Cliff Sims was a member of Trump's campaign team and then worked in the White House (WH) for over a year. He lasted a lot longer than many of the other original Trump campaign workers, in part because he was apparently better at staying out of the office rivalries that have decimated and distracted President Trump's staff during his first term in office. Ultimately, according to Sims, he was done-in by a nefarious John F. Kelly, who not only forced Sims to resign, but mendaciously torpedoed Sims’ attempt to accept a job offered by Secretary of State Pompeo to work on his staff.
This book appears to be Sims' attempt at publicly exposing those he feels to have been the "bad actors" on the WH staff, i.e. the staff members who acted the most dishonestly, disingenuously, treacherously, and ineptly during Sim's tenure with the WH team. So, even though Simms claims to be trying to turn the other cheek as a Christian, this book seems to me to be an attempt at revenge. Nevertheless, I feel that Sims' feelings and observations about his experiences in the WH are worth telling, and constitutes an important historical record. If what he claims is true, that Woodward's and Wolff's books are mainly full of fabricated quotes and incidents, then Sims' book is likely the best book so far about the inner workings of President Trump's first year-and-a-half in office.
Apparently, the media reports that some members of President Trump’s staff tried to derail his political agenda were often true. Sims doesn’t pull any punches in criticizing, with accompanying fascinating anecdotes, the staffers who he feels shouldn’t have ever been in the WH. These include:
Rob Porter- Lied about the spousal abuse allegations
Reince Priebus- Disloyal and incompetent; represented Republican National Committee (RNC) establishment
Madeleine Westerhout- Acted as a spy for certain staff cliques, including RNC loyalists
Katie Walsh- RNC establishment loyalist
Sean Spicer- Incompetent liar
Kellyanne Conway- Mercenary opportunist and huge leaker
Omarosa- Unhinged drama queen
Paula White- Evangelical charlatan in charge of Trumps Christian advisory board
Jim Acosta- Not a staffer, but a CNN grandstander who appeared to be using his WH press pool job for personal aggrandizement rather than in an honest effort to report the news
Mike Dubke- Incompetent Preibus ally
Michael Short- RNC stooge
Raj Shah- RNC groupie and Preibus ally
Lindsay Walters- RNC loyalist
John F. Kelly- The biggest villain in Sims’ book; described as an insecure, vindictive, dishonest, dishonorable, petty, paranoid, martinet who not only fired people on fabricated charges, but then tried to destroy their careers and reputations
Mercedes Schlapp- Self-promoting charlatan and Kelly ally
Joe Hagin, Zach Fuentes, Jordan Karem, Uttam Dhillon- Kelly’s evil minions
Interestingly, as far as I know, the only staffers on the list above still working at the WH are Westerhout and Schlapp.
Sims praises other staffers, cabinet members, and Trump loyalists, saying, again with copious anecdotes, that their efforts and motivations were more competent and sincere, including: Hope Hicks, Sarah Sanders, Johnny McEntee, Keith Schiller, Ben Carson, Steven Mnuchin, Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump, Marc Short, Rick Dearborn, Dan Scavino, Stephen Miller, Andy Hemming, Jeff Sessions, Peter Navarro, the Secret Service, Anthony Scaramucci, Jason Miller, Steven Cheung, Andy Surabian, Kaelan Dorr, Stephanie Grisham, Steve Bannon (kind-of), Tony Sayegh, Josh Raffel, Justin Clark, Larry Kudlow, Brett O’Donnell, Mary Elizabeth Taylor, Matt Lloyd, and Andrew Giulianai.
One of Sims’ major complaints is that President Trump is most at fault for the drama and conflict in his WH staff. According to Sims, Trump took mainly a hands-off approach to selecting and managing the staff, and that’s why antagonists like Kelly were allowed to sow so much disharmony and disorder in the WH.
Ultimately, however, Sims’ book is about the majesty and magic of Trump’s election win and his attempts to fulfill ALL his campaign promises. As an inside look into how President Trump accomplished so many of his promises even with a staff in such disarray, this book is an invaluable record.
By the way, Mr. Sims, if you’re reading this, what you should have done when you walked out of Uttam Dhillon’s office after he informed you that you never had a security clearance is gone straight to whichever inspector general’s (IG) office has jurisdiction over the White House staff. Your IG complaint likely would have set-off a chain reaction that would have gotten Kelly and his corrupt compatriots ejected from the White House sooner than they eventually were.
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Excellent inside look @ key players in the tRump White House and the chaos that ensues, fascinating!
Author Cliff Sims masterfully delivers an engaging synopsis of the ongoing chaos within the tRump White House. His inside perspective is priceless and aligns with the myriad stories of disruption and outright disfunction constantly emanating from 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.Our pathological liar of a President is already vociferously denouncing the book, saying on Twitter today "A low level staffer that I hardly knew named Cliff Sims wrote yet another boring book based on made up stories and fiction. He pretended to be an insider when in fact he was nothing more than a gofer. He signed a non-disclosure agreement. He is a mess!"So clearly Cliff Sims has touched a deep nerve and Chump doesn't want anyone reading this book. Honestly, reading it will help you stay sane in the face of the constant insanity this administration promulgates. Enjoy Amazonians!
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Probably the most balanced view of Trump you will read
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