Vice President Pence blasted author Michael Wolff’s new book on the Trump presidency as a “work of Washington fiction” and said he had no plans on reading the exposé.
“I haven’t read it, don’t intend to read it,” Pence told The Wall Street Journal in an interview published Monday. “What I’ve heard about the book bears no resemblance to the president that I serve with every day. None. It just strikes me that it’s another work of Washington fiction.”
Pence’s comments come after both the White House and Trump attacked “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House,” in which Wolff writes that Trump’s campaign was not expecting to win the 2016 election and Trump has frustrated executive staffers with his lack of experience in governing.
Senior White House adviser Stephen Miller also tore into the book as a “grotesque work of fiction” on CNN this week, calling its portrayal of Trump and his team is “contrary to reality.”
Miller, one of the president’s top staffers, said the book’s reported damaging comments from other top White House staff did not line up with his experience or that of his coworkers.
Wolff has faced criticism in the media over the accuracy of details in the book and his previous works.