Fire and Fury - Wikipedia

Fire and Fury - Wikipedia



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Michael Wolff (pictured) said he conducted more than 200 interviews with Donald Trumpand White House staff during his writing of the book.[5]

Wolff chose the title after hearing Trump refer to "fire and fury" when discussing the conflict with North Korea.[9] According to the book, nobody in the presidential campaign team expected to win the 2016 presidential election,[10] including Donald Trump (who reportedly did not want to win) and his wife. Donald Trump Jr. said his father "looked as if he had seen a ghost" when he realized he had won, and Melania Trump was "in tears – and not of joy."[11]

Many of the most controversial quotes in the book came from Steve Bannon, the chief executive of the Trump campaign in its final months and White House Chief Strategist from January to August 2017. Bannon referred to the meeting during the presidential campaign of Donald Trump Jr. and Jared Kushner with Russian officials as "treasonous" and "unpatriotic," described Ivanka Trump as "dumb as a brick"[12]and referencing the Special Counsel investigation being led by Robert Mueller he said "they're going to crack Don Junior like an egg on national TV."[13] Bannon also said that Mueller's investigation would likely uncover money laundering involving Kushner from loans received by his family business from Deutsche Bank.[14] Another quote from Bannon was that lawyer Marc Kasowitz had gotten Trump "out of all kinds of jams [...] on the campaign – what did we have, a hundred women? Kasowitz took care of all of them."[15]

Wolff says Trump himself was characterized by "wide-ranging ignorance."[16] For example, Sam Nunberg, a campaign advisor, reportedly tried to explain the United States Constitution to Trump, but could not get past the Fourth Amendment.[17] Wolff also claims that Kushner and Ivanka Trump discussed having Ivanka run in a future presidential campaign.[11]