Quotes About Michael Wolff

Reviewing Michael Wolff's 'Fire and Fury' presents a challenge for those of us tired of a media environment where the dominant voices consistently try to have it both ways.

I think Bob Woodward's books are important books.

Many of the accounts of what has happened in the Trump White House are in conflict with one another; many, in Trumpian fashion, are baldly untrue.

During my many hours on the Acela, I have taken to watching 'The West Wing,' Aaron Sorkin's drama of an idealised White House.

I have written periodically for the Guardian for more than a decade.

I work like every journalist works so I have recordings, I have notes.

I've said many times: I'm not a Washington reporter.

When 'Fire and Fury' came out, I thought Steve Bannon would certainly never speak to me again, and the truth is, he never stopped speaking.

Alan Rusbridger is, to many, among the most admired newspaper editors of our time.

Time spent with Trump on the campaign plane was often an epic dissing experience: everybody around him was an idiot.

Don't let him piss off the press, don't let him piss off the Republican Party, don't threaten congressmen because they will fuck you if you do, and most of all don't let him piss off the intel community," said one national Republican figure to Kushner. "If you fuck with the intel community they will figure out a way to get back at you and you'll have two or three years of a Russian investigation, and every day something else will leak out.

Ailes had a suggestion: "Speaker Boehner." (John Boehner had been the Speaker of the House until he was forced out in a Tea Party putsch in 2011.) "Who's that?" asked Trump.

fact-checkers from the magazine called him for comment about Scaramucci's accusation that he sucked his own cock.)

The Trump campaign had, perhaps less than inadvertently, replicated the scheme from Mel Brooks's The Producers.

For the media, Cohen was a reliable leaker about Trump and the campaign. Among senior campaign aides, he was later regarded as a central voice in NBC correspondent Katy Tur's book about the campaign,

He was the ultimate antiliberal: an authoritarian who was the living embodiment of resistance to authority.

purpose of actually changing the country. Changing it quickly, radically, and truly.

The leitmotif for Trump about his own campaign was how crappy it was and how everybody involved in it was a loser.

Crazy was a potent enemy against the establishment, but how to predict what a crazy man will do?

There were too many members of the House. He couldn't remember their names. He launched into dramatic eye-rolling when told where they were from. "Flyovers," he said. "Men's shop salesmen.

Donald Trump, whose cruelties, always great even when they were casual, were unbearable when he truly turned against you.

The DOJ," the president's source told him, "was filled with women who hated him.

Bannon learned about the piece when fact-checkers from the magazine called him for comment about Scaramucci's accusation that he sucked his own cock.)

what if it was precisely the absence of intent and, instead, the swings of irrationality and mania that managed, even as his government collapsed, to hold so many people in thrall?