Michael Wolff's book Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, has been very much under the scanner especially since President Trump has threatened legal action against it for defamation. Trump has also threatened legal action against former top aide Stephen Bannon for defamatory statements he has made in the said book. Here are some interesting revelations from the book.
As per Wolff's book, Trump contested the elections not with the hope of becoming President, but to be the most famous man in the world. He was very much unprepared for the job. “He didn’t read. He didn’t really even skim. Some believed that for all practical purposes he was no more than semi-literate,” Wolff claims. He also claims that first lady Melania was in tears when Trump won and they weren't tears of joy.
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According to the book, Trump was also sympathetic to the H1B visa and issues of the Silicon Valley, despite having taken a tough stand against it now. The book contains some interesting revelations about Ivanka Trump too, including that she and her husband Jared Kushner are actually Democrats, having previously made donations to Democratic candidates like Hillary Clinton and that Ivanka would run for president if and when the opportunity rose.
The book also goes on to say that for Ivanka everything was a business move including supporting her father's campaign, building the brand Trump, though in reality, she shares a relationship of certain detachment with her father. Bannon, Wolff reveals in the book, had said that referring to the meeting between Jared Kushner, former campaign manager Paul Manafort, Donald Trump Jr and a Russian lawyer at Trump Tower, without any lawyers in 2016; regardless of whether or not it was unpatriotic, the FBI should have been tipped off.
Whether or not these details about Trump and his tenure as President are true, is not clear. But it can definitely be said that this is a chaotic time to be at the White House.
