Welcome to the commentary magazine podcast today is Monday, January 8th, 2018.

I'm John Pajor, it's the editor of commentary magazine, the 73 year old monthly of intellectual analysis, political,

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Abe Greenwald our senior editor hello Abe hi John no arosman our associate editor hi Noah hi

and senior writer sora bimari hi sora b hi John so we're going to talk about Michael Wolfe in

his book and the book about how trump is a baby and he's crazy and he's he's a senile and and

said Steve bannon blew the whistle on everybody and said that Donald trump junior would be cracked open

like an egg by Muller and he must have brought Russians to meet trump and the entire administration

is now over with except for the fact that Michael Wolfe is a slippery disreputable character the

book most of which I've read features wild assertions alongside obviously first person reporting

you don't know which is which you don't know what is what you can't tell what's true from what's

you know a rumor and there are a bunch of facts wrong nonetheless the book is going to sell

three million copies and has now hardened and cemented this portrait of the at least the first

eight months of the trump administration as being a chaos storm of my call it a bomb cyclone

of of of horror centering around and politically amateur or staff dealing with a political amateur

as president whom they did not know I didn't know how to please and didn't know how to deal with the

fact that he has no real interest in the truth or in fact and is more interested in assertions and

personal pride and personal dignity and slavery and this and all of that okay so

so Abe Greenwald I don't think you've read the book I have not but you have seen some of the

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