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A lawyer representing President Trump sought Thursday to stop the publication of a new behind-the-scenes book about the White House that has already led Trump to angrily decry his former chief strategist Stephen K. Bannon. The legal notice — addressed to author Michael Wolff and the president of the book’s publisher — said Trump’s lawyers were pursuing possible charges including libel in connection with the forthcoming book, “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House.” The letter by Beverly Hills-based attorney Charles J. Harder demanded the publisher, Henry Holt and Co., “immediately cease and desist from any further publication, release or dissemination of the book” or excerpts and summaries of its contents. The lawyers also seek a full copy of the book as part of their investigation.
Trump spent much of the day raging about the book to top aides, officials and advisers said, and Sanders described the president as “furious” and “disgusted.” As he fumed, some aides were still frantically searching for a copy of the book, and even senior aides such as Hicks had not seen it by the afternoon, officials said. “He’s out of control,” one person with knowledge of Trump’s comments said. This person added that the president had been in an upbeat mood for much of Tuesday, continuing to brag about last month’s passage of the Republican tax bill even as he fired off combative tweets. Trump also blasted others in the White House for talking to Wolff, who was frequently spotted wandering the West Wing with no escort or ensconced in Bannon’s office, especially during the early months of the administration.

Wolff said Trump was aware of the project and allowed others to participate. An excerpt of the book, published online in New York magazine, said the author conducted more than 200 interviews “over a period of 18 months with the president, most members of his senior staff, and many people to whom they in turn spoke.” Sanders said that Wolff “never actually sat down with the president” since Trump took office and that the two men had only had one five- to seven-minute conversation “that had nothing to do, originally, with the book.” One senior White House official said Trump advisers considered Wolff friendly and believed it would be beneficial to speak with him; this person also said that Wolff interviewed Trump. A second senior White House official said the president had viewed Bannon as a useful ally when he was frustrated with congressional leadership and that, while he didn’t consider Bannon a close confidant, he also didn’t want him as an enemy.

Allies said Bannon was largely incommunicado on Wednesday. He had considered issuing a statement denouncing the book and denying some of the quotes but was not able to do so before Trump went on the attack, they said.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics ... spartandhp
WHAT ELSE IS IN THE BOOK:

-- Trump is portrayed as uninformed, unprepared and lacking focus in the book. John Wagner rounds up some of the buzziest nuggets that are out there: “Wolff writes that Trump became upset that he couldn’t give a Supreme Court seat to a friend rather than someone he didn’t know. He casts Trump as having ‘little or no interest’ in Republican attempts to overhaul the Affordable Care Act. And Wolff says aides were incredulous over Trump’s claims that President Obama had ‘wiretapped’ Trump Tower during the 2016 campaign …

“Early in the campaign … Trump aide Sam Nunberg was sent to explain the Constitution to the candidate, Wolff writes, and Nunberg offered this assessment of the experience: ‘I got as far as the Fourth Amendment before his finger is pulling down on his lip and his eyes are rolling back in his head.’

“Wolff also writes that Reince Priebus … was alarmed how often during the transition Trump offered people jobs on the spot, including many he had never met before. … Wolff writes that one of the reasons Trump didn’t want John Bolton, a famously hawkish diplomat, as his national security adviser, was because of his mustache.

“Wolff details how Trump did not take well to living in the White House, recounting a reprimand to the housekeeping staff for picking his shirt up from the floor. Trump also reportedly imposed a rule that no one touch his toothbrush.”
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I'm guessing Turnips toothbrush has already seen many a butt swipe from housekeeping staff. LOL
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Now we see Bannon sticking his nose back into Turnip’s Orange hole.
WASHINGTON ― Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon is standing by Donald Trump, even after the president on Wednesday widened an extraordinary rift with him in response to explosive comments Bannon made in a forthcoming book.

On his Breitbart radio show Wednesday night, Bannon reiterated that he supports Trump “day in and day out” and referred to the president as “a great man.”

Nearly 2 hours into “Breitbart News Tonight” Sirius XM radio show, a caller references Trump’s comments on Bannon. Bannon replies, “The president of the United States is a great man. You know I support him day in and day out.”

— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) January 4, 2018
They were Bannon’s first public comments since excerpts of his remarks in the book were released, precipitating Wednesday’s cascade of events, which culminated in Trump and the White House issuing a furious denouncement of Bannon and Trump’s attorney threatening a lawsuit in a cease-and-desist letter. Bannon’s conservative allies also sought to distance themselves.

On Thursday morning, Bannon returned to the airwaves, telling his followers that “there’s no one we think higher [of] than Donald Trump.” He also accused “left-wing” media of attempting to create the feud between him and Trump, assuring listeners that “we are tight.”

“Nothing will ever come between us and President Trump and his agenda. Don’t worry about that,” the Breitbart chairman told a caller on his show. “Don’t worry about us and Trump and the [Make America Great Again] agenda. We are tight on this as we’ve ever been.”
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/st ... mg00000009

Bannon is just a suck up.
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They both live on the caffein/saccharine diet where 24 hour memories are the norm. They're special in that way. Special buds.
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Now we find out the Billionaire Mercer’s Family are cutting Bannon off from the money teat.
Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon has apparently lost the support of billionaire Republican donor and longtime Donald Trump supporter Rebekah Mercer.

Mercer made her differences with Bannon clear in a statement to The Washington Post on Thursday.

“I support President Trump and the platform upon which he was elected,” Mercer said. “My family and I have not communicated with Steve Bannon in many months and have provided no financial support to his political agenda, nor do we support his recent actions and statements.”

Those “recent actions” refer to a falling-out between Bannon and Trump that ignited when an excerpt from journalist Michael Wolff’s upcoming book on the Trump administration was published Wednesday. In the excerpt, Bannon is quoted as saying there’s “zero” chance Trump didn’t meet with Russian operatives during a June 2016 encounter at Trump Tower, which Bannon labeled “treasonous.”

An unidentified associate told The New York Times the split between Bannon and the Mercer family was so acrimonious that they cut off funding for his personal security detail.

Per a Wall Street Journal report, the board of the far-right Breitbart News is also considering ousting Bannon from his position as executive chairman there. Mercer owns a minority stake in the website.

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders encouraged the move during Thursday’s press briefing.

“I certainly think that it’s something they should look at and consider,” she said of Bannon’s potential dismissal.

Just two months ago, Mercer’s father, Robert, said he intended to sell his stake in Breitbart to his three daughters. In a statement at the time, he voiced support for Bannon, yet emphasized that the two had clear political differences and weren’t in “lockstep.”

“I have great respect for Mr. Bannon, and from time to time I do discuss politics with him,” Mercer said. “However, I make my own decisions with respect to whom I support politically. Those decisions do not always align with Mr. Bannon’s.”
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/me ... mg00000009
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If this was Game of Thrones or Sopranos or another popular TV drama I don't watch, the character of Steve Bannon seems about ready to make a dramatic exit from the series.

Propping himself from the ground, wiping blood from his mouth with his free hand, the last irate words Steve utters is with venom:

BANNON: "Are you kidding me? Are you fucking kidding me? Don't you know who I am?"

Unbeknownst to him, the two foreigners sent there to do a job then fly out truly don't know their mark. They don't even speak his language. They are, however, deadly fluent in their trade.

See, I got this screen-writing thing down pat!
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If I was Michael Wolff and his publisher, unlike that crawling, spineless, cowardly bully Bannon, I'd be jumping for joy that Trump is threatening to sue me!
1) He's a public figure, an elected one, so anything is fair game and he has no legal recourse.
2) It's gonna send book sales through the ROOF!
3) And the best part: As plaintiff, if it doesn't get dismissed with prejudice, is Trump will be forced to testify. He'll have to accept being deposed and cross-examined. And, because he's incapable of telling the truth, he'll lie, committing perjury, and his lies will be conclusively demonstrated.

Remember: Lying under oath isn't necessarily perjury. The lie must be material to the case.
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Wolff's booking was scheduled to be published next Tuesday January 9th, but that's changed it will be published tomorrow January 5th.

Discovery and depositions are wonderful tools in civil suits, who knows what they'd find.
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The lawsuit threat is typical Trump and so unpresidential. He just cannot shut up, but he knows he cannot sue. They called his bluff by moving up the release date. Hahahahahahahahah!

What a dotard!
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"First lady Melania Trump wept with sorrow on election night."

For herself, or for the country?
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highdesert wrote:Wolff's booking was scheduled to be published next Tuesday January 9th, but that's changed it will be published tomorrow January 5th.

Discovery and depositions are wonderful tools in civil suits, who knows what they'd find.
I pre ordered on amazon. hehe

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CDFingers wrote:
highdesert wrote:Wolff's booking was scheduled to be published next Tuesday January 9th, but that's changed it will be published tomorrow January 5th.

Discovery and depositions are wonderful tools in civil suits, who knows what they'd find.
I pre ordered on amazon. hehe

CDFingers
Amazon ordered this morning - said 2-4 week delivery - hope Turnip gone before I receive book !! :yahoo:
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Don't do Kindle nor in a hurry to be sick at my stomach than Supreme Cheeto has already made me. Actually bought book to support publisher and author, not sure I'll even bother reading since most everything has already been in the news. It is already #1 on Amazon Books.
"Being Republican is more than a difference of opinion - it's a character flaw." "COVID can fix STUPID!"
The greatest, most aggrieved mistake EVER made in USA was electing DJT as POTUS.

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so how did Michael Wolff get access to the WH?
One of the biggest questions surrounding Michael Wolff's provocative-yet-sloppy book about the Trump administration is: How did he get so much access? Wolff, by his own account, seemed to inhabit the West Wing for an extended period of time while collecting blockbuster quotes and assembling juicy anecdotes that made the White House look inept, confused and amateurish. And somehow, they just let him do it. Now we know more. And it's as bad as you might have imagined.

Bloomberg News's Jennifer Jacobs reports that Wolff worked his way into the White House by pitching the book with a laughably misleading working title — “The Great Transition: The First 100 Days of the Trump Administration” — and basically stayed there because nobody with any authority thought to question his motives or presence. It's a spectacular comedy of errors by the White House that would be a lot funnier if this weren't describing the seat of the federal government of the United States. I mean, we knew Trump was susceptible to flattery — to an extent — but Jacobs's story confirms just about every preconception about both that and what a hot mess the White House's day-to-day operations are. The means by which Wolff gained access are, in a lot of ways, the greatest confirmation that could exist for the central premise of his book.

Among the anecdotes:

- “Wolff’s entree began with Trump himself, who phoned the author in early February to compliment him on a CNN appearance in which Wolff criticized media coverage of the new president.” (Of course.)
“Nearly everyone who spoke with Wolff thought someone else in the White House had approved their participation.”
- “Wolff conducted himself with assurance on his visits to the West Wing, playing up his relationship with Trump. Officials recall Wolff telling them he’d known Trump a long time and that the president called him 'the best.'”
- “It wasn’t until late August that alarm bells were raised in the White House — when [White House communications director Hope] Hicks, Jared Kushner and their allies realized that fellow aides who had spoken with Wolff, especially Bannon, may have provided damaging anecdotes about them.”
- “After [John] Kelly replaced Priebus as chief of staff at the end of July, Wolff was no longer allowed to linger in the West Wing lobby, a doctor’s waiting room-like area where visitors come and go and staff occasionally cut through.”

The downside of this sloppiness in this case is now abundantly apparent. Wolff's book included devastating quotes from then-top White House adviser Stephen K. Bannon about the president's children and about the Robert S. Mueller III investigation. Its thrust is decidedly opposed to “The Great Transition,” and it is replete with somewhat dubious stories about what's happening behind the scenes. And looking at Wolff's history — including an unkind biography of Rupert Murdoch that was picked apart for inaccuracies nearly a decade ago and plenty of media columns about his tendency to play fast and loose — it shouldn't have been too difficult to see this one coming. Yet flattery was all Wolff needed to turn himself into a sheep, and he stayed a sheep because nobody cared to question whether he was merely donning the clothing of one.

But what happens when it's not just an author with a smile on his face, a well-rehearsed pitch and a bag full of ulterior motives? What happens when it's a foreign diplomat visiting the Oval Office and trying to pry classified information from the president? What happens when it's Vladimir Putin talking to Trump privately at an international summit? What happens when it's China asking him to back off on that whole currency-manipulator thing. Are there really no safeguards against Trump being seduced by the siren song of flattery?

The best possible interpretation of Jacobs's story is that Kelly did instill some discipline into the West Wing and cut off Wolff's easy access. But the fact that so many other people who are still in that building were complicit in allowing Wolff to roam their hallways speaks volumes about just how aimless 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue can be.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the ... 0dd2565b1d
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Received this as a gift a few years ago and recommend it for those who prefer histories to political sensationalist works.
Fire and Fury: The Allied Bombing of Germany, 1942-1945 by Randall Hansen.
Amazon liner notes:
During the Second World War, Allied air forces dropped nearly two million tons of bombs on Germany, destroying some 60 cities, killing more than half a million German citizens, and leaving 80,000 pilots dead. But the terrible truth is that much of the bombing was carried out against the expressed demands of the Allied military leadership, leading to the needless deaths of hundreds of thousands of civilians.

Focusing on the crucial period from 1942 to 1945, Fire and Fury tells the story of the American and British bombing campaign through the eyes of those involved: the military and civilian command in America, Britain, and Germany, the aircrews in the skies who carried out their orders, and civilians on the ground who felt the fury of the Allied attacks.

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DispositionMatrix wrote:Received this as a gift a few years ago and recommend it for those who prefer histories to political sensationalist works.
Fire and Fury: The Allied Bombing of Germany, 1942-1945 by Randall Hansen.
Amazon liner notes:
During the Second World War, Allied air forces dropped nearly two million tons of bombs on Germany, destroying some 60 cities, killing more than half a million German citizens, and leaving 80,000 pilots dead. But the terrible truth is that much of the bombing was carried out against the expressed demands of the Allied military leadership, leading to the needless deaths of hundreds of thousands of civilians.

Focusing on the crucial period from 1942 to 1945, Fire and Fury tells the story of the American and British bombing campaign through the eyes of those involved: the military and civilian command in America, Britain, and Germany, the aircrews in the skies who carried out their orders, and civilians on the ground who felt the fury of the Allied attacks.
The US and British were at odds about the best bombing scheme. The Brits wanted to do daytime, general pattern bombing to demoralize the Germans by terrorizing the ordinary citizens. If you stop and think for a millisecond, you'll realize the Germans had been trying to do the same thing to the British and it only stiffened their resolve. Why did they think Germans would be any different? They weren't.

Meanwhile, the US forces with their game-changing Nord bombsight wanted to do precision night-time bombing to shut down Germany's production and they nearly pulled it off. Albert Speer's book "Inside the Third Reich" relates just how seriously effective the bombing was and only by very clever substitutions and moving factories underground kept the materiel flowing.
This was also in "The Ordeal of Total War" (I've forgotten the author and I'm too lazy to go hunt through the basement for it!)
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YankeeTarheel wrote:
DispositionMatrix wrote:Received this as a gift a few years ago and recommend it for those who prefer histories to political sensationalist works.
Fire and Fury: The Allied Bombing of Germany, 1942-1945 by Randall Hansen.
Amazon liner notes:
During the Second World War, Allied air forces dropped nearly two million tons of bombs on Germany, destroying some 60 cities, killing more than half a million German citizens, and leaving 80,000 pilots dead. But the terrible truth is that much of the bombing was carried out against the expressed demands of the Allied military leadership, leading to the needless deaths of hundreds of thousands of civilians.

Focusing on the crucial period from 1942 to 1945, Fire and Fury tells the story of the American and British bombing campaign through the eyes of those involved: the military and civilian command in America, Britain, and Germany, the aircrews in the skies who carried out their orders, and civilians on the ground who felt the fury of the Allied attacks.
The US and British were at odds about the best bombing scheme. The Brits wanted to do daytime, general pattern bombing to demoralize the Germans by terrorizing the ordinary citizens. If you stop and think for a millisecond, you'll realize the Germans had been trying to do the same thing to the British and it only stiffened their resolve. Why did they think Germans would be any different? They weren't.

Meanwhile, the US forces with their game-changing Nord bombsight wanted to do precision night-time bombing to shut down Germany's production and they nearly pulled it off. Albert Speer's book "Inside the Third Reich" relates just how seriously effective the bombing was and only by very clever substitutions and moving factories underground kept the materiel flowing.
This was also in "The Ordeal of Total War" (I've forgotten the author and I'm too lazy to go hunt through the basement for it!)
Correct some mis-facts. The Brits did just a couple of daylight raids against the Germans early in the war and were so badly beaten they resorted to the night time bombing, They did not have the fighter aircraft that could fly the distance needed. Night time bombing was also done by the Germans during the Blitz for basically the same reason. The bombing was for a general area and was championed by Air Marshall "Bomber" Harris. He felt that destruction of cities and killing civilians would demoralize the population and cause an early end to the war. When the USAAF arrived they had been trained for precision bombing using the Norden Bombsight. So the US did daylight raids and theBrits at night. As Churchill put it" we shall bomb them around the clock." The USAAF In 1943-44 were losing so many crews there was only a 10% chance of a crew member finishing his 25 missions. The mission creep became the normal from 25 to 30 to 35 due to the shortage of crews from the high casualty rate. The units were putting bakers truck drivers and other semi non-essential Personnel in crew positions to be able to fly missions. The causality rate of the Heavy bomber crews in the European Theater was higher than the causality rate of the US Marines in all of the Pacific War. I have been a very avid historian of theUSAAF in the Second World War as my Dad was a a Gunner in the 15th Air Force 461st Bomb Group 764th Squadron based in Torretto, Italy. He completed one tour of 35 missions the signed up for another. this was the tour when he was shot down and became a POW for 39 days until liberated from Stalag VII A by Gen. Patton.
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