Download PDF Team of Vipers My 500 Extraordinary Days in the Trump White House Audible Audio Edition Cliff Sims Daniel Thomas May Cliff Sims introduction Macmillan Audio Books

Product details Audible Audiobook Listening Length 14 hours and 19 minutes Program Type Audiobook Version Unabridged Publisher Macmillan Audio Audible.com Release Date January 29, 2019 Whispersync for Voice Ready Language English, English ASIN B07KPNRVWG

Team of Vipers My 500 Extraordinary Days in the Trump White House Audible Audio Edition Cliff Sims Daniel Thomas May Cliff Sims introduction Macmillan Audio Books Reviews

• This is a saccharine if well-written hagiography of Trump. Be forewarned before purchasing. While informative about how the West Wing works under Trump, I'd still like my money back.
  The book would resonate best with MAGA devotees and Trumpist conservatives. If that's who you are, you will like the book.
  The author attempts to justify things like the egregious firing of James Comey, and expresses doubt that the Russia interfered with US elections.
  Caveat emptor.
• I bought and read the edition of the book. It should be noted as a "Verified Purchase"
  
  Cliff Sims is a 20-something wonderkind from Alabama, where he was the CEO of a media company. In 2016, he had broken the story - complete with audio tapes - of the affair the state's governor, Robert Bentley had been having with his (much younger) assistant, Rebekah Mason. Bentley ultimately resigned/was pushed out of office. About the same time, Sims had had a radio interview with then-candidate Donald Trump that had gone well. A little later, he evinced interest in working for the Trump-for-President campaign, and an old friend, Senator Jeff Sessions, got him a job in the Trump campaign communications department. Sims moved to New York, where he worked for the campaign and then with the White House. This book, "Team of Vipers My 500 Extraordinary Days in the Trump White House", is a story of his work with both the campaign and his time at the White House.
  
  I haven't read many of the books which have come out since Donald Trump was inaugurated. I did buy the Woodward book last fall, but have not been interested enough - after all, we are living it - to buy anything more, til I saw this book. It's the story about Cliff Sims, the son and grandson of Alabama preachers, who build up a quasi-media empire in Alabama and ran with the big dogs of state politics. A conservative, who believed in the Republican mantras, Sims is a sophisticated young man who seemed to fit in to the Trump campaign mojo and moved to the White House, looking for more. He worked closely with the White House Communications department and left after about 18 months of service. How he was able to rationalise the work he was doing for the man who he was doing it for, while maintaining his basic morality, is the subtext to his book. The main text was, of course, the weirdness and bizarre actions of the Trump White House.
  
  Cliff Sims is a good writer. He knows how to tell his story as he lived it, in plain terms. Sims doesn't stint on the details about the president and his staff, yet I was left with the feeling that Sims actually liked Donald Trump. And maybe even understood him a little. This is a good book.
• Page 59. Yes, page 59 is, to my mind, a key to proving just how ludicrous is the current President’s Administration.
  
  On page 59, Sims explains the full story regarding the crowd size for Trump’s inaugural. We all knew it was a lie, but Sean Spicer and company swore to us what they knew was a falsehood.
  
  Sims has provided a wealth of gossipy information that is likely to weaken the Trump Administration more than that done by Bob Woodward, Michael Wolff, or Michael Lewis. Why? Because Trump’s followers know that Sims is one of them. He has nothing but admiration and adoration for Donald Trump.
  
  BOTTOM LINE
  
  If you’re looking for scandal against Pres. Trump, this book will not please you. If you’re looking for dirt on some key players in the Trump Administration, though, you’re in for a fun ride. Oh, and if you are a member of Mueller’s team, looking for insight into drawing lines between the dots regarding key points you have dug up, “Team of Vipers” by Cliff Sims just might help you drive one more nail in the coffin. But remember to also get the Audible Edition — and enjoy your tour!
  
  Four stars out of five.
• There is nothing in here that is really critical of Trump. The author is just a hard-core evangelical Christian and is one of these guys who is going to be on the Trump train forever. He says a lot of ridiculous things about Trump. For instance, that no matter what kind of chaos is going on around him, Trump is normally calm and unflappable. How can this be true when he is always tweeting out hysterical messages at 2 o’clock in the morning? Or he will say that Trump has this amazing ability to flawlessly ad-lib. When has Trump ever been flawless? What you’re talking about his grammar, spelling or just coherence of ideas. Basically the author lobs mild criticisms at fellow staffers but makes sure that Trump is not defamed in any way.
• Rarely has a book caused me to question the integrity of the author like this one did. A self-described Christian and Trump devotee, he worked for the president for a year and a half. He has encyclopedic recall of events and incidents that portray him in a favorable light while documenting an amoral, chaotic, paranoid, and back-biting administration. There is not one honorable or sympathetic character, and that especially includes the author, who is a rank hypocrite. I was interested in reading this as a political junkie, and was looking for behind-the-scenes insight into the efforts to pass health care legislation. Those were described somewhat and make evident what a fraud that was no one in the Trump administration cared about providing health care to millions, they just wanted a political “win” nd I already knew that. I seriously regret that this odious toad of an “author” made even a penny from me.