WASHINGTON: The
White House
on Monday said there was "no way back" for
Steve Bannon
, a day after the former chief strategist apologised for his comments on US President
Donald Trump and the First Family.
"I don't believe there's any way back for Mr Bannon at this point. It is very obvious that Mr Bannon worked with Mr Wolff in this particular book," White House deputy press secretary Hogan Gidley told reporters aboard Air Force One.
He was responding to a question on the statement by Bannon a day earlier in which he had apologised for his critical remarks in the book 'Fire and Fury: Inside the
Trump
White House' by
Michael Wolff
.
In a statement, Trump said Bannon has nothing to do with his presidency and has "lost his mind".
"The President has been very clear on his thoughts; issued a four-paragraph statement about Mr Bannon. Zero ambiguity in those statements. It was obvious that the book was false and fake," Gidley said.
"The President pointed to that and also pointed that Mr Bannon is not in it for the country but instead in it for himself. And those statements still stand," he said.
In the book, Bannon described Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner's meeting with a Russian lawyer as "treasonous" and "unpatriotic".
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