Quote:Trump: Michael Wolff book on administration is 'full of lies'.SOURCE:
'Donald Trump says a newly released book containing damaging allegations about his administration is "full of lies".
The book cites former top aide Steve Bannon as describing a meeting with a group of Russians at which Mr Trump's
son was present as "treasonous".
It also portrays Mr Trump as being surprised by winning the presidency.
Mr Trump's lawyers had tried to block publication of Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff,
which has now gone on sale early.
What's in the book?
Mr Wolff's book makes many claims, including that:
*The Trump team was shocked and horrified by his election win
*His wife, Melania, was in tears of sadness on election night
*Mr Trump was angry that A-list stars had snubbed his inauguration
*The new president "found the White House to be vexing and even a little scary"
*His daughter, Ivanka, had a plan with her husband, Jared Kushner, that she would be "the first woman president"
*Ivanka Trump mocked her dad's "comb-over" hairstyle and "often described the mechanics behind it to friends"
The book is reportedly based on more than 200 interviews but some of the book's excerpts have already been
criticised and questioned. Still, even if only half of what the book contains is true, it paints a damning portrait of a
paranoid president and a chaotic White House, BBC North America editor Jon Sopel says.
Mr Bannon also reportedly said, referring to a Trump Tower meeting between top campaign officials and Russia:
"They're going to crack Don Junior like an egg on national TV." The meeting, which involved Mr Trump's eldest
child Donald Trump Jr, is being investigated by Special Counsel Robert Mueller as part of his inquiry into possible
collusion between Trump campaign officials and Russia to win the election.
Mr Trump strongly denies any collusion took place.
What's been the reaction?
Mr Trump said he had not given Mr Wolff access to the White House nor spoken to him for the book, which he said
was "full of lies, misrepresentations and sources that don't exist".
Twitter post by @realDonaldTrump
Donald J. Trump
"I authorized Zero access to White House (actually turned him down many times) for author of phony book!
I never spoke to him for book. Full of lies, misrepresentations and sources that don’t exist.
Look at this guy’s past and watch what happens to him and Sloppy Steve!"
He had earlier said Mr Bannon - who was sacked in August - had "lost his mind" after losing his White House position.
On his Breitbart radio show on Wednesday, Mr Bannon responded to the president's criticism by saying he was
a "great man" and that he supported him "day in and day out".
After the president met Republican senators on Thursday, a reporter asked Mr Trump if his former strategist had betrayed
him. He responded: "I don't know, he called me a great man last night so he obviously changed his tune pretty quick."
Mr Bannon has also been criticised by another former associate, Republican party donor Rebekah Mercer -who has also
invested in Breitbart, where Mr Bannon is chairman.
In other reaction:
*A spokesperson for Melania Trump said she had encouraged her husband's presidential bid and was happy he won
*White House press secretary Sarah Sanders dismissed the book as a "trashy tabloid fiction" that she said was "filled
with false and misleading accounts"
*On Thursday, the White House said it was banning personal devices, including mobile phones, from the West Wing,
citing security concerns.
What did Mr Trump's lawyers argue?
The legal notice has been published by the Washington Post. It demands that Mr Wolff and the book's publisher
"immediately cease and desist from any further publication, release or dissemination of the book".
It accused Wolff of making "numerous false and/or baseless statements" about Mr Trump and said lawyers were
considering pursuing libel charges. Attorney Charles J Harder also sent a cease-and-desist letter to Mr Bannon on
Wednesday, saying he had violated a non-disclosure agreement.
The book was due out on Tuesday but publication was advanced following the legal moves....'
And would anyone like to cite anything positive about President Trump from this article or book summary...?
No...? Of course not.
If this Wolff-character had written such a damning tract about Obama, I'm sure the mainstream media would
either condemn it or ignore it totally. It's just another biased tactic at derailing the Trump administration's
attempts at bettering the US public's situation.
It'll be interesting to see what can be dug-up about this ex-Hollywood Reporter-writer as he's already been
commented on of adding fiction to previous books.
Quote:'...He was previously best known for his biography of Rupert Murdoch, titled The Man Who Owns the News, which was released in 2008.The BBC:
After winning national awards for his reporting, he was described in a 2004 profile in The New Republic as the "It Boy of New York media".
The writer Michelle Cottle tried to characterise his writing style by speaking to him and other journalists who knew him.
"Even Wolff acknowledges that conventional reporting isn't his bag," she wrote in the cover story.
"Rather, he absorbs the atmosphere and gossip swirling around him at cocktail parties, on the street, and especially
during those long lunches."...'
..................................
'...Wolff has acknowledged the difficulty with the book's sourcing, saying interviewees went on and off the record
sporadically or "would provide accounts in confidence, only to subsequently share their views widely"...'
..................................
'...People have started poking holes in some of the harder-to-believe anecdotes.
One passage, released in New York magazine, implies the president did not know who former House speaker
John Boehner was when former Fox News head Roger Ailes recommended him for the position of Mr Trump's
chief of staff.
But as the Washington Post points out, Donald Trump had previously golfed with him, and tweeted about
Mr Boehner multiple times.
Twitter post by @realDonaldTrump:
"Speaker John Boehner, who I like, should never have agreed to raise taxes because the
Republicans got absolutely nothing for it!"
Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair has described an allegation about him in the book as "absurd" and "a
complete fabrication". According to The Times newspaper, Wolff says Mr Blair shared a "juicy rumour" with
[i]Mr Trump's son-in-law that the UK government had his campaign under surveillance...'
Gossip?!
Edith Head Gives Good Wardrobe.