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Wolff’s Admission to Lies in His Book Puts Him in Legal Jeopardy
Mediaite ^ | 5 Jan 2018 | Ronn Blitzer

Posted on 01/05/2018 3:01:05 PM PST by mandaladon

Michael Wolff‘s new book, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, has set the media ablaze with a series of revelations about the inner-workings of President Donald Trump‘s administration, and attitudes that insiders have towards the 45th president. The White House has dismissed the book as “fantasy” that is full of factual inaccuracies, and Trump’s legal team has threatened to take action. According to Wolff’s own prologue in the book, they may be right.

The prologue reportedly includes the following:

Many of the accounts of what has happened in the Trump White House are in conflict with one another; many, in Trumpian fashion, are baldly untrue. These conflicts, and that looseness with the truth, if not with reality itself, are an elemental thread of the book.

Sometimes I have let the players offer their versions, in turn allowing the reader to judge them. In other instances I have, through a consistency in the accounts and through sources I have come to trust, settled on a version of events I believe to be true.

So Wolff flat out says that he believes that at least some of his sources were lying to him, and while he attributes some accounts to their sources, he acknowledges that this isn’t always the case.

This could be problematic for Wolff. He’s being accused of including fiction in what’s presented as a non-fiction book, and he admits that not all of his sources were trustworthy, but he doesn’t specify what’s fact true and what’s false. On its face, this sounds like a classic candidate for a defamation case.

(Excerpt) Read more at lawandcrime.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bannon; trump; wolff; wolffbook
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1 posted on 01/05/2018 3:01:05 PM PST by mandaladon
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To: mandaladon

Hahaha. The guy is a major liar and fool. LOL


2 posted on 01/05/2018 3:02:21 PM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: mandaladon

It’s almost impossible to pursue this legally in the U.S.


3 posted on 01/05/2018 3:03:14 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: mandaladon

I hope Michael Wolff makes tons of money and Trump sues him and takes it all then gives it to a charity ,LOL


4 posted on 01/05/2018 3:07:04 PM PST by butlerweave
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To: mandaladon

He basically took what people said and then stretched their words to fit his distorted reality.


5 posted on 01/05/2018 3:09:46 PM PST by Leep (My otto erect is walking joist find.)
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To: hal ogen

Even Kitty Jelly wasn’t that stupid


6 posted on 01/05/2018 3:09:51 PM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: mandaladon
Wolff’s Admission to Lies in His Book Puts Him in Legal Jeopardy

Yeah, he'll be quaking all the way to the bank.

7 posted on 01/05/2018 3:12:45 PM PST by DoodleDawg
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“It’s almost impossible to pursue this legally in the U.S.”

True, I think trying to do anything about this book is a fools errand. They should do their best to discredit it and move on the dummies will buy it and believe it, we will not. It will be forgotten in a month. Bannon will go down in infamy. The MSM is just shameless of course with their sudden admiration for Bannon, the ethics of maggots.


8 posted on 01/05/2018 3:14:15 PM PST by gibsonguy
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To: mandaladon
I don't understand why this guy gets so much attention. Google "Anti-Trump books" and you will see countless books filled with salacious stuff. Heck, pick up any edition of NYT or WaPo or turn on MSNBC and you will see the same garbage.

What makes this one guy so special in this department?

9 posted on 01/05/2018 3:15:44 PM PST by Cementjungle
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To: mandaladon

To quote the old “Dragnet” show:

“The people you are about to read of are true. Only the facts have been changed to protect the innocent”

Or something like that.


10 posted on 01/05/2018 3:16:03 PM PST by ssaftler (Just another day in the land of the fruits, nuts and flakes...)
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To: nickcarraway

It’s almost impossible to pursue this legally in the U.S.


That is my understanding. Freedom of speech in the U.S. Something political like this...


11 posted on 01/05/2018 3:16:23 PM PST by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: mandaladon

[Sometimes I have let the players offer their versions, in turn allowing the reader to judge them. In other instances I have, through a consistency in the accounts and through sources I have come to trust, settled on a version of events I believe to be true. ]

So its unadulterated tabloid trash masquerading as an insiders expose’. Fake but accurate


12 posted on 01/05/2018 3:18:01 PM PST by headstamp 2 (My "White Privilege" is my work ethic.)
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To: marktwain

Try it with the Clintons and see what happens.


13 posted on 01/05/2018 3:18:10 PM PST by Luke21
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To: marktwain

Maybe in the U.K.


14 posted on 01/05/2018 3:19:50 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: mandaladon

I find it interesting that Trump helped hype the book, did the author get Trumprickrolled


15 posted on 01/05/2018 3:20:52 PM PST by stockpirate (Give Peas a Chance)
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To: mandaladon

Little man called Wolff has lied so often no one will believe him when he tells the truth.


16 posted on 01/05/2018 3:24:21 PM PST by hoosiermama (When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice.DJT)
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To: ssaftler

It’s the opposite of Dragnet -”The Story You Are About To See Is True. The Names Have Been Changed To Protect The Innocent”


17 posted on 01/05/2018 3:28:38 PM PST by kaboom
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To: Nifster

I think of him as a transsexual Kitty Kelly. perhaps he would be more comfortable wearing a fluffy brown wig and high heels.


18 posted on 01/05/2018 3:34:49 PM PST by Irish Queen (Not all cults are religious)
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To: mandaladon

someone should write a book about Wolffes long history of child molestation.....


19 posted on 01/05/2018 3:37:29 PM PST by KTM rider
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To: stockpirate

I was thinking the same, and I would not be shocked if he was rickrolled by President Trump. Right now all the liberals are buying the bait.... ooops I mean the book.


20 posted on 01/05/2018 3:41:33 PM PST by Patriot Babe
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