{"id":199946,"date":"2019-01-29T23:14:27","date_gmt":"2019-01-30T04:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=199946"},"modified":"2019-01-29T23:14:27","modified_gmt":"2019-01-30T04:14:27","slug":"president-trump-dismisses-tell-all-book-as-made-up-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/01\/29\/president-trump-dismisses-tell-all-book-as-made-up-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"President Trump dismisses tell all book as ‘made up stories’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Trump, in a tweet Tuesday, dismissed Sims as a \u201clow level staffer\u201d who had written \u201cyet another boring book based on made up stories and fiction.\u201d (File Photo<\/a>: Gage Skidmore\/Flickr<\/a>, CC BY-SA 2.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

WASHINGTON \u2014 President Donald Trump is dismissing \u2014 and potentially bolstering sales of \u2014 a new tell-all book by a former White House aide, calling it \u201cmade up stories and fiction.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cliff Sims’ book, \u201cTeam of Vipers,\u201d is the latest in a series of insider accounts by journalists and former Trump staffers who paint an unflattering picture of life in the West Wing. In it, Sims, the former director of White House message strategy, engages in score-settling with former internal rivals, fingers other administration officials as \u201cleakers\u201d and casts the president as disloyal to his staff.<\/p>\n

Trump, in a tweet Tuesday, dismissed Sims as a \u201clow level staffer\u201d who had written \u201cyet another boring book based on made up stories and fiction.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe pretended to be an insider when in fact he was nothing more than a gofer,\u201d said Trump, who claimed Sims had signed a non-disclosure agreement.<\/p>\n

Indeed, Michael Glassner, chief operating officer of Trump’s re-election campaign, tweeted that the campaign was preparing to sue Sims for violating the agreement. Trump and his associates have a habit of announcing legal action and not following through.<\/p>\n

Sims responded with his own tweet that included photographs of him at the White House \u2014 including speaking with the president and in the Oval Office, along with a personal message from Trump scrawled on the front page of the New York Times.<\/p>\n

\u201cTeam of Vipers: My 500 Extraordinary Days in the Trump White House\u201d is out today, written by the most famous \u201cgofer\u201d in the world! Enjoy!\u201d Sims wrote.<\/p>\n

Sims’ book was officially released Tuesday, the same day as another behind-the-scenes account of Trump’s team by former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, an informal Trump adviser and longtime friend. The book, titled \u201cLet Me Finish: Trump, the Kushners, Bannon, New Jersey, and the Power of In-Your-Face Politics,\u201d paints a sympathetic picture of a president who has been ill-served by what Christie describes as a \u201crevolving door of deeply flawed individuals\u2014amateurs, grifters, weaklings, convicted and unconvicted felons\u2014who were hustled into jobs they were never suited for, sometimes seemingly without so much as a background check via Google or Wikipedia.\u201d<\/p>\n

Christie, who challenged Trump for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 but endorsed Trump after dropping out, oversaw Trump’s transition team until he was fired shortly after the November election, allegedly at the urging of Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser. Christie, during his tenure as a federal prosecutor, sent Kushner’s father – businessman Charles Kushner \u2014 to prison after winning his conviction on tax evasion and other crimes.<\/p>\n

In his account, Christie paints unflattering portraits of a number of former Trump aides, including Kushner and former chief White House strategist Steve Bannon, whom he describes as \u201ca fraud, a nobody, and a liar.\u201d<\/p>\n

He also rails against former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, panning him as a \u201cwalking car crash\u201d and \u201ctrain wreck from beginning to end.\u201d<\/p>\n

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