![]() However, what is most puzzling about this admission is why the author suggests he includes the ‘baldly untrue’ or, at least, his refusal to actually highlight his own doubts in the main body of the book: everything is presented as gospel. Naturally, I would rather Wolff make this statement than not, given the book that follows. In other instances I have, through a consistency in accounts and through sources I have come to trust, settled on a version of events I believe to be true. Sometimes I have let the players offer their versions, in turn allowing the reader to judge them. ![]() Those conflicts, and that looseness with the truth, if not with reality itself, are an elemental thread of the book. 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. In it, Wolff discusses the book’s sources, namely his 200 plus interviews with members of the Trump team and his ‘semipermanent seat’ on a West Wing sofa, making him ‘more a constant interloper than an invited guest’. There seems nowhere else to start other than Wolff’s now infamous ‘Author’s Note’ at the beginning of the book. Here, Wolff’s relationship with Steve Bannon offers an illuminating and, one would hope, honest take – especially given Bannon’s political fallout with both Trump and the Mercer family. My take is that the book is at its best when discussing the internal battles within the current White House rather than when discussing the nature and mental state of President Trump. Several questions have arisen since Fire and Fury’s release, particularly regarding the reliability of some of Wolff’s claims as well as the book’s ‘usefulness’: has it provided any new insights, has it merely helped the Trump administration’s war against the American media, and so on. The book has become an international bestseller overnight, helped no doubt by the now-traditional Twitter explosion from President Donald Trump alongside the White House’s attempts to prevent the book’s publication – a la the Spycatcher affair in Britain in the 1980s. ![]() Michael Wolff’s Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House needs little introduction at this point. With the overnight international bestseller Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, Michael Wolff utilises his ‘semipermanent seat’ on a West Wing sofa to offer an insider account of the Trump administration. While critical of Wolff’s writing style, methods and failure to separate clear falsehoods from certainties, Jonny Hall concedes that the book remains a gripping read that is at its most revealing when discussing the warring factions shaping Trump’s Presidency.įire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House. ![]()
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