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    This story is adapted from Michael Wolff’s book Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, published this month by Henry Holt & Co. on January 9. Wolff, who chronicles the administration from Election Day to this past October, conducted conversations and interviews over a period of 18 months with the president, most members of his senior staff, and many people to whom they in turn spoke. Shortly after Trump’s inauguration, Wolff says, he was able to take up “something like a semi-permanent seat on a couch in the West Wing” — an idea encouraged by the president himself. Because no one was in a position to either officially approve or formally deny such access, Wolff became “more a constant interloper than an invited guest.” There were no ground rules placed on his access, and he was required to make no promises about how he would report on what he witnessed.

    Since then, he conducted more than 200 interviews. In true Trumpian fashion, the administration’s lack of experience and disdain for political norms made for a hodgepodge of journalistic challenges. Information would be provided off-the-record or on deep background, then casually put on the record. Sources would fail to set any parameters on the use of a conversation, or would provide accounts in confidence, only to subsequently share their views widely. And the president’s own views, private as well as public, were constantly shared by others. The adaptation presented here offers a front-row view of Trump’s presidency, from his improvised transition to his first months in the Oval Office.

    http://nymag.com/daily/intellige…

    ^^ HOLY GOOD LORD HAVE Y'ALL READ THIS.

    If it's even partly true – if it's even in the ballpark of the real story – it's fucking insane.

    Truth is stranger than fiction.

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    • Strange is right. You'd think at times that this guy was in trump's bedroom listening to his calls. He quotes Murdoch like he was in his office too. Bizarre.monNom
    • no diet coke?ApeRobot
    • Watching the gorillas fight and what not.utopian
    • his shoes should be velcrokona
    • So author writes a forward that parts of the book are probably lies... but tell us which parts http://www.businessi…monNom
    • *doesn't. Which makes every claim questionable. A fun read for democrats, I'm sure. Good for selling books.monNom
    • But what kind of hack move is that for a so called journalist?monNom
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