White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said Breitbart News should “consider” parting ways with Steve Bannon, its executive chairman, in the wake of derogatory comments he made about President Trump and his family in a tell-all book about the White House.
Sanders was asked whether she believes Bannon should be fired from the news organization, given her previous calls for ESPN to terminate host Jemele Hill after she called the president a white supremacist on Twitter.
“I certainly think that it’s something they should look at and consider,” Sanders told reporters of Bannon during Thursday’s White House press briefing.
Bannon’s negative comments about the president and the Trump family were made public Wednesday in an excerpt of the book “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House” published by New York Magazine.
The president fired back at Bannon for the comments in a scathing statement, saying, “When he was fired, he not only lost his job, he lost his mind.”
Sanders characterized the book from author Michael Wolff on Wednesday as “trashy tabloid fiction,” and continued to criticize the tell-all Thursday.
Sanders again called the book “trash” from an author “that no one had ever heard of until today.”
