President Trump on Tuesday morning lashed out against a former White House staffer at the exact moment he was being interviewed live on CNN.
Trump tweeted that Cliff Sims, who worked in the White House for a year and a half and just published a tell-all book full of damaging anecdotes about what he observed there, is just pretending to be an insider but was actually "nothing more than a gofer." Trump claimed the book is fiction and revealed that Sims signed a non-disclosure agreement, an unusual White House practice.
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