Trump says ex-aide has lost his mind, and that he broke employment agreement

US President Donald Trump is blowing hot over comments made by former White House chief strategist Steve Banon who in a new book described a meeting between Mr Trump’s son and a group of Russians as “treasonous”.

Banon’s statement drew an angry response from the US President who said the ex-aide has not been in his right senses after he lost his job.

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“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”, Trump, who sacked Bannon in August, said in a statement.

“Steve doesn’t represent my base,” he said, adding that Bannon is “only in it for himself”.

Banon made the statement after excerpts from the upcoming book, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, written by investigative journalist Michael Wolff forcing Trump’s lawyers to send a cease-and-desist letter to the former aide.

According to a letter by Trump’s lawyers, Banon who was considered a key player in Trump’s administration before he left his post in August, had broken his employment agreement by speaking to the book’s author about Trump and his family, “disclosing confidential information” and “making disparaging statements and in some cases outright defamatory statements to Mr Wolff about Mr Trump, his family members, and his Company.”

 

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