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BRAD REED
03 JAN 2018 AT 13:52 ET
Journalist and author Michael Wolff on Wednesday dropped several bombshells on Donald Trump in printed excerpts of his upcoming book, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House.
The first excerpts of the book were originally leaked to The Guardian, before New York Magazine published an even more substantive portion.
The book details the intrigue, in-fighting, and all-around chaos that swirled around both Trumps election campaign and his first year in the White House. Here are the eight most shocking revelations.
1.) Steve Bannon predicts special counsel Robert Mueller will crack Don Jr. like an egg over his infamous 2016 meeting with Russian officials, which Bannon also described as treasonous.
2.) Trump didnt seem to know who former House Speaker John Bohener was. When former Fox boss Roger Ailes recommended Trump consider Boehner to be his chief of staff, Trump reportedly asked, Whos that?
3.) First Lady Melania Trump was horrified by Trumps win and she cried tears and not of joy on the night of her husbands victory.
4.) Former campaign aide tried to tutor Trump in governance by teaching him about the Constitution and failed miserably..
I got as far as the Fourth Amendment before his finger is pulling down on his lip and his eyes are rolling back in his head, Nunberg explained.
5.) Trump is paranoid about germs and he warned the White House cleaning staff to never, under any circumstances, touch his toothbrush. The president also reprimanded the cleaning staff after one of them picked up a shirt he left on the floor.
If my shirt is on the floor, its because I want it on the floor, he said, according to Wolff.
6.) 21st Century Fox boss Rupert Murdoch called Trump a f*cking idiot after the two had a discussion on H1-B visas. Trump drew Murdochs ire after he seemingly didnt understand that helping Silicon Valley tech companies secure more of H1-B visas would be breaking his own campaign promising.
7.) Ann Coulter warned Trump against hiring his children and then he did it anyway. You just cant hire your children, Coulter told Trump during the presidential transition. Shortly afterward, he hired both daughter Ivanka Trump and son-in-law Jared Kushner to key White House advisory positions.
8.) Trump didnt want former United Nations ambassador John Bolton to be secretary of state because of his mustache. The infamously belligerent Bolton, who made a habit of angering his fellow diplomats while serving as UN ambassador under the George W. Bush administration, was not picked to run Foggy Bottom because Trump found that he didnt look the part primarily because of his big, bushy mustache.
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https://www.rawstory.com/2018/01/bannon-bombshells-and-more-the-8-most-shocking-revelations-from-michael-wolffs-trump-book/
Posted with permission from RawStory -- Don
underpants
(182,863 posts)Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)Irish_Dem
(47,268 posts)Could be OCD (Obsessive compulsive disorder), and or hypochondria.
JonLP24
(29,322 posts)Sociopaths are paranoid and part of that is because they are screwing people over they worry in the back of their mind someone might want to kill him for some of the shit they done.
Irish_Dem
(47,268 posts)A criminal can make a lot of enemies, and have a history of being threatened by others.
Trump has been heavily involved with the Russian mob and Putin, who have a history
of poisoning those who fall from favor. In this case, Trump's fear of being poisoned may be reality based.
Rather than a true delusion or psychosis. But these diagnoses should be considered.
And the fear of being poisoned may be due to OCD, or anxiety disorder.
If he is OCD, then we would be looking for repetitive, compulsive behaviors.
As more information becomes available, we see how complex he is from a mental health standpoint.
Ilsa
(61,696 posts)GusBob
(7,286 posts)It Macbeth in Wonderland
Notice how Dotard is attacking Bannon and not Wolff