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Like others, I have enjoyed reading the titillating, racy stories that have issued forth from bestselling books about the Trump White House. At times I felt nagging pangs of doubt, wondering why the stories always have come from anonymous sources. Doesn't anyone ever go on record nowadays? And why were so many stories later denied by their cited sources? So when I got the opportunity to write an insider history of the Trump White House I fairly tripped over my own feet to get through the doors. “Michael Beschloss came to Mar-a-Lago right after I won the election,” the president...

'Game of Thorns' book goes inside Trump, Clinton campaigns. Historian and author Doug Wead stated in his new book that "The secret service agent present for hours at the hotel, confirmed that there was smashing of glass and long periods of heated shouting." "Hillary "was angry." "Ed Rendell was on public TV saying I just left Hillary and she was very angry." Per Doug Wead, "Hillary freaked out." "The numbers from North Carolina were what really disturbed her."

Eight hundred individuals paid for the pleasure of sleeping in the Lincoln bedroom - including Hollywood celebrities Barbra Streisand, who ponied up $60,000 to sleep on the Porthault sheets, film director Steven Spielberg who gave up $336,000, studio head Lew Wasserman paid $225,000. Businessman Dirk Ziff paid $411,000, William Rollnick gave $235,000, and Steve Jobs paid a modest $150,000. Sleepovers weren't just in the Lincoln Bedroom. They were in every bedroom including the Queen Mum's bedroom suite across the hall from the Lincoln Bedroom and the rooms where Winston Churchill stayed during his 1941 wartime visit with FDR. The Clinton...

EXCLUSIVE: How greedy Bill and Hillary Clinton befriended a Chinese fry cook in Little Rock who funneled hundreds of thousands in illegal donations from China and sold sleepovers at the White House for $400,000 a pop A new book reveals how Hillary's long list of scandals doomed her presidential bid from the start She blamed her election loss on FBI Director Comey's decision to re-investigate her emails, Wikileaks and an ineffective campaign strategy, to name just a few But Hillary and Bill Clinton are no strangers to corruption and controversy - in fact, their long list of scandals dates back...

My new book "Game of Thorns" will be released soon and it is a hoot. This is the story of the 2016 election between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. If you've followed this election on YouTube and the mainstream media, you are definitely going to want to read this book and get it straight. It takes you on-board the Hillary Clinton campaign jet, where they are popping the corks of Champagne bottles to celebrate their impending victory. It takes you to the despair at Trump Tower, where rumors spread that Donald Trump is going to start his own television network...

Promising “an inside account of election night at Clinton headquarters, where the sounds of ‘heated shouting’ and ‘smashing of glass’ emanated from the Clinton’s private rooms as their empire fell down around them,” a new book, Game of Thorns by New York Times bestselling author and presidential historian Doug Wead, is due out from Hachette Book Group on February 28. . . . Wead claims the Bush family, feeling “growing concern” over Trump, actually colluded with the Clintons, presumably to derail the Trump campaign. He also hails Reince Priebus for urging Trump not to drop out after the Access Hollywood...

Mike Huckabee’s Big Mistake When seeking to establish a base among evangelical voters, presidential contender, Governor Mike Huckabee, made a big mistake. It is one that many presidential wannabes have made before him. He went over the heads of the evangelical leaders of influence and talked directly to the people. It works well with most constituencies, Catholics, Labor, Jews, Hispanics, Women but it never works with Blacks and it never works with evangelicals either. It cost Mike Huckabee the presidential primary in South Carolina and it will probably cost him the nomination. In fairness, presidential candidates seeking the evangelical vote...

WASHINGTON - They've been an unlikely pair since the day they met - the nerdish bookworm and the cocky backslapper - but Karl Rove and George W. Bush have been partners and political allies for more than 30 years. Now their friendship is being tested by Rove's involvement in the unauthorized outing of an undercover CIA officer. Depending on the outcome of a grand jury investigation, the president soon could face a painful choice between protecting his trusted aide or forcing his resignation to limit political damage. ''It's going to be an interesting test of his loyalty if this goes...

By The New York Times WASHINGTON, Feb. 28 - Doug Wead, the author and former campaign adviser who taped conversations with President Bush when Mr. Bush was governor of Texas, said Monday that he had given the tapes to "the president's counsel." After drawing criticism for his secret taping of Mr. Bush as Mr. Bush was beginning to move onto the national political stage and for his disclosure of a dozen conversations to a reporter for The New York Times, Mr. Wead said last week that he would return the tapes. He said then that he had felt stung by...

No reporter ever asked the Texas governor why all those other people deserved to serve five or 10 or 20 years in prison, when their crimes were no different from what everyone knew he had done, whether he admitted it or not.....Joe Conason wonders why the president is punishing drug users for offences he has also been linked to. On the audiotapes of George W. Bush recorded secretly by his erstwhile confidant Douglas Wead in 1999, the future president revealed how much he feared candid discussion of his personal use of marijuana and cocaine. As quoted in The New York...

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I sent a pretty scathing email to Doug Wead. To my surprise, he sent back an actual, personal, note. Here is the text of his message: I was wrong to tape the president without his permission.  wish I could live my life over and do things differently. Actually, I think the released tapes made him look good, that unlike other tape stories this was not about catching someone doing something wrong but catching someone doing something right. and the media just reacted knee jerk to the word "tapes."   Actually, started taping him in 1988 - with his permission -...

Preacher, peddler, and Beltway meddler Doug Wead, who selectively released furtively recorded conversations with George W. Bush, told me this morning that he has changed his mind and will turn over book profits to charity and the tapes to Bush. Yesterday, in "The Zelig of the Religious Right," I wrote this about Wead's very selective release of only a small fraction of his tapes to the New York Times: "This latest 'revelation' that George W. Bush is a flawed man of faith and prayer who is thoughtful is just more propaganda." I said that Wead would never hurt Bush, that...

WASHINGTON - An old friend of President Bush who secretly recorded their private conversations and released them to the media said he has regrets and is turning the tapes over to Bush.Doug Wead allowed journalists to hear and broadcast the tapes in the past week as he promoted his new book on presidential parents. But he said he canceled plans to be on "Hardball" on MSNBC Tuesday night to talk about his regrets because "it would only add to the distraction I have caused to the president's important and historic work.""Contrary to a statement that I made to the New...

President Bush is reportedly furious after being betrayed by author Doug Wead, who tape-recorded their private phone conversations, then played the tapes, first for his publisher, then for the New York Times. "Dubya's become a Burning Bush over it," reports the New York Post's Cindy Adams. "And rightly so. With pals like Friend Wead, who needs enemies?" -snip- "Around publishing water coolers it's being whispered and rewhispered that Friend Wead played them for his publisher as a marketing tool," the Post columnist reports. "Marketing for himself, that is." It was Wead's "financial ploy," she says. "The tapes are what got...

Wead: "Forgo TV For A Time" Doug Wead, the man who taped his pre-presidential conversations with George W. Bush, cancelled his appearance on MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews and sent a note to Hardball producers yesterday explaining why: Dear Mr. Matthews, I am so sorry to cancel your show. It was very gracious of you to allow me a chance to share my heart and regrets about recent events. It seems the better part of wisdom for me to forgo television for a time. It would only add to the distraction I have caused to the president's important and historic...

With friends like Douglas Wead, President Bush doesn't need an enemy. Wead, a professed evangelical and nondescript aide to President George H. W. Bush during his presidency, is pushing his new book about the second member of the Bush family to become president. In conjunction with his book tour interviews, he released last week secretly made tapes of conversations he had with his former employer's son, George W. Bush, in 1998-2000. He admits that only one page of his book, "The Raising of a President," came from the tapes, but yet he felt compelled to release the phone conversations he...

February 23, 2005 -- ONETIME George W. Bush friend Doug Wead has leaked from his secretly taped private conversations with the then-governor of Texas as he was preparing to run for president. But somehow Wead hasn't been getting the Linda Tripp treatment from the national news media To put it mildly. Tripp secretly taped phone conversations in which Monica Lewinsky discussed her sexual exploits with Bill Clinton — and was widely derided as the lowest form of traitor. Back in 1998, ABC News' Web site asked readers who should win the "Ig-Noble Peace Prize": Osama bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, Slobodan...

WASHINGTON, Feb. 21 (UPI) -- Being an otherwise slow news day, the revelation that a pre-presidential George W. Bush had been caught on tape got a lot of attention. Bush, then the governor of Texas, was surreptitiously recorded talking about life, faith and his strategy for a possible 2000 presidential campaign. In the excerpts cited by The New York Times, Bush also talks about drugs, saying, "I wouldn't answer the marijuana questions. You know why? Because I don't want some little kid doing what I tried." This statement has been taken as confirmation Bush once used illegal drugs, something the...

DEMOCRATS' eyes lit up like kids offered a pony ride when they first heard about secretly taped telephone conversations in which George W. Bush seemed to admit to a friend that he had smoked pot, and perhaps more. If Dems were smart, they'd drop this cold potato, for a sackful of reasons. Let's start with betrayal. It's bad enough you secretly tape a friend. Conceivably, you might have a reason to do that - self protection, for instance. But to release the tape to grub bucks, as Doug Wead apparently has done, is about as low as you can go....