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 presidents 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 things a goddamn hoax, Trump erupted at the start of a 30-minute rant that finished with him saying, I dont 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.
SNIP
The book also details Trumps impatience with the war in Afghanistan, which had become Americas 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 dont know what the hell were doing. He went on to ask, How many more deaths? How many more lost limbs? How much longer are we going to be there?
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
thanks, dyslexia to the rescue !
Lies and distortions.
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.
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.
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.
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