Trump rages over post-presidential books he did interviews for...And there is anxiety about what’s to come

[basquebromance]

Trump rages over post-presidential books he did interviews for

The avalanche of coming books has caused recriminations. And there is anxiety about what’s to come.

www.politico.com

he needs a safe space

 

[basquebromance]

excerpts:

Reading the line for the first time, Trump denied it before engaging in speculation about the story’s origins. “But that doesn’t mean John Kelly didn’t tell Mike Bender that,” he said, according to an adviser. “That doesn’t mean other people didn’t say it.”

The guessing game that Bender’s book sparked added to the schisms and points of tensions that have erupted in Trump’s orbit in recent weeks. As the deluge of Trump-related books has hit the shelves, the already tenuous alliances that bind aides and associates of the former president have been strained further. Ex-aides have publicly attacked one-time allies while others have sought distance from a presidency they once dutifully served.

Fear is mounting, too, about the tea-spilling to come. In particular, Trump officials are anxiously awaiting the books set to be published by actual colleagues, chief among them counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway and Jared Kushner, who plan to write their own accounts of the Trump presidency.

The sheer saturation has forced the authors to release a steady stream of scooplets from their books in advance of publication. And though the Trump White House was known, in real time, for its leaks, the post-mortems have exposed infighting that was previously unknown.

“I know that there are still a lot of major excerpts that will come out in the future,” said a former senior administration official who participated in multiple book interviews. “The most interesting thing to me is how much the big scoops actually hold until publication.”

According to an adviser, Trump, who is sensitive to how history will remember him, “said that I think if you can improve the book 3, 5, 10 percent [by participating], that matters.” But the publications have, instead, further muddied his reemergence on the political scene.

 

[BlindBoo]

Infarction time?

 

[Oddball]

Trump rages over post-presidential books he did interviews for

The avalanche of coming books has caused recriminations. And there is anxiety about what’s to come.

www.politico.com

he needs a safe space

He was stupid to sit for interviews with these hacks...He learned absolutely nothing in 4+ years of being sandbagged by these jackals.

 

[excalibur]

Still waiting for the tell-all books about the Clinton years and the Øbama years. Heh.

 

[excalibur]

He was stupid to sit for interviews with these hacks...He learned absolutely nothing in 4+ years of being sandbagged by these jackals.

Amen.

 

[excalibur]

Trump rages over post-presidential books he did interviews for

The avalanche of coming books has caused recriminations. And there is anxiety about what’s to come.

www.politico.com

he needs a safe space

I don't see the "rage".