Why The Book 'Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House' Is Taking Washington By Storm
By: Kayla Pasacreta
'Fire and Fury' cover, photo via Amazon
Michael Wolff's book "Fire and Fury" has been taking Washington by storm. The initial drama surrounding the book started on Wednesday, when an excerpt obtained by the Guardian revealed former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon called Donald Trump Jr.'s June 2016 meeting in the Trump Tower "treasonous". The book released this Friday morning, four days ahead of the prior release date.
author Michael Wolff, photo via Associated Press
Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House is expected to provide explosive details about the Trump White House through off the record interviews, meetings, and phone calls with White House staffers. Wolff insists, "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 describes Trump as "a man who has less credibility than, perhaps, anyone who has ever walked on earth." Wolff believes his 3+ hours of conversation and reporting of Trump offer a "significant" window into Trump.
White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders fired back at Wolff, saying claims about Trump's mental health being unstable are "outrageous" and continued, it's "sad that people are going and making these desperate attempts to attack the president." Donald Trump also had a few Twitter fingers for Wolff and called Steve Bannon "Sloppy Steve":
Thursday, Trump's lawyer sent a letter demanding the book not be published, but the publisher is still sticking to the plan. Henry Holt, the book's publisher, maintains the book's integrity, "We see Fire and Fury as an extraordinary contribution to our national discourse, and are proceeding with the publication of the book.”
