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Scoop: Wolff taped interviews with Bannon, top officials
Axios ^ | January 4, 2018 | Mike Allen

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 ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bannon; breitbart; fireandfury; katiewalsh; leaks; michaelwolff; reincepriebus; stevebannon; trump; whitehouse; wolf
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And this, folks, is why you don't let a MSM journalist free ranging access to your White House unmonitored. That said, it seems like this guy curried favor with Steve Bannon and got him to put his guard down. I recall this journalist doing an interview with Steven Bannon in 2016 which he talks about in the first linked interview and criticizing the negative media coverage of Trump last year:

Michael Wolff: Donald Trump Most Extraordinary Story Of Our Time | Power Lunch | CNBC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdBW0U-kmF8

Michael Wolff: "THE MEDIA KEEPS LOSING TO TRUMP" @realDonaldTrump #ReliableSources https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-hi4Yb0ZHw

He was brought in because apparently Steve trusted him & perhaps Ailes and Murdoch trusted him too. It's still a mistake to bring a journalist in to a White House with unfettered access. It appears business was being done and/or the President was being trashed in front of a journalist writing a book! Then it seems that people from the White House apparently did interviews with him, and it seems in them they leaked and/or trashed Trump. This is a journalist writing a book about the White House. He's a mainstream media journalist with a controversial record per his Wiki page - why was he trusted? This was a big mistake. I think Bannon played a huge roll in this. If this article is true and tapes come out, the media will have a field day.

1 posted on 01/04/2018 3:41:19 AM PST by Pinkbell
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To: Pinkbell
The Bannonites war with everyone and everything, including President Trump, is self defeating and a disaster.

I had a Freeper tell me I was "his enemy" because I criticized Bannon's handling of the Alabama Senate race.

Enough of this.

I have been critical of Trump's tax bill, but other than that I love the man. Now Trump is being mired in yet another needless distraction.

2 posted on 01/04/2018 3:47:22 AM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: Pinkbell

So far, Bannon hasn’t denied a thing he is being quoted as saying in Wolff’s book. And, I agree, so far it sounds as if Bannon was Wolff’s primary contact within the Trump Administration.


3 posted on 01/04/2018 3:47:50 AM PST by be-baw (still seeking...)
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To: Pinkbell

I figured he had to have something when the response from the White House was to attack Bannon rather than claim it was fake news.


4 posted on 01/04/2018 3:53:42 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: Pinkbell

President Trump erases the Obamacare forced mandate nonsense and then this foolishness comes out. Bannon, what a bafoon. The dems were offering 500 grand to women to give dirt on Trump, so I’m wondering if Nutty Bannon got a payday. Loser. Go learn how to use makeup you hobo.


5 posted on 01/04/2018 3:54:30 AM PST by goldendelicious
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To: SkyPilot

The end game of all things anti Trump is impeachment.

It’s not so hard to bring a charge against someone if you really want to.

Mueller will destroy lives (already has) and stop at nothing to TRY to get an indictment against Trump.

he didn’t hire 20 ultra left wing lawyers for laughs.

And the Rs better show backbone because if Trump is impeached and removed, war is on.


6 posted on 01/04/2018 3:55:13 AM PST by dp0622 (The Left should know that if Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: goldendelicious
President Trump erases the Obamacare forced mandate nonsense and then this foolishness comes out.

What does one have to do with the other?

7 posted on 01/04/2018 3:56:38 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: be-baw

Wow. So we can hear tapes of Bannon spouting disloyal BS instead of reading transcripts of it.

Some “expert” on Tucker last night was claiming that Bannon represented Trump’s base and to attack him would weaken Trump. This is complete fantasy.

. . . and all this sell copies of some stupid book. SCUM.


8 posted on 01/04/2018 3:56:55 AM PST by Pravious
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To: Pinkbell

Interesting timing, just as Wray and Rosenstein agree to turn over the FBI dossier files voluntarily to Nunes. The rank stupidity of Bannon and the other White House staff who talked to this leftist reporter and gave him access appalls me.


9 posted on 01/04/2018 3:57:03 AM PST by laconic (uir)
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To: be-baw

Doesnt sound like Reince and Katie Walsh have clean hands..just saying.


10 posted on 01/04/2018 4:00:01 AM PST by Dog (..."I'm just a cook....")
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To: goldendelicious
The dems were offering 500 grand to women to give dirt on Trump, so I’m wondering if Nutty Bannon got a payday. Loser.

His ego is what needed to be fed so he's getting what he wanted out of it. Drudge called him schizophrenic yesterday and that may be technically accurate too, based on his statements in the late afternoon. Hopefully Trump's lawsuit over his confidentiality agreements put him out of his misery, but since he feeds on controversy probably not.

11 posted on 01/04/2018 4:00:04 AM PST by Golden Eagle (Trump: "What the FBI has done is really, really disgraceful, and a lot of people are very angry.")
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They thought this was "off the record" but Wolffe was TAPING?? Repugnant Reporter.

Talking to Left Wing Lying Reporters.....STUPID AS CAN BE!!

12 posted on 01/04/2018 4:01:52 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: dp0622
Mueller will destroy lives (already has) and stop at nothing to TRY to get an indictment against Trump. he didn’t hire 20 ultra left wing lawyers for laughs.

Agree. I think we can finally dispense with the theory that some have that Mueller is secretly working for Trump. I don't see how that could be.

13 posted on 01/04/2018 4:02:24 AM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: Golden Eagle

+1


14 posted on 01/04/2018 4:02:30 AM PST by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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To: Pinkbell

We can almost there is no such thing as ‘off the record’ anymore. Everyone has tiny recording devices.


15 posted on 01/04/2018 4:03:35 AM PST by Will88
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To: dp0622

They don’t even want to impeach him for crimes....they are trying to get him impeached for being CRAZY!!!


16 posted on 01/04/2018 4:03:48 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Ann Archy

... with “crazy” being defined as “not a liberal.”

Absolutely insane.


17 posted on 01/04/2018 4:06:57 AM PST by Pravious
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To: Pravious

And Tucker had the nerve to defend Wolff as a ‘credible journalist’......when Matt Schlatt was calling him out!

We’re being played folks!.....take Tucker with a jaundiced grain of salt.


18 posted on 01/04/2018 4:07:21 AM PST by Guenevere
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To: Pinkbell

Puhlease.
Self inflicted wounds again. Unnecessary drama. More arrogance from the Administration.
Everyone here knows who Wolff is. Why didn’t the Trump crew? A Wolff in sheeps clothing.


19 posted on 01/04/2018 4:08:19 AM PST by griswold3 (Freedom from nags, cranks, government, do-gooders, control-freaks and idiots is all that we ask for.)
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To: DoodleDawg

‘What does one have to do with the other?’

I saw the connection instantly. It wasn’t hard at all.

Trump is trying to MAGA, while Bannon is providing distractions along with fodder for the Trump-haters. Very simple.


20 posted on 01/04/2018 4:09:35 AM PST by Fantasywriter (Any attempt to do forensic work using Internet artifacts is fraught with pitfalls. JoeProbono)
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