In his explosive new e book “War,” legendary journalist Bob Woodward particulars Donald Trump’s “erratic” habits, compares his Florida residence to authoritarian North Korea, and divulges that the previous president quietly communicated with Russian dictator Vladimir Putin as many as seven occasions since leaving workplace.
In an interview with Trump ally Lindsey Graham, the senator from South Carolina reiterated that President Joe Biden gained “fair and square” in 2020 however Trump “doesn’t like to hear that.”
Graham additionally shed some gentle on how everybody in Trump’s orbit lavishes him with reward and adoration.
“Going to Mar-a-Lago is a little bit like going to North Korea,” Graham mentioned. “Everybody stands up and claps every time Trump comes in.”
The e book additionally recounts the previous president’s deep obsession with whining and making false claims in regards to the 2020 election outcomes.
“I gave a speech today and I only mentioned the 2020 election twice!” Trump mentioned to Graham, in accordance with Woodward’s report. “As if it had shown maximum restraint,” Woodward writes.
Graham additionally speculated about why Trump’s newest presidential marketing campaign has been constructed round concern, hoaxes, and even unhinged conspiracy theories as he battles a number of felony indictments.
“Trump is becoming more erratic,” Graham admitted. “These court cases. I think they would rattle anybody.”
The Republican presidential nominee has additionally stored in shut contact with Putin since leaving workplace. Trump aide Jason Miller mentioned there have been “maybe as many as seven” calls between Trump and Putin since 2021.
Woodward reviews that Trump even ensured his pal Putin would keep wholesome, thoughtfully sending him scarce COVID assessments in the course of the early days of the pandemic in 2020. In the meantime, makeshift freezer vans had been used to protect the extreme numbers of deceased folks in New York Metropolis, and People waited in hourslong strains for testing, with delayed outcomes.
The Trump marketing campaign responded to the e book’s revelations in an e mail on Tuesday.
“None of those made up tales by Bob Woodward are true and are the work of a very demented and deranged man who suffers from a debilitating case of Trump Derangement Syndrome,” the assertion mentioned. “Woodward is an angry, little man and is clearly upset because President Trump is successfully suing him because of the unauthorized publishing of recordings he made previously. President Trump gave him absolutely no access for this trash book that either belongs in the bargain bin of the fiction section of a discount bookstore or used as toilet tissue.”
A fast refresher on the “angry, little” man who wrote this e book: Bob Woodward broke the “Watergate” scandal together with fellow journalist Carl Bernstein. The revelations about felony actions within the Nixon administration resulted in 69 indictments, 48 convictions, and Richard Nixon stepping down as president.
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