Former US Vice President Mike Pence reportedly "lost it" and "snarled" at former President Donald Trump after getting a crumpled-up newspaper article thrown at him, a new book claims.
Trump launched the paper at Pence in 2018 after reading a story describing how his campaign aide Corey Lewandowski was heading to work for the then-Vice President, something that he believed "made him look weak".
Trump administration officials described the 2018 incident to The Wall Street Journal's Michael Bender as part of his upcoming book Frankly, We Did Win This Election: The Inside Story of How Trump Lost.
Trump reportedly told Pence he was "so disloyal" as he threw the newspaper.
"Trump was holding a newspaper article about the hiring and said it made him look weak, like his team was abandoning him as he was probed for his campaign's role in Russian election meddling. He crumpled the article and threw it at his vice president," the book says.
The former Vice President told Trump that his senior advisor and son-in-law Jared Kushner had asked him to hire Lewandowski and he had lunch with Trump to talk about the move.
Pence then threw the scrunched newspaper article back at Trump and "pointed a finger a few inches from his chest".
"'We walked you through every detail of this,' Mr. Pence snarled. 'We did this for you - as a favor. And this is how you respond? You need to get your facts straight.'"
Trump denies the fight with Pence ever happened.
"The story written by third-rate reporter Michael Bender, that Mike Pence and I had a big fight over Corey Lewandowski, is totally false. No such fight ever happened, it is fiction as are so many other stories written in the vast number of books coming out about me," he said.
"They write whatever they want to write anyway without sources, fact-checking, or asking whether or not an event is true or false. Frankly, so many stories are made-up, or pure fiction."
