![]() But even by those standards, some of the ways Trump describes Attorney General Jeff Sessions – a frequent target of the President’s animus – is breathtaking. It’s no secret by now that Trump isn’t averse to publicly attacking people who work for him. “I stole it off his desk,” Cohn told an associate, according to Woodward. Whoa boy.Ĭhief economic adviser Gary Cohn sees a draft of a proposal that would pull the United States out of a trade deal with South Korea, and potentially jeopardize national security ties between the two countries. ![]() “You think I was struggling?” Trump asked. But Trump is surprised that Dowd thinks the interview went poorly. Dowd sees the “full nightmare” of Trump under oath. In one episode recounted by Woodward, then-Trump lead lawyer John Dowd runs Trump through a simulation of what it might be like to sit for an interview with special counsel Robert Mueller in his ongoing investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. Trump is not only totally fixated on the special counsel probe, but is clueless about how much damage he could do to himself by agreeing to an interview. But even in these passages, virtually every suspicion (of those paying attention) about the problems with Trump and the utter dysfunction of his White House is confirmed. Woodward’s book, which comes in at just under 500 pages, is due out next Tuesday. ![]() Bob Woodward: Trump's aides stole his papers 'to protect the country' ![]()
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