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ObserverArt1/05/2018 12:09:03 pm PST

I didn’t watch The Today Show today, so I did not see this interview with Michael Wolff. So maybe we can all watch it together.

Also, I see the interview is already leading to complaints that Wolff wasn’t straight up with The White House. See link to a WaPo story and a couple paragraphs that begin the story.

What a mess this all is.

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And the link to the WaPo story…

WaPo - Trump book author Michael Wolff made a damaging admission on the ‘Today’ show

Author Michael Wolff bolstered President Trump’s effort to discredit the new book “Fire and Fury” on Friday when he acknowledged in a “Today” show interview that he had been willing to say whatever was “necessary” to gain access at the White House.

Wolff’s admission does not directly undermine the veracity of his reporting, but it creates the appearance that he might have approached some members of the president’s team under false pretenses, leading sources to believe that when they opened up they were speaking to a sympathetic ear. That’s a bad look — one which the White House can use to impugn Wolff’s integrity and, perhaps unfairly, cast doubt on whichever elements of his work the president doesn’t like.

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