Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay on Friday ripped Michael Wolff's blistering book on President Donald Trump — referencing an interview with the writer and telling Newsmax TV that "it was the worst thing I ever did."
"I had the stupidity and the arrogance to sit down and be interviewed by Michael Wolff back when I was majority leader," DeLay, the former Texas Republican who was in the post from 2003 to 2005, told host Miranda Khan on "America Talks Live" in an interview.
"It was the worst thing I ever did."
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In a September 2013 piece Wolff wrote for The Guardian, he said that he interviewed DeLay "not long before his troubles began," referencing his 2005 indictment on criminal charges of conspiracy to violate election laws three years earlier.
DeLay was convicted in January 2011 and sentenced to three years in prison — but a Texas appellate court threw out the decision in 2013.
"He's very cagey," DeLay told Khan of Wolff. "He gets your trusted friends to call you and introduce him to you and he gets — I even invited him into my home and fed him lunch.
"And then the article that came out," he continued. "It was quite a long article about me.
"It was all lies and twists.
"He is absolutely an ace at twisting the truth and making it look dirty and nasty," DeLay said. "He is really an activist, a leftist, a man with an agenda.
"That's the way people should take this book."
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