Donald Trump has spent the last several days trashing the anti-Trump book Fear, written by award-winning journalist Bob Woodward. Woodward has become the subject of many of Trump’s Twitter tantrums since the release of the book, and the president continues his crusade to find which of his administration members were responsible for leaking the horrific inner workings of his White House.
In response to Trump’s attempts to discredit and slam his book, Woodward has just hit back at the president. Following the explosive New York Times piece, which was written by an anonymous White House official, Woodward appeared on the New York Times podcast to deliver another insane truth bomb. On the podcast “The Daily,” Woodward spoke about his book and revealed that a “key” Trump administration official had actually told him that the claims in his book were “1,000 percent true.” Unfortunately, that person denied it later.
In speaking with reporter Michael Schmidt, Woodward said he’d actually gotten a phone call from this anonymous administration member to praise how accurately Woodward had described Trump’s presidency and White House. Woodward said:
After the information in ‘Fear’ started breaking last week, one key person who’s in office called and said ‘Everyone knows what you said here is true. It’s 1,000 percent correct.’ And then this person has said some public things that contradict that.”
Woodward would not say which official it was, but said he wasn’t pleased with the public statement they made against his book:
And I’m not happy but I have a smile on face because the truth in all of this is going to emerge. There’s too much evidence, too many witnesses.”
So far, many of Trump’s aides have condemned the book, including Defense Secretary James Mattis, chief of staff John Kelly, ex-White House staff secretary Rob Porter and former top economic adviser Gary Cohn. It could really be any one of them, however — Woodward has already called out Kelly and Mattis for “not telling the truth” in their denials.
One thing Trump has tried to do is slam Woodward’s credibility by pointing out the anonymous sources in his book. Woodward, who was involved in breaking the news in the Watergate scandal, defended using anonymous sources when presidential administrations are concerned. He said:
Because you can’t get the truth, you won’t get the straight story from someone if you do it on the record. Sources are not anonymous to me, I know exactly who they are. So I think it’s — in a sense — the wrong phrase. They are deep-background or background sources.”
This interview is going to get right under Trump’s skin. Don’t be surprised if Trump begs the Department of Justice to start investigating his administration even more.
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