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A new book by two of President Trump's informal advisers is intended to support his claim that he is the victim of a broad conspiracy within the federal government. It includes an interview with Mr. Trump in which he reiterates his baseless assertion that President Barack Obama was an accomplice in spying against him.
The book "The enemies of Trump: how the deep state undermines the presidency", Corey Lewandowski, the president's first campaign director, and David Bossie, former deputy campaign manager, is expected to be released this week.
The New York Times got a copy of the book, a mix of good memories from the very first days after Trump's victory and the settling of accounts by its authors and president.
Lewandowski and Bossie describe the president's enemies as "integrated" in the government, claiming that most of the opinions expressed by Mr. Trump about his critics and intelligence agency officials involved in investigations into his campaign. And their interview with the president allowed him to express some of his deepest grievances.
He did not provide any evidence to support his claim that Mr. Obama was aware of the intelligence activities of the Trump campaigners. In March 2017, Mr. Trump accused Mr. Obama of having his "fancy sons" at Trump Tower, the skyscraper in Manhattan where his campaign office was located.
"Personally, I think that he knew. Yeah. Just remember what they did, "Trump told the authors. "Let me say this: if the shoe was on the other foot and the same thing was happening to it, it would be treason and they would be locked up for 100 years."
A spokesman for Obama declined to comment.
In the interview, Trump also said that, despite statements by key collaborators that they had barely focused on an anonymous written opinion letter in The Times describing a White House Chaotic and dysfunctional, some effort was expended to determine who the author might have been. In the end, suggested Mr. Trump, the list of possibilities exceeded that of "Murder in the Orient Express".
"We have 3,000 people who fit this description. That's a lot, said Mr. Trump during the interview. "The senior officials of the administration is at least 1,000. And the way they formulated it, we checked. This means that it is not someone who would be known. It could mean that he is a person I have never met. "
The book has been worrying Trump advisers for weeks because they predicted that MM. Lewandowski and Bossie will use it to harm some of them with the president after a murderous mid-term election cycle.
In reality, the book mostly reserves its photos to former officials such as Sean Spicer, press attaché to the White House, who served in the administration for eight months, accusing him of not becoming loyal to Mr. Trump only after the election.
Among the officials currently at the White House, MM. Lewandowski and Bossie retain most of their lives for the second White House Chief of Staff, John F. Kelly, who attempted to restrict Lewandowski's access to the West Wing.
One of the themes in the book is the efforts to prevent Mr. Lewandowski and Mr. Bossie from helping Mr. Trump to be himself. They accuse Mr. Kelly of trying to "caged" Mr. Trump. But they seem to have missed some of the most conflicting details related to Mr. Kelly.
In an interview with Chris Wallace on "Fox News Sunday" to discuss the book, Mr. Lewandowski was asked about Last month, a Times report described how Mr. Kelly caught Mr. Lewandowski by the collar just a few feet from the Oval Office, a clash in which the secret services had intervened.
"I do not want to get into what John may or may not have done, but what I think is that he understands that my position is to support the president and his agenda all the time. time, "Lewandowski told Wallace. .
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