The benefit of the doubt he gives Trump borders on imbecility. It is a crime, it should have been reported to the FBI, and it's odd that Woodward doesn't push back. It's especially odd to see him quote Trump's lawyer John Dowd claiming the Trump Tower meeting to get dirt from the Russians on Hillary Clinton Dowd calls it 'opposition research' even if it comes from a foreign government, which it manifestly is not. It's fair to say his opinion that the Russia thing is overblown has not aged well, so it's odd to see him trumpet it like this.

Woodward at the time was skeptical about its content, and he quotes his own television appearances from early 2017 at length. But his skepticism about a document that has been largely verified is based on. If you based your entire knowledge of the Trump era on this, you'd think Stephen Miller was just another staffer rather than the most loathsome kind of Nazi troll.Īnd in the most unintentional self-parody, Woodward declares himself skeptical about the Steele dossier on Trump-Russia collusion, which contained the infamous rumor of a pee tape that the Russians are said to be using as 'kompromat' against Trump. Vast chapters focus on internal debates over what to do about Afghanistan and Syria, while the chaos of the Muslim travel ban gets nary a mention. For example, he has a certain starry-eyed reverence for the military more than one general in Fear is described as 'ramrod straight.' Unfortunately, it seems that at this point in his life, Woodward has become more a creature of official Washington, DC than just about anyone in that city. About that Omarosa book: This is what complicity looks like

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