Trump Can't Believe 'Con Man' Bob Woodward Was Allowed To Write His Book
Trump Can't Believe 'Con Man' Bob Woodward Was Allowed To Write
His Book
Donald Trump erupted Friday about Washington Post journalists
Bob Woodward and Robert Costa’s
book “Peril” more than two months after it was published and its revelations
about the former president filled the media.
“It’s
incredible that someone is even allowed to write this stuff,” Trump wrote in a statement.
He called Watergate legend Woodward a “longtime Con Man” and Costa his “lightweight
lapdog.”
Trump appeared to be particularly incensed about revelations
that the U.S. may have edged dangerously close to war with China amid his
unpredictability after his 2020 election loss and the subsequent Jan. 6 violence at the U.S.
Capitol.
Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mark Milley was so disturbed by
the possibility of war that he twice personally called Gen. Li Zuocheng of the
People’s Liberation Army to assure him that the U.S.
would not strike, according to the book, an account that Milley publicly
confirmed.
Milley also spoke with a number of other chiefs of defense
around the world to reassure them after the Capitol riot, according to “Peril,” which was published Sept. 21
When anecdotes from the book were first revealed, Trump called
Milley a “dumbass.” In his statement Friday, Trump referred to him as “one of the dumber generals” and repeated a previous comment that if
Milley actually called China, he “should be tried for treason.”
“I never had even a thought of going to war with China, other
than the war I was winning, which was on TRADE,” he wrote.
Though Trump instituted massive tariffs on goods from China to
pressure the nation into a trade agreement, the Phase One trade deal finally
eked out by his administration in 2019 is largely regarded as a failure.
Trump also claimed that China was pouring millions of dollars in
tariffs into the U.S. Treasury but it is in fact American importers who pay
tariffs, not China. A study in 2019 estimated that Trump’s trade war was costing U.S. companies and
consumers $3 billion a month.
Source: SG
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