Donald Trump's attorney Charles Harder has sent a letter demanding former adviser Steve Bannon "cease and desist" from speaking to author Michael Wolff over his new book on the President's administration.
The threat of legal action was intended to prevent Bannon disclosing confidential information harmful to the Trump White House.
The revelation emerges after President Trump's scathing attack on Bannon on Wednesday in response to Wolff's new book, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, which portrays Trump as an undisciplined man-child who didn't actually want to win the White House and quotes Bannon as calling his son's contact with a Russian lawyer “treasonous.”
Hitting back via a formal White House statement rather than a more-typical Twitter volley, Trump insisted Bannon had little to do with his victorious campaign and “has nothing to do with me or my Presidency.”
“When he was fired, he not only lost his job, he lost his mind,” Trump said.
It was a blistering attack against the man who helped deliver the presidency to Trump. It was spurred by an unflattering new book by writer Michael Wolff that paints Trump as a leader who doesn't understand the weight of the presidency and spends his evenings eating cheeseburgers in bed, watching television and talking on the phone to old friends.
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