However, previous copyright law rulings find that the writers of letters, not the letters' recipients, retain the rights to the text. The company behind Trump's book, Winning Team Publishing, has claimed that there is "actual or implied" permission from the private citizens who sent the letters to be included in the book. John Lamparski/WireImage Brandon Bell/Getty Minnelli's representative on Friday told Newsweek that the entertainer was not aware of Trump's forthcoming book and has not granted permission to be featured in it. Former President Donald Trump, right, is shown at the Hilton Anatole on August 6, 2022, in Dallas, Texas. Wolff writes that the former New York mayor was “drinking heavily and in a constant state of excitation, often almost incoherent in his agitation and mania”.Hollywood legend Liza Minnelli, left, is pictured at the Ziegfeld Theatre on January 31, 2013, in New York City. Trump aide Jason Miller is portrayed as saying “Oh, shit” and alerting the president’s lawyer and chief cheerleader for his lie about electoral fraud, Rudy Giuliani. The White House, Wolff writes, soon realised Mike Pence had “concluded that he was not able to reject votes unilaterally or, in effect, to do anything else, beyond playing his ceremonial role, that the president might want him to do”. Trump and his family watched the attack on television at the White House.Īs reported by Wolff, the exchange between Trump and Meadows sheds light on how the would-be insurrectionists were abandoned.
Wolff says Trump was confused by “who these people were with their low-rent ‘trailer camp’ bearing and their ‘get-ups’, once joking that he should have invested in a chain of tattoo parlors and shaking his head about ‘the great unwashed’.” Trump is also reported to have expressed “puzzlement” about the supporters who broke into the Capitol in a riot which led to five deaths and Trump’s second impeachment, for inciting an insurrection. “I didn’t mean it literally,” Trump reportedly replied. “How would we do that? We can’t organize that. “You said you were going to march with them to the Capitol,” Meadows reportedly said. Wolff, one of a number of authors to have interviewed Trump since he left power, writes that the chief of staff then approached Trump, who seemed unsure what Meadows was talking about. There’s no way we are going to the Capitol.” Trump spoke to supporters outside the White House, telling them: “We’re going to walk down – and I’ll be there with you.”Īccording to Wolff, the chief of staff, Mark Meadows, was reportedly approached by concerned Secret Service agents, who he told: “No. On 6 January, Congress met to confirm results of an election Trump lost conclusively to Joe Biden. Wolff’s third Trump book is among a slew due this summer. A sequel, Siege, also contained bombshells but fared less well. Wolff’s first Trump book, Fire and Fury, blew up a news cycle and created a whole new genre of salacious political books in January 2018, when the Guardian revealed news of its contents.
The extract was published by New York magazine.
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