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5 surprising allegations from the new book about Trump's presidency | TheHill

posted onJanuary 4, 2018
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Article snippet: Washington, D.C. on Wednesday was dominated by a series of explosive excerpts from a forthcoming book focused on the early days inside the Trump White House. Michael Wolff’s upcoming book, “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House,” depicts a president who didn't expect to defeat were published Wednesday.  Wolff acknowledges in the book’s introduction that it contains conflicting and untrue statements. He writes that certain accounts reflect “a version of events I believe to be true."  A few figures quoted in the book, including slammed the book as filled with “false and misleading” information, adding that the author did not sit down with Trump himself for the project. Here are some of the more explosive allegations from Wolff’s book excerpts:   Trump may have met with Russians after a June 2016 meeting in Trump Tower Former White House chief strategist Stephen Bannon said there was “zero” chance MORE was unaware of the now-infamous meeting in Trump Tower involving his son and a Russian lawyer. Bannon, who is said to be one of the primary sources for Wolff’s book, called the meeting between Donald Trump Jr. and a Russian lawyer in July 2016 “treasonous” and “unpatriotic.” “The chance that Don Jr. did not walk these Jumos up to his father’s office o the 26th floor is zero,” Bannon said, according to an excerpt obtained by MSNBC. Trump Jr. agreed to attend the meeting after an intermediary told him that the lawyer had damaging information on Hillary Clinton. Tr... Link to the full article to read more

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