Among the many interesting nuggets found in Michael Wolff’s new book, ‘Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House,’ is a suggestion by a longtime Trump aide that the president wasn’t fully knowledgeable of the U.S. Constitution.
In the book, Wolff explained that ‘everybody in [Trump’s] rich-guy social circle knew about his wide-ranging ignorance,’ and then went on to quote aide Sam Nunberg, who the author says was sent to brief then candidate Trump on the Constitution.
‘I got as far as the Fourth Amendment,’ Nunberg recalled, ‘before his finger is pulling down on his lip and his eyes are rolling back in his head.’
President Trump’s former campaign aide Sam Nunberg is quoted in ‘Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House’ talking about the president’s short attention span as he tried to teach him about the Constitution for the first GOP primary debate
Later, in an interview with CNN, Sam Nunberg verified that President Trump (pictured) had only made it to the Fourth Amendment during their lesson, but argued that the now president ‘knows the Constitution’
Since the initial release of excerpts of the book and the tome itself, which was rushed onto bookshelves Friday after the president’s personal lawyer sent a cease and desist to the author, Nunberg appeared on CNN to explain the context of his quote.
Michael Wolff’s new book contains a quote suggesting President Trump doesn’t know the U.S. Constitution
Nunberg noted that he was prepping Trump for the first primary presidential debate, which was held in August of 2015.
‘The president, before the first debate, was actually going to one of his properties in Europe,’ Nunberg explained. ‘And we were trying to get a lot of issues in before he left so he couldn’t get these gotcha questions.’
Nunberg recalled candidate Rudy Giuliani, who ran for president in the 2008 cycle, being briefly tripped up when asked to name the difference between a Sunni and Shia Muslim during a Republican primary debate.
Trump’s aide didn’t want the same thing to happen to Trump.
‘It wasn’t to teach him the Constitution, he know the Constitution,’ Nunberg protested.
He did, however, verify Wolff’s account of Trump not being very interested in the lesson.
‘We only got to the Fourth Amendment there,’ Nunberg said. ‘And at that time, remember, besides running for president he was running his business.’
Nunberg said he wasn’t criticizing Wolff, adding, ‘I like Michael.’
But characterized Trump as a very busy man.
‘He had a ton of things to do,’ Nunberg said.