Washington — The author of a new book about Donald Trump’s White House said on Friday that "100% of the people around" the president question his intelligence and fitness for office. "They all say he is like a child," Michael Wolff said on NBC. "What they mean by that is he has a need for immediate gratification. It’s all about him. This man does not read, does not listen. He’s like a pinball, just shooting off the sides. They say he’s a moron, an idiot." On Twitter on Thursday, Trump called the book "phony" and "full of lies, misrepresentations and sources that don’t exist". "It’s absolutely outrageous to make these types of allegations" about Trump’s mental fitness, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said on Fox News on Friday. They’re "desperate attempts" to attack Trump, she said. "What I think is really mentally unstable" is people not seeing the progress Trump is making. Wolff said he stands by everything in his book and has notes and recordings to back it up. ...
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