org/reporters-recording-guide/state-state-guide/district-columbia
When talking to a reporter of any kind, you are NEVER off the record. You NEVER let your guard down in the presence of a “media” mole. Those who don’t recognize that fact are deluded.
Why would any rational human being talk to a reporter?
Folks....do you who Mike Allen is? He is nothing less then the biggest Trump hater in the USA!!! I believe nothing he utters...not one word. Case closed.
You can't be serious?
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.....”
You can bet all the worst of Bannon is recorded. I don’t like what this will do to Breitbart. Bannon himself is a big boy and deserves his beating.
Kate Walsh. RNC girl, no?
I’m a bit perplexed as to why anybody in a powerful position would talk to anybody with press credentials. It’s clearly not a very intelligent thing to do... That being said, if he did indeed tape the conversations, then he obviously informed people they were being taped. Otherwise he would be breaking the law. So release the tapes and prove the conversations were real. Otherwise, it’s just here say.
If this is true, one can only hope that the recording captured Bannon saying these things with a drunken slur in his voice.
Never believe that anything is “off the record.” Never say anything that you don’t want on the front page of a newspaper some day.
Steve Bannon is dead to me, after handing loaded ammunition magazines to the Leftist rag “The Guardian,” and aiming the gun at Trump for them.
Bannon is dead to me.
Absolutely.
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