Trump lashes out at ‘know-it-all’ adviser

DONALD TRUMP has attacked his British-born former top Russia adviser, calling her a “know-it-all” with a “nice accent”.

Fiona Hill, a coal miner’s daughter from Co Durham, recently published a book and did interviews about her time in the White House. She concluded that Mr Trump’s “whole focus was on himself ”, he had been a “massive counterintelligence risk” and that it was “a mistake” to have him as the president.

She also suggested that Vladimir Putin had tried to distract Mr Trump at a meeting by introducing him to an attractive female translator.

Mr Trump hit back yesterday, saying: “Fiona Hill was a Deep State stiff with a nice accent... Fiona Hill was terrible at her job.”

He claimed the first time he remembered hearing Ms Hill’s name was during his first impeachment proceedings, during which she was a witness. Ms Hill had “worked hard to say anything bad”, he said, in a “total con job”.

He confirmed Ms Hill had been in meetings with him. “She may have been in the Oval [Office] and conference rooms with me, but this was not anybody I recognised,” he said. “Then she acted like she was a know-it-all, but in reality, she had no influence whatsoever.”

Mr Trump said Ms Hill worked closely with John Bolton, his former national security adviser, who he called “crazed”. “Both of them didn’t say much and what they did say wasn’t listened to,” he said.

Ms Hill, 56, was the senior director for Europe and Russia on the National Security Council from 2017 to 2019. She has said she was “serving the country” by staying in Mr Trump’s White House.

She said she believed Mr Trump “clearly intends to run” again in 2024 and that the US risked going down an “autocratic path that we’ve seen in other countries”.