{"id":388468,"date":"2018-01-04T06:35:36","date_gmt":"2018-01-04T06:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=388468"},"modified":"2018-01-04T06:35:36","modified_gmt":"2018-01-04T06:35:36","slug":"10-explosive-revelations-new-trump-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2018\/01\/10-explosive-revelations-new-trump-book\/","title":{"rendered":"10 explosive revelations from new Trump book"},"content":{"rendered":"

Donald Trump was “befuddled” by his election win, did not enjoy his inauguration and was scared of the White House, according to a new book.<\/p>\n

Journalist Michael Wolff’s Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House also purports to lift the lid on Ivanka Trump’s secret presidential ambitions.<\/p>\n

The book details Mr Trump’s regard for media titan Rupert Murdoch, though the admiration was apparently not mutual.<\/p>\n

Michael Wolff’s book was reportedly based on more than 200 interviews.<\/p>\n

But White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said the book was filled with “false and misleading accounts”.<\/p>\n

The author says he was able to take up “something like a semi-permanent seat on a couch in the West Wing” following the president’s inauguration for a close-up insight into the administration.<\/p>\n

Here are 10 of the book’s revelations, with commentary from the BBC’s Anthony Zurcher.<\/p>\n

1. Bannon thought Don Jr meeting ‘treasonous’<\/strong><\/p>\n

According to the book, former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon thought a meeting between Donald Trump Jr and a group of Russians was “treasonous”.<\/p>\n

The Russians had offered Donald Trump Jr damaging information on Hillary Clinton at the June 2016 meeting.<\/p>\n

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