Bannon had "lost his mind" and Charles Harder, a lawyer for Trump, sent a cease-and-desist letter to Bannon, allegedly for violating a non-disclosure agreement. On January 4, Harder sought to stop the release of the book, sending a cease-and-desist letter to the author and publisher with the threat of a lawsuit for libel. His lawyers also said that the book "appears to cite no sources for many of its most damaging statements about Mr. Trump." Henry Holt's attorney, Elizabeth McNamara, later responded to Harder's allegations with an assurance that no apology or retraction would be forthcoming. McNamara also noted that Harder's complaint cited no specific errors in Wolff's text. Some legal experts and historians said that Trump's threats of imminent legal action against the author and publisher were unprecedented for a sitting president attempting to silence criticism. On January 5, the day of the book's publication, Trump tweeted: In response, Wolff stated in an interview later that day: According to Wolff, Trump himself encouraged Wolff to write a "fly-on-the-wall account of Trump's first hundred days." Wolff has also stated that he has "dozens of hours" of taped interviews which back up the claims made in the book. On January 6, Trump continued to attack the book, calling it "a complete work of fiction" and "a disgrace", and labeling Wolff a "fraud." Also that day, in a move interpreted as a response to the book's raising questions about Trump's competence for office, Trump tweeted that his "two greatest assets have been mental stability and being, like, really smart." From his successes in business, television, and politics, Trump concluded that he was in fact "a very stable genius." On January 7, Bannon issued a statement calling Trump Jr. a "patriot and a good man," saying that his comments were directed at Paul Manafort, not Trump Jr. The next day, on MSNBC's Morning Joe, Wolff denied that Bannon had been talking about Manafort. Also on January 7, White House senior policy adviser Stephen Miller, speaking on CNN's State of the Union, said: "The book is best understood as a work of very poorly written fiction, and I also will say that the author is a garbage author of a garbage book." In a January 8 interview with Dana Loesch, Vice President Mike Pence described Fire and Fury as a "book of fiction." He stated that he had not read it, and would not