As reported from Mar A Lago a "heavily made up Donald Trump not recognizing long-time friends". Truth or lie? Why make it up?

Perfect.   The only thing is Trump is a bigger liar than anyone alive and Wolff doesn't HAVE to lie at all to have a running best seller.



Michael Wolff, the author of a new book that gives a behind-the-scenes account of the White House, defended his work Friday, insisting he spoke with President Donald Trump on the record and calling the commander in chief "a man who has less credibility than, perhaps, anyone who has ever walked on earth."

Wolff, in an exclusive interview on "Today," said that everyone he spoke to for the book, "Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House," offered the same description of the president.

"I will tell you the one description that everyone gave, everyone has in common. They all say he is like a child," Wolff explained. "And what they mean by that is he has a need for immediate gratification, it is all about him."

Wolff added that "100 percent of the people around" Trump — "senior advisers, family members, every single one of them, questions his intelligence and fitness for office."

Wolff also contended that he "absolutely" spoke to the president during his reporting of the book.

"Whether he realized it was an interview or not, I don’t know, but it certainly was not off the record," Wolff said. "I spoke to him after the inauguration, yes. And I had spoken to, I mean I spent about three hours with the president over the course of the campaign and in the White House so my window into Donald Trump is pretty significant."

Trump, however, said on Twitter Thursday night that he "authorized Zero access to White House" for the author and "never spoke to him for book."

Hitting back at Trump, Wolff said Friday that Trump isn't one to talk when it comes to credibility.

"My credibility is being questioned by a man who has less credibility than, perhaps, anyone who has ever walked on earth at this point," Wolff said.

Wolf added that he has the evidence to back up his work.
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President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Washington, D.C. on Jan. 4, 2018. Alex Wong / EPA

"I work like every journalist works so I have recordings, I have notes, I am certainly and absolutely in every way comfortable with everything I’ve reported in this book," Wolff said.

"Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House" features behind-the-scenes anecdotes from Trump's White House, including details on how the most powerful men and women in Washington worked to make Trump president — and turned on one another after he took the oath of office.

Wolff writes in the book, and explained during his “Today” interview, that top aides said at various points Trump is “a moron, an idiot.”

“Actually there’s a competition to sort of get to the bottom line here of who this man is. Let’s remember, this man who does not read, does not listen. So he’s like a pinball, just shooting off the sides,” Wolff said.

Widely reported excerpts from the book have roiled Washington, including claims from former top Trump administration and campaign aide Steve Bannon that Donald Trump Jr.'s meeting with Russians at Trump Tower in June 2016 was "treasonous" and "unpatriotic."

The president apparently referred to Bannon as "Sloppy Steve," on Twitter Thursday night.

Wolff’s book was released early Friday by Henry Holt, which announced a day earlier it was pushing up the publication date due to demand. Earlier Thursday, Trump attorney Charles Harder demanded in a letter sent to Wolff and his publisher, that the book not be published or disseminated. The book reached No. 1 on the Amazon best-seller list Wednesday.

A copy of the letter obtained by NBC News cites defamation, libel and "actual malice" among the alleged wrongdoings in the book.

NBC News has not confirmed much of the book. Wolff has been accused in the past of suspect reporting, most notably in his 1998 book "Burn Rate." In its review, the defunct media journal Brill's Content cited 13 people depicted in the book as saying that Wolff invented or changed quotations and that they couldn't recall his taking any notes or recording their interviews. This post was edited by WM BARR . =ABSOLUTE TRASH at January 6, 2018 4:52 AM MST

True any hit piece on a President is always going to be a best seller.  Even more so on President Trump.  

Wolff is a known liar...a could be a National Inquirer staffer. He is a NY gossip columnist. 

God.  I feel sorry for you.  I really do. 

No. I shall not buy it nor read it m2c. I don't have to. All the good stuff is being repeatedly shared/quoted on the cable news shows. The "Cease and Desist" threats by doofus don and his totally inept lawyers caused the book to be sold out from Maine to Alaska. The author thinks he owes the doofus and his crew a box of chocolates for making it a "CAUSE CELEBRE". If it is all lies why issue a cease and desist? Why slam Bannon with a charge of  breaking an agreement not to tell what goes on in the white house if what was written therein did not tell all that goes on m2c and it is just a pack of lies? The very fact that the doofus and his clueless boys felt the need to do that PROVES that the book tells the truth.  So they shot themselves in the foot once again by doing the very thing that would dignify the book and show it to be a threat to donjohn. But you can't see that I guess. Nevertheless that is the message they sent. They as much as admitted what was in the book is true by their "cease and desist" demand. They just think they are clever.  They are all being ridiculed for their lack of competence/common sense. They are all equally DENSE. Thank you for your reply m2c and Happy Saturday to thee!  :) This post was edited by RosieG at January 6, 2018 4:41 AM MST

Even the book itself says it lies:

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."