Michael Wolff, author of the sensational Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House book, said he doesn’t totally identify as a “journalist” and that he doesn’t view the “truth” as the focus of his work.
In a new interview with the Vassar Political Review, a Vassar College publication, Wolff said he views himself as simply a “writer” and observer of events.
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“I am an observer: I investigate nothing,” he said in the interview published on Monday. “All I do is look and write what I see and what I hear, and my job — which has nothing to do with truth — is to take what I see and what I hear and write that in a way that readers can come [as close] as possible — as close as I came — to the experience of doing this. I want to be able to turn what I see into something that a reader says ‘oh, I see that too.’”
Critics have accused Wolff of inaccurate or poorly sourced reporting in his book, which painted President Trump as mentally diminished and his White House as endlessly chaotic.
In the interview, Wolff defended his work but said that he would not describe himself as a journalist.
“I’m not a political journalist. I’m not, frankly, all that much interested in politics,” he said. “I’m a writer. I’m barely a journalist, actually. I am a writer.”
