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Bob Woodward is an associate editor at @washingtonpost. WAR, out now: https://t.co/AqrpmW5L4V

Apr 9, 5 tweets

FEAR, my first book on Trump published in 2018, showed Trump’s obsession with tariffs and how his top economic adviser, Gary Cohn, a former president of Goldman Sachs repeatedly tried to prevent Trump and Navarro from tanking the U.S. economy.

Cohn removed a 2017 draft letter to the South Korean president from the Resolute Desk to prevent Trump from withdrawing from a trade agreement (p. xix, FEAR)

Cohn: “People don’t want to stand in front of a 2,000 degree blast furnace.”

On NAFTA (p. 274, FEAR)

Cohn: “You don’t do 50/50s with the US economy” (p. 274, FEAR)

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