The White House on Saturday denied reports of rifts developing between aides to President Trump and Vice President Mike Pence Michael (Mike) Richard PenceEx-Pence aide: Trump spent 45 minutes of task force meeting 'going off on Tucker Carlson' instead of talking coronavirus Trump asked Chamber of Commerce to reconsider Democratic endorsements: report Controversial CDC guidelines were written by HHS officials, not scientists: report MORE, calling the reports "simply not true."

On Friday, McClatchy cited a half-dozen Republicans who spoke of growing tensions between the two staffs, and who said the two groups are "walled off" in the White House.

"There is clearly tension between the two staffs," a former Trump adviser told McClatchy. "There's so much Internet chatter. That's going to fuel the animosity."

“It doesn’t cause them any discomfort when the president gets bad news,” another former campaign official said.

But on Saturday, the White House pushed back, saying the claims were false.

"It's just simply not true," Pence's press secretary Marc Lotter told the Washington Examiner.

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Rumors about the relationship between Pence and Trump have been swirling since it was reported in May that Pence was left in the dark about alleged wrongdoings by former national security adviser Michael Flynn.

"There's a pattern as it relates to the Flynn situation — vis-a-vis Pence — that he was never, either intentionally or unintentionally, made aware of the facts," an administration source told NBC at the time.

But McClatchy reports that despite the alleged feud between their staffs, the two men remain close allies.

“I think the relationship at the top is solid,” a campaign aide said.