Michael Wolff Claims to Have Been Banned From News Networks Over Latest Trump Book
Writer and journalist Michael Wolff has written three bestselling books about President Donald Trump that were extensively covered by the major news networks. He recently released his fourth book All or Nothing: How Trump Recaptured America, which would also seem poised to generate a new round of headlines and media appearances.
But in a guest op-ed piece by The Hollywood Reporter, Wolff claims that news networks-including ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, CNN, and MSNBC-have not promoted his book. In his view, that's due to a fear of retribution from the Trump administration.
"What was not anticipated is how quickly and easily the media has capitulated and groveled," he writes. "In the past, news organizations have met governmental threats and incursions with implacable resistance."
TVNewser reached out to the various outlets mentioned in Wolff's op-ed for comment but none was received at press time.
Wolff's first book on Trump, 2018's Fire and Fury debuted at No. 1 on The New York Times Best Seller list. The book's success led numerous TV appearance opportunities, with its author making the rounds on ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, MSNBC, and CNN. Wolff also made promotional stops for his subsequent books, 2019's Siege: Trump Under Fire and 2021's Landslide.
'The difference this time is striking and frightening,' Wolff writes of his relative lack of news network appearances in the wake of All or Nothing's release.
In his op-ed, Wolff claims that All or Nothing landed at No. 9 on The New York Times Bestseller's list. However, Politico's Daniel Lippman reported that only 3,000 print copies were sold during the title's first week, citing data from Circana Book Scan.
The reviews for All or Nothing have also been lukewarm, with GoodReads scoring it at 3.76 out of 5.
Wolff's critics have questioned the veracity of his previous books. In a 2019 article, Vanity Fair noted: "The rollout of Fire and Fury was clouded by the attention given to a number of arguably small but not-insignificant factual errors.'
Responding to those critics that same year, Wolff told Michael Isikoff on Yahoo News' Skullduggery podcast: 'Even if I was wrong, I'm not going to admit it to you.'
For his part, Trump has called All or Nothing a 'total fake job' on his social media platform, Truth Social.
'Trump understands that many people, if not all of his people spoke to me,' Wolff claimed in a recent interview with The Ankler, '[That] might augur an internal witch hunt about this, which I suspect is sort of going on…I think it's everyone rushing to cover their a**.'
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