Lest: Fire and Fury
Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House
Notes:
Ærlig talt en bok jeg godt kunne ha droppet.
Fire and Fury fylles med episoder og historier fra Donald Trumps første periode i Det hvite hus, men boken setter hovedsakelig bare to streker under det vi allerede visste – bare at virkeligheten var langt verre enn noen av oss hadde forestilt oss.
Enda mer påfallende er det faktum at amerikanerne velger denne mannen som president igjen. Det er virkelig mye mellom himmel og jord som ikke lar seg forklare eller forstå.
Highlights:
George W. Bush, on the dais, supplied what seemed likely to become the historic footnote to the Trump address: “That’s some weird shit.” — location: [843](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B078GSYDZ2&location=843) ^ref-48547
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Then, to boot, he revealed information supplied to the United States by Israel from its agent in place in Syria about ISIS using laptops to smuggle bombs onto airlines—revealing enough information to compromise the Israeli agent. (This incident did not help Trump’s reputation in intelligence circles, since, in spycraft, human sources are to be protected above all other secrets.) — location: [3703](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B078GSYDZ2&location=3703) ^ref-32208
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Trump, in the portrait offered by Comey, was shady, shoot-from-the-hip, heedless or even unaware of the rules, deceptive, and in it for himself. — location: [4121](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B078GSYDZ2&location=4121) ^ref-16878
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Walking into Trump Tower that June day were a well-connected lawyer from Moscow, who was a likely Russian agent; associates of the Azerbaijani Russian oligarch Aras Agalarov; a U.S. music promoter who managed Agalarov’s son, a Russian pop star; and a Russian government lobbyist in Washington. — location: [4276](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B078GSYDZ2&location=4276) ^ref-40527
Om:
With extraordinary access to the West Wing, Michael Wolff reveals what happened behind-the-scenes in the first nine months of the most controversial presidency of our time in _Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House_.
Since Donald Trump was sworn in as the 45th President of the United States, the country―and the world―has witnessed a stormy, outrageous, and absolutely mesmerizing presidential term that reflects the volatility and fierceness of the man elected Commander-in-Chief.
This riveting and explosive account of Trump’s administration provides a wealth of new details about the chaos in the Oval Office, including:
-- What President Trump’s staff really thinks of him
-- What inspired Trump to claim he was wire-tapped by President Obama
-- Why FBI director James Comey was really fired
-- Why chief strategist Steve Bannon and Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner couldn’t be in the same room
-- Who is really directing the Trump administration’s strategy in the wake of Bannon’s firing
-- What the secret to communicating with Trump is
-- What the Trump administration has in common with the movie The Producers
Never before in history has a presidency so divided the American people. Brilliantly reported and astoundingly fresh, _Fire and Fury_ shows us how and why Donald Trump has become the king of discord and disunion.
Referanse:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36595101-fire-and-fury