This week, the latest in the genre of tell-all memoirs from former White House staffers

hit bookstores.

Team of Vipers, My 500 Extraordinary Days in the Trump White House, is by Cliff Sims,

who was either a key player as director of message strategy, or as Trump tweeted this week, quote,

nothing more than a gopher. The book, of course, is a landfill of trash and dirt on his former

colleagues. At one point, Sim says he was called to Kelly Ann Conway's office to write a statement

to the press defending her against charges of leaking.

Well, I'm sitting on her laptop, her Apple laptop, in her office, trying to type this up,

and she forgets that she's sitting at her desk typing on her iPhone, which is synced to her computer.

And I'm watching her talk to reporter after reporter and trash her colleagues and even not painting the president in a very favorable light.

And basically, I'm supposed to be writing a statement defending her against exactly what she's doing in that very moment.

Yielding also, of course, the requisite non-denial denials.

Kelly and Conway has already responded.

She gave a statement to Vanity Fair.

She wrote,

The real leakers get much more positive press than I do.

While it's rare, I prefer to knife people from the front so they can see it coming.

Even as Sims toured the morning shows, the late shows, and the everything else shows,

Trump campaign C.O. Michael Glastner was

threatening to sue him for violating a nondisclosure agreement. Sim says he remembers signing some

paperwork, but doesn't remember if there was an NDA in there. And anyway, as other lawyers have

since chimed in, there is established precedent that would make

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