‘I am not some angry black woman’

AMERICA’S First Lady, Michelle Obama, has shot down notions of infighting between her and the president’s top aides in a television interview yesterday, downplaying her role and influence in the White House.

Mrs Obama defended her role as one of dozens of advisers to president Barack Obama after the publication of The Obamas, a new book by Jodi Kantor that paints the first lady as a tough political player. “That’s been an image people have tried to paint of me, that I’m some angry black woman,” Mrs Obama told CBS.

She said she rarely steps into the West Wing, and never sparred with former chief of staff Rahm Emanuel or former press secretary Robert Gibbs, as claimed in the book, which she said she had not read. “I don’t have conversations with my husband’s staff,” she said.

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