The allies of US President Donald Trump defended him in the face of questioning the book "Fire and Wrath: Inside the White House of Trump" by his ability to rule. Republicans close to Trump at the same time attacked the media coverage of the book and the president. For his part, Trump renewed his attack on the book and its author, Michael Wolf, saying it was "a false book for a writer who is completely lacking credibility."
US President Donald Trump's allies scrambled to defend him after a book on Friday questioned Trump's eligibility for his post, saying he was a genius in politics and Trump renewed his attack on the White House book.
The White House is working hard to counter the negative image of Trump's journalist Michael Wolf in his book "Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House," which was published on Friday and contains many details about the Republican administration .
Trump said on Twitter on Sunday morning that the book, which had the highest sales on Amazon after the release of "a false book of the author is completely lost credibility," after Wolf portrayed him as an indifferent and unbalanced man shows signs of actual loss of memory.
On Saturday, the US president responded to Wolf's suggestion that Trump was unbalanced, certainly as "a very balanced genius".
Former Trump adviser Steve Panone on Sunday expressed "regret" for his comments to the author and criticized the president's son during his campaign in 2016.
Banon, a former confidant of Trump and the White House strategist before his dismissal in the summer of 2017, sparked controversy last week after a transcript of the book saying Donald Trump Jr committed "treachery" and "not patriotly" when he met a Russian lawyer during the campaign.
This meeting is one of the main areas of investigation by Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller about possible collusion between Trump and Russia to influence the November 2016 elections.
"Donald Trump is a patriot and a good man," Banon said Sunday. "He has consistently supported his father and his program, which has helped change our country."
Bannon's comments in the book angered the US president, who accused his former adviser of "losing his temper."
One of the writers ridiculed Trump's political adviser Steven Miller, insisting that the president was indeed "a genius in politics" during an interview with CNN.
Miller stressed that Wolf was "a nonsense writer for a nonsense book ... just a pile of garbage." He also targeted Banon as "hateful" and "far from reality".
Wolf defended his job on Sunday and told NBC that he had not broken any agreement not to publish information in the book, but it was not likely that Trump would have considered the total three hours he confirmed signing with him as interviews.
He also spoke of a major concern in the White House that Trump might be disqualified from office for incompetence, allowing the amendment of the 25 Constitution even with difficulty.
Wolf said White House aides repeated almost daily, "We have not yet reached the level of the 25 amendment."
"Will not work"
US Ambassador to the United Nations Nicky Hailey rejected the idea and assured ABC television that no one in the White House "questioned the president's balance" and hinted that Wolf was capable of "lying for money and power."
But Wolf insisted that he did not start the book project with a preconceived bias or an agenda against Trump.
"It would have been a pleasure if I had written an opposite story here that Donald Trump, this unexpected president, will eventually succeed, but the story is not really and will not work," he said.
Meanwhile, CIA director Mike Pompeo insisted in an interview on Fox News on Sunday that Wolf's picture of Trump was "purely illusory."
Pompeo denied that President Lampalia was incapable of dealing with complex political files, stressing that he "is committed to understanding the complexities and poses difficult questions to our team in the CIA," pointing out that he is a "thirsty consumer" of the agency's information.
He added that Trump was "completely" and that it was "ridiculous" to suggest otherwise.
"Hysterical coverage"
But in a possible sign of the White House's sensitivity to the book, Miller made a scathing attack during an unusually intense debate with CNN's Jake Taber.
When Taper tried to question Miller about his work with Bannon, the interview turned into an exchange of boycotts and accusations. Miller described his host as "arrogant" and "malicious" and accused CNN of "covering hysterical negative anti-Trump."
Wolff's book was not tolerant of Miller himself, saying the latter was "supposed to be the thinker of the team but very ignorant, he was supposed to be an expert in communication, but almost everyone went."
However, Miller's offensive performance in the interview was well received by Trump, who commented on the joking "Jake Taber" of the "CNN" false news just destroyed in his interview with Steven Miller of the Trump administration. .
