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Siege michael wolff5/13/2023 What he mostly seems to do is find new ways of winding up Trump. How true this is remains up for debate, but Wolff is kind to his Virgil, as he calls him in the acknowledgements, and portrays him as TrumpWorld’s Svengali in the shadows. One of the main sources is again Steve Bannon, Trump’s former chief strategist who is still – as the book would have us believe – pulling all the strings from his Washington, DC townhouse. The special counsel’s office, it should be said, has since disputed this claim. The special counsel decided not to charge the president, but his team had decided that, legally, they could have. The document, “United States Of America Against Donald J Trump, Defendant”, sat on Mueller’s desk, according to Wolff, for more than a year. In an initiative led by Weissmann, the special counsel’s office laid out an indictment of the president.” The key news line is Wolff’s assertion that by March 2018, “Mueller’s team was contemplating an audacious move. Well, in news depressing for the planet but no doubt happy for Mr Wolff’s bank balance, I can report there’s plenty left.īut let’s start with the special counsel investigation, which gives the book its structure.
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