WASHINGTON – A new book by Michael Wolff about White House politics duringTrump’s first year in office questions the president’s fitness for positionand has divided officials into two camps – those who support the claim andthose defending Donald Trump.
Speaking at the Face the Nation show on the CBS, CIA Director Mike Pompeoreiterated his support for the US president, saying that Trump is”completely fit”and raising questions about his mental fitness is”ludicrous.”
“The president is engaged, he understands the complexity, he asks reallydifficult questions of our team at the CIA so we can provide anyinformation that he needs to make good, informed policy decisions,” he saidcalling the claims made in the tell-all book “just pure fantasy.”
The CIA chief added that only “people who just have not accepted the factthat President Trump is the United States president” are attemptingto challenge Trump’s intelligence and mental stability and said he felt”sorry for them.”
‘Fake Book’ by a ‘Fraud’
Meanwhile, Donald Trump, further pursuing his Twitter-defense strategy,posted on the social platform that he considers Wolff to be a “discreditedauthor” and regards the book as another example of the fake news whichTrump has denounced since the beginning of his electoral campaign.
[image: US President Donald Trump and Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa Maysit at the start of the retreat meeting on the first day of the G-20 summitin Hamburg, northern Germany, on Friday July 7, 2017.]The flare-up began on Friday when US journalist Michael Wolff published hisbook “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House,” in which he claimedthat according to people from the president’s close circle, Trump is”incapable of functioning in his job.”
The president himself called the claims “Fake News Mainstream Media’s” useof “the old Ronald Reagan playbook and screaming mental instability andintelligence,” stressing that his own “two greatest assets have been mentalstability and being, like, really smart.”