Michael Knigge is DW's correspondent in Washington She was responding to Woodward's claim that Pentagon chief Mattis engaged in subversive action similar to Cohn's when he ignored Trump's order to kill Assad after a chemical weapons attack. The US ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, meanwhile said she never heard Trump suggest killing Syrian President Bashar Assad. The White House also denied that the president's former economic advisor, Gary Cohn, "stole a letter off Trump's desk" to prevent him from nixing a trade deal with South Korea and that he "made a similar play" to keep Trump from leaving NAFTA. Trump's former personal attorney, John Dowd, disputed that he described the president as a liar and that he warned him that if he testified in Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe he could end up in an "orange jumpsuit." Defense Secretary James Mattis, who reportedly likened the president's behavior to that of a fifth- or sixth-grader, said in a statement that he never uttered the "contemptuous words" attributed to him the book. Trump's chief of staff, John Kelly, issued a carefully worded denial that he called his boss an idiot. President Donald Trump led the charge on Twitter, calling the book "already discredited" and musing whether the veteran investigative journalist Woodward was a "Democratic operative?" Trump was not happy about the book, writing on Twitter two days after its release: “Bob Woodward’s badly written book is very boring & totally ‘obsolete.’ Didn’t even talk about the recent Middle East deal.As excerpts of Fear: Trump in the White House, the upcoming book by legendary reporter Bob Woodward, were published in The Washington Post on Tuesday, the White House switched into full crisis management mode. military and top officials, and an accidental war with North Korea in 2017 was far more likely than most Americans knew. Also, per the book, Trump repeatedly denigrated the U.S. Others include that two of the administration’s top officials-James Mattis, who was Trump’s first defense secretary, and Dan Coats, the then-director of National Intelligence-believed Trump was “dangerous” and “unfit” for the presidency, and considered speaking out about this publicly.
However, Trump’s handling of the coronavirus is just one of many revelations within Rage. Woodward argues he had to verify the information first. Woodward himself faced criticism for not publishing this information earlier, an act that many argued could have shifted the trajectory of a pandemic which has now killed over 200,000 Americans. Rage began stirring controversy even before it was published when Woodward released interviews in which Trump admitted to downplaying the threat of the virus in public to avoid panic. “‘Rage’ is the most important book Simon & Schuster will publish this year,” S&S CEO Jonathan Karp told CNN.
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