The following article by David Nakamura was posted on the Washington Post website January 7, 2018:
Trump aides and administration members attacked Michael Wolff, his new book “Fire and Fury,” and Stephen K. Bannon on Jan. 7. (Jenny Starrs/The Washington Post)
Stephen Miller, President Trump’s top policy adviser, on Sunday eviscerated former White House colleague Stephen K. Bannon over comments attributed to him in a new book, calling him an “angry, vindictive person” whose “grotesque comments are so out of touch with reality.”
Miller said the “whole White House staff is deeply disappointed in his comments” in “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House,” a scathing tell-all by Michael Wolff that paints Trump as unprepared for the presidency and portrays his aides as concerned about his performance.
“It reads like an angry, vindictive person spouting off to a highly discredible author,” Miller told host Jake Tapper on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
“The book is best understood as a work of poorly written fiction. The author is a garbage author of a garbage book. . . . The betrayal of the president in this book is so contrary to the reality of those who work with him,” Miller continued.
Shortly after Miller’s appearance on the show — which ended when Tapper abruptly cut him off, calling him “obsequious” and concerned only about “one viewer” — Trump tweeted about the “Fake Book, written by a totally discredited author.”
On NBC’s “Meet the Press,” host Chuck Todd asked Wolff if he left out anything in the book that would have been favorable to Trump because it didn’t fit the narrative.
“If I left out anything it was probably stuff even more damning. It’s that bad,” Wolff responded. “It’s an extraordinary moment in time. The last several days focused on my book are proof of this. What happened here? What’s going on here?”