This week saw quite the dust up in response to Wolff’s tell-all book about the Trump administration. I think this is a good recap of the fallout on a high level (heh, heh) and also appreciate learning that that Utahn whom klein posted the “they eat their own” article about decided not to run for office again anymore, after all. they eat their own - read it
I'm in chapter 18 of 25 of Fire and Fury. The NYMag piece: ...is not really a summary of the book, but is basically the juiciest bits from the first two/three chapters. Think of the book as more of the same, going chronologically through the runup and his presidency so far. Wolff's book is almost tangentially about Trump: he shares plenty of anecdata painting Trump as the toddler that the other three (Jarvanka, Bannon and Priebus) mightily try to lure to their envisioned kind of presidency. Bannon with the nihilistic, apocalyptical view of the world; Jarvanka with an almost Democrat view of making the world better and fixing the Middle East, and Priebus with the Republican view. He also says that Bannon's place in this is pretty much because of Mercer, so it makes sense that it also ends with Mercer. If the Russia investigation is Stupid Watergate, Wolff's book is Stupid House of Cards. cc kleinbl00
Had lunch with a friend Friday who pointed out that Bob Mercer, Rebekah Mercer's dad, is political for one reason: the IRS has decided he and his firm owe them SEVEN BILLION DOLLARS. That pretty much makes the Mercers a single-issue donor and if Bannon no longer has any way to influence the IRS and their handlers, then Bannon is utterly and completely worthless to the Mercers.