Should we believe Michael Wolff? The journalist’s splashy new book about the Trump family is chock full of sordid secrets. Ivanka and Jared plotting to take over the White House, Steve Bannon hissing insults from the sidelines.
News of the bombshell revelations is coursing through society. Liberals feel vindicated, as though Wolff’s book proves that they were right all along.
Unfortunately for Democrats, however, Wolff’s credibility is already being called into doubt. Multiple claims made by the journalist have already been disproven, while editors have known for years that Wolff plays fast and loose with the truth.
“Wolff says he has notes and email that back him up, but refuses to release them,” a blogger complained after Wolff misquoted him in an article.
Michelle Cottle of the New Republic wrote: “Much to the annoyance of Wolff’s critics, the scenes in his columns aren’t recreated so much as created — springing from Wolff’s imagination rather than from actual knowledge of events… Even Wolff acknowledges that conventional reporting isn’t his bag.”
Yet the left thinks that the scribblings of a mad journalist will be enough to topple Trump’s presidency. Mainstream media pundits were positively gleeful when excerpts from Wolff’s book were first released.
Even Wolff admits that honesty isn’t among his strengths.
“Many of the accounts of what has happened in the Trump White House are in conflict with one another; many, in Trumpian fashion, are baldly untrue,” he wrote.
“Those conflicts, and that looseness with the truth, if not with reality itself, are an elemental thread of the book. Sometimes I have let the players offer their versions, in turn allowing the reader to judge them. In other instances, I have, through a consistency in accounts and through sources I have come to trust, settled on a version of events I believe to be true.”
(Source: Washington Times)