Fire and rage: 10 scandalous moments from the Trump book

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The victory in the presidential election took Donald Trump by surprise, he did not like his own inauguration and he was very afraid of the White House - these and other revelations are outlined in the book by journalist Michael Wolff, “Fire and Fury: Inside the Corridors of the Trump White House.” It has not yet been published, but US President Donald Trump's lawyers are trying to prevent its publication, writes Air force.

The book is based on 200 more than an interview with the president himself, his closest entourage and senior representatives of the American establishment, including an interview with the chief strategist of the White House, Steve Bannon, who made many unpleasant statements for Trump.

Edition Air force got acquainted with the content of the book before the publication and leads 10 main revelations from it.

1. Steve Bannon accused Trump's son of treason

The book claims that former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon called treason a meeting between Trump’s son and a group of Russians on the eve of the election.

At this meeting in June 2016, just a few months before the presidential election in the United States, the Russians proposed to Donald Trump Jr. compromising Hillary Clinton.

Here's what Michael Wolff said Bannon told him about that meeting: "The three main guys on the campaign saw nothing wrong with meeting with foreign government officials in a conference room on the 25th floor of Trump Tower without bringing in lawyers. Not a single lawyer. Even if they didn't see anything treacherous or unpatriotic about it, even though that's what I call it, they should have informed the FBI in the first place."

“They'll crush Don Jr. like an egg on national television,” Steve Bannon allegedly added, meaning that the special commission investigating ties between the Trump presidential campaign and Moscow would focus on the issue of money laundering.

2. Trump was discouraged by his victory

In his article in the magazine NYMag, briefly retelling the excerpts from the book, Wolff describes the amazement and dismay that prevailed at Trump's headquarters in November 2016 after announcing his victory.

“Shortly after 20.00 p.m. on Election Day, as the unexpected trend—a likely Trump victory—became a reality, Don Jr. was telling a friend that his dad looked like he’d seen a ghost. Melania was in tears, and these were not tears of joy at all. In the subsequent period of less than an hour, as Steve Bannon later recalled, a confused, discouraged Trump turned more and more into a terrified Trump. But the final transformation was yet to come: Donald Trump suddenly became a man who actually believed that he was worthy and fully capable of becoming President of the United States.”

3. Trump was mad at the inauguration

Wolff writes: “Trump did not enjoy his inauguration. He was angry that the stars of the first magnitude neglected this event. Was annoyed that he had to spend the night at the presidential hotel Blair house (a tradition started by President Jimmy Carter - BBC note). He pulled at his wife, who seemed about to burst into tears. All day he walked around with the look that, according to his inner circle, he has when playing golf: angry, dissatisfied, hunched over, arms dangling, eyebrows knitted, lips pursed.”

However, in the office of the first lady refute these allegations.

“Mrs. Trump supported her husband’s decision to participate in the presidential race and even convinced him to take this step. She had no doubt that he would win and was happy when it happened,” Melanie Trump’s communications director, Stephanie Grisham, said in a statement.

4. Trump was afraid of the White House

Wolff writes: “Trump found the White House an unpleasant and even a little scary place. He immediately retreated to his bedroom. For the first time since President Kennedy, the presidential couple in the White House demanded separate bedrooms for themselves. He immediately asked to bring two more TVs in addition to the one that was there and to install a lock on the door, ignoring the security services who insisted that they should have access to the room.”

5. Ivanka Trump wants to be president

Michael Wolff argues that Donald Trump's daughter and her husband Jared Kushner made an agreement between themselves, according to which of the two of them, in the future, Ivanka will try to run for president.

“Variing between risk and reward, Jared and Ivanka finally agreed to take on the roles offered to them in the East Wing. Literally everyone they knew told them to do it. It was a joint decision of the couple and, essentially, their joint work. They made an extremely serious agreement between themselves: if such an opportunity arises in the future, Ivanka will run for president. The first female president will not be Hillary Clinton, Ivanka decided, but she. Steve Bannon, who at one time coined the popular nickname “Jarvanka” (Jared and Ivanka) for the young couple, according to him, was horrified when he learned of the couple’s intentions.”

6. Ivanka mocks father's haircut

According to the author of the book, the "first daughter of the United States" supported the joke that Donald Trump's hairstyle was due to the fact that part of his scalp was removed.

“She treated her father somewhat distantly, even ironically, and went so far as to mock the way he combed his hair. She explained dad's hairstyle to her friends this way: the bare bald patch formed after removing part of the scalp is framed on the sides and front by fluffy hair that sticks up and connects in the center. They are combed back and secured with fixing varnish. To make it even more comical, she says that dad achieves his color using a gray hair dye called Just for men (“For men only”) - the longer you hold it on your head, the darker the color. But Trump is impatient, so he turns out orange blond.”

7. White House not sure about priorities

Katie Walsh, taking up the post of deputy head of the White House office a year ago, asked the chief adviser to President Jared Kushner what the administration has set itself. However, according to the author of the book Michael Walff, Jared could not answer her.

“Tell me three things the president wants to emphasize,” Walsh asked. “What are the top three priorities of the White House?” This was the most obvious question imaginable. A question that every presidential candidate must have an answer to long before he moves into the White House. But Trump has been president for six weeks and Kushner has yet to respond. “Yes,” he told Walsh. “We’ll probably need to talk about this.”

8. Trump admires Murdoch

Michael Wolff, who previously wrote the biography of Rupert Murdoch, describes how President Trump respects an elderly media mogul.

“Rupert Murdoch, who promised to stop by to congratulate the newly elected president, was late. When one of the guests was about to leave, an extremely excited Trump assured them that Rupert was already arriving. “He is one of the greats, the last of the greats. You should stay and watch him,” Trump said. Still unaware that he was now the most powerful man in the world, Trump habitually tried to win the approval of the media titan, who, without hiding his contempt, once called Trump a charlatan and a fool.

9. Murdoch calls Trump an idiot

Wolff describes the incident that occurred between Trump and Murdoch following a meeting with the president of the businessmen from Silicon Valley.

“These guys need my help. Obama didn't treat them very well, the regulations were too strict. This is my chance to help them,” Trump told Murdoch on the phone, meaning it was necessary to loosen the part of immigration law that would allow America to get highly skilled workers.

Murdoch reminded Trump that the move would prevent him from fulfilling his campaign promise to close borders and build a wall. For the lack of logic in his actions, Murdoch called Trump an idiot.

10. Flynn knew that ties with Russia would come back to him

Former Donald Trump's national security adviser Michael Flynn knew that getting 45 thousand dollars from Russia Today for a speech delivered in 2015 at a conference organized by the Russian pro-Kremlin television channel, he won’t get away with it, the author writes.

Wolff claims that Flynn's friends warned him early on in the campaign that this would be a big problem. “It will only be a problem if we win,” Flynn responded at the time.

Flynn’s charges on several episodes were brought under the special investigation conducted by Robert Muller regarding Russia's possible interference in the US presidential election 2016 of the year.

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