Considering Donald Trump tried to stop publication of Michael Wolff’s 2018 White House exposé “Fire and Fury,” it might seem strange that the former president agreed to interviews for Wolff’s latest book, “Landslide: The Final Days of the Trump Presidency.”But Trump did sit down with Wolff for the new book. In fact, in an interview published Monday in the German newspaper Der Spiegel, Wolff said the president actually sought him out after the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. Well, Wolff said the former president approached him for a very Trumpian reason. “Trump told his people that guy ― me ― gets big ratings, so let’s see him. Wolff also discounted the notion that Jan. 6 was an attempted coup ― because, he said, Trump isn’t smart enough to do that.

Source: Huffington Post July 12, 2021 18:22 UTC