Siege review: Michael Wolff's Trump tale is Fire and Fury II - fire harder

[Judi Lynn]

Lloyd Green

Sun 2 Jun 2019 02.00 EDT Last modified on Sun 2 Jun 2019 02.01 EDT

Michael Wolff is back and not with a whimper. The latest installment of his Trump chronicles picks up where Fire and Fury ended. Once again, it leaves the president bruised and readers shaking their heads.

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As Wolff describes it, Donald Trump calls Kushner “a girl”. As for his vice-president, he’s a “religious nut”. “Why does he look at me like that?” Trump asks about Pence’s beatific gaze. As for Pence’s wife, Karen? “She really gives me the creeps.”

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Wolff’s tale is credible enough to be taken seriously and salacious enough to entertain. If you have doubts about Wolff’s credibility, and many do, the latest blowup over the USS John S McCain is one more reminder that in the Age of Trump, truth is weirder than fiction. Much weirder.

Beyond that, by early 2018 Wolff had captured the centrality of Robert Mueller in Trump’s life, and nailed Trump’s and Kushner’s insatiable cravings for cash. Fire and Fury records Bannon as saying: “This is all about money laundering … It goes through Deutsche Bank and Kushner and all that shit.” Talk about getting the big picture right.

More:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jun/02/siege-review-michael-wolff-trump-fire-and-fury

[3Hotdogs]

1. Trump on Karen Pence: "She really gives me the creeps."

Maybe Trump ain't insane after all.

[Scarsdale]

2. Well, any woman who keeps her clothes on

and does not have a price for her services, gives him the creeps. Not that I care for her, but at least her face is natural, not redesigned by plastic surgeons. Sarah "Sucks to be Me" Sanders gives me the creeps. Scowl is permanent, plus the wonky eye is scary.