A year ago, Fire and Fury's Michael Wolff said the news media was being too hard on Trump

Michael Wolff in 2017
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Over the weekend, Michael Wolff said his new book Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House might help end the Trump presidency and if he "left anything out, it's probably stuff that was even more damning." What he left in paints a president universally seen by those around him as a dotard unfit to be president. On Sunday, CNN's Brian Stelter argued that Trump's mental fitness, now a global story, is a legitimate question for the media to pursue. He also posted an interview with Wolff from Feb. 5, 2017, when Wolff had just started reporting the book now roiling the Trump White House.

A year ago, Wolff said Trump was winning his war against a hysterical media. When Trump is outrageous, he said, journalists "go into a fit of apoplexy, and what we set up is as we try to go after his credibility, our credibility becomes equally a problem."

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Peter has worked as a news and culture writer and editor at The Week since the site's launch in 2008. He covers politics, world affairs, religion and cultural currents. His journalism career began as a copy editor at a financial newswire and has included editorial positions at The New York Times Magazine, Facts on File, and Oregon State University.