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Trump slams 'phony' tell-all hours before its release, nicknames Bannon 'Sloppy Steve' - ABC News

posted onJanuary 5, 2018
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Article snippet: Hillary Clinton. "Even if you thought that this was not treasonous, or unpatriotic, or bad [expletive], and I happen to think it’s all of that you should have called the FBI immediately,” Bannon is quoted as saying, according to Wolff's book. As ABC News first reported, Trump lawyer Charles Harder demanded in a letter Wednesday on behalf of his client that Wolff and his publisher Henry Holt & Co. immediately "cease and desist from any further publication, release or dissemination" of the book. But on Thursday, Henry Holt & Co. said it was undeterred by the cease and desist letter, and was pushing up its release date from next Tuesday to Friday morning. "Due to unprecedented demand, we are moving the on-sale date for all formats of 'Fire and Fury,' by Michael Wolff, to Friday, January 5, at 9 a.m. ET, from the current on-sale date of Tuesday, January 9," the publisher said in a statement. It followed up with another statement adding, "Henry Holt confirms that we received a cease and desist letter from an attorney ABC News' John Santucci and Katherine Faulders contributed to this report. Link to the full article to read more

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