The White House has demanded that Politico retract and apologize for a trio of articles it wrote about President Donald Trump and Chief of Staff Susie Wiles , in the administration’s latest clash with the press.

In a letter from Counsel to the President William Scharf to Politico ’s Global Editor-in-Chief Jonathan Greenberger dated Monday, the outlet is accused of publishing “a series of demonstrably false and defamatory articles in an apparent effort to manufacture a narrative of dysfunction and infighting in the White House” while ignoring denials from senior officials and Trump himself.

“Your publication was told the truth and presented with corroborating evidence, and yet chose to publish fanciful fictions regardless,” Scharf alleged. “I...…