The media today: Michael Wolff’s book on Trump blows up in Steve Bannon’s face<\/b><\/p>\n
New York media bad boy Michael Wolff threw a hand grenade into the Washington scene on Wednesday with a lengthy <\/span>New York<\/span><\/i> magazine<\/span> excerpt<\/span><\/a> from his new book <\/span>“The Fire and the Fury: Inside the Trump White House.”<\/span><\/i> One of the main revelations: Not only did both Trump and his entire campaign team expect him to lose the presidential race, but the former reality TV host never really wanted to win in the first place. <\/span><\/p>\n “As the campaign came to an end, Trump himself was sanguine. His ultimate goal, after all, had never been to win,” Wolff<\/span> writes<\/span><\/a>. “Not only would Trump not be president [but] almost everyone in the campaign agreed he should probably not be.” When it looked as though victory was almost certain, “Don Jr. told a friend that his father, or DJT, as he calls him, looked as if he had seen a ghost. Melania was in tears \u2014 and not of joy.”<\/span><\/p>\n The book has already caused Trump to publicly disavow his former adviser, Breitbart News chairman Steve Bannon, the man whom many assume was a key source for Wolff\u2019s book. “Steve Bannon has nothing to do with me or my presidency. When he was fired he not only lost his job, he lost his mind,” the president<\/span> said in a statement<\/span><\/a>. Trump went on to say that Bannon “only pretends to have had influence in order to fool a few people with no access and no clue, whom he helped write phony books.” <\/span><\/p>\n Trump’s ire was no doubt sparked by some of the explosive quotes and details Bannon provided to the author, including a comment that a meeting Donald Trump Jr. and senior members of the Trump campaign had with a Russian lawyer offering the campaign dirt on Hillary Clinton was “treasonous and unpatriotic.” For her part, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders <\/span>said the Wolff book<\/span><\/a> is “filled with false and misleading accounts from individuals who have no access or influence with the White House.”<\/span><\/p>\n More on the Trump allegations and his all-out war with Bannon:<\/span><\/p>\n Other notable stories:<\/b><\/p>\n\n
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