Bob Woodward's New Book "Fear"

[WhatsHisNuts]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...f63ab8b1370_story.html?utm_term=.0d1a0b90fd08

His reporting once helped bring down the Nixon administration, should be good :0003

 

[WhatsHisNuts]

A near-constant subject of withering presidential attacks was Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Trump told Porter that Sessions was a ?traitor? for recusing himself from overseeing the Russia investigation, Woodward writes. Mocking Sessions?s accent, Trump added: ?This guy is mentally retarded. He?s this dumb Southerner. . . . He couldn?t even be a one-person country lawyer down in Alabama.?
At a dinner with Mattis and Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr., the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, among others, Trump lashed out at a vocal critic, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.). He painted the former Navy pilot as cowardly, falsely suggesting he took an early release from a prisoner-of-war camp in Vietnam because of his father?s military rank and left others behind.
Mattis swiftly corrected his boss: ?No, Mr. President, I think you?ve got it reversed.? The defense secretary explained that McCain, who died Aug. 25, had in fact turned down early release and was brutally tortured during his five years at the ?Hanoi Hilton.?
?Oh, okay,? Trump replied, according to Woodward?s account.

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[WhatsHisNuts]

Cohn, a Wall Street veteran, tried to tamp down Trump?s strident nationalism regarding trade. According to Woodward, Cohn ?stole a letter off Trump?s desk? that the president was intending to sign to formally withdraw the United States from a trade agreement with South Korea. Cohn later told an associate that he removed the letter to protect national security and that Trump did not notice that it was missing.
Cohn made a similar play to prevent Trump from pulling the United States out of the North American Free Trade Agreement, something the president has long threatened to do. In spring 2017, Trump was eager to withdraw from NAFTA and told Porter: ?Why aren?t we getting this done? Do your job. It?s tap, tap, tap. You?re just tapping me along. I want to do this.?
Under orders from the president, Porter drafted a notification letter withdrawing from NAFTA. But he and other advisers worried that it could trigger an economic and foreign relations crisis. So Porter consulted Cohn, who told him, according to Woodward: ?I can stop this. I?ll just take the paper off his desk.?
Despite repeated threats by Trump, the United States has remained in both pacts. The administration continues to negotiate new terms with South Korea as well as with its NAFTA partners, Canada and Mexico.
Cohn came to regard the president as ?a professional liar? and threatened to resign in August 2017 over Trump?s handling of a deadly white-supremacist rally in Charlottesville. Cohn, who is Jewish, was especially shaken when one of his daughters found a swastika on her college dorm room.
Trump was sharply criticized for initially saying that ?both sides? were to blame. At the urging of advisers, he then condemned white supremacists and neo-Nazis but almost immediately told aides, ?That was the biggest fucking mistake I?ve made? and the ?worst speech I?ve ever given,? according to Woodward?s account.
When Cohn met with Trump to deliver his resignation letter after Charlottesville, the president told him, ?This is treason,? and persuaded his economic adviser to stay on. Kelly then confided to Cohn that he shared Cohn?s horror at Trump?s handling of the tragedy ? and shared Cohn?s fury with Trump.
?I would have taken that resignation letter and shoved it up his ass six different times,? Kelly told Cohn, according to Woodward. Kelly himself has threatened to quit several times but has not done so.

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[Duff Miver]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...f63ab8b1370_story.html?utm_term=.0d1a0b90fd08

His reporting once helped bring down the Nixon administration, should be good :0003

And Bob Woodward gets another sleaze-bag scalp. :142smilie

 

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[Skulnik]

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Gary Cohn Takes On Bob Woodward


‎9‎/‎11‎/‎2018‎ ‎9‎:‎05‎:‎17‎ ‎PM? by Helicondelta? 9 replies
Axios ^ | September 11

What he's saying: "This book does not accurately portray my experience at the White House," Cohn told Axios in a statement. "I am proud of my service in the Trump Administration, and I continue to support the President and his economic agenda." Cohn, the former second in command at Goldman Sachs, makes frequent appearances in Woodward's inside account of the Trump White House, which was officially published Tuesday after a week of leaks and hype.

 

[Old School]

This book does not accurately portray my experience at the White House​

 

[Skulnik]

Bob Woodward Has A Trail Of Accuracy Issues That Nobody Is Talking About

9:28 PM 09/10/2018
Peter Hasson | Reporter

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?Bob Woodward?s new book ?Fear? presents a scathing depiction of President Donald Trump?s administration.
?Woodward has a muddy history with a trail of allegations that he embellished the truth or otherwise misled his readers.
?Media coverage of Woodward?s book has been largely positive and ignores Woodward?s controversial record.

Longtime journalist Bob Woodward?s best-selling new book, ?Fear,? presents a scathing depiction of President Donald Trump and his ability to perform his duties as commander-in-chief.

While senior Trump officials including Secretary of Defense James Mattis have denied quotations attributed to them in the book, media coverage of ?Fear? has been largely positive, emphasizing the 75-year-old Woodward?s experience and trustworthiness.

But that coverage has left out part of the story: repeated, credible charges ? including from well-respected fellow journalists ? that in previous books Woodward embellished the truth, made dubious bombshell claims or was otherwise misleading.

Woodward?s former editor at the Washington Post, Ben Bradlee, though publicly complimentary of Woodward, privately doubted some of the more dramatic elements of Woodward and Carl Bernstein?s Watergate-era bestseller, ?All The President?s Men.?


http://dailycaller.com/2018/09/10/bob-woodward-accuracy-issues-watergate-trump/

 

[WhatsHisNuts]

Bob Woodward Has A Trail Of Accuracy Issues That Nobody Is Talking About

9:28 PM 09/10/2018
Peter Hasson | Reporter

  4386        





?Bob Woodward?s new book ?Fear? presents a scathing depiction of President Donald Trump?s administration.
?Woodward has a muddy history with a trail of allegations that he embellished the truth or otherwise misled his readers.
?Media coverage of Woodward?s book has been largely positive and ignores Woodward?s controversial record.

Longtime journalist Bob Woodward?s best-selling new book, ?Fear,? presents a scathing depiction of President Donald Trump and his ability to perform his duties as commander-in-chief.

While senior Trump officials including Secretary of Defense James Mattis have denied quotations attributed to them in the book, media coverage of ?Fear? has been largely positive, emphasizing the 75-year-old Woodward?s experience and trustworthiness.

But that coverage has left out part of the story: repeated, credible charges ? including from well-respected fellow journalists ? that in previous books Woodward embellished the truth, made dubious bombshell claims or was otherwise misleading.

Woodward?s former editor at the Washington Post, Ben Bradlee, though publicly complimentary of Woodward, privately doubted some of the more dramatic elements of Woodward and Carl Bernstein?s Watergate-era bestseller, ?All The President?s Men.?


http://dailycaller.com/2018/09/10/bob-woodward-accuracy-issues-watergate-trump/

The Daily Caller twists stories and makes shit up every day! Holy shit, you're gullible! It's like when Trump calls someone with a great track record a liar.

"Woodward's controversial record" :142smilie

 

[Duff Miver]

The Daily Caller twists stories and makes shit up every day! Holy shit, you're gullible! It's like when Trump calls someone with a great track record a liar.

"Woodward's controversial record" :142smilie

skulnutz is so fucking stupid he believes Infowars, the Daily Caller, and all manner of other pure bullshit. Just wait, he'll tell us about the failing New York Times again :facepalm:

 

[Skulnik]

skulnutz is so fucking stupid he believes Infowars, the Daily Caller, and all manner of other pure bullshit. Just wait, he'll tell us about the failing New York Times again :facepalm: