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Michael Wolff tells a juicy tale in his new Trump book. But should we believe it?

January 3, 2018 at 5:54 p.m. EST
Michael Wolff, author of “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House,” spoke to the “Today” show Jan. 5, following President Trump’s legal efforts to st (Video: Taylor Turner/The Washington Post)

Among the many things he's been called — "blunt," "pathetic," "calculating" — the one thing Michael Wolff has never been described as is boring.

A provocateur and media polemicist, Wolff has a penchant for stirring up an argument and pushing the facts as far as they'll go, and sometimes further than they can tolerate, according to his critics. He has been accused of not just re-creating scenes in his books and columns, but of creating them wholesale.