Trump campaign officials denounce Michael Wolff new book – Washington Examiner
Trump campaign officials denounce Michael Wolff new book
Senior members of President-elect Donald Trump‘s campaign preemptively excoriated the author Michael Wolff, who contacted them for interviews, in a joint statement released Wednesday morning.
“A number of us have received inquiries from the disgraced author Michael Wolff, whose previous work can only be described as fiction,” the signees wrote, which included Trump’s co-campaign managers Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles, who is the incoming chief of staff.
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“He is a known peddler of fake news who routinely concocts situations, conversations, and conclusions that never happened,” the statement continued. “As a group, we have decided not to respond to his bad faith inquiries, and we encourage others to completely disregard whatever nonsense he eventually publishes. Consider this our blanket response to whatever he writes.”
Wolff is a veteran journalist who covered Trump’s first presidential administration and wrote the 2018 smash hit Fire and Fury, which sold at least 2 million copies and detailed the chaotic first years under a Trump White House.
Wolff was accused of including factual inaccuracies and copy-editing mistakes in Fire and Fury, which he dismissed. “My evidence is the book. Read the book. If it makes sense to you, if it strikes — if it rings true, it is true,” he told MSNBC’s Katy Tur at the time.
His subsequent books, Siege in 2019 and Landslide in 2021, also documented the Trump presidency era. As Wolff works on a new book, members of Trump’s team appear to have blackballed the author from access.
Among the signees of the joint statement are Steven Cheung, the incoming communications director, senior adviser Danielle Alvarez, James Blair, the incoming deputy chief of staff for legislative, political, and public affairs, and Trump pollster Tony Fabrizio.
Taylor Budowich, incoming deputy chief of staff for communications and personnel, deputy campaign manager Justin Caporale, campaign speechwriter Vince Haley, senior adviser Brian Hughes, senior adviser Jason Miller, spokesman Tim Murtaugh, data consultant Tim Saler, Andrew Surabian, spokesman for Donald Trump Jr., and pollster Travis Tunis also signed on to the statement.
Earlier this month, Wolff released audio tapes of the disgraced sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein allegedly describing his relationship with the president-elect. Wolff claims the tapes, released through the Fire and Fury podcast series, were created in 2017 and have about 100 hours of Epstein discussing the Trump White House.
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In response to the tapes, Karoline Leavitt, the incoming White House press secretary, slammed the author as a noted liar.
“Wolff is a disgraced writer who routinely fabricates lies in order to sell fiction books because he clearly has no morals or ethics,” Leavitt said in a statement at the time.
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