This would not be the last time staff members would act to thwart the president’s impulsive and dangerous orders. And the president never noticed it was gone! They simply removed the draft of the termination letter from his desk. In the opening pages, Woodward recounts how two senior staff members, Gary Cohn and Rob Porter, worked to derail Trump’s determined efforts to terminate the United States-Korea Free Trade Agreement (KORUS). This is the best reporting that I can do.” Trump Determined to Terminate KORUS When Woodward appeared as a guest on the Late Show, Stephen Colbert asked him how he would respond to Trump’s accusations that he, Woodward, is a liar.

Employing time and patience, he meticulously secured the interviews and documents he used for his book–all documented in the source notes at the end of the book. A highly respected, Pulitzer-Prize-wining investigative journalist, Woodward has no ax to grind. With his best selling novel, Fear: Trump in the White House, Bob Woodward avoids the issues of credibility and bias that weakened the previous books.

However, Michael Wolff’s decision not to identify his sources and James Comey’s obvious bias in attempting to exonerate himself after Trump fired him as FBI director, left both books lacking in credibility. I haven’t read Unhinged by Omarosa Manigault Newman, but I suspect that bias may be a factor in limiting the credibility of that book as well.

Both contain revealing inside views of the Trump White House, their facts consistent with media coverage of the Trump presidency that’s aired daily on every network since the 2016 election. I’ve previously posted book reviews of two best sellers relating to the Trump presidency– Fire and Fury by Michael Wolff and A Higher Loyalty by James Comey. This post was published on: 09/19/18 in the Book Reviews category

Fear by Bob Woodward