Trump on Steve Bannon: When fired, ‘he not only lost his job, he lost his mind’

WASHINGTON – Following explosive allegations in a new book, President Donald Trump said in a statement on Wednesday that former adviser Steve Bannon has “lost his mind.”

The statement, released through his press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders comes in the wake of a series of revelations in “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House,” by Michael Wolff.

Statement from the President of the United States, followed by other statements from Huckabee and spokesman for first lady Melania Trump

Steve Bannon has nothing to do with me or my Presidency. When he was fired, he not only lost his job, he lost his mind. Steve was a staffer who worked for me after I had already won the nomination by defeating seventeen candidates, often described as the most talented field ever assembled in the Republican party.

Now that he is on his own, Steve is learning that winning isn’t as easy as I make it look. Steve had very little to do with our historic victory, which was delivered by the forgotten men and women of this country. Yet Steve had everything to do with the loss of a Senate seat in Alabama held for more than thirty years by Republicans. Steve doesn’t represent my base—he’s only in it for himself.

Steve pretends to be at war with the media, which he calls the opposition party, yet he spent his time at the White House leaking false information to the media to make himself seem far more important than he was. It is the only thing he does well. Steve was rarely in a one-on-one meeting with me and only pretends to have had influence to fool a few people with no access and no clue, whom he helped write phony books.

We have many great Republican members of Congress and candidates who are very supportive of the Make America Great Again agenda. Like me, they love the United States of America and are helping to finally take our country back and build it up, rather than simply seeking to burn it all down.”

MORE STATEMENTS……

“This book is filled with false and misleading accounts from individuals who have no access or influence with the White House.

Participating in a book that can only be described as trashy tabloid fiction exposes their sad desperate attempts at relevancy.”

– Sarah Sanders, White House Press Secretary

“The book is clearly going to be sold in the bargain fiction section. Mrs. Trump supported her husband’s decision to run for President and in fact, encouraged him to do so. She was confident he would win and was very happy when he did.”

– Stephanie Grisham, Communications Director for the First Lady