Beware that dubious article claiming Trump didn’t want to be president

Published January 3, 2018 9:08pm ET



New York magazine has published an excerpt from journalist Michael Wolff’s forthcoming book, “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House,” which is a purportedly blunt and deeply sourced assessment of the administration.

Wolff writes that Donald Trump never actually planned to be president. He writes that Australian media tycoon Rupert Murdoch once called Trump a “fucking idiot.” Wolff also claims Trump apparently didn’t know who former House Speaker John Boehner was until after the 2016 presidential election.

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