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After he spoke candidly — and savagely — last year about PresidentDonald Trump‘s family and administration in the controversial bookFire and Fury,Steve Bannonstill isn’t mincing words about his former boss.
Siegeis Wolff’s sequel to the bestselling Fire and Fury, which was published in January 2018 and offered a sensational and controversial inside view of the Trump administration.
Bannonwas and continues to bea key source about the president, according to Wolff. (A Bannon spokeswoman did not comment when asked about how he was portrayed inSiege. A White House spokesman declined to comment on the record about Wolff’s book.)
Eight months after Trump was sworn in, Bannon left the White House amid fallout from the president’s response to a deadly white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.
His quotes in Wolff’sFire and Fury, disparagingDonald Trump Jr.andIvanka Trump, further estranged him from the president’s circle.
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At the time, Bannonissued a statementthat “my support is … unwavering for the president and his agenda.”
In a documentary that premiered in January, he said he “hated every second” he was in the White House. “There’s no glamour to the job,” he said inThe Brink,USA Todayreported.
Bannon continued: “The West Wing has bad karma to it. They say, ‘Because you were doing bad stuff!’ But I was doing the Lord’s work.”
Wolff’s first Trump book was a blockbuster, selling millions, even as his reporting was called into question and the president threatened to try and block its publication.
The sequel roughly focuses on Trump’s second year as president and will be published on Tuesday, while he and his familyare on a state visit to the U.K.
source: people.com
