Cliff Sims Team of Vipers excerpts What theyre saying about new Trump insider book al.com
Excerpts from Cliff Sims new White House book, are hitting the press ahead of its Jan. 29 release.
Sims, an Alabama native, worked as a special assistant to President Donald Trump from his election until May 2018. Earlier this year , which is touted as the first honest insiders account of the Trump administration.
Published through St. Martins Press, Team of Vipers is now available for
Heres a look at early excerpts from the book and reactions to it:
What they said: Sims is terribly unimpressed by Spicer, as well as by their mutual boss, Priebus. He also tattles on another key communications player, Kellyanne Conway, saying she sends sympathetic text messages to the same news reporters the president is criticizing.
But in the long run, Sims comes to recognize that even his rather sporadic access to the president is alienating others in the power structure, others who will hasten his own departure from Trump World.
The Guardian
What they said: Sims book makes much of infighting among White House staff. The whole thing felt like Game of Thrones, but with the characters from Veep, writes Sims, an Alabaman who joined the Trump campaign as co host of a Facebook live program run by the campaign.
What they said: As recounted in a passage from Team of Vipers that youre seeing first on Axios:
Give me their names, he said, his eyes narrowing. I want these people out of here. Im going to take care of this. Were going to get rid of all the snakes, even the bottom feeders.
Only in retrospect did I see how remarkable this was. I was sitting there with the President of the United States basically compiling an enemies list — but these enemies were within his own administration. If it had been a horror movie, this would have been the moment when everyone suddenly realizes the call is coming from inside the house.
What they said: According to a new tell all book from former White House aide Cliff Sims, White House counselor Kellyanne Conway anonymously trashed senior advisor to the president Jared Kushner while speaking privately with reporters, according to a new tell all book by former White House aide Cliff Sims.
What theyre saying: A book written by a former White House staffer has described back stabbing and duplicity within the West Wing and claimed that it was "out of control".
What they said: Former White House communications aide Cliff Sims describes scenes of an absolutely out of control White House staff, President Donald Trump berating the then speaker of the House from his own party over loyalty and the President walking out of policy meetings in his upcoming book, according to excerpts published by The Washington Post.
A former White House aide revealed he was summoned by President Trump in 2017 to try to find out which staffers were leaking to the media, creating lists of officials he thought he could and could not trust.
What they said: Sims goes on to explain that the most Trumpian tactic that his communications team employed was arguing with TV networks about the chyrons that were displayed. People watch TV on mute, the President told me, so its those words, those sometimes beautiful, sometimes nasty little words that matter, the former White House aide wrote.
And now, according to Cliff Sims book, we learn that the president reportedly told Paul Ryan, You were out there dying like a dog, Paul. Like a dog! Maybe someone can get this guy a book of idiomatic expressions. He clearly needs a new favorite metaphor.
New York Post
What they said: Obsessed with insiders trying to undermine him, President Trump compiled naughty and nice lists to help him discover which White House members were leaking to the press, according to a new memoir.
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