US president Donald Trump has said an explosive new book about the first year of his presidency is full of “lies, misrepresentations and sources that don’t exist”. Mr Trump was writing on Twitter a day before the release of Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House – a book which is said to paint the businessman as a leader who does not understand the weight of the presidency. Although Mr Trump did not name the book’s author Michael Wolff by name, he wrote that he “authorised Zero access to White House (actually turned him down many times)”. Mr Bannon is depicted in the book as questioning Mr Trump’s competence and described a June 2016 meeting between Donald Trump Jr, Trump campaign aides and a Russian lawyer as “treasonous”. Mr Bannon had helped Mr Trump form a coalition of anti-establishment Republicans, blue-collar working class and economic nationalists that launched him to the White House, but Mr Trump had long ago grown frustrated that Mr Bannon seemed to be overstepping his role as a staffer.

Source: The Irish Times January 05, 2018 06:22 UTC