"Crazytown" - "Trump off the rails". from Bob Woodward's new book, 'Fear', out in a week or so
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Bob Woodward
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Robert Upshur Woodward (born March 26, 1943) is an American investigative journalist.
He has worked for The Washington Post since 1971 as a reporter and is now an associate editor there.
While a young reporter for The Washington Post in 1972, Woodward teamed up with Carl Bernstein; the two did much of the original news reporting on the Watergate scandal. These scandals led to numerous government investigations and the eventual resignation of President Richard Nixon. The work of Woodward and Bernstein was called "maybe the single greatest reporting effort of all time" by longtime journalism figure Gene Roberts.
Woodward continued to work for The Washington Post after his reporting on Watergate. He has since written 18 books on American politics, 12 of which topped best-seller lists.
Bob Woodward
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Robert Upshur Woodward (born March 26, 1943) is an American investigative journalist.
He has worked for The Washington Post since 1971 as a reporter and is now an associate editor there.
While a young reporter for The Washington Post in 1972, Woodward teamed up with Carl Bernstein; the two did much of the original news reporting on the Watergate scandal. These scandals led to numerous government investigations and the eventual resignation of President Richard Nixon. The work of Woodward and Bernstein was called "maybe the single greatest reporting effort of all time" by longtime journalism figure Gene Roberts.
Woodward continued to work for The Washington Post after his reporting on Watergate. He has since written 18 books on American politics, 12 of which topped best-seller lists.
It appears that Mr. Woodward has written his 19th book on American politics.
This one, 'Fear', may be his most shocking, even for those of us who are not Trump bootlickers.
A couple of quotes from the book have set Twitter 'on fire'.
"In a meeting, Chief of Staff John F. Kelly once said of Trump: "He’s an idiot. It’s pointless to try to convince him of anything. He’s gone off the rails. We’re in Crazytown. I don’t even know why any of us are here. This is the worst job I’ve ever had.".”
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The Independent
White House staff removed documents from Trump’s desk fearing national security risk, new Bob Woodward book claims
The Independent Clark Mindock, 19 hours ago
Donald Trump’s White House aides have removed paperwork from his desk and considered him a threat to national security, according to a new inflammatory book written by veteran journalist Bob Woodward.
The new book is the latest in a series of publications that have described a tumultuous and chaotic Trump White House, and is the first of its kind written by a industry respected journalist who played a pivotal role in the reporting that led to former President Richard Nixon’s impeachment.
In the book — Fear which won’t be released until next week — the White House is described as a a tumultuous place where top aides to the president had insulted the president behind his back, and considered his lack of curiosity and knowledge about governing and foreign policy to be a worry for the president’s national security team, according to a review by The Washington Post, which obtained an advance copy of the book.
One instance outlined in the book, a 19 January National Security meeting, involved Mr Trump disregarding the importance of long-standing US military presence on the Korean Peninsula — which allows the US to detect North Korean missile launches within seconds instead of the 15 minutes it would take to detect such a launch from Alaska.
Mr Trump questioned why the US was spending money in the area at all.
“We’re doing this in order to prevent World War III,” Defense Secretary Jim Mattis reportedly told him.
Mr Mattis, immediately after the meeting, then reportedly said “the president cited like — and had the understanding of — ‘a fifth- or sixth-grader’”.....
The Independent
White House staff removed documents from Trump’s desk fearing national security risk, new Bob Woodward book claims
The Independent Clark Mindock, 19 hours ago
Donald Trump’s White House aides have removed paperwork from his desk and considered him a threat to national security, according to a new inflammatory book written by veteran journalist Bob Woodward.
The new book is the latest in a series of publications that have described a tumultuous and chaotic Trump White House, and is the first of its kind written by a industry respected journalist who played a pivotal role in the reporting that led to former President Richard Nixon’s impeachment.
In the book — Fear which won’t be released until next week — the White House is described as a a tumultuous place where top aides to the president had insulted the president behind his back, and considered his lack of curiosity and knowledge about governing and foreign policy to be a worry for the president’s national security team, according to a review by The Washington Post, which obtained an advance copy of the book.
One instance outlined in the book, a 19 January National Security meeting, involved Mr Trump disregarding the importance of long-standing US military presence on the Korean Peninsula — which allows the US to detect North Korean missile launches within seconds instead of the 15 minutes it would take to detect such a launch from Alaska.
Mr Trump questioned why the US was spending money in the area at all.
“We’re doing this in order to prevent World War III,” Defense Secretary Jim Mattis reportedly told him.
Mr Mattis, immediately after the meeting, then reportedly said “the president cited like — and had the understanding of — ‘a fifth- or sixth-grader’”.....