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Fire and Fury

Page 36

by Michael Wolff


  Iraq

  ISIS

  isolationism

  Israel

  Jackson, Andrew

  Jackson, Michael

  Japan

  Jarrett, Valerie

  Jefferson, Thomas

  Jerusalem

  Jews

  John Birch Society

  Johnson, Boris

  Johnson, Jamie

  Johnson, Lyndon B.

  Johnson, Woody

  Jones, Paula

  Jordan

  Jordan, Hamilton

  Jordan, Vernon

  Justice Department (DOJ)

  Kaepernick, Colin

  Kalanick, Travis

  Kaplan, Peter

  Kasowitz, Marc

  Kazakhstan

  Keaton, Alex P.

  Kelly, John

  Kennedy, John F.

  Kent, Phil

  Khan Sheikhoun chemical attack

  Kim Jong-un

  King, Martin Luther, Jr.

  Kirk, Russell

  Kislyak, Sergey

  Kissinger, Henry

  Koch brothers

  Kudlow, Larry

  Ku Klux Klan (KKK)

  Kurtz, Howard

  Kushner, Charlie

  Kushner, Jared

  background of

  Bannon and

  business affairs of

  business council and

  Charlottesville rally and

  China and

  Christie and

  Comey and

  CPAC and

  electoral victory and

  intelligence community and

  Kelly and

  McMaster and

  media and

  Mexico and

  Middle East and

  Murdoch and

  Obamacare and

  Office of American Innovation and

  policy and

  role of, in White House

  Russia and

  Saudi Arabia and

  Trump’s speech to Congress and

  White House staff and

  Kushner, Josh

  Kushner Companies

  Kuttner, Robert

  labor unions

  Ledeen, Michael

  Lee, Robert E.

  Lefrak, Richard

  Le Pen, Marine

  Lewandowski, Corey

  Lewinsky, Monica

  Libya

  Lighthizer, Robert

  Limbaugh, Rush

  Lowe, Rob

  Luntz, Frank

  Manafort, Paul

  Manhattan, Inc.

  Manigault, Omarosa

  Mar-a-Lago

  Marcus, Bernie

  Mattis, James

  May, Theresa

  McCain, John

  McCarthy, Joe

  McConnell, Mitch

  McCormick, John

  McGahn, Don

  McLaughlin, John

  McMaster, H. R.

  McNerney, Jim

  Meadows, Mark

  Medicare

  Melton, Carol

  Mensch, Louise

  Mercer, Rebekah

  Mercer, Robert

  Mexico

  Middle East

  Mighty Ducks, The (TV show)

  military contractors

  Miller, Jason

  Miller, Stephen

  Mnuchin, Steve

  Mohammed bin Nayef, crown prince of Saudi Arabia (MBN)

  Mohammed bin Salman, crown prince of Saudi Arabia (MBS)

  Moore, Roy

  Morgan, Piers

  Morning Joe (TV show)

  MSNBC

  Ms. Universe contest

  Mueller, Robert

  Mulvaney, Mick

  Murdoch, Chloe

  Murdoch, Grace

  Murdoch, Rupert

  Murdoch, Wendi

  Murphy, Mike

  Musk, Elon

  National Economic Council

  National Environment Policy Act (1970)

  National Football League

  nationalists

  National Policy Institute

  National Republican Senatorial Committee

  National Security Advisor

  Brzezinski as

  Flynn as

  McMaster as

  Rice as

  National Security Agency (NSA)

  National Security Council (NSC)

  Navarro, Peter

  Nazi Germany

  NBC

  neoconservatives

  neo-Nazis

  Netanyahu, Benjamin

  New Republic

  Newsom, Gavin

  New Yorker

  New York magazine

  New York Observer

  New York Post

  New York Times

  Nixon, Richard M.

  Nooyi, Indra

  North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)

  North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

  North Korea

  Nunberg, Sam

  Nunes, Devin

  Obama, Barack

  birth certificate and

  DOJ and

  executive orders and

  farewell speech

  Flynn and

  immigration and

  Middle East and

  Russia and

  Trump inauguration and

  White House Correspondents’ Dinner and

  wiretapping and

  Obamacare repeal and replace

  Office of American Innovation

  Office of Management and Budget (OMB)

  O’Neill, Tip

  opioid crisis

  O’Reilly, Bill

  Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development

  Oscar insurance company

  Osnos, Evan

  Page, Carter

  Palestinians

  Panetta, Leon

  Paris Climate Accord

  PayPal

  Pelosi, Nancy

  Peña Nieto, Enrique

  Pence, Karen

  Pence, Mike

  Pentagon

  Perelman, Ronald

  Perlmutter, Ike

  Petraeus, David

  Pierce, Brock

  Planned Parenthood

  Playbook

  Podesta, John

  Politico

  Pompeo, Mike

  populists

  Powell, Dina

  Preate, Alexandra

  Pre-Election Presidential Transition Act (2010)

  Price, Tom

  Priebus, Reince

  business councils and

  campaign and

  chief of staff appointment and

  CPAC and

  Flynn and

  inauguration and

  Obama wiretapping story and

  resignation of

  Russia investigation and

  Scaramucci and

  Prince, Erik

  Private Eye magazine

  Producers, The (film)

  Pruitt, Scott

  Putin, Vladimir

  Qatar

  Raffel, Josh

  Reagan, Ronald

  Remnick, David

  Renaissance Technologies

  Republican National Committee (RNC)

  Republican National Convention

  Republican Party

  fracturing of

  Rhodes, Ben

  Rice, Susan

  Rometty, Ginni

  Rose, Charlie

  Rosen, Hillary

  Rosenstein, Rod

  Ross, Wilbur

  Roth, Steven

  Rove, Karl

  Rumsfeld, Donald

  Russia

  Bannon on

  Comey and

  Don Jr. Trump Tower meeting and

  Foer’s theories on

  Flynn and

  investigations begun

  Kushner and

  money trail and

  Mueller appointed special counsel

  Obama wiretapping story and

  sanctions and
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br />   Sessions and

  Syria and

  Steele dossier and

  Russian oligarchs

  Ryan, Paul

  Sandberg, Sheryl

  Sanders, Bernie

  Sanders, Sarah Huckabee

  Sater, Felix

  Saturday Night Live (TV show)

  Saudi Arabia

  Saval, Nikil

  Scaramucci, Anthony

  Scarborough, Joe

  Scavino, Dan

  Schiller, Keith

  Schlapp, Matt

  Schlapp, Mercedes

  Schmidt, Michael

  Schwartz, Arthur

  Schwartz, Tony

  Schwarzman, Stephen

  Secret Service

  Seinfeld (TV series)

  Sekulow, Jay

  Sessions, Jeff

  Sinclair organization

  Sisi, Abdel Fattah el-

  60 Minutes (TV show)

  666 Fifth Avenue

  Skybridge Capital

  Slate

  Slovenia

  Smith, Justin

  Snowden, Edward

  Soros, George

  Special Operations

  Spencer, Richard

  Spicer, Sean

  Spy magazine

  Starr, Ken

  State Department

  Steele, Christopher

  Steele dossier

  steel industry

  Steinmetz, Benny

  Stone, Roger

  Strange, Luther

  Strategic and Policy Forum

  Suzy magazine

  Swan, Jonathan

  Syria

  Taliban

  tax reform

  Tea Party

  Thiel, Peter

  Thrush, Glenn

  Tillerson, Rex

  Time magazine

  Time Warner

  trade

  transgender ban

  Treasury Department

  Trotta, Liz

  Trudeau, Justin

  Truman, Harry

  Trump, Barron

  Trump, Don, Jr.

  Trump, Donald

  Abe meeting at Mar-a-Lago and

  Afghanistan and

  Ailes on

  Ailes’s funeral and

  Alabama GOP Senate run-off

  Apprentice and

  Bannon and

  Bannon firing and

  Billy Bush tape and

  business and finances of

  business councils and

  cabinet appointments and

  campaign and

  Canada and

  chaotic leadership style of

  Charlottesville and

  China and

  Comey and

  Congress and

  Conway and

  CPAC and

  DOJ and

  electoral victory of

  executive orders and

  fake news and

  Flynn and

  foreign policy and

  future of presidency of

  Gorsuch nomination and

  Haley and

  Hannity interview and

  Harrisburg trip and

  immigration and

  inauguration and

  information and influences on

  intelligence briefings and

  intelligence community and

  Israel and

  Ivanka and

  Jews and

  Kelly as chief of staff and

  Kislyak meeting in Oval Office and

  Kushner and

  McMaster and

  media and

  Melania and

  Mercers and

  Mexico and

  Mueller investigation and

  Murdoch and

  New York Times interview of

  NFL controversy and

  nightly phone calls and

  normalizing influences on

  North Korea and

  Obamacare and

  Obama wiretapping accusation and

  O’Reilly and

  pardon power and

  Paris Climate Accord and

  Pence and

  personality and behavior of

  phone calls with foreign leaders

  political style of

  popular vote and

  press secretary and

  Priebus as chief of staff and

  Republican Party and

  right wing and

  Russia and

  Saudi Arabia and

  Scaramucci and

  Scarborough and Brzezinski and

  Sessions and

  sexual harassment and

  sons and

  speaking style of

  speech at Huntsville for Strange

  speech to Boy Scouts

  speech to CIA

  speech to joint session of Congress

  staff doubts about

  staff infighting and

  Syria and

  tax reform and

  tax returns and

  television and

  transition and

  White House Correspondents’ dinner and

  White House living quarters and

  women as confidants of

  Yates and

  Trump, Eric

  Trump, Freddy (brother)

  Trump, Fred (father)

  Trump, Ivanka

  Afghanistan and

  background of

  Bannon and

  Charlottesville rally and

  China dinner and

  Christie and

  Comey and

  Haley and

  Kelly and

  media and

  Obamacare and

  Paris Climate Accord and

  Powell and

  Russia and

  Saudi Arabia and

  Syria and

  White House role of

  White House staff and

  Trump, Melania

  Trump International Hotels

  Trump SoHo

  Trump Tower

  Don Jr. meeting with Russians at

  Kislyak meeting with Kushner and Flynn at

  surveillance of

  Turkey

  Twenty-Fifth Amendment

  Uber

  Ukraine

  U.S. Congress

  U.S. Constitution

  U.S. House of Representatives

  Budget Committee

  Intelligence Committee

  Obamacare repeal and

  Ways and Means Committee

  U.S. Senate

  Judiciary Committee, Crime and Terrorism Subcommittee

  Foreign Relations Committee

  Intelligence Committee

  Obamacare and

  US Steel

  U.S. Supreme Court

  University of Virginia, “Unite the Right” rally at

  unmasking

  Vanity Fair

  Venezuela

  Vietnam War

  Vogue

  Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz

  Walker, Scott

  Wall Street 2 (film)

  Walsh, Katie

  Washington Post

  Washington Times

  Watergate scandal

  Weekly Standard

  Weinstein, Harvey

  Weissmann, Andrew

  Welch, Jack

  West Bank

  White House communications director

  Dubke as

  Hicks as

  Scaramuccci as

  White House Correspondents’ Dinner

  White House ethics office

  White House Office of Public Engagement and Intergovernmental Affairs

  white supremacy

  Whitewater affair

  WikiLeaks

  Wintour, Anna

  Wirthlin, Richard

  Women Who Work (Ivanka Trump)

  Woodward, Bob

  World Bank

  World Wrestling Entertainment

  Wynn, Steve

  Xi Jinping

  Yaffa,
Joshua

  Yahoo! News

  Yanukovych, Viktor

  Yates, Sally

  Yemen

  Yiannopoulos, Milo

  Zhukova, Dasha

  Zucker, Jeff

  ALSO BY MICHAEL WOLFF

  Television Is the New Television: The Unexpected Triumph of Old Media in the Digital Age

  The Man Who Owns the News: Inside the Secret World of Rupert Murdoch

  Autumn of the Moguls: My Misadventures with the Titans, Poseurs, and Money Guys Who Mastered and Messed Up Big Media

  Burn Rate: How I Survived the Gold Rush Years on the Internet

  Where We Stand

  White Kids

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  MICHAEL WOLFF has received numerous awards for his work, including two National Magazine Awards. He has been a regular columnist for Vanity Fair, New York, The Hollywood Reporter, British GQ, USA Today, and The Guardian. He is the author of six prior books, including the bestselling Burn Rate and The Man Who Owns the News. He lives in Manhattan and has four children. You can sign up for email updates here.

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  CONTENTS

  TITLE PAGE

  COPYRIGHT NOTICE

  DEDICATION

  AUTHOR’S NOTE

  PROLOGUE: AILES AND BANNON

  1. ELECTION DAY

  2. TRUMP TOWER

  3. DAY ONE

  4. BANNON

  5. JARVANKA

  6. AT HOME

  7. RUSSIA

  8. ORG CHART

  9. CPAC

  10. GOLDMAN

  11. WIRETAP

  12. REPEAL AND REPLACE

  13. BANNON AGONISTES

  14. SITUATION ROOM

  15. MEDIA

  16. COMEY

  17. ABROAD AND AT HOME

  18. BANNON REDUX

  19. MIKA WHO?

  20. MCMASTER AND SCARAMUCCI

  21. BANNON AND SCARAMUCCI

  22. GENERAL KELLY

  EPILOGUE: BANNON AND TRUMP

  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

  INDEX

  ALSO BY MICHAEL WOLFF

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  COPYRIGHT

  UNTITLED NONFICTION. Copyright © 2018 by Michael Wolff. All rights reserved. For information, address Henry Holt and Co., 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.

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  Cover photograph © Johnathan Ernst/Reuters

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  First Edition: January 2018

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