Under normal circumstances, Wolff would be unpublishable outside of Craigslist. But because he wrote a book of lies about President Trump, the Hollywood Reporter gave him substantial space on Wednesday to restate why it’s OK to be a con artist. (Wolff more kindly describes himself simply as a “writer.”)
“Not part of that bureaucracy — indeed without an employer — I slipped into the White House this past year and got a close-up look at a West Wing operating at historic levels of managerial and intellectual impairment,” wrote Wolff in defense of his sensational Fire and Fury book. “The book I wrote — seeing West Wing staffers not so much as part of a predictable political ecosystem but as people caught in an aberrant situation beyond their control and even grasp — was resonant with readers but was held in suspicious regard by various members of the Washington media.”
As extensively documented in my book Fraud and Fiction (available on Amazon), that’s not true. The Washington media fully glommed onto Wolff’s laughable account of the White House with sticky hands, boosting the book’s credibility for more than a month. It wasn’t until he claimed in media interviews that United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley was having an affair with Trump that Wolff finally had to endure serious scrutiny.
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