Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell
Addison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellGOP strategist donates to Alabama Democrat McConnell names Senate GOP tax conferees Brent Budowsky: A plea to Alabama voters MORE (R-Ky.) reportedly told President Trump
Donald John TrumpHouse Democrat slams Donald Trump Jr. for ‘serious case of amnesia’ after testimony Skier Lindsey Vonn: I don’t want to represent Trump at Olympics Poll: 4 in 10 Republicans think senior Trump advisers had improper dealings with Russia MORE that the White House's reaction to former chief strategist Stephen Bannon, who criticized the president and his family in a new book, was "perfect."
“He told the president it was perfect and he wouldn’t change a word,” one person familiar with the discussion said, according to The Washington Post.
“Steve was rarely in a one-on-one meeting with me and only pretends to have had influence to fool a few people with no access and no clue, whom he helped write phony books,” Trump said.
Allies of Bannon also sought to distance themselves from the former Trump adviser as the extent of his break with the president became clear.
In the book, Bannon reportedly calls a 2016 meeting at Trump Tower between people including Donald Trump Jr. and a Russian lawyer "treasonous" and "unpatriotic."