When you say 'tricked' do you mean telling the subject that he/she could be subject to prosecution for breaking the law? Well, that would explain why so many of Trump's minions lied to the FBI.
Outside the Beltway Naomi Wolf’s New Book a Complete Misunderstanding An author's greatest nightmare unfolded on live radio. James Joyner · Saturday, May 25, 2019 · 68 comments Naomi Wolf is living an author’s greatest nightmare. And doing it as well as possible. When she went on BBC radio on Thursday, Wolf, the author of Vagina and the forthcoming Outrages: Sex, Censorship, and the Criminalization of Love, probably expected to discuss the historical revelations she’d uncovered her book. But during the interview, broadcaster Matthew Sweet read to Wolf the definition of “death recorded,” a 19th-century English legal term. “Death recorded” means that a convict was pardoned for his crimes rather than given the death sentence. Wolf thought the term meant execution. There’s a shocking silence on-air after Sweet says he doesn’t think Wolf is right about the executions Outrages delves into. Sweet looks at the case of Thomas Silver, who, Wolf wrote in her book, “was actually executed for committing sodomy. The boy was indicted for unnatural offense, guilty, death recorded.” Silver, as Sweet points out, was not executed. “What is your understanding of what ‘death recorded’ means?” Wolf asked him on-air, mere moments after he had already explained to her how Old Bailey, London’s main criminal court up until 1913, defined it. Sweet pulled up his own research — news reports and prison records — showing the date that Thomas Silver was discharged. Death recorded, he says, “was a category that was created in 1823 that allowed judges to abstain from pronouncing a sentence of death on any capital convict whom they considered to be a fit subject for pardon.” And then the blow: “I don’t think any of the executions you’ve identified here actually happened.” Before Sweet delivered the punch, Wolf was audibly ready to speak about the “several dozen” similar executions she noted in her book, many of which rely on her completely wrong understanding of the term “death recorded.” But there is no historical evidence that shows anyone was ever executed for sodomy during the Victorian era, Sweet said on Twitter. Which means … much of the premise of Wolf’s entire book is just false. Wolf cited on Twitter historical findings from a peer-reviewed article written by A.D. Harvey, a historian who’s been labeled a hoaxer. (He deceived the public into thinking that Charles Dickens and Fyodor Dostoyevsky met once and created several online personas and an entire fake community of academics.) —-Yelena Dzhanova, The Intelligencer, “Here’s an Actual Nightmare: Naomi Wolf Learning On-Air That Her Book Is Wrong“ Wow. That’s simply mortifying. It is, I suppose, a peril of being the sort of author that Wolf represents: a talented writer who lights on a topic of interest and then cranks out a book, rather than an expert in a subject that writes within their field. Her publisher is standing by her in the most bizarre way possible: The book hits U.S. stands on June 18, according to the Amazon listing. A Houghton Mifflin Harcourt spokesperson offered this statement: “While HMH employs professional editors, copyeditors, and proofreaders for each book project, we rely ultimately on authors for the integrity of their research and fact-checking. Despite this unfortunate error we believe the overall thesis of the book Outrages still holds. We are discussing corrections with the author.” The entire premise of the book is wrong. Now, it remains true that homosexuals have been treated horribly over a span of centuries, including by the medical community and the legal system. But it’s not true that we were until recently executing people for it in the West. For her part, though, Wolf is handling it with grace: To her absolute credit, Wolf is taking this on the chin. On Twitter, Wolf and Sweet appear cordial. There’s a tweet from Sweet that indicates Wolf is going to look into her research and make necessary corrections. And a thread in which Wolf thanks Sweet for correcting her and promises to review “all of the sodomy convictions on Twitter in real time so people can see for themselves what the sentences were and what became of each of these people.” I’m not sure what else she can do at this point. But it’s far better than doubling down on an embarrassing error. UPDATE (10:12): It gets worse. It turns out that the book derives from her 2015 Oxford doctoral dissertation. So it’s not just Wolf and her HMH editors that have failed here but her Oxford advisors.
Another book of lies exposed and instantly shot down by the Mueller team. It appears the disgraced "author" has committed a felony by forging a fake DOJ document and presenting it in his 2nd libelous smear of the POTUS. Mueller’s office shoots down key claim in Michael Wolff’s new book 'Siege' By Brian Flood | Fox News Controversial author Michael Wolff’s “Siege: Trump Under Fire” is already under fire itself. Controversial author Michael Wolff’s upcoming book, "Siege: Trump Under Fire," reportedly claims that Robert Mueller drew up an obstruction of justice indictment against President Trump – but a spokesman for Mueller says the claim is wildly inaccurate. Now "Siege” already has something in common with its predecessor "Fire and Fury,” the 2018 best-selling book about the first year of Trump's presidency, which came under fire both for its sourcing and claims. MICHAEL WOLFF MAY HAVE FAKED TECH ISSUE TO AVOID QUESTION ABOUT TRUMP AFFAIR RUMOR HE STARTED Wolff’s follow-up anti-Trump book is scheduled to hit book stores on June 4 but The Guardian obtained an early copy. "Siege” claims that Mueller “drew up a three-count obstruction of justice indictment against Donald Trump before deciding to shelve it,” according to The Guardian’s Edward Helmore. According to Helmore, Wolff reports that Mueller’s office planned to charge the president with “influencing, obstructing or impeding a pending proceeding,” “tampering with a witness, victim or informant” and “retaliating against a witness, victim or informant” but eventually decided to "shelve" it. While The Guardian reporter says he viewed the document, Mueller’s office denies that it even exists. “The documents described do not exist." — Mueller spokesman Peter Carr “The documents described do not exist," Mueller spokesman Peter Carr told Fox News. LIBERAL MEDIA FINALLY TURNING ON 'DISGRACEFUL' ANTI-TRUMP AUTHOR MICHAEL WOLFF Wolff was accused of misrepresenting his levels of access and fabricating events for “Fire and Fury,” and it appears "Siege” will face similar accusations as Mueller’s team claims a key document isn’t authentic. The Special Counsel’s report did not make a traditional prosecutorial judgment on the obstruction investigation and did not try to determine whether or not the president committed a crime, so documents claiming otherwise are presumably fabrications. “Questions over the provenance of the documents will only add to controversy and debate around the launch of Wolff’s eagerly awaited new book,” Helmore wrote. “The document is the most significant aspect of Wolff’s new book.” Wolff's first book ignited a media firestorm as it included negative claims about the president and his family -- namely that some in the administration questioned his mental fitness. At the time, both Trump and White House press secretary Sarah Sanders blasted the book, describing it as a "complete fantasy" and "work of fiction." Video "I never spoke to him for book," Trump tweeted in Jan. 2018. "Full of lies, misrepresentations and sources that don’t exist." MICHAEL WOLFF WASN’T WITH TRUMP ON ELECTION NIGHT. THOSE WHO WERE PROVE HIS BOOK WRONG Sanders said during a 2018 press briefing, “The book is mistake after mistake after mistake… I’m not going to waste my time or the country’s time going page by page correcting [the book].” While promoting the first book on HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher,” Wolff said he was “absolutely sure” that President Trump was currently having an extramarital affair and teased that his book reveals the mistress if you “read between the lines.” Internet sleuths quickly pointed to then-United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley, who was forced to deny the speculation and many media members seemed to turn on the author because of the speculation after initially treating him like an anti-Trump hero. Wolff eventually admitted he didn’t know if Trump was having an affair and once appeared to pretend his audio malfunctioned to avoid the topic during an interview. It will be interesting to see how seriously the mainstream media takes “Siege” with all the baggage that now surround claims made by Wolff, who was initially the toast of the industry when promoting “Fire and Fury.”
