Michael Wolff, the author of “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House,” a book which has since drawn its eponymous response from its equally eponymous subject, on Sunday said that President Donald Trump’s administration is constantly aware of the 25th Amendment.
On NBC News’ “Meet the Press,” Wolff said that staff members brought up the 25th Amendment, which allows for the president’s removal from office if he is unable to do his job, “all the time.”
“Actually, they would say, sort of in the mid-period, ‘We’re not at a 25th Amendment level yet,'” Wolff said. “And then this went on: ‘Okay, this is a little 25th Amendment.’ The 25th Amendment is a concept that is alive every day in the White House.”
Asked whether he violated journalistic off-the-record agreements with sources quoted or cited in his book, Wolff said, “I did not. I absolutely did not.”
With regard to his access to members of Trump’s administration, Wolff said, “I literally kind of knocked on the door and said ‘Can I come in?” and they said, ‘Okay’. And I came in. I sat on the couch.”
Wolff said he “went into this with absolutely no agenda whatsoever.”
“I tried to be inobtrusive,” he said. “My goal was to keep going until somebody said, ‘Go away.'”
.@MichaelWolffNYC on the Trump White House: "It's not unreasonable to say this is 25th Amendment kind of stuff." #MTP pic.twitter.com/jfb3UutWzm
— Meet the Press (@MeetThePress) January 7, 2018
Is anybody other than I noticing how the DC Press NEVER questioned Bob Woodward about his many DC Insider Gossip Books produced in effectively the same way Wolff did his? Woodward always got a free pass with his unattributed quotations (almost always edited for sizzle) and lack of Notes in the back. We are supposed to trust Woodward because of Watergate, I suppose. But not even Carl Bernstein seems to trust Woodward any more.
Not since Bush the Lesser.
One of the most deranged things Drumpf has tried to sell us is the claim that he didn’t authorize Wolff to be in the White House. Sure thing, Donnie; for a year or more, Wolff wandered the halls, spoke with staff and otherwise helped himself to the White House, all without your consent or knowledge. A wasted, lost mind is a terrible thing.
Wolff probably looked like he was actually working, which is more than most of the rest of them appeared to be doing, so they thought they should let him stay so something would get done.
Or … by hanging around on the couch just talking to people, he just seemed to fit in because nobody else was doing much but hanging around, too.
“Wolff probably looked like he was actually working, which is more than most of the rest of them appeared to be doing, so they thought they should let him stay so something would get done.”
This. Or something along the lines of no one questions him because no one is in charge.