Among the very hardest hit today are any bestselling authors who used Steve Bannon—now a federal fraud defendant—as a primary source, even as everyone was telling them not to do so. Candidly, I think both Bob WOODWARD hand Michael WOLFF should be asked to respond to today's news.

1/ I don't know what excuse Michael WOLFF had for using Bannon as a source, besides wanting a bestseller. I know that Bob WOODWARD has consistently whitewashed the criminality of this administration, and ignored those who've told him Bannon is a bad actor. https://www.cjr.org/politics/bob-woodward-fear.php

2/ I'm not saying this for the first time. I was very disappointed with FEAR, not just as a book, but as a matter of journalistic ethics. Conversations were made up and unreliable sources knowingly used. I believe that those considering purchasing and reading RAGE should be wary.

3/ Things were harder for those Trump biographers—like me—who accepted that the White House was untrustworthy and couldn't be considered otherwise. But authors like WOODWARD decided that if they could get access to liars and tell the liars they'd quote them, the liars would talk.

4/ And media coddled this bad journalism—expressing great excitement every time it was revealed that a famous liar like Bannon had acted as a key source for journalists like WOODWARD in books like FEAR. So those books—filled with Bannon's lies—got massive coverage and readership.

5/ So far, the story of the Trump presidency in books has largely been a story told by the now federal fraud defendant Bannon, as authors like WOODWARD decided it would be so, and media enabled it. Now I want to know how much of Woodward's new book, RAGE, is just Bannon bullsh*t.