2016 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A former adviser to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign said Monday [1-8-18] that the decision to give White House access to the author of a bombshell book about the Trump administration was a mistake.
Michael Caputo told CNN’s ‘New Day’ that Michael Wolff’s book, ‘Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House,’ is ‘trash.’
‘You guys let him in. You guys opened the door,’ ‘New Day’ co-host Chris Cuomo said, referring to the interviews and White House access granted to Wolff.
‘That was a mistake,’ Caputo replied…
In an interview with NBC’s ‘Meet the Press’ on Sunday, Wolff alluded to the strategies he deployed in order to gain access in the White House, saying he felt like he was a blessed guest in the West Wing…
Wolff said he ‘tried to be unobtrusive’ while conducting research and interviews…
The White House has strongly pushed back against claims in the book. Trump said last week he granted ‘zero access’ to Wolff, press secretary Sarah Sanders called the book a ‘complete fantasy’ and a personal attorney for Trump sent a cease-and-desist letter to Wolff and his publisher.
NBC News, citing White House officials, has reported that Wolff last spoke with Trump by phone in early February 2017.”
-Maegan Vazquez, “Trump ally says giving Wolff access was a mistake,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, Jan. 8, 2018 08:01am