Michael
Wolff told BBC radio that his conclusion in “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump
White House”-- that Trump is not fit to do the job -- was becoming a widespread
view.
“I think one
of the interesting effects of the book so far is a very clear emperor-has-no-clothes
effect,” Wolff said in an interview broadcast on Saturday.
“The story
that I have told seems to present this presidency in such a way that it says he
can’t do his job,” Wolff said.
“Suddenly
everywhere people are going ‘oh my God, it’s true, he has no clothes’. That’s
the background to the perception and the understanding that will finally end
... this presidency.”
Trump has
dismissed the book as full of lies. It depicts a chaotic White House, a
president who was ill-prepared to win the office in 2016, and Trump aides who
scorned his abilities.
Trump took
to Twitter late on Friday to renew his attacks on Wolff, and on his former top
aide Steve Bannon who was quoted in the book.
“Michael
Wolff is a total loser who made up stories in order to sell this really boring
and untruthful book,” Trump said. “He used Sloppy Steve Bannon, who cried when
he got fired and begged for his job. Now Sloppy Steve has been dumped like a
dog by almost everyone. Too bad!”
Bannon,
formerly Trump’s chief strategist, is chairman of the so-called alt-right
Breitbart News website
In his
interview with the BBC, Wolff was asked if he believed that Bannon felt Trump
was unfit to serve as president and would try to bring him down. “Yes,” Wolff
replied.
He also hit
back at claims that the book was untruthful.
“This is
what’s called reporting. This is how you do it.” he said. “You ask people, you
get as close as you can to the event, you interview the people who were privy
to the event, you interview other people who were privy to the event, you come
to know the circumstance as well as anybody and then you report it.”
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