Cliff Sims Reacts To Trump Insult In Real Time: ‘Nice. There It Is’

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Cliff Sims, author of White House exposé “Team of Vipers,” reacted on air to President Donald Trump’s predictable tweet insulting him and demeaning him as a “low level staffer.”

“Nice,” Sims said, smiling as CNN’s Alisyn Camerota read him the tweet. “There it is.”

“Look, I knew that was a possibility when I wrote the book,” he continued. “I said my identity isn’t wrapped up in being a Trump staffer. My identity is wrapped up in who I am in my faith. Those are things that matter to me. I know who Jesus says I am. Don’t matter to me what Donald Trump or anyone else says.”

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  1. I don’t think Cliff wants to know what Jesus thinks of lowlifes who work for Satan’s chosen Orange Menace.

  2. About those Trump administration NDAs for White House staffers:

    These are definitely illegal, and therefore utterly unenforceable. Period.

  3. So this Jesus-believer went to work for the Trump administration. Huh.

  4. Cliff Sims looks like the weasel I imagined him to be…

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