Guest Posted January 5, 2018 Share Posted January 5, 2018 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A portrait of the Trump presidency in a forthcoming book, “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House” by Michael Wolff, roiled the White House on Wednesday and caused a public split between President Donald Trump and his former chief strategist and far-right campaign architect Steve Bannon. Here are excerpts from the book, due to be released on Tuesday. 2016 CAMPAIGN: LOSING IS WINNING “As the campaign came to an end, Trump himself was sanguine. His ultimate goal, after all, had never been to win. ... ‘This is bigger than I ever dreamed of,’ he told (former Fox News chief Roger) Ailes a week before the election. ‘I don’t think about losing, because it isn’t losing. We’ve totally won.'” “Once he lost, Trump would be both insanely famous and a martyr to Crooked Hillary. His daughter Ivanka and son-in-law Jared would be international celebrities. Steve Bannon would become the de facto head of the tea-party movement. Kellyanne Conway would be a cable-news star. Melania Trump, who had been assured by her husband that he wouldn’t become president, could return to inconspicuously lunching. Losing would work out for everybody. Losing was winning.” After Melania Trump was inconsolable that the New York Post obtained outtakes from a nude photo shoot done early in her modeling carer, Trump told her they would sue. “But he was unaccustomedly contrite, too. Just a little longer, he told her. It would all be over in November. He offered his wife a solemn guarantee: there was simply no way he would win.” ELECTION DAY “Shortly after 8 p.m. on Election Night, when the unexpected trend - Trump might actually win - seemed confirmed, Don Jr. told a friend that his father, or DJT, as he calls him, looked as if he had seen a ghost. Melania was in tears - and not of joy.” ”(Kellyanne) Conway, the campaign’s manager, was in a remarkably buoyant mood, considering she was about to experience a resounding, if not cataclysmic, defeat. ... Now she briefed some of the television producers and anchors whom she had been carefully courting since joining the Trump campaign — and with whom she had been actively interviewing in the last few weeks, hoping to land a permanent on-air job after the election. AFTER THE VICTORY “Balancing risk against reward, both Jared (Kushner) and Ivanka decided to accept roles in the West Wing over the advice of almost everyone they knew. It was a joint decision by the couple, and, in some sense, a joint job. Between themselves, the two had made an earnest deal: If sometime in the future the opportunity arose, she’d be the one to run for president. The first woman president, Ivanka entertained, would not be Hillary Clinton; it would be Ivanka Trump.” BANNON ON JUNE 2016 TRUMP TOWER RUSSIA MEETING “The chance that Don Jr did not walk these jumos up to this father’s office on the twenty-sixth floor is zero.” “The three senior guys in the campaign thought it was a good idea to meet with a foreign government inside Trump Tower in the conference room on the 25th floor - with no lawyers. They didn’t have any lawyers.” “Even if you thought that this was not treasonous, or unpatriotic, or bad ****, and I happen to think it’s all of that, you should have called the FBI immediately.” source: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-book-factbox/factbox-excerpts-from-fire-and-fury-inside-the-trump-white-house-idUSKBN1ES22U Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
VenusUrania 675 Posted January 5, 2018 Share Posted January 5, 2018 17 minutes ago, kyanewest said: The first woman president, Ivanka entertained, would not be Hillary Clinton; it would be Ivanka Trump.” I find it interesting how the right questioned Hillary's ability and credentials for being president. And then we have Ivanka Trump with no political or goverment background, knowledge or experience aiming for the most important branch of the US government... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DiscoHeaven23 35,007 Posted January 5, 2018 Share Posted January 5, 2018 I LOVE HER Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eighteen 5,430 Posted January 5, 2018 Share Posted January 5, 2018 ivanka trump the first woman president? over my dead ****ing body. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benji 20,113 Posted January 5, 2018 Share Posted January 5, 2018 I hope the whole thing finds it's way to the web. I'm desperate to read but I refuse to give Steve Bannon even a penny. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 5, 2018 Share Posted January 5, 2018 40 minutes ago, Benji said: I hope the whole thing finds it's way to the web. I'm desperate to read but I refuse to give Steve Bannon even a penny. Me too, or else I'll just go to a book store before school and read one chapter per day but it really seems interesting. If I find the link to download it could I post it there or would I get a Haroon WP? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PartySick 172,444 Posted January 5, 2018 Share Posted January 5, 2018 1 hour ago, kyanewest said: The first woman president, Ivanka entertained, would not be Hillary Clinton; it would be Ivanka Trump.” LMAO!!! Good luck, hun. After this disastrous term, I doubt anyone will hire someone with the name "Trump" as the assistant manager of a dollar store let alone elect them president. 1 minute ago, kyanewest said: If I find the link to download it could I post it there or would I get a Haroon WP? I'm actually not sure. It is copyrighted material, right? So sharing a DL link publicly would be illegal and against the rules. You could advertise that you have it and share it in PM's though...share it with me as well if you find it Whimsical bitch Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benji 20,113 Posted January 5, 2018 Share Posted January 5, 2018 Just now, kyanewest said: Me too, or else I'll just go to a book store before school and read one chapter per day but it really seems interesting. If I find the link to download it could I post it there or would I get a Haroon WP? I'm not sure... I think it would technically be against the rules but morally, you'll be sound Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whispering 18,865 Posted January 5, 2018 Share Posted January 5, 2018 Michael Wolff’s Fire and Fury reports that President Donald Trump privately rationalized “why someone would be a member of the KKK.” According to Wolff’s reporting: “As [Trump] got back on Marine One to head to Andrews Air Force Base and on to JFK and then into Manhattan and Trump Tower, [after addressing the Charlottesville murder,] his mood was dark and I-told-you-so. Privately, he kept trying to rationalize why someone would be a member of the KKK—that is, they might not actually believe what the KKK believed, and the KKK probably does not believe what it used to believe, and, anyway, who really knows what the KKK believes now?” The rationalizations of a racist. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PartySick 172,444 Posted January 5, 2018 Share Posted January 5, 2018 2 hours ago, Whispering said: Michael Wolff’s Fire and Fury reports that President Donald Trump privately rationalized “why someone would be a member of the KKK.” According to Wolff’s reporting: “As [Trump] got back on Marine One to head to Andrews Air Force Base and on to JFK and then into Manhattan and Trump Tower, [after addressing the Charlottesville murder,] his mood was dark and I-told-you-so. Privately, he kept trying to rationalize why someone would be a member of the KKK—that is, they might not actually believe what the KKK believed, and the KKK probably does not believe what it used to believe, and, anyway, who really knows what the KKK believes now?” The rationalizations of a racist. As someone who's met KKK members (a few uncles and grandpas of some of my acquaintances ), they definitely still believe what they used to believe they've toned down the homicidal attitude in some places...a little...but they're still the hateful, backwards morons they've always been and they will be until they're either disbanded or locked up With people like Trump in office, I don't see either happening any time soon. Whimsical bitch Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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