Trump Seeks to Block Publication of Michael Wolff’s Book

President’s lawyers sent similar cease-and-desist letter to Steve Bannon on Wednesday

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President Donald Trump has sent another cease and desist letter, this time to “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House” tell-all author Michael Wolff and his publisher.

Trump’s lawyer Charles Harder has demanded that Wolff and his publisher Henry Holt and Co. Inc. “cease and desist from any further publication, release or dissemination,” accusing them of actual malice.

The letter states that “Actual malice (reckless disregard for the truth) can be proven by the fact that the Book admits in the Introduction that it contains untrue statements,” and that it “appears to cite to no sources for many of its most damaging statements about Mr.

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