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The author of the explosive new Trump book says he can't be sure if parts of it are true
Business Insider ^ | January 5, 2018 | Kieran Corcoran

Posted on 01/05/2018 9:56:24 AM PST by COUNTrecount

"Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House" has set the political world ablaze. It contains vivid, detailed, and embarrassing accounts of President Donald Trump and those around him. But the book's author, Michael Wolff, says he can't be sure that all of it is true.

The author of the explosive new book about Donald Trump's presidency acknowledged in an author's note that he wasn't certain all of its content was true.

Michael Wolff, the author of "Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House," included a note at the start that casts significant doubt on the reliability of the specifics contained in the rest of its pages.

Several of his sources, he says, were definitely lying to him, while some offered accounts that flatly contradicted those of others.

But some were nonetheless included in the vivid account of the West Wing's workings, in a process Wolff describes as "allowing the reader to judge" whether the sources' claims are true.

Donald Trump January 4 2018 Donald Trump, seen at a meeting in the White House the day after elements of Wolff's book began to be reported. AP

In other cases, the media columnist said, he did use his journalistic judgment and research to arrive at what he describes "a version of events I believe to be true."

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


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KEYWORDS: bookreview; demlies; fireandfury; gossip; michaelwolff
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To: Alberta's Child

I heard him on the radio today say that he interviewed the president. Surprised, I stopped to listen. He then went on and said “although he may not have realized he was being interviewed. But it was on the record.” So, apparently, he had some passing conversation with the president which he has decided to characterize as “an interview.”

How fake can you be? It’s almost like that Steve Martin movie “Bofinger.”


21 posted on 01/05/2018 10:08:14 AM PST by miss marmelstein
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To: hal ogen

The book and dossier are real. The contents of them are mostly fake.


22 posted on 01/05/2018 10:10:05 AM PST by Lisbon1940 (No full-term Governors (at the time of election!)
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To: caww

It is a one day story. The Sheeple are far more interested in hollywood sex change operations.


23 posted on 01/05/2018 10:12:03 AM PST by raiderboy ( "...if we have to close down our government, weÂ’re building that wall")
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To: Avalon Memories

24 posted on 01/05/2018 10:12:42 AM PST by COUNTrecount (If Harvey Weinstein's bathrobe could only talk.)
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To: Dahoser

The left is well known to create chaos.....and they are pulling out all the stops since Trump won.....lots more to come...you can be sure of it and it’s not going to stop. Put enough junk out there to slow everything down....flood the communication centers with nonsense. Anything and everything is allowed regardless if or not laws against it.

It’s not so much about bringing Trump down as it is covering and hiding what they’ve done and are doing.....so they can stay and rig the game for 2020.


25 posted on 01/05/2018 10:14:49 AM PST by caww
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To: COUNTrecount

So the book is fiction.


26 posted on 01/05/2018 10:16:02 AM PST by A message
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To: COUNTrecount

Add the book to the list of fake hate crimes committed by losers against traditional Americans.

If Michael Wolff doesn’t care if it’s true on not - it’s a standard hoax hate crime:

http://reason.com/blog/2016/11/11/election-night-hijab-attack-false


27 posted on 01/05/2018 10:16:40 AM PST by GOPJ (Intelligence services coup failed. Robert Hanssen (American traitor) to get new roommates soon.)
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To: COUNTrecount
"July 12th, 2016 was a bright sunny day...."

AHA!!! We found one part that was true, therefore the whole thing will be found to be "mostly true" by the "fact checkers"

28 posted on 01/05/2018 10:16:50 AM PST by Cementjungle
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To: raiderboy
That too....we're a society that loves smut! And all you have to do is view all the selfies put out there to know the public loves to play in the cesspool as well. Everyone wants 'attention'.......bad or good isn't an issue..just put oneself out there ....
29 posted on 01/05/2018 10:20:16 AM PST by caww
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To: COUNTrecount

“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.”

Sounds like he took a page out of Obama’s book, where he created a “composite but non existing character”

Here he creates a “composite but nonexistent truth”


30 posted on 01/05/2018 10:21:25 AM PST by aquila48
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To: COUNTrecount

Sue for all the profits of the book, then give them to charity.


31 posted on 01/05/2018 10:23:52 AM PST by Ciexyz (I'm conservative & traditionalist, a nationalist and patriot.)
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To: caww

So true. Why would an idiot buy a book that the authror admits is not true?


32 posted on 01/05/2018 10:24:06 AM PST by raiderboy ( "...if we have to close down our government, weÂ’re building that wall")
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To: COUNTrecount

Tabloid stuff.


33 posted on 01/05/2018 10:26:22 AM PST by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our one and only true hope.)
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To: Cementjungle

He’s lying.

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34 posted on 01/05/2018 10:27:17 AM PST by COUNTrecount (If Harvey Weinstein's bathrobe could only talk.)
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To: COUNTrecount

The snowflakes and their Marxist “perfessers” don’t mind. As long as there is enough anti-Trump bullsh*t in the “book” to keep them “triggered” for a while. They’ll love it.


35 posted on 01/05/2018 10:29:04 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (2017 - The year the liberals' "sexual revolution" strikes back!)
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To: COUNTrecount

Now the reality of the scumbag Hollywood reporter starts to sink in. My guess, 5% might be accurate with 95% spin to meet his twisted narratives. The biggest mistake was to meet with the clown and give him just enough access so he could create an aura of believability.


36 posted on 01/05/2018 10:31:28 AM PST by iontheball
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To: raiderboy

....”Why would an idiot buy a book that the author admits is not true?”.....

Ammunition. Doesn’t make a difference if true or not...feed them and they’ll eat it up!


37 posted on 01/05/2018 10:34:10 AM PST by caww
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To: Zathras

I really wish the defamation laws would be tightened up to cure this nonsense.


38 posted on 01/05/2018 10:35:51 AM PST by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: AppyPappy

I believe to be true....Right out of Comey’s playbook. So this is a book of “feelings”...


39 posted on 01/05/2018 10:47:58 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: COUNTrecount

Reminds me of Kitty Kelly’s book of falsehoods about Nancy Reagan. The left peed themselves over that too.


40 posted on 01/05/2018 10:49:06 AM PST by Luke21
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