Posted on 01/08/2018 9:39:41 AM PST by Starman417
Despite what the radical left wing press asserts, Donald Trump is not mentally impaired, nor is he naive or stupid. He would not allow an author with a highly dubious record
But Wolff has also been taken to task for blurring the lines between hot take and hatchet job. “Wolff exploits the human tendency to confuse frankness and cruelty with truth-telling,” media critic Jack Shafer wrote in Slate in 1998. “And by repeatedly reminding the reader of what a dishonest, scheming little s- he is, he seeks to inflate his credibility.”into the White House without a plan.As The Post’s Paul Farhi wrote this week, credibility has been a repeated issue. Wolff’s first best-seller, “Burn Rate: How I Survived the Gold Rush Years on the Internet,” came under fire after Brill’s Content found a dozen individuals who disputed their quotes in the book. While later penning a regular column for New York magazine, book editor Judith Regan called foul on a column Wolff wrote about her, as did Andrew Sullivan. Both disputed Wolff’s portrayals of them.
And there's plenty more. The book is riddled with errors. So why would Donald Trump allow such a chucklehead access to the White House?
The answer may lie in the relentless leaking that was occurring in the Trump campaign right from the start. Trump values loyalty and he may have decided upon a way to determine where that loyalty was and where it lacked. Michael Wolff was allowed access to the Trump campaign around the middle of 2016. Chris Wallace reported that the White House Communications Team urged all senior advisers to talk with Wolff. Trump and his truly trusted staff could easily have fed stories to different people and then use those stories as tracers. Trump may have wanted to test the loyalty of all, so he went fishing.
The biggest fish caught in the betrayal net was Steve Bannon. He had a number of unsavory things to say about Trump, his family and staff. Trump wasted no time returning the fire. Bannon stayed silent for a few days, but then, realizing that he pretty much destroyed his career, offered up a mea culpa:
"Donald Trump, Jr. is both a patriot and a good man. He has been relentless in his advocacy for his father and the agenda that has helped turn our country around."
"My support is also unwavering for the president and his agenda — as I have shown daily in my national radio broadcasts, on the pages of Breitbart News and in speeches and appearances from Tokyo and Hong Kong to Arizona and Alabama."
"President Trump was the only candidate that could have taken on and defeated the Clinton apparatus. I am the only person to date to conduct a global effort to preach the message of Trump and Trumpism; and remain ready to stand in the breech for this president's efforts to make America great again."
"My comments about the meeting with Russian nationals came from my life experiences as a Naval officer stationed aboard a destroyer whose main mission was to hunt Soviet submarines to my time at the Pentagon during the Reagan years when our focus was the defeat of 'the evil empire' and to making films about Reagan's war against the Soviets and Hillary Clinton's involvement in selling uranium to them."
"My comments were aimed at Paul Manafort, a seasoned campaign professional with experience and knowledge of how the Russians operate. He should have known they are duplicitous, cunning and not our friends. To reiterate, those comments were not aimed at Don Jr."
"Everything I have to say about the ridiculous nature of the Russian 'collusion' investigation I said on my 60 Minutes interview. There was no collusion and the investigation is a witch hunt."
"I regret that my delay in responding to the inaccurate reporting regarding Don Jr has diverted attention from the president's historical accomplishments in the first year of his presidency."
(Excerpt) Read more at floppingaces.net ...
Yes, have some.
‘So why would Donald Trump allow such a chucklehead access to the White House?’
The stupidness of these theories is wearing thin. It was Bannon who gave Wolff access. Not Trump—Bannon.
Which tells me something about Bannon, something I don't care for.
That... um... dude(?) is way creepier looking than Adam Schiff!
yeah...they should form a club...a rock group or something. The Creepies!
Trump's mistake was in giving Bannon access. As much as Trump supporters might like to believe this was all part of a Machiavellian plot to out leakers, it was not.
Bannon said many things. The thing he never said was sorry for causing all this trouble
It tells me exactly the same thing. Notice that after Bannon and Priebus were ousted, the WH leaks stopped. Before that it was chaos.
It’s a miracle of God that Trump had such a good first year—he was being undermined from both outside and *inside* the WH. The coming year should be significantly better, or so we hope.
I have read in multiple sources that it was the Mercers who recommended Bannon. Both the Mercers and Bannon were big Cruz supporters. Perhaps that should have been a red flag.
Bannon looks like he might coach the Patriots (New England, that is).
Wolff it was Bannon and Kellyanne. But apparently there was no objection from Trump, who called Wolff some positive superlatives.
‘Wolff it was Bannon and Kellyanne.’
Just shy of coherence.
‘But apparently there was no objection from Trump, who called Wolff some positive superlatives.’
Link, please.
The Creepies were Kesha’s backup band. They had a “F the world” tour in 2016, so these guys would probably fit right in.
Amen to that. Occam’s Razor comes to mind.
+1
‘But apparently there was no objection from Trump, who called Wolff some positive superlatives.’
Your Trump-hate has finally taken you too far. Trump says he never spoke to Wolff. The crazed, pathologically dishonest Wolff claims Trump spoke to him, ‘without knowing it.’ Not even the Leftists are buying that load of BS...but you are. You not only believe that Trump spoke to Wolff without knowing it, you believe he called this unknown person “some positive superlatives,” while he was at it.
Joe, you’re going off the rails. It’s time to make a major course correction before it’s too late.
Oh for God’s sake, if they didn’t know that the whole West Wing leaks like a sieve before Wolff then they’ll never come to that realization.
He probably looks a lot better when he’s in full makeup, wearing a nice sequined dress.
[He probably looks a lot better when he’s in full makeup, wearing a nice sequined dress.]
You mean his usual Saturday night get-up?
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