Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell did not brush off President Donald Trump last year to get a haircut, his aide said Saturday in a tweet.
“I can confirm: this never happened,” said McConnell’s deputy chief of staff Don Stewart.
Michael Wolff in his bombshell book on the president, “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House,” wrote that Trump’s staff tried to organize a meeting with McConnell to ease tensions between the two but were told it would not be possible because the GOP leader was getting a haircut.
“No one ‘blew him off’ and in fact, the meeting occurred as soon as members returned to Washington after Labor Day,” Stewart said in an email to Vox, adding that no staffer “ever turned down the meeting citing a haircut. That never happened. The author didn’t bother to check either of those points and ended up getting both wrong in his book (as he did with so many others).”
McConnell and Trump reportedly stopped speaking for weeks last summer after a phone call following a sanctions bill that passed Congress ended in a screaming match between the two.
“After all, McConnell and the president were barely on speaking terms. From his August “working holiday” in Bedminster, the president’s staff had tried to organize a makeup meeting with McConnell, but McConnell’s staff had sent back word that it wouldn’t be possible because the Senate leader would be getting a haircut,” writes Wolff.
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