PREEMPTIVE STRIKE

Trump Team Scoops Michael Wolff’s New Book

The president-elect’s campaign said it would not be participating in the author’s project.

Donald Trump’s camp issued a blanket rebuke of all inquiries made by author Michael Wolff, incidentally revealing that the writer was working on a new book about the incoming president. In a Wednesday statement, the team said the best-selling author of Fire and Fury, which chronicled Trump’s first administration, “reached out to a number of administration officials for his next work of “fiction.” They added, “He is a known peddler of fake news who routinely concocts situations, conversations, and conclusions that never happened.” In a preemptive strike against his next project, the camp said it has decided “not to respond to his bad faith inquiries, and we encourage others to completely disregard whatever nonsense he eventually publishes.” Wolff has not officially announced the subject of his next book, but there have been clues. In an interview with the Daily Beast, he shared that he has more than 100 hours of recorded conversation with the late Jeffrey Epstein, with the convicted sex offender mentioning Trump in several excerpts of the recordings. The Beast has reached out to Wolff for comment.