tim o brien, various white houses have accused at different times bob woodward of being of the opposite party whenever these books come out. it s interesting that trump even now cannot help himself but give free publicity that s going to boost sales to this very pu critical book just like he did to omarosa and just like he did to michael wolff because he personalizes all of these and i the midst of it he can t think strategically. and anybody who s covered trump knows that the full picture of what woodward is presenting is only consistent with all the l reporting that s been out there for the last 2 1/2 years since trump began running, it s 1 consistent with who donald trump has been since he was about 7 years old. he ran the trump organization this way. it was a bunch of people biting each other in the back, not loyal to him ultimately, and he ran roughshod over all of them.l he ran his political campaign
that were already released today from the president s former criminal defense lawyer john dowd. bob woodward describes a rehearsal session with the president where john dowd pretended to be robert mueller asking the president questions. the washington post reports that in that rehearsal session donald trump s answers were stumbles, contradictions, and lies until the prevent eventually lost his cool. this thing s a god damn hoax trump erupted at the start of a 30-minute rant that finished with him saying i don t really want to testify. the book then describes a meeting john dowd with had robert mueller and mueller s deputy james quarles in which dowd explained why he didn t want the president to testify. i m not going o sit there and let him look like an idiot and you public that transcript because everything leaks in washington and the guys overseas are going to say, i told you he was an idiot, i told you he was a goddamn dumbbell. what are we dealing with this idiot for? after t
corrected him in that meeting trump went on to repeat that story that oh, okay was not oh, oh, my god, i ve been wrong this whole time? oh, god. how do i fix this misapprehensi misapprehension? what it was was oh, whatever. and then he went back to believing what i m sure he still to this day believes which is that mccain was a traitor, that he got out early that he s not a war hero. that he was a manchurian candidate. all the crazy stuff that lives in the right-wing fever swamps of social media where trump gets most of his information about things are still i m sure firmly implanted in that frontal lobe of his, whatever that and tim, nowhere does donald trump have stronger support than in alabama, but alabamans don t seem to realize what donald trump thinks of them. the woodward back has donald trump referring to jeff sessions this way. this guy is mentally retarded. he s this dumb southerner. he couldn t even be a one-person country lawyer down in alabama.
counsel to new york city mayor bill de blasio. she s an msnbc legal analyst. and maya, in the woodward book we re seeing that john dowd is calling the president a liar and the new york times reporting that robert mueller has partially given up on the idea of ever getting an interview with donald trump and is interested in possibly getting written answers at least on the collusion questions. yeah, i think it s pretty clear that donald trump can t tell the truth on a regular basis. we know that. that s clearly something he has demonstrated in public. so it s not so surprising that someone like a john dowd, who i think has denied, it may have said something like that. i think at the end of the day the issue here is donald trump can be forced to testify. i think the supreme court would uphold that unless brett kavanaugh is a supreme court justice potentially sitting on that bench. but the question for mueller is
by his standards.an he becomes angrier and then ultimately incredibly self-pitying. meanwhile, he summons in kellyanne conway, who s caught in a lie too. and again nailed elegantly and politely. and she has a very different method. first she tries to brazen it out, then she throws other people under the bus. then she finally desperately changes the subject. the thing i find myself thinking about a lot as i review these first stories from the book, and of course we ll all want to read the finished product, i understand as i think about it the james mattises and the general kellys. they re staying to serve the country.ys and i understand why they have to they feel they need to protect their position. to me donald trump is what he is and bob woodward is of course the elegant and eminent figure that he is. i m puzzled by the gary cohns, the h.r. mcmasters, the rex tillersons, the people who obviously talked to woodward, who obviously have unburdened themselves of their sense of thb extre