WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump asserted that he is a “very stable genius” in a series of tweets early Saturday responding to concerns expressed in Michael Wolff’s red-hot new book “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House” that he has a diminished mental capacity.
Trump has been attacking the author and the book for days, but early on Saturday sent out a series of Twitter messages refuting the idea that he is unfit for office. The book portrays the President as easily distracted, unable to comprehend policy, and uninterested in reading.
“Now that Russian collusion, after one year of intense study, has proven to be a total hoax on the American public, the Democrats and their lapdogs, the Fake News Mainstream Media, are taking out the old Ronald Reagan playbook and screaming mental stability and intelligence…..” Trump wrote.
He then went on to say suggest that Hillary Clinton, who continues to be a target for him more than a year after he defeated her in the 2016 election, also questioned his mental state.
Trump is at Camp David for a summit with Republican leaders.
He also tweeted that Brian Ross, the ABC News investigative journalist, “should have been fired!” Ross returned to ABC News after his suspension for making a major error in a story about Michael Flynn, Trump’s former national security adviser who is now cooperating with Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation.