Outgoing Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel (D) “already is making plans for after he leaves City Hall, including a deal to write a book about his theories on the increasing importance of cities in a country and world where federal government paralysis has forced municipalities to rely more on themselves,” the Chicago Tribune reports.
Alfred A. Knopf will publish The Nation City: Why Mayors Run the World in spring 2020.
“Like a toadstool… I lay there, annoyed that I was getting fucked by a guy with Yeti pubes and a dick like the mushroom character in Mario Kart… It may have been the least impressive sex I’d ever had, but clearly, he didn’t share that opinion.”
— Stormy Daniels, quoted by The Guardian, describing her affair with Donald Trump in her new tell-all book, Full Disclosure.
Bob Woodward was asked by Olivia Nuzzi whether he found Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House by Michael Wolf to be as credible book as his own, Fear: Trump in the White House.
Said Woodward: “I mean, as they say, I think it got the sociology largely right. The relationships and so forth. But 50 years from now what’s going to be important about the Trump presidency is what he does or doesn’t do. And if I’m right, as I believe I am, it’s a nervous breakdown.”
He elaborated: “Things are not connected. There is not … there is impulse, decisions. I think that the most ardent Trump supporter could read the book and not feel comfortable about the management and the staying the course. There’s not a team. You know, it’s a team of predators, or people who just disagree with the president.
President Trump “disputed one of his longtime lawyer’s criticisms of his behavior and questioned whether a forthcoming book by Jay Goldberg runs afoul of lawyer-client privilege,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“Mr. Goldberg represented Mr. Trump in divorce cases involving two ex-wives, Ivana Trump and Marla Maples. His memoir, The Courtroom Is My Theater, is due to be released in December. Mr. Trump questioned whether it is appropriate for Mr. Goldberg to write about a client.”
Said Trump: “There’s lawyer-client privilege here. You can’t do that.”
Bob Woodward said he would release tapes of his interviews used for his new book, Fear: Inside the Trump White House, for any source who requests it, The Hill reports.
Said Woodward: “This is meticulously done trying to cross reference everything and so forth. I would expect somebody would not want to release their information because they’re confidential sources and as you know, I protect my sources. I think it’s one of the building blocks of journalism and book writing.”
Bob Woodward’s new book, Fear: Inside the Trump White House, sold more than 750,000 copies through its first day of release, the most for any title in Simon & Schuster history, The Hill reports.
Out next month: Full Disclosure by Stormy Daniels.
A news release says the adult entertainer will tell “her whole story for the first time,” including how she came to be a successful actress and director in the adult film business, her alleged affair with Donald Trump and “the events that led to the nondisclosure agreement and the behind-the-scenes attempts to intimidate her,” the New York Times reports.
Bob Woodward told the New York Times that a “key official” in the Trump administration privately told him that his new book is “1,000 percent true,” but later publicly said the opposite.
Said Woodward: “After the information in Fear started breaking last week, one key person who’s in office called and said ‘Everyone knows what you said here is true. It’s 1,000 percent correct.’ And then this person has said some public things that contradict that.”
Former White House staff secretary Rob Porter tells Axios that Bob Woodward’s new book, Fear: Trump in the White House, is selective and often misleading” about President Trump and the administration.
Former White House economic adviser Gary Cohn tells Axios that Bob Woodward’s new book is “inaccurate” — but he declined to say what specifically Woodward got wrong.
Said Cohn: “This book does not accurately portray my experience at the White House. I am proud of my service in the Trump Administration, and I continue to support the President and his economic agenda.”
“Trump has privately been angry at both Gary Cohn’s and Rob Porter’s starring roles in the book, which both Trump and White House officials viewed as evidence that they were major sources for the author.”
USA Today: “In one passage from Fear: Trump in the White House, Woodward described a scene in which then-candidate Trump summoned Christie to Trump Tower along with campaign CEO Steve Bannon. Trump was angry to learn that Christie, whom he made head of his transition team in May 2016, was raising money for the team’s operations.”
Said Trump: “Where the fuck is the money? I need money for my campaign. I’m putting money in my campaign and you’re fucking stealing from me.”
“Christie explained the money was necessary for the transition team to do its job of preparing Trump to smoothly take over the executive branch of the government should he defeat his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton.”
Responded Trump: “You’re jinxing me. I don’t want a transition. I’m shutting down the transition. I told you from day one it was just an honorary title. You’re jinxing me. I’m not going to spend a second on it.”
The press release for Bob Woodward’s new book has a long list of endorsements and ends with a quote from President Trump from the phone call the two had last month.
Said Trump: “I think you’ve always been fair.”
Of course, Trump now calls the book “a scam” and claims it was “made up.”
Bob Woodward has scheduled 23 interviews this week about his newly-released book, Fear: Trump in the White House., according to Axios.
Bob Woodward writes in his new book that Vice President Mike Pence’s “default mode is to not do anything that would prompt Trump to tweet about him or call him an idiot,” USA Today reports.
“Pence appears to have done his best to stay out of Woodward’s book. Pence was also largely absent from Michael Wolff’s Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House.
Said Woodward: “Little leaked out of the Pence side of the White House.”
Simon & Schuster said that it is printing one million copies of Bob Woodward’s new book, Fear: Trump in the White House, to keep up with reader demand, CNN reports.
The book is out tomorrow but can be pre-ordered here. The book is already the sixth biggest seller of 2018 on Amazon, thanks to pre-orders.
“I’ve never seen an instance when the President is so detached from the reality of what’s going on. This has not been treated seriously enough. Some of the things Trump did and does jeopardize the real national security.”
— Bob Woodward, in an interview by NBC News, on his new book, Fear: Trump in the White House.
Taegan Goddard is the founder of Political Wire, one of the earliest and most influential political web sites. He also runs Wonk Wire, Political Job Hunt and the Political Dictionary.
Goddard spent more than a decade as managing director and chief operating officer of a prominent investment firm in New York City. Previously, he was a policy adviser to a U.S. Senator and Governor.
Goddard is also co-author of You Won - Now What? (Scribner, 1998), a political management book hailed by prominent journalists and politicians from both parties. In addition, Goddard's essays on politics and public policy have appeared in dozens of newspapers across the country.
Goddard earned degrees from Vassar College and Harvard University. He lives in New York with his wife and three sons.
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