Donald Trump’s former chief strategist Steve Bannon has described the Trump Tower meeting between the president’s son and a group of Russians during the 2016 election campaign as “treasonous” and “unpatriotic”, according to an explosive new book seen by the Guardian. In Wolff’s book, obtained by the Guardian ahead of publication from a bookseller in New England, he suggests White House hopes for a quick end to the Mueller investigation are gravely misplaced. He previously conducted interviews for the Hollywood Reporter with Trump in June 2016 and Bannon a few months later. He told the Guardian in November that to research the book, he showed up at the White House with no agenda but wanting to “find out what the insiders were really thinking and feeling”. The rancour between Bannon and “Javanka” – Kushner and his wife Ivanka Trump – is a recurring theme of the book.

Source: The Guardian January 03, 2018 13:08 UTC