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Bob Woodward’s New Book Reveals a ‘Nervous Breakdown’ of Trump’s Presidency
The Washington Post ^ | Tuesday, September 4, 2018 | Philip Rucker and Robert Costa

Posted on 09/04/2018 8:52:29 AM PDT by kristinn

John Dowd was convinced that President Trump would commit perjury if he talked to special counsel Robert S. Mueller III. So, on Jan. 27, the president’s then-personal attorney staged a practice session to try to make his point.

In the White House residence, Dowd peppered Trump with questions about the Russia investigation, provoking stumbles, contradictions and lies until the president eventually lost his cool.

“This thing’s a goddamn hoax,” Trump erupted at the start of a 30-minute rant that finished with him saying, “I don’t really want to testify.”

The dramatic and previously untold scene is recounted in “Fear,” a forthcoming book by Bob Woodward that paints a harrowing portrait of the Trump presidency, based on in-depth interviews with administration officials and other principals.

Woodward writes that his book is drawn from hundreds of hours of interviews with firsthand participants and witnesses that were conducted on “deep background,” meaning the information could be used but he would not reveal who provided it. His account is also drawn from meeting notes, personal diaries and government documents.

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The book also details Trump’s impatience with the war in Afghanistan, which had become America’s longest conflict. At a July 2017 National Security Council meeting, Trump dressed down his generals and other advisers for 25 minutes, complaining that the United States was losing, according to Woodward.

“The soldiers on the ground could run things much better than you,” Trump told them. “They could do a much better job. I don’t know what the hell we’re doing.” He went on to ask, “How many more deaths? How many more lost limbs? How much longer are we going to be there?”

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To: JohnnyP

thanks, dyslexia to the rescue !


61 posted on 09/04/2018 1:47:15 PM PDT by Reverend Wright (I am a Putin bot. And I approve this message.)
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To: kristinn

Lies and distortions.


62 posted on 09/04/2018 3:08:20 PM PDT by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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To: kristinn

The nervous breakdown are liberals, us DEPLORABLES aren’t having nervous breakdowns. We are to busy making America Great Again that we can’t have them.


63 posted on 09/04/2018 3:43:02 PM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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To: nikos1121

Bingo.
I am sure that the conversations in the White House are going are going to be nothing like they had been. There will be new levels of common sense like why give billions of dollars to Iran so they can kill every Jew on Earth? Which was the question that Obama never asked.

Throw in a ton of negative spin and make it look out of control, but it is not.


64 posted on 09/04/2018 3:53:13 PM PDT by Titus-Maximus (The trouble with socialism is that you soon run out of other people's zoo animals to eat.)
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To: All

The reviews are in:

“Excellent,” said Montgomery Soros.

“This is 100% true,” writes Sen. Joe Pinnochio.

“I never get tired of reading these stories every few months,” said Gord Gullible, advisor to the National Council of Idiots.


65 posted on 09/04/2018 8:02:07 PM PDT by Peter ODonnell (In the alternate universe, John McCain was a one-term president and Sarah Palin a two-term president)
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