{"id":342539,"date":"2018-01-06T00:11:45","date_gmt":"2018-01-05T23:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/a-donald-trump-business-ally-says-his-quote-in-michael-wolffs-book-is-fake-news\/"},"modified":"2018-01-06T00:11:45","modified_gmt":"2018-01-05T23:11:45","slug":"a-donald-trump-business-ally-says-his-quote-in-michael-wolffs-book-is-fake-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/a-donald-trump-business-ally-says-his-quote-in-michael-wolffs-book-is-fake-news\/","title":{"rendered":"A Donald Trump Business Ally Says His Quote in Michael Wolff&#8217;s Book is Fake News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>On Wednesday,\u00a0The<em>\u00a0Guardian<\/em>\u00a0unveiled excerpts from a controversial new book about President Trump\u00a0by journalist Michael Wolff. Now Tom Barrack, one of Trump\u2019s closest friends and confidants in the business world, tells\u00a0<em>Fortune<\/em>\u00a0that the book attributes a disparaging quote to him that he never said\u2014and that the author never asked him whether the quote was real.<\/p>\n<p>The book,\u00a0<em>Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House<\/em>, quoted sundry current and former Trump White House and campaign officials\u00a0leveling explosive criticism at the president and his family. The\u00a0<em>Guardian<\/em>\u00a0excerpt also related a seemingly astounding broadside from Barrack\u2014Trump\u2019s leading champion in the business world, and\u00a0the supporter whom Trump handpicked to lead his inaugural festivities. According to the\u00a0<em>Guardian<\/em>\u00a0excerpt, Wolff\u2019s book states that in describing Trump, Barrack \u201callegedly told a friend: \u2018He\u2019s not only crazy, he\u2019s stupid.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not clear whether Wolff used the word \u201callegedly,\u201d or if the <em>Guardian<\/em> added the term. The <em>Guardian<\/em> may have included it because Wolff had gotten the quote not directly from Barrack, but second-hand. It\u2019s also possible that the quote comes not directly from Barrack\u2019s friend, but from a third person who told Wolff he or she heard about it from that friend. Of course, we won\u2019t know until we see the actual wording in <em>Fire and Fury<\/em>. Fortune reached out to <em>Fire and Fury<\/em>\u2019s publisher, Henry Holt and Co., but did not receive an&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/a-donald-trump-business-ally-says-his-quote-in-michael-wolffs-book-is-fake-news\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday,\u00a0The\u00a0Guardian\u00a0unveiled excerpts from a controversial new book about President Trump\u00a0by journalist Michael Wolff. Now Tom Barrack, one of Trump\u2019s closest friends and confidants in the business world, tells\u00a0Fortune\u00a0that the book attributes a disparaging quote to him that he never said\u2014and that the author never asked him whether the quote was real. The book,\u00a0Fire and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-342539","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}