Fraud: Wolff Admits He’s Not Sure His Own Book Is True

Posted by $ Olduglycarl 7 years, 3 months ago to News
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It's a short article, but this is the important part the lamestream leaves out.

Reading this causes me to wonder, if most of this is false or uncolaborated then why even write a book in the first place...unless of course, "it's Just Another Distraction".

Now, however, it looks like there could be much more to the story. Michael Wolff, the author of the title that set off the political fireworks, has admitted that he isn’t sure which parts of his own book are true — and that much of it may be exaggerated or blatantly false.

“Michael Wolff […] included a note at the start that casts significant doubt on the reliability of the specifics contained in the rest of its pages,” reported Business Insider reported. “Several of his sources, he says, were definitely lying to him, while some offered accounts that flatly contradicted those of others.”

Incredibly, the author of a book that is being treated as factual by much of the media admitted to “looseness with the truth,” and basically guessing about which accounts were accurate and which were invented out of thin air.

“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,” Wolff wrote in the book’s prologue.

This is the same info being reported by other news sources as well, even the Washington Post.
I read the authors notes on Amazons "Look Inside" and this last paragraph is there.


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  • Posted by $ 7 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    You nicely outlined the entire predicament...wolffee should put his nose in the corner and wear a Dunce cap.
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 7 years, 3 months ago
    Someone named Wolff should already have some idea what happens to one's credibility for crying wolf too many times.
    Me dino knows someone who claims to frequently see UFOs, especially when he goes hunting.
    Would I write down his reported sightings and try to sell it all as a serious article or a book?
    Do believe I'd look like a bigger fool than the guy I was writing about.
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  • Posted by $ 7 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I read as much as Amazon would allow for free...not about to waist my money and time on a prescription drug addict's rendition of his magical mystery tour.

    What caught my attention was his statements in the Authors Notes, then writing a book anyway, knowing everyone was just on dope or just pulling his crank.
    I think most of us were skeptical about some of the creatures Trumpet surrounded himself with.

    He seems like just another weasel in washington.
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  • Posted by $ MikeMarotta 7 years, 3 months ago
    Nonsense. If this were about the Hllary Clinton White House with people lying to the author, denying they said what they did, and flatly contradicting each other, you would have a different spin.

    Wolff just reported what people told him. That seems to be all the book is about, opinions of people in the White House.

    I have not read the book. Have you?

    All I know is what I heard on one NPR "All Things Considered" interview.

    MCEVERS: Let's talk about the book itself. For the many people who still haven't read it, you write a lot about President Trump and his personality in particular, you know, talking about things like how he lacks the ability to take in third-party information and about how he's more interested in immediate gratification than sort of a longer-term game of, you know, laying down policies the way other presidents have done. How much time did you spend with the president himself?

    WOLFF: You know, let me just - I just want to say something 'cause it's an interesting thing that's starting to happen...

    MCEVERS: Sure.

    WOLFF: ...Which I'm becoming the poster boy for taking down Donald Trump. That certainly has never been my intention. My intention was to go into the White House and to report what I saw and what I heard. I thought that from the beginning, this was going to be an extraordinary story in whatever way it went. And I had no no way of knowing what way it would go. So it was not really so much about who - my analysis of Donald Trump but the people who were closest to him, the people who had to run this White House, the people who became this White House.

    MCEVERS: But just - I do need to ask the question. How much time did you spend with the president himself?

    WOLFF: I have spent about three hours with the president over the course of the campaign and in the White House.


    Full transcript of the interview here:
    https://www.npr.org/templates/transcr...
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  • Posted by Dobrien 7 years, 3 months ago
    "Uncivil War" is being waged. Would love to see some offense.
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  • Posted by freedomforall 7 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    "The satisfaction of a job well done is one of life's greatest pleasures."
    - Detective William Murdoch, The Murdoch Mysteries S11E06
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  • Posted by $ 7 years, 3 months ago in reply to this comment.
    It just blows my mind that someone writes a book, claims it to be "non fiction" yet starts out admitting that it's all made up stuff...and someone will buy it anyway...

    Why the hell am I bustin my butt to get mine right, to be correct in my assumptions and posits.
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  • Posted by freedomforall 7 years, 3 months ago
    Now the author will definitely get wealthy and will sell tens of thousands more copies due to this free publicity.
    Just another con from the Dark Center and the remoras eating whats left by larger looters.
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  • Posted by mminnick 7 years, 3 months ago
    The NYT should list is a a fiction book not non-fiction. The author even staes he is not sure how much is true..
    Just serves to point out the depth of the disdain the "Elite Inteligencia" have for the President and those not of the progressive bent.
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