In an unbelievable bit of news, it turns out that Michael Wolff, the author of the explosive book about President Trump which is splashed across all the news channels, admits that he doesn't know if what he reports in the book is true. He wants to let America decide. Here's how Business Insider begins its report on this story:
The author of the explosive new book about Donald Trump's presidency acknowledged in an author's note that he wasn't certain all of its content was true.
Michael Wolff, the author of "Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House," included a note at the start that casts significant doubt on the reliability of the specifics contained in the rest of its pages.
Several of his sources, he says, were definitely lying to him, while some offered accounts that flatly contradicted those of others.
But some were nonetheless included in the vivid account of the West Wing's workings, in a process Wolff describes as "allowing the reader to judge" whether the sources' claims are true.
If I wrote a book in which I reported that senator Chuck Schumer was known to be a pedophile according to certain sources or that congressman Adam Schiff has a problem with narcotics addiction according to other sources, would that be enough if I said some of the sources were lying but I want the reader to decide? Of course not!
Wolff admits some of what he writes is false. What more could Wolff do to discredit his own book?
The funny thing is that some of Wolff's stuff is obviously phony. The claim that the Trump family and staff all consider the President to be stupid is clearly false. Can you really imagine Ivanka Trump or Donald Jr. telling a reporter that they considered their father an idiot? No way. It's just made up BS. It's another of those stories created by the media to let them try to feel superior to a man who embarrassed them by winning when they said he had no chance at all. They hate this man who again and again gets the better of them. Nevertheless, it's disgusting to see admitted lies being treated by the media as the gospel truth.
The author of the explosive new book about Donald Trump's presidency acknowledged in an author's note that he wasn't certain all of its content was true.
Michael Wolff, the author of "Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House," included a note at the start that casts significant doubt on the reliability of the specifics contained in the rest of its pages.
Several of his sources, he says, were definitely lying to him, while some offered accounts that flatly contradicted those of others.
But some were nonetheless included in the vivid account of the West Wing's workings, in a process Wolff describes as "allowing the reader to judge" whether the sources' claims are true.
If I wrote a book in which I reported that senator Chuck Schumer was known to be a pedophile according to certain sources or that congressman Adam Schiff has a problem with narcotics addiction according to other sources, would that be enough if I said some of the sources were lying but I want the reader to decide? Of course not!
Wolff admits some of what he writes is false. What more could Wolff do to discredit his own book?
The funny thing is that some of Wolff's stuff is obviously phony. The claim that the Trump family and staff all consider the President to be stupid is clearly false. Can you really imagine Ivanka Trump or Donald Jr. telling a reporter that they considered their father an idiot? No way. It's just made up BS. It's another of those stories created by the media to let them try to feel superior to a man who embarrassed them by winning when they said he had no chance at all. They hate this man who again and again gets the better of them. Nevertheless, it's disgusting to see admitted lies being treated by the media as the gospel truth.
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