The famous American reporter Bob Woodward published a new book to expose the little-known inside story of the Trump administration by interviewing the president's senior aides and insiders.(Reuters)
The new book written by the famous American journalist Bob Woodward revealed that Trump's staff sometimes deliberately ignored his instructions in order to prevent the president from making dangerous and destructive actions, such as Trump's assassination of the Syrian president last year.Assad, but U.S. Defense Secretary Mattis ignored it.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A new book that claims to reveal little-known stories about the Trump administration in the United States is about to hit the market.The book revealed that Trump's staff sometimes deliberately ignored his instructions in order to prevent the president from making dangerous and destructive actions. For example, Trump wanted to assassinate Syrian President Assad last year, but US Defense Secretary MattisIgnore the instructions.
The famous American journalist Bob Woodward (Bob Woodward), who brought down the then US President Nixon because of his coverage of the Watergate incident, published a new book Fear: Trump in the White House (Fear: Trump in the White House).The 448-page book will be released on September 11.The Washington Post published excerpts from the book on Tuesday.
While journalists and former White House personnel have occasionally written about the internal turmoil in the White House since Trump took office last January, Woodward's new book, written through interviews with the president's top aides and insiders, reveals an even more disturbing revelation.The inside story of the administration.
The book describes that Trump is moody, often impulsively decides domestic and foreign policies, often ignores the opinions of his staff and officials, makes his subordinates at a loss, and the executive branch is facing a nervous breakdown.
The book revealed that in April this year, Syrian government forces used chemical weapons to attack civilians, and then Trump instructed Secretary of Defense Mattis to send someone to assassinate Syrian President Assad.Mattis replied at the time that it would be done immediately, but what ended up being a limited airstrike plan against Syria that did not endanger Assad's life.
The book also states that Mattis once told aides after a meeting on North Korea that Trump understood foreign policy at the level of a fifth or sixth grader.
According to the book, in order to prevent him from acting impulsively and endangering national security, Trump's cronies did not hesitate to take some extreme measures, such as secretly stealing documents from the president's desk.Once, Trump’s former chief economic adviser Cohen saw a draft document on Trump’s desk about the US’s withdrawal from the US-South Korea trade agreement. Cohen worried that if Trump signed this document, it might endanger a national security agreement.plan, so the file is stolen.Cohen told a colleague at the time: "He's never going to see that document, and I'm going to protect this country."
In order to prevent Trump from making impulsive trade protectionist moves, Cohen also planned to secretly steal a memorandum about withdrawing from the North American Free Trade Agreement on Trump's desk.
According to the description of White House officials, Trump made words to attack or mock his cronies from time to time. For example, he said in front of Secretary of Commerce Ross that the other party’s golden age had passed; Trump also publicly reprimanded Attorney General Sessions on many occasions.In private, he was even more vitriolic. He once criticized Sessions for being mentally retarded to former White House Secretary Porter.
White House officials complained behind their backs.Kelly, White House chief of staff, called Trump an idiot at a staff meeting and that trying to convince him of anything would be futile.He is no longer acting according to common sense.We're in Madtown and don't know why we're here, it's the worst job I've ever had.
Woodward's book unsurprisingly sparked dissatisfaction from the White House and Trump.White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said: "This book is full of stories fabricated by disgruntled former staffers to embarrass the President.
Trump tweeted that the claims made in the book by Mattis, Kelly and other officials are false and intended to deceive the public.In an interview with the conservative news site The Daily Call, Trump said it was just another bad book, and he also called Woodward's credibility questionable.
Mattis issued a statement on Tuesday saying he never said the words of contempt for the president mentioned in the book; Kelly also stated through the White House that he never called the president an idiot and called the book nonsense.
Trump has been exposed many times before by writing books.Former White House official Newman said last month in his new book Insanity: An Insider's Account of the Trump White House that Trump is mentally ill and a racist.
