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Michael Wolff (born August 27, 1953) is an American journalist, as well as a columnist and contributor to USA Today, The Hollywood Reporter, and the UK edition of GQ.
- He’s been working in the media since the ’70s. The 64-year-old grew up in New Jersey, the son of an advertising executive father and a newspaper reporter mother.
- He’s no stranger to charges of stretching the truth. Wolff has contended with claims against his stories’ accuracy for years. The now-defunct media review publication Brill’s Content said 13 different subjects in his of his 1998 book “Burn Rate” disputed Wolff’s account of them and accused him of inventing or changing quotes: “And none of those quoted recalls Wolff taking notes or recording the discussions, some of which took place three years ago.”
- He resists traditional labels. Wolff has resisted the traditional journalist label as well as that of a media critic. A New Republic profile of Wolff said he’s uninterested in the working press and makes himself the center of the story by fixating on moguls and power players in media, tech or politics.
- He’s been a vocal critic of the media. Wolff has taken aim at everyone from Rupert Murdoch to Politico in his time as a media columnist, but he’s most recently fed into the narrative that the media “is obsessed with Trump,” and vice versa.
Sep 12, 2021 · Why Our Monsters Talk to Michael Wolff In his new book, the author of “Fire and Fury” continues his specialty: teasing out stories from men in power. Writer at work: Michael Wolff does not...
- Trump called supporters ‘the great unwashed’ In mid-December 2020, “a little more than three weeks before rioters and revelers stormed the Capitol”, a group of “several thousand Trump fans and fanatics gathered in Washington, D.C”, an extract of the book published by New York magazine says.
- Democrats’, ‘Big Tech’ and ‘the media’ rigged the election. During his interview with Wolff at Mar-a-Lago, Trump again espoused the view – without providing any evidence – that the election that saw him lose the White House to Joe Biden was rigged.
- He was warned against marching on the Capitol. According to the New York magazine extract, Trump had a tense stand-off with his chief of staff Mark Meadows after telling the crowd that would go on to storm the Capitol: “We’re going to walk down [to the Capitol to protest] – and I’ll be there with you.”
- Being president meant dealing with ‘absolute scum and treachery’ Asked by Wolff if he held any “regrets” about his time as president, Trump told the journalist “I gave up this life”, apparently referring to his life at Mar-a-Lago, “for a life dealing with fine people but also absolute scum and treachery and fake witch-hunts”.
Sep 19, 2023 · Now Michael Wolff Performs an Autopsy on Fox News. In “The Fall,” Wolff predicts the collapse of Rupert Murdoch’s cable network and recounts the recent tumult there through a barrage of fuzzily...
Jul 12, 2021 · During the reporting of his latest book on the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, “Fire and Fury" author Michael Wolff says he got an invitation to meet the former president at Mar-a-Lago. In an...
Jul 15, 2021 · The first, “Landslide,” by the gadfly journalist Michael Wolff, is the one to leap upon, even though the second, “I Alone Can Fix It,” from the Washington Post journalists Carol Leonnig ...
