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Former White House aide Cliff Sims sues Trump after attack over tell-all book

Cliff Sims, left, former director of White House message strategy, stands with other White House officials in June 2017 during a ceremony at the White House. Credit: Pablo Martinez Monsivais, AP

A former White House aide who penned an insider account about President Trump is now suing the president after Trump’s lawyers filed an arbitration claim saying the book violated a nondisclosure agreement.

The former communications aide, Cliff Sims, filed the suit in District of Columbia court Monday after Trump’s lawyers began arbitration proceedings late last month and the president attacked Sims on Twitter as a low-level “gofer.”

“I’m not going to be bullied on this,” Sims said during an interview Tuesday on CNN. “That’s what we try to teach our kids to do when bullies are coming after them. … I’m not going to cower.”

View the complete February 11 article by Josh Dawsey and Felicia Sonmez on The Washington Post website here.

Trump lashes out at former White House aide over explosive tell-all book

President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence greet Senate Sergeant-at-Arms Michael Stenger, right, upon arriving to the Capitol to attend the Senate Republican policy luncheons on Jan. 9. Credit: Tom Williams, CQ Roll Call

Cliff Sims describes West Wing as ‘tough place to work’ with ‘team of vipers’

President Donald Trump Tuesday slammed a former White House employee — and even threatened legal action — over a new tell-all book describing the West Wing as a chaotic place occupied by a “team of vipers.”

Cliff Sims is making the rounds on television as he tries to sell his book about his time on Trump’s staff. The media blitz included a stop by CNN’s “New Day” morning show on Tuesday.

Simms told CNN the “atmosphere” created by Trump “encourages a lot of the infighting.” He described Tuesday the scene during which he and Trump were crafting the “enemies list” in the president’s private study just outside the Oval Office as a time he “lost myself” and his “moral compass.”

View the complete January 29 article by John T. Bennett on The Roll Call website here.