#Fire and Fury Inside the Trump White House

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Ramon Antonio Vargas at The Guardian:

The notorious white supremacist Nick Fuentes is facing battery charges in Illinois because authorities say he pepper-sprayed a woman who had knocked on his front door after he enraged many on the internet by tweeting the misogynistic slogan “your body, my choice” following Donald Trump’s victory in the recent presidential election.

Fuentes, 26, was arrested on 27 November on a count of misdemeanor battery and released the same day, according to documents filed on Wednesday in the Cook county circuit court that were reported on by the Chicago Sun-Times. He is tentatively scheduled to appear in court on 19 December. The far-right, avowedly antisemitic influencer seemingly sought to make light of his legal predicament on Friday on social media, publishing a post on X that contained a thinly disguised racial slur as well as the words “Free me”. Meanwhile, the Jewish feminist activist pressing the case against Fuentes, 57-year-old Marla Rose, also commented on social media, writing on Facebook: “It. Is. On.” She added “civil case pending” to the post that displayed three fire emojis. Fuentes invited the digital sphere’s fury by celebrating Trump’s return to the presidency at the expense of Kamala Harris on 6 November with a barb tweeted on X reading: “Your body, my choice. Forever.”

The post taunting the concept of women’s bodily autonomy – along with the 2022 elimination of federal abortion rights at the hands of a US supreme court dominated by judges either appointed by or aligned with Trump – had gained more than 99.7m views as of Saturday. And some of Fuentes’s political opponents retaliated by publishing his home address on social media while declaring: “Your house, our choice.” Rose ultimately told police that she had gone to record the outside of Fuentes’s home in the Chicago-area suburb of Berwyn on 10 November. He soon allegedly pepper-sprayed her, pushed her on to the concrete and broke her cellphone. Video of the encounter that Rose later released showed Fuentes open his front door as she reached up to ring the doorbell. He extended his left arm while holding a bottle of pepper spray, which prompted Rose to say: “Oh my God, what are you doing?” The phone was then seen falling while Fuentes could be heard saying: “Get the fuck out of here.” Fuentes then seemingly used his foot to drag the phone inside his house before closing the door and locking it.

A police report filed on 11 November said another woman driving by Fuentes’s house at the time called officers. That witness described seeing a man shove a woman outside a home, the report recounted. Rose was still at the scene when police arrived, and officers reportedly spoke with her as well as Fuentes separately. The report added that Fuentes claimed to police that he had received death threats as well as “people showing up to his house unannounced” after posting “a political joke online” had left him “in fear for his life”. He eventually “became uncooperative” and refused to further address the confrontation with Rose, as NBC News reported.

Far-right white supremacist and giant sexist Nick Fuentes faces charges over pepper-spraying Marla Rose because she dared to confront him over his grossly misogynistic “Your body, my choice. Forever.” post on X.

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HuffPost: Nick Fuentes Arrested For Allegedly Macing Woman Who Confronted Him Over 'Your Body, My Choice' Post

[chucktaylorupset]

"He had a longtime fear of being poisoned, one reason why he liked to eat at McDonald’s — nobody knew he was coming and the food was safely premade."

Wolff, M., & Smith, J. (2018, January 3). Michael Wolff’s ‘Fire and Fury’: Inside Trump’s White House. Intelligencer. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/01/michael-wolff-fire-and-fury-book-donald-trump.html

I have no comments on today's events except to say that i sincerely doubt it will have a measurable effect in november

[emunenen]

Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House

[bdpoliticslibrary]

Fire and Fury, Inside the Trump White House

Author: Wolff Michael Language: English ISBN: 978-0-349-14342-2

Status: Available Condition: New Price: HUF2,500 Contact: bibliothecadiscipulorum@gmail.com

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Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: Fire and Fury - Inside the Trump White House book by Michael Wolff.

[mariesbookblog]

Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolff

George W. Bush, on the dais, supplied what seemed likely to become the historic footnote to the Trump address: “That’s some weird shit.” 

The first nine months of Donald Trump's term were stormy, outrageous—and absolutely mesmerizing. Now, thanks to his deep access to the West Wing, bestselling author Michael Wolff tells the riveting story of how Trump launched a tenure as volatile and fiery as the man himself.

In this explosive book, Wolff provides a wealth of new details about the chaos in the Oval Office. Never before has a presidency so divided the American people. Brilliantly reported and astoundingly fresh, Michael Wolff's Fire and Fury shows us how and why Donald Trump has become the king of discord and disunion.

As my dad said, this book is like cat nip for Democrats. What can I say, he was right. 

I listened to this in about two days. It just grabs you in and you can’t stop. Kind of like the whole of 45′s presidency. I’m sure some of this is fake, but it makes for a great read. As someone who hates Trump, you just want it all to be true, and it’s kind of fits in so nicely with what you already believe. He’s incompetent, Bannon ran the show, etc, etc., Fire and Fury agrees with it all. But some of it is probably, likely false. Either way, it was entertaining, which is mostly why I got it. Entertainment value, not for deep dark secrets into 45′s White House, and that’s what I got. 

Cat nip for Democrats.

Rating: ★★★★☆ (4/5 stars)

[maryadeson]

Aside from wanting to read some dirt, I generally wanted to get a better sense of Trump. Here’s what I learnt: 1. Trump entered the presidential race not wanting to win, it was simply intended to be a platform to build his media empire (allegedly). 2. Trump’s administration thinks his an idiot 3. He likes to eat cheese burgers and go to sleep with his three televisions, rather than in the company of Melanie Trump 4. Rupert Murdoch thinks Trump is a fucking idiot. 5. Trump is paranoid. This is the reason why he prefers to eat McDonald’s because he has long feared a poisoning plot. His rational is McDonald’s would not expect him to show up and so no one would know to prepare a special poison meal.  6. Trump thinks of himself as white trash - "“What is this ‘white trash’?” asked the model. “They’re people just like me,” said Trump, “only they’re poor.“ 7. Steven Bannon wrote the inaugural address, which on reflection makes sense. 8. John Bolton was not nominated for Secretary of State because of his moustache. 9. Ivanka Trump is entertaining the idea of being the first female president. 10. Bannon believes Trump’s son is guy of treason.

The big question is all the content factual.

I haven’t learnt anything of any great importance; I don’t feel I’ve satisfied my curiosity.

Rating: 2.5 stars

[npr]

'I'm Not A Hit Man,' Michael Wolff Tells NPR About His Controversial Trump Book

The book that created a rift between President Trump and his former campaign chief executive and adviser Steve Bannon hit the shelves Friday morning, ahead of the original Tuesday release date, despite the president's threat to block its publication.

Michael Wolff, author of Fire and Fury: Inside The Trump White House, told NPR's Kelly McEvers in an interview set to air on All Things Considered Friday afternoon that he "100 percent" stands behind his reporting, which the White House and some of the books' subjects have sharply criticized.

"I am not a hit man," Wolff said. "I'm someone who just found his way into this story of our time and just wanted to tell it as clearly as possible and with as much understanding as possible."

The pushback and legal threats from the White House may have made the book even more popular. Wolff's work went on sale at midnight in at least one Washington, D.C., bookstore and reportedly sold out in less than 20 minutes. It had already reached No. 1 on Amazon's best-seller list.

Wolff's book paints a portrait of a White House in disarray, with an incompetent President Trump at the center.

"I think the two fundamental issues were that Donald Trump doesn't read anything. Let me accent that — anything. Nothing," Wolff told NPR. "If you're working for the president of the United States, that's an odd position because how do you get information to him? That's already a major hurdle. But then there's the second hurdle — that not only does he not read, he doesn't listen. So it becomes from Day 1, the crisis of the presidency: You can't tell him anything."

An example Wolff pointed to was how Trump was obsessed on his first full day in office with disputing facts that his inauguration had been larger than former President Barack Obama's — which was inaccurate. However, Wolff said, "You couldn't say to him, 'That's not true. You shouldn't have said it from the beginning, but now we have to fix it.' He wouldn't read it and you couldn't tell him it because he won't listen to you. It is entirely his reality."

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[deadpresidents]

His sons, Don Jr. and Eric -- behind their backs known to Trump insiders as Uday and Qusay, after the sons of Saddam Hussein...

For those who have been sending me messages asking about Michael Wolff’s new book, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House (BOOK | KINDLE), there are a ton of great anecdotes and fascinating insights like this which make the book an easy recommendation despite my already intense Trump Fatigue.

[emunenen]

Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House

[deej3000]

LIVE READING of hot title book Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House!

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[emunenen]

Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House

[feelingbluepolitics]

 "[F]ormer prosecutor Barbara McQuade explained that the two charges against Bannon carry 20-year penalties each, and while as a first-time offender Bannon isn’t likely to get the maximum penalty, he will serve time if he’s found guilty.

"It’s that reason that McQuade wonders if Bannon won’t try to give up information on [t]rump Jr. or Jared Kushner, who joined Bannon in the meeting with the Russian lawyer at [t]rump Tower.

..."Steve Bannon, who was the CEO of the [t]rump campaign,' she continued. 'He knows an awful lot about [t]rump Jr. and Jared Kushner and other people close to that campaign. Even if it doesn’t relate to Russian campaign interference, it may relate to other kinds of financial fraud.'

"McQuade also explained that prosecutors prefer cases like these because it involves documents and they’re easy to prosecute because all of the information is available in writing."

Odds are good. Bannon got into trouble with the trumps in the first place for talking too freely with journalists and Bob Woodward, the author of "Fear," one of the earliest inside-trump's-White House books.* Bannon has years walking free to gain by talking with prosecutors.

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"[A]fter it was revealed he had been cooperating with Michael Wolff in his scathing [t]rump takedown, 'Fire and Fury,' [trump] fired him.  

"Not only had Bannon consented to on-record interviews, he took aim at [t]rump family members, including [t]rump Jr.

"He called the infamous 2016 Trump Tower meeting about dirt on Hillary Clinton that was attended by [t]rump Jr., Paul Manafort, and [t]rump son-in-law Jared Kushner 'treasonous' and 'unpatriotic.' 

"He predicted to authorities: 'They're going to crack Don Jr. like an egg' – something which did not happen.

"Wolff reported in 2018 that Bannon told investigators: 'Even if you thought that this was not treasonous, or unpatriotic, or bad sh**, and I happen to think it's all of that, you should have called the FBI immediately.'

"He is also quoted in Wolff's book calling first daughter Ivanka [t]rump 'dumb as a brick.'"

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Daily Mail: 'Trump was raging because the white trash mob made him look bad' says White House insider

Daily Mail: 'Trump was raging because the white trash mob made him look bad' says White House insider.

Yet it was not the mayhem and violence that caused Trump to roar in fury – not the dead bodies, including a Capitol police officer who died from a massive brain bleed after being struck in the head with a fire extinguisher