Trump’s 2018 off to a furious start with Bannon’s revelations
Trump’s political agenda is being overshadowed by salacious ‘tabloid gossip’
US President Donald Trump entered 2018 with momentum: the massive tax cut he signed just after Christmas, he hoped, would give his legislative priorities a lift early in the New Year. But all that energy vanished after publication of excerpts from a bombshell book detailing dysfunction, back-stabbing and chaos in his White House, and Trump’s ensuing rupture with his former chief strategist, Steve Bannon. "What’s surprising is that it’s now on paper and Steve Bannon wielded the knife — and this early in the term," said representative Charlie Dent, a seven-term Republican who isn’t seeking re-election to his competitive Pennsylvania seat. "It seems that the people around the president feel no particular loyalty to him, and the president is not particularly loyal to them." On Thursday night, Trump fired off a tweet saying the book, Fire and Fury by Michael Wolff, was "full of lies, misrepresentations and sources that don’t exist". He added that he had given Wolff "zero access to White ...
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