Michael Wolff on Trump’s Secret Connections
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Why does Trump frequently attack Michael Wolff?
Let's talk about someone who Donald Trump attacks over and over again, probably almost more than anyone. It's a reporter and author by the name of Michael Wolff. And I'm sure you've seen Donald Trump attack him like this. So-called author Michael Wolff's new book is a total fake job, just like the other junk he wrote. He called me many times trying to set up a meeting, but I never called him back because I didn't want to give him credibility of an interview, blah, blah, blah. There's so many other posts like this. And Michael Wolff's out with a new book called All or Nothing, How Trump Recaptured America. And frankly, because of posts like that, He's kind of persona non grata when it comes to corporate media.
And normally you do a book tour. You talk about your book. Michael Wolff wrote about it in The Hollywood Reporter. Michael Wolff, Trump scared the news networks into banning my book. It's a guest column in The Hollywood Reporter. And does it shock you that the corporate media oligarchs who went and kissed the ring at Mar-a-Lago would not want someone like Michael Wolff on their network? They used to have him on the network all the time to talk about his reporting. I think there may be another reason as well that Trump attacks Wolff more than anybody. What can it be? I thought for a second they were going to release those Epstein files. Remember all of those MAGA influencers? They went outside and they were holding their binders up saying that they had those Epstein files.
And it turned out it was just like Epstein's phone list, by the way, which has Trump's name on it, which was released many years ago in connection with the various cases involving Epstein. But if y'all remember, Wolf's got a lot of tapes online. of Epstein talking about Donald Trump. Like you may recall this one that we in the Daily Beast reported, but almost no one else was reporting before the election. Seems like a big deal to me, but you remember this, let's play it.
I think we have a snippet from one of the conversations that I recorded with Epstein, and I think this was in a restaurant in 2017.
His people fight each other. Right. And then have outsiders. He sort of poisons the well outside. He will tell 10 people Bannon's a scumbag, and Priest is not doing a good job, and Kelly has a big mouth. What do you think? Jamie Dimon says that you're a problem and I shouldn't keep you. And I spoke to Carl Icahn and Carl thinks I need a new spokesperson. So Kelly, even though I hired Kellyanne's husband, Kellyanne is just too much of a wild one.
Let's bring on Michael Wolff, since we now have a platform bigger than corporate media platform and they don't want to have him on. Let's have him on, the author of All or Nothing, How Trump Recaptured America. First, Mr. Wolff, my question for you is, how have you uncovered that you're pretty much banned from being on corporate media?
You know, so this book came out, and this is my fourth book, and all of the other books, you know, they come out, and everybody invites you on to talk about Donald Trump because it's Donald Trump, and Donald Trump gets ratings, and my books, and I sell a lot of books, so therefore it seems unnatural for television. And then, so this book came out, or we began planning for it, and it was crickets out there. Everybody was going, well, no, I know, you know, we'll get back to you. And MSNBC, which of course would book this, want me on to talk about this book, because what else do they talk about besides Donald Trump and disliking Donald Trump? And they had booked me for that first publication week, which was I guess two, three weeks ago.
But then just as the White House started to attack me, excerpts began to, leaks began to appear about the book. And then the White House attacked me and they canceled everything. And it was like, well, it's now with, it's with our standards committee or some strange thing, which I've never heard of. And, you know, clearly and then actually somebody from the White House called up to threaten me and said, you know, it's a new climate and and then cited the ABC settlement, this ongoing negotiations with CBS News. to settle over the way they edited the Kamala Harris interview on 60 Minutes.
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