Rip Him Apart: Trump Glued to James Comey Book Blitz as Feud Escalates
On Friday, President Donald Trump met with White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, her talking points and briefing materials in hand, in the Oval Office ahead of one of her routine televised press briefings.
During the meeting, the president, according to two people familiar with Friday’s briefing prep, encouraged his spokeswoman to get tough on fired FBI director James Comey—as a leaker, a fraud, and just another Trump-bashing self-promoter—when she went on TV later that day.
“The president wanted her to rip him apart,” one West Wing official with knowledge of the meeting told The Daily Beast.
Sanders did not disappoint her boss.
“The American people see right through the blatant lies of a self-admitted leaker,” she said in the briefing room on Friday afternoon, dragging Comey’s new book and tour as a “poorly executed PR stunt” designed to make the former FBI director money and boost his reputation.
The book paints an unflattering portrait of Trump as a pathological liar and as someone with mafia don-like tendencies. The book also dives into Trump’s reported conversation with Comey regarding the alleged “pee tape,” and, as The Daily Beast first reported, includes an anecdote in which chief of staff John Kelly called the president “dishonorable” for sacking Comey. The ousted FBI director is currently on a media and book tour to promote his soon-to-be published work.
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Rip him apart with those tiny hands?
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