Donald Trump nearly declared war on North Korea with proposed tweet, Bob Woodward book reveals

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Originally Posted by BeerGeek40

Did it ever occur to you people that perhaps it was a bluff, designed to get NK to the bargaining table?

Yet neither worked.

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Some commentary on Woodward's book:



“Fear” and Trump
By George Packard
The New Yorker

Bob Woodward’s “Fear” belongs on a shelf with the literature of mad kings...You half expect to find Woodward’s Trump ordering the execution of the entire National Security Council, declaring himself a god on Twitter, then anointing his daughter as heir to the throne...

No one has any respect for Trump. In the course of the book, his chief of staff calls him “an idiot”; his Secretary of State ups it to “a f#&$% moron”; his Secretary of Defense compares him to an eleven-year-old; his top economic adviser and his personal lawyer consider him, respectively, “a professional liar” and “a f#&$% liar.” ...Only snakes and sycophants survive.

...Destroying alliances is—along with hatred of the press—his genuine, unquenchable passion in politics.

For the whole piece:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/09/24/with-fear-and-trump-bob-woodward-has-a-bookend-to-the-nixon-story

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Dems prefer the cowering in fear approach as done during the Obama years.