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''Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House'' is a 2018 book by journalist Michael Wolff which according to Wolff, details the behavior of
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, the staff of his 2016 presidential campaign, and the
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staff. The title refers to a quote by Trump about the conflict with North Korea. The book became a ''
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'' number one
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. Reviewers generally accepted Wolff's portrait of a dysfunctional Trump administration, but were skeptical of many of Wolff's particular claims. The book highlights descriptions of Trump's behavior, chaotic interactions among senior White House staff, and derogatory comments about the Trump family by former White House Chief Strategist
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. Trump is depicted as being held in low regard by his White House staff, leading Wolff to claim that "100% of the people around him" believe Trump is unfit for office.


Background

According to Michael Wolff, when he approached
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about writing a book on his
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, Trump agreed to give him access to the
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because he liked an article Wolff wrote about him in June 2016 for ''
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''. However, Trump later claimed that he had never authorized access for Wolff and never spoke to him for the book. Starting in mid-2016, Wolff interviewed campaign and transition staff. After Trump's inauguration and continuing through most of the first year of his presidency, Wolff was allowed access to the
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of the White House, conducting research for his book through interviews and as a "
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" observer. He said he conducted over 200 interviews with Trump and his associates including the senior staff and was allowed to witness events at the White House without his presence being managed. This allowed Wolff to be present the day of the
dismissal of James Comey James Comey, the seventh Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), was fired by U.S. President Donald Trump on May 9, 2017. Comey had been criticized in 2016 for his handling of the FBI's investigation of the Hillary Clinton ema ...
. Wolff reportedly audiotaped some of the conversations mentioned in the book. The working title for Wolff's book was ''The Great Transition: The First 100 Days of the Trump Administration'', leading many in the White House to believe the book he was writing would be sympathetic to the Trump administration.


Content

Wolff chose the title after hearing Trump refer to "fire and fury" when discussing the conflict with North Korea. According to the book, nobody in the presidential campaign team expected to win the 2016 presidential election, including Donald Trump (who reportedly did not want to win) and his wife.
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said his father "looked as if he had seen a ghost" on the night of the election, and
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was "in tears—and not of joy." Many of the most controversial quotes in the book came from
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, the chief executive of the Trump campaign in its final months and White House Chief Strategist from January to August 2017. Bannon referred to the meeting during the presidential campaign of Donald Trump Jr. and
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with Russian officials as "treasonous" and "unpatriotic," described
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as "dumb as a brick", and—referencing the now-completed
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being led by
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—said, "they're going to crack Don Junior like an egg on national TV." Bannon also said that Mueller's investigation would likely uncover
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involving Kushner from loans received by his family business from
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. Another quote from Bannon was that lawyer
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had gotten Trump "out of all kinds of jams ..on the campaign—what did we have, a hundred women? Kasowitz took care of all of them." Wolff said Trump himself was characterized by "wide-ranging ignorance." For example,
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, a campaign advisor, reportedly tried to explain the
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to Trump but could not get past the Fourth Amendment. Wolff also claims that Kushner and Ivanka Trump discussed having Ivanka run in a future presidential campaign.


Release

The book was originally scheduled to go on sale on January 9, 2018, but the publisher,
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, moved up the release date to January 5 due to "unprecedented demand." An excerpt of the book was released by ''
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'' magazine on January 3, 2018. The same day, other media outlets reported on further content of the book; for example, ''
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'' reported "explosive" highlights, stating they were based on the full book. That day, preorders of the book made it the number 1
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in the country. ''Fire and Fury'' debuted at number one on ''The New York Times'' Best Seller list, and within a week had become the fastest selling book in the publisher's history, with over 700,000 orders shipped and 1.4 million orders placed.


Reception


White House reaction and fallout

At her daily press briefing on 3 January 2018,
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, the White House Press Secretary, called the book "trashy tabloid fiction" and "filled with false and misleading accounts." The White House released a statement saying that Bannon had "lost his mind" and
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, a lawyer for Trump, sent a
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letter to Bannon, allegedly for violating a
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. On January 4, Harder sought to stop the release of the book, sending a cease-and-desist letter to the author and publisher with the threat of a lawsuit for
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. His lawyers also said that the book "appears to cite no sources for many of its most damaging statements about Mr. Trump." Henry Holt's attorney, Elizabeth McNamara, later responded to Harder's allegations with an assurance that no apology or retraction would be forthcoming. McNamara also noted that Harder's complaint cited no specific errors in Wolff's text. Some legal experts and historians said that Trump's threats of imminent legal action against the author and publisher were unprecedented for a sitting president attempting to silence criticism. On January 5, the day of the book's publication, Trump tweeted: In response, Wolff stated in an interview later that day: According to Wolff, Trump himself encouraged Wolff to write a "fly-on-the-wall account of Trump's first hundred days." Wolff has also stated that he has "dozens of hours" of taped interviews which back up the claims made in the book. On January 6, Trump continued to attack the book, calling it "a complete work of fiction" and "a disgrace", and labeling Wolff a "fraud." Also that day, in a move interpreted as a response to the book's raising questions about Trump's competence for office, Trump tweeted that his "two greatest assets have been mental stability and being, like, really smart." From his successes in business, television, and politics, Trump concluded that he was in fact "a very stable genius." On January 7, Bannon issued a statement calling Trump Jr. a "patriot and a good man," saying that his comments were directed at
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, not Trump Jr. The next day, on
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's ''
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'', Wolff denied that Bannon had been talking about Manafort. Also on January 7, White House senior policy adviser Stephen Miller, speaking on CNN's ''
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,'' said: "The book is best understood as a work of very poorly written fiction, and I also will say that the author is a garbage author of a garbage book." In a January 8 interview with
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,
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described ''Fire and Fury'' as a "book of fiction." He stated that he had not read it, and would not read it, but that reports concerning its contents did not accord with his experience of working with President Trump. Over the weekend of January 6–7,
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, a conservative donor who worked with Bannon on Trump's 2016 campaign and as a part-owner of
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, distanced herself from Bannon, saying she would no longer provide him with financial backing. On January 9, Bannon announced that he would leave Breitbart News. On January 8, the lawyer representing Wolff and his publisher issued a legal letter defying the cease and desist order and defamation claim, stating that "my clients do not intend to cease publication, no such retraction will occur, and no apology is warranted."


Reviews

Reviewing the book for
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, Trump biographer
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attested that Wolff's overall portrait of Trump accorded with his own understanding and that of others, specifically drawing attention to details concerning Trump's short attention span, issues of
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and
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, as well as Trump's opinion that "'expertise' is 'overrated.'" He added that Wolff's descriptions of the people around Trump present "a credible picture." D'Antonio criticized Wolff's "tabloidy prose" and reminded the reader to treat the book with a degree of skepticism, but concluded that it was "essential reading" that will provide a framework on which future writers may build. D'Antonio also stated: "Some of what Wolff presents is so speculative that his critics, and the President's most ardent defenders, will be able to pick his work apart. These excesses will diminish the book's impact and, ultimately, do a disservice to the historical record." Speaking on the ''
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'', David Brooks said that because in the past Wolff has been known to not check facts he is "very dubious about accepting everything" in the book. "Nonetheless, the general picture confirms what we already knew. And I think there is a general sense the president is unfit. They treat—they do treat him like a child."
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agreed and expressed deep concerns that other than Katie Walsh, who briefly worked as deputy chief of staff to
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, there did not appear to be any "counteroffensive" in the White House which Shields described as "the political equivalent of the dog not barking in the night," i.e., conspicuously absent.
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of CNN said that ''Fire and Fury'' "should be met with skepticism" as it was "riddled with errors and rumors", while Isaac Chotiner in ''Slate'' wrote that "Wolff is not merely out of his depth—he frequently seems confused by even basic matters of political ideology." Reviewing for ''
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'',
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, a former commissioner and editor of Wolff's work, stated that the fact that Wolff was admitted to the White House at all indicated significant incompetence within the Trump administration. D'Ancona described Wolff's version of President Trump and his daughter Ivanka as "the world's stupidest King Lear" and a "clueless Cordelia." Warning the reader against distraction by those searching for "minor errors," d'Ancona described Wolff as a "brilliant journalist," who has a "terrier-like pursuit of the truth." He concluded that Wolff had "nailed it," and had "scotched once and for all the nonsensical claim that we should take Trump seriously but not literally." In a ''
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'' review, Barton Swaim sees the book as an unverifiable "gossipy" collection of "every unseemly tidbit he could extract from murmuring White House staffers" written as though he "were the omniscient narrator of a novel." Swaim asserts that the reaction to the book, rather than the book itself, will give reason for it to be historically notable. ''
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'' reporters
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and Mike Allen wrote that parts of the book were "wrong, sloppy, or betray doff-the-record confidence. But there are two things he gets absolutely right." They wrote that Wolff's depiction "of Trump as an emotionally erratic president" was accurate as well as his writing of some White House officials having a "low opinion" of Trump. Andrew Prokop wrote in '' Vox'' that "we should interpret the book as a compendium of gossip Wolff heard. A fair amount of it does clearly seem to be accurate." Aaron Blake of ''
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'' wrote that "Wolff seems to have arrived at a stunning amount of incredible conclusions that hundreds of dogged reporters from major newspapers haven't. .. 's worth evaluating each claim individually and not just taking every scandalous thing said about the White House as gospel." A review by Mick Brown in ''
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'' described the book as "overheated, sensationalist—and completely true to its subject." David Sexton of the ''
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'' said the book is a political exposé worth reading and is "destined to become the primary account of the first nine months of the Trump presidency."


Nikki Haley controversy

While being interviewed during ''Fire and Furys publicity tour Wolff told
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that he was "absolutely sure" President Trump was having an affair, and said that a close reading of his book could reveal who his partner was. Based on a passage from ''Fire and Fury'', some observers believed this was a reference to
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, the
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. Haley denied Wolff's allegations, calling it "disgusting" and "absolutely not true".
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of ''The Washington Post'' said that Wolff was engaging in a "remarkable multimedia slime job". The ''
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'' editorial board called Wolff's claim an "ugly, sexist rumor".
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in ''
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'' said that Wolff was "gleefully" spreading "evidence-free detail". After several interviewers pressed him about the rumor, Wolff later said that "I do not know if the president is having an affair."


Television adaptation

Endeavor Content, in association with
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, purchased the film and television rights the same month of the book's publication. Author Michael Wolff is attached to the series as an
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, along with former
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executive
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and ''
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'' alum John Lyons. In March 2018,
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-winning director
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signed on to direct and executive produce the series. As of March 2018, the project has yet to find a network.


Sequel

In June 2018, Wolff announced that he had signed a deal with Henry Holt, the book's publisher, to write a sequel. The sequel, titled '' Siege: Trump Under Fire'', was released on June 4, 2019.


See also

* ''The New York Times'' Non-Fiction Best Sellers of 2018


References


External links


''Fire and Fury'', official publisher's website
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