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 ...
"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."
“Some of it might be true” seems to be the media’s mantra these days
I can be sure that parts of it are not true.
It is fake, but accurate. The sentiment is all that counts ya know.
Slander with malice and intent.
Should be a very easy lawsuit to win.
Sounds like a typical eBay listing.
Sounds like a typical eBay listing.
At least he says it right up front!
"Dear reader - you just wasted your money... but I appreciate it very much."
What a bizarre note! Phew; maybe he’s the one who has a problem with truth and reality. How low can journalism fall?
This book is a rag — it is full of lies and yellow journalism and will be forgotten by Saturday. I am awaiting the law suit for malice before the end of the day as truthfully threatened. I trust this will not be another empty threat like the threat to Kim jung un for his repeated threats to the people of the United States. Need action here TODAY!!
Anotherwords, it belongs in the Fiction section.
Thanks for starting this thread. This information is critical for us to spread far and wide.
In the context of political speech and with Trump being an elected official, the chances of winning a defamation case is ZERO.
Oh, OK. We should all appreciate his honesty. LOL.
This sounds like a public interest disclosure that should be run before every CNN segment.
The parts that are not true: everything between the Introduction and the Index. LOL!
No, it's set the leftard political world ablaze as they chase after yet another certain to bring Trump down bone.
It’s all BS.
The book is a ‘written script’ for the anti-Trump ‘media’ and actors to use as a hammer as we see they wasted no time doing.
That’s all it is. Designed for all the ‘sensation’ it was intended to create.
Unfortunately the public laps it up like candy.
For admitting this, he can be sure he'll be sued.
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