It’s pointless to try to convince him of anything. For example - Woodward says that White House Chief of Staff called Trump “unhinged” and said the president was “an idiot.” Perhaps unsurprisingly, many of the Trump aides quoted in “Fear” have come forward to deny that they ever said the things attributed to them in the book. Trump bashes Woodward book, asks why "Washington politicians don’t change libel laws" The White House Says ‘Fear’ Is Just a Collection of ‘Fabricated Stories’ It was a nervous breakdown of the executive power of the most powerful country in the world.” Members of his staff had joined to purposefully block some of what they believed were the president’s most dangerous impulses. “The reality was that the United States in 2017 was tethered to the words and actions of an emotionally overwrought, mercurial and unpredictable leader. Cohn and Jim Mattis reportedly fretted about Trump’s total lack of interest in international diplomacy and in the value of military and economic partnerships with other countries.īut more broadly, what emerges in Woodward’s book is the sense of constant anxiety among White House staffers and the feeling that the president had to be treated with kid globes. Woodward paints of picture of Trump as a slightly bratty, out-of-touch leader, whose aides distrust him and who is a victim of his own mood swings. Read the transcript of their call: /4Z1619R7kM President Trump called Bob Woodward on August 14, alarmed that the veteran journalist was publishing a new book on him.
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