bannon who seemed to be the gate keeper for wolff, but then he would get access to be able to sort of roam freely in the west wing and wander the halls. he d pop in in offices and talk to different staffers, he sat out on the couch out in the lobby for a while and would spent four, five, six hours at the white house absorbing, talking to people, eavesdropping and gathering information. according to these sources, this project, cooperating with wolff was blessed by the president. that he liked wolff. he had talked to wolff apparently on the phone for this book that sarah sanders announced today, and staffers felt free to talk to him. and, you know, katy, what s described in this book are essentially a series of power centers among this team, all constantly climbing over each other and punching each other in the face trying to get to the top. the janka set, jared and ivanka, the bannon side, the rnc side, during the campaign did any of these seem to be directing
other and punching each other in the face trying to get to the top. the janka set, jared and ivanka, the bannon side, the rnc side, during the campaign did any of these seem to be directing events or were they all just literally spiraling around? no, there didn t seem to be a master plan for the campaign at all. they were relying on donald trump s personality. he knew how to command a room. people liked him. did they have a master plan how to get him elected? not really. they did have a good idea his message was resonating in the upper midwest, which it was. but this idea that they went out with this strategy to break through in certain areas is, i think, a little bit overemphasized or it s a little too grand to believe. the competing factions were true in the campaign, they re true in the white house. we know this from all of the reporting we ve been looking at and reading in the last year. that is not new. this book does a good job of laying out the warring factions