President Trump on Tuesday lashed out at Cliff Sims on the day the former White House staffer’s book detailing his time in the administration was released, dismissing him as “low level” and “nothing more than a gofer.”
“A low level staffer that I hardly knew named Cliff Sims wrote yet another boring book based on made up stories and fiction,” Trump tweeted.
“He pretended to be an insider when in fact he was nothing more than a gofer. He signed a non-disclosure agreement,” he added. “He is a mess!”
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The tweet marked the first time Trump has publicly commented on Sims’s book. The president did not dispute any specific claims in the book.
Excerpts of the tell-all “Team of Vipers” have been published in recent days and Sims on Monday appeared on “Good Morning America” and “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert.”
During his roughly 18 months in the Trump administration, Sims served as director of White House message strategy and a special assistant to the president, sitting in on high-level meetings. He left his position last May.
In excerpts released from the book, Sims has described sitting with Trump and creating a list of problematic individuals working in the White House.
In another excerpt, Sims portrayed White House counselor Kellyanne Conway as a “cartoon villain brought to life” who bad-mouthed other staffers to the press.
Sims also wrote that White House senior adviser Stephen Miller derided immigrants and refugees, and said he’d be happy if “not a single refugee foot ever again touched American soil.”
White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Monday said she’d never heard Miller make such comments.
Michael Glassner, the Chief Operating Officer of the Trump campaign, on Tuesday tweeted that the campaign is preparing to sue Sims over violating a nondisclosure agreement. The campaign took similar action against former staffer Omarosa Manigault Newman upon release of her book last year.
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Trump tears into ex-staffer's tell-all book: "He was nothing more than a gofer" https://t.co/CHN5vupFNu pic.twitter.com/IUapvsSwer
— The Hill (@thehill) January 29, 2019
"I will punish my treacherous aide by making him rich and famous!" https://t.co/gB4EuL1DVx
— David Frum (@davidfrum) January 29, 2019
Those gofers — those low level employees often see and hear more than those higher-up would like, simply because those higher up tend to ignore their presence. I don’t know if what Mr. Sims says is true. Would be nice to have some corroborating evidence. But I wouldn’t dismiss anything he claims merely because he was not a top aide.
Great men have been brought down by ordinary people.
"Team of Vipers: My 500 Extraordinary Days in the Trump White House" is out today, written by the most famous "gofer" in the world! Enjoy! https://t.co/Eovn8jMVhk pic.twitter.com/V013bIe0r2
— Cliff Sims (@Cliff_Sims) January 29, 2019
He has a habit of trying to demean his enemies by calling them nobodies, failures, gophers, coffee boy etc. It’s very juvenile playground type behavior.
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