The Michael Wolff book on the White House: "Fire and Fury"

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    That's is how the minimum wage and automation work together.
     
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    There you go again being the straight man - mocking people for how they look. The hypocrisy from the left is breathtaking.
     
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    And the process of creative destruction. Some of the Sam's closures were due to competition from Cosco.
     
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    WMT is also trying to amp up internet sales. Some of the former Sam's Club stores will apparently be used as distribution centers.
     
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    With transferred and retrained people from the closed Sam’s stores.
     
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    WMT is the last best competition for the Amazon Anaconda.
     
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    And does more to benefit low income people than any company in the US.
     
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    Lol, it’s not like anyone ever heard of Trump before huh?

    Your delusional excuses (to yourself) are... just astonishing frankly.

    Oh well, it’s your head, and Trump just resides there rent free 24/7. If that’s what floats your boat, more power to you.
     
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    YOU ARE WRONG ABOUT THAT.
    WOLFF HAS LESS.
     
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    If he lost, she would be (scary thought) the Commander in Chief. Not much anyone can do about it at that point. On second thought, she could/would have Trump’ Twitter account banned.
     
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    Actually, Wolf's book is well sourced.
     
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    And the european company who had been unable to get state department approval for years, but then paid 750K to Bill for two 20-minute speeches and quickly got approved...
    That was just a coincidence. Seems the Clintons have been blessed by a great many coincidences like that. The trail of Clinton scandal is like a kids connect-the-dots book- a grade school child can see the picture. Of course, liberals cannot. Vision problems- right-side blindness or something.
     
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    According to those you wish to believe, and that excludes those who disagree. That's selectively sourced, not well sourced.
     
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    He names his sources some of which he could verify independently and some of which he can't. What's the problem? Nobody likes Trump. He's a boor.
     
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    What "European company"? The company was privately held by a Canadian.
     
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    About 2 million workers with bonuses and a pay raise. Millions of Democrats are becoming very fond of Donald Trump.
     
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    In fact, Wolff is just another notorious Fake News shill.

    "Tur is not the first person to criticize Wolff for the liberties he appears to have taken with his storytelling — a 2004 piece in the New Republic made similar claims, writing that the events Wolff often recounts in his narrative pieces are more products of his imagination than real, fact-checked reports.”
    BUSINESS INSIDER, 7 claims that have been disputed in Michael Wolff's bombshell book on Trump so far, By Michal Kranz, Jan. 8, 2018.
    http://www.businessinsider.com/is-michael-wolffs-book-true-2018-1?op=1l
     
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    Trump's approval is actually surging.

    The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Friday shows that 46% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Trump’s job performance.
    http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/trump_administration/prez_track_jan12
    ***(always add at least 10 points to all Trump approval numbers to adjust for polling bias)

    *** mine.
     
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    @ Margot2 Well sourced ?? Wolff basically printed everything he heard or thought he heard.



    Does the author point out case by case which accounts "are in conflict with one another" ??


    Does the author point out which accounts are "baldly untrue" ??


    Does the author point out point out which sources he trusts and how he "settled on a version of events" which he believes to be true ??


    How can this be a non fiction book ??
     
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    Wolff's book is fiction. Which is why it was not fact checked before publication.

    “How did mistakes like these get past a fact-checker? Neither Wolff nor his publisher, Henry Holt, responded to Fix inquiries about how — or whether — “Fire and Fury” was vetted.
    THE WASHINGTON POST, How did Michael Wolff’s ‘Fire and Fury’ get past a fact-checker? It’s not clear that the book was vetted., By Callum Borchers, January 9, 2018.
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...t-the-book-was-vetted/?utm_term=.a96fb7dd7a65
     
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    Mocking his vanity that he loudly declares with the greatest comb over in history is hypocritical? I mock him for way more than just his stupid hairstyle and makeup wearing. That is simply an expression of the contempt I have for his character, morality and intellect.

    His vain conceit is fair game as well.
     
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    Interesting list of questions that the author is NOT obligated to answer in hisbooks when he is reporting in QUOTES. Do you know what "quotes" mean? It means that they are not the authors word. He is REPORTING what other people say.

    Just like when you watch FOX news. They don't answer any of those questions in their 'reportage". How can they be anything other than a fiction channel?

    Its hilarious that in order to defend their fearless leader trumpettes always point to the effect and scream - cause.

    Even better when many of the criticisms of his "leadership" that his staffers have expressed have been DEMONSTRATED by donnie in his tv production the other day, in his outrageous fire starting ill informed or lying tweets, in his thoughtless blurting displays of his gross ignorance, his lack of focus, his word salad content free ramblings and on and on and on.

    CHARACTER is the foundation of leadership. And in that category he is bigly deficient.
     
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    Well I would have used comedian instead of stooge, but that would imply some comedic skill instead of clownish acceptance of the buffoon in chief.

    And I am pleased to take on the mantle of "straight man", even if I think I'm way wittier than most trumpettes.
     
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    Please forward this advice to Don Donald.
     
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    I have forwarded it to all that are afflicted, glad you found it good advice :)
     

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