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Bob Woodward is an associate editor at @washingtonpost. WAR, out now: https://t.co/AqrpmW5L4V
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Apr 9 5 tweets 2 min read
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. Image 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) Image
Feb 15, 2019 8 tweets 4 min read
Today Pres. Trump said of Pres. Obama, “I don’t want to speak for him, but I believe he would have gone to war with North Korea. I think he was ready to go to war. In fact he told me he was so close to starting a big war with North Korea." See pp. 91-92 of my book #Fear. (1/8) (2/8) From p. 92 of #Fear:
Dec 21, 2018 10 tweets 5 min read
SecDef James Mattis’ resignation letter was an unusual and blunt highlighting of the tensions and flat-out disagreements he had with President Trump. Selected examples from #Fear appear in this thread. ow.ly/zV8S30n4TOy (1/10) President Trump and Mattis at a February 8, 2017 dinner on NATO in the Red Room of the White House residence #Fear, p. 78 (2/10):