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Roland99

(53,342 posts)
Mon Jan 22, 2018, 10:49 PM Jan 2018

New book from Howard Kurtz could be more damaging than Fire and Fury

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2018/01/22/this-new-trump-book-could-do-even-more-damage-than-michael-wolffs-heres-why/

The author of this one is Fox News Channel media critic Howard Kurtz, a former longtime reporter at The Washington Post. And as The Post's Ashley Parker writes, his book — “Media Madness: Donald Trump, the Press, and the War Over the Truth” — confirms and expands upon media accounts of the chaos happening behind the scenes at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

Among the juiciest anecdotes:

Trump has a tendency to do whatever his advisers most strongly advise him against, and they even have a term for such behavior: his “defiance disorder.”

He, out of nowhere, tweeted his decision to ban transgender people from the military before a scheduled meeting with then-Chief of Staff Reince Priebus to discuss his options on the matter. “Oh my God, he just tweeted this,” Priebus reportedly said.

His aides were similarly blindsided by his accusation, also via Twitter, that President Barack Obama wiretapped Trump during the presidential campaign.

Trump was strongly advised not to dispatch then-press secretary Sean Spicer to dispute stories about Trump's inaugural crowd size and later admitted, “I shouldn’t have done that.”
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New book from Howard Kurtz could be more damaging than Fire and Fury (Original Post) Roland99 Jan 2018 OP
Cool. More confirmation that Trumps an idiot YessirAtsaFact Jan 2018 #1
HA! I wish Roland99 Jan 2018 #2

YessirAtsaFact

(2,064 posts)
1. Cool. More confirmation that Trumps an idiot
Mon Jan 22, 2018, 10:57 PM
Jan 2018

This book, from this author might actually change some Fox watchers minds.

Roland99

(53,342 posts)
2. HA! I wish
Mon Jan 22, 2018, 10:58 PM
Jan 2018

Maybe one or two but most are too far gone. They’ll kick Howard under the bus and then run back and forth over the body.

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