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Kimmel Echoes Disgraced Author's Rumor On Trump's Fight With Harvard

Alex Christy
June 4th, 2025 9:45 AM

ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel claimed on Tuesday to uncover the true reason for President Donald Trump’s fight with Harvard: Harvard rejecting him back when he was a student. The only problem for Kimmel was his source was disgraced author Michael Wolff.

 
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FLASHBACK: Media Diagnose Trump with Dementia, Alzheimer's, Illness

Bill D'Agostino
May 29th, 2025 5:31 PM

Jake Tapper and his ilk owe all of us an explanation for why, from 2017 through 2020, they were so intensely concerned about President Trump’s health that they managed to incorrectly diagnose him with dementia, early-onset Alzheimer’s, profound mental illness, and even heart disease.

 

Rupert Murdoch Was Right From the Start

Cal Thomas
September 26th, 2023 5:42 PM

LONDON – To read and watch the reaction of people who have hated Fox News from its creation, one might think it resembles dancing on someone’s grave, but at 92, Rupert Murdoch remains very much alive and his influence, not only on Fox, but in much of journalism, will likely continue for some time. It may be coincidental, or not, that the announcement of Murdoch’s stepping down as chairman of…

 
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Author Takes Down Brian Stelter: 'You're Full of Sanctimony'

Tim Graham
July 18th, 2021 10:50 PM

Four years ago, author Michael Wolff came on Brian Stelter's Reliable Sources show and told him off. On Sunday, Stelter brought it back up: "You called me ridiculous." Stelter implied Wolff gained access to the Trump White House by bashing CNN. So Wolff unloaded on him again: "you are full of sanctimony....you are why one of the reasons people can't stand the media."

 
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Jimmy Kimmel Touts Michael Wolff’s Sloppy, Fact-Challenged Book

Aiden Jackson
June 5th, 2019 3:20 PM
It seems as though with each passing day, the media case of Trump Derangement Syndrome grows more severe. Many may be hard pressed to remember the fact-challenged Michael Wolff “tell all” book, Fire and Fury, which was full of sloppy reporting. Despite this, on Tuesday, late night host Jimmy Kimmel was as giddy as he covered the sequel to Fire and Fury, Siege: Trump Under Fire.
 

Another Paper Trashes Mark Levin Book, Celebrates Fake-News Wolff Book

Tim Graham
June 5th, 2019 1:12 PM
Mark Levin's book Unfreedom of the Press drew another hostile book review, this time from the leftist British newspaper The Guardian. The headline on Lloyd Green's review was "Mark Levin's Trumpist take on the first amendment...The passionate pro-Trump convert’s attack on the mainstream media occasionally sounds like ‘fake news’ itself." And yet in his very next book review, Mr. Green was…
 
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Final Countdown: Behold the Ten Most-Read NewsBusters Blogs of 2018

Curtis Houck
December 31st, 2018 9:05 AM
For a year that featured Joy Behar’s anti-Christian tirade on The View, faux conservatives making fools of themselves on cable news, Jim Acosta’s nuttiness, and Samantha Bee’s ugly use of the c-word against First Daughter Ivanka Trump, 2018 provided an inordinate amount of content for the NewsBusters staff. Following the precedent set in 2016 and 2017, the following post gives you, the readers, a…
 
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‘Hardball’: WH Gossip Books Are Like the Gospels, Trump Lacks Empathy

Curtis Houck
September 12th, 2018 5:28 PM
MSNBC’s Hardball was in rare form on Tuesday, featuring host Chris Matthews and his various guests perpetually stepping in it. It started with Matthews comparing anti-Trump books to the synoptic Gospels and it snowballed from there, ranging from Matthews touting John Kerry’s new book as being so monumental, panelists the President lacking empathy for hurricane 9/11 victims, and ending with…
 
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Michael Eric Dyson: Trump Using 'KKK Language' While Slamming Omarosa

Randy Hall
August 14th, 2018 7:17 PM
During the ongoing fallout over Omarosa Manigault Newman’s attention-seeking book tour, Georgetown University professor Michael Eric Dyson slammed the President for calling the author a “dog” in a tweet and went so far as to accuse Trump of using “KKK language” in his attacks. Tuesday afternoon on CNN, Dyson accused Trump of “evoking an entire history of assault against black people with…
 

Something We Can Agree on. Michael Wolff: ‘I’m Barely a Journalist’

Scott Whitlock
March 28th, 2018 5:04 PM
Michael Wolff, the Trump-hating journalist who made very questionable claims about the White House with little proof, doesn’t really consider himself a journalist. Talking to The Vassar Political Review, Wolff conceded, “I’m not a political journalist. I’m not, frankly, all that much interested in politics. I’m a writer. I’m barely a journalist, actually.”
 
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Asked to Apologize For Haley-Trump Rumor, Wolff Claims He Can't Hear

Tom Blumer
February 26th, 2018 11:50 PM
Sunday, Australia's The Today Show host asked Fire and Fury author Michael Wolff whether he should apologize for starting and backing away from a rumor of an extramarital affair between UN Ambassador Haley and President Trump. Wolff then claimed that his earpiece wasn't working. At one point, when the host asked Wolff if he could hear him, the author responded almost immediately. Today …
 

Alec Baldwin to Michael Wolff: ‘Are You Sick of Trump?’

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Corinne Weaver
February 7th, 2018 11:58 AM
It’s ironic that the people that have made money from Trump’s presidency are complaining that they don’t like their newfound source of wealth. According to Deadline Hollywood, Alec Baldwin and Michael Wolff made an appearance at New York’s Town Hall to whine about “acute Trump fatigue.”
 

Tomasky in NYRB on Trump, ‘The Worst of the Worst,’ Inciting Violence

Clay Waters
February 6th, 2018 3:13 PM
The New York Review of Books February 22 issue prominently displayed journalist Michael Tomasky’s blessing of two virulently anti-Trump books, Michael Wolff’s infamous Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, and the anti-conservative jeremiad Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republican by David Frum. The NYRB’s cover teaser read “Fire in the White House.” The review's title was “…
 
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Morning Joe Panel Pulls 180, Turns on Michael Wolff

Bill D'Agostino
February 1st, 2018 12:02 PM
On Thursday, the panel on MSNBC’s Morning Joe dog piled Michael Wolff for propagating an unfounded rumor that President Trump had been having an affair with his ambassador to the U.N., Nikki Haley. The confrontation became so heated that the show’s co-anchor Mika Brzezinski eventually cut the interview short and asked Wolff to leave