Trump book 'Fire and Fury' released despite White House legal threats

Donald Trump’s lawyers tried to shut down the release of the book that has already exposed delicate issues regarding the President and his administration, leading the publisher to release the book a week early.

Author Michael Wolff's 'Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House’ was originally going to be released next Tuesday, but after publications including New York magazine and the Guardian made a few extracts public, the White House requested the publisher not to go through with the publication.

On Thursday the President’s lawyer sent a letter to Wolff and his publisher Henry Holt & Co requesting an“immediately cease and desist from any further publication, release or dissemination”.

The publisher responded by saying, “Henry Holt confirms that we received a cease and desist letter from an attorney for President Trump. We see ‘Fire and Fury’ as an extraordinary contribution to our national discourse, and are proceeding with the publication of the book.”

Michael Wolff, tweeted: “Here we go. You can buy it (and read it) tomorrow. Thank you, Mr President.”

Trump has also taken to Twitter and gave his opinion on the book.

I authorized Zero access to White House (actually turned him down many times) for author of phony book! I never spoke to him for book. Full of lies, misrepresentations and sources that don’t exist. Look at this guy’s past and watch what happens to him and Sloppy Steve!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) 5 de enero de 2018

Wolff was actually able to chronicle the birth of the administration from election day to October 2017, including conversations and interviews with the president and most members of his senior staff, all in all conducting more than 200 interview with the people who to whom members of the Trump team spoke.

Shortly after Trump’s inauguration, Wolff was able to take up “something like a semi-permanent seat on a couch in the West Wing” — an idea he said was encouraged by the president himself.

Steve Bannon former confidant of the president was interviewed by Wolff and has criticised the administration and has revealed that Donald Trump Jr met with a group of Russians who promised secrets on Hillary Clinton to help in the election.

Bannon also took a dig at the 'first daughter' Ivanka Trump in the book and at her work in the White House.

"She was a nonevent on the campaign. She became a White House staffer and that's when people suddenly realized she's dumb as a brick. A little marketing savvy and has a look but as far as understanding actually how the world works and what politics is and what it means -- nothing," Bannon was quoted as saying by Wolff.

Trump has responded to these statements from Bannon by saying that he has nothing to do with him or the president. “When he was fired, he not only lost his job, he lost his mind,” said the president.

While the book has soared to number one on Amazon’s best sellers list and dominated the headlines, the White House took the opportunity to make a number of policy announcements, including plans for a massive expansion of offshore drilling by opening up protected areas in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans and a revoking of federal marijuana legislation, while attempting to delay Obama-era anti-segregation housing laws and denying aid to Pakistan.