Fox News’s Brit Hume on Tuesday said it is a “good thing” that Trump’s advisers restrain him “from his most reckless impulses,” referring…
Fox News’s Brit Hume on Tuesday said it is a “good thing” that Trump’s advisers restrain him “from his most reckless impulses,” referring to excerpts from veteran journalist Bob Woodward’s upcoming book.
“Woodward’s accounts of chaos and dysfunction in the Trump WH suggest he has been repeatedly restrained by advisers from his most reckless impulses,” Hume, who has openly criticized the president multiple times, tweeted. “And to think there are never-Trumpers on the right who think good people should not serve this president.”
Excerpts from Woodward’s book published by The Washington Post on Tuesday provide first-hand insight into a White House staff scrambling to clean up messes made by their boss.
“This book is nothing more than fabricated stories, many by former disgruntled employees, told to make the President look bad,” White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a statement.
Anecdotes documented by Woodward reveal advisers stealing documents off of Trump’s desk in order to keep the president from signing them.
Then-White House chief economic adviser Gary Cohn reportedly “stole a letter off Trump’s desk” to prevent him from leaving a trade agreement with South Korea, according to Woodward’s book, as reported by the Post.
Cohn also said he could stop the president from pulling the U. S. out of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) by “tak[ing] the paper off his desk,” Woodward wrote.
At another point in the book, Trump suggests assassinating Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad, saying “Let’s fucking kill him! Let’s go in. Let’s kill the fucking lot of them,” according to Woodward.
Defense Secretary Jim Mattis reportedly told a senior aide to disregard the president.
“We’re not going to do any of that,” Mattis said, Woodward reported. “We’re going to be much more measured.”
The Pentagon instead convened plans for a more conventional airstrike against the Syrian military.
