He drafts a tweet saying “We are going to pull our dependents from South Korea — family members of the 28,000 people there” – Bob Woodward to CBS Sunday Morning
Bob Woodward told CBS in a Sunday morning interview that a war with North Korea was nearly triggered by an almost-sent Trump tweet, which White House staff prevented.
“He drafts a tweet saying ‘We are going to pull our dependents from South Korea — family members of the 28,000 people there,’ ” Woodward claimed on “CBS Sunday Morning,” in reference to American military families stationed on the Korean peninsula.
Such a message, Woodward explained in the interview, would have been interpreted by Pyongyang as a sign that it would face imminent US attack. This “spooked” Pentagon officials into action to prevent the potential for unintended war.
It is but the latest in a series of sensational claims ahead of Woodward’s release of his new book “Fear: Trump in the White House” which hits stores on Tuesday.
Woodward described the incident as the most dangerous moment of Trump’s war of words with a nuclear armed North Korea from earlier this year.
According to Woodward’s account, the tweet was never posted because of “a back-channel message from the North Koreans that they would view it as a sign the US was preparing to attack,” according to CBS.
“At that moment there was a sense of profound alarm in the Pentagon leadership that, ‘My God, one tweet and we have reliable information that the North Koreans are going to read this as ‘an attack is imminent.'”
Woodward has described the situation in the White House as an “administrative coup d’etat” and it follows other seemingly tailor-made to fit the headlines explosive stories after his strategically “leaked” excerpts from his upcoming book appeared in the Washington Post last week.
