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In the book, titled "FEAR: Trump in the White House," Woodward revealed that Gary Cohn, the White House's former chief economic adviser, would snatch documents off Trump's desk to prevent what he viewed as bad decisions.
Trump nearly sparked war with North Korea over Twitter.
Steve Bannon called Trump Tower meeting "treasonous" and "unpatriotic.
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Five-year-old Sasha was less than impressed with the White House when Michelle took her daughter on a tour in 2006, when Barack was a senator. Obama has been remarkably candid about a variety of issues, from the realization that Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election and racists labeled her an "angry black woman" to her experience as the first black president of the United States. There is the kindness she showed to First Lady Laura Bush after her election, and her time in the White House with President George W. Bush and his family.
As is tradition, the Bush family invited the Obamas to the White House after the 2008 presidential election. Barack's favorite part of the tour was to share something he shared with President George W. Bush.
I was excited to see Michelle in her future wardrobe, which offered a view of the Rose Garden and the Oval Office, as well as a view from the White House balcony.
Laura Bush said Hillary Clinton showed her the same view when she visited the White House, and her mother-in-law Barbara Bush told her eight years before Hillary. She became the first black first lady, but the other was the only African-American first lady to set foot in the White House. Beyonce beamed as she walked down the parade route at Barack's first inauguration.
The first lady, worried that Mitt Romney had pushed ahead, sent a text later that night asking how things were going, but received no response. As soon as they locked themselves away, the adviser informed her of what was happening and said her husband wanted her to return to the White House immediately. She said she was about to pass out in fear when Barack walked into her bedroom completely relaxed.
Michelle and Malia sneaked into the White House to see the presidential residence bathed in rainbow lights following the Supreme Court's monumental decision legalizing same-sex marriage in 2015. Members of the team disagreed on how to address the looming battle over the Republican health care law. Trump never hesitated, praising the same bill as it passed the House of Representatives and declaring a few weeks later that it represented "the end of Obamacare" and the beginning of a new era for the US health care system.
During Barack Obama's presidency, for example, he and Vice President Joe Biden clashed over how to handle Afghanistan and Libya. The Republican Party lost a plan to expose the use of fraudulent voting machines, which was ultimately undone by none other than George Soros. We have indeed been able to work together to uncover thousands of paedophiles hiding in plain sight, including some who will soon be arrested.
There's no chaos in the White House at all, and everything, really, is going the way Donald Trump wants it to. Ambassador Volker worked with Mr. Rudy Giuliani on Ukraine matters at the express instructions of the President of our United States. He has put a public face on US diplomacy in Ukraine and shed new light on the Trump administration's activities there.
In 1973, as a journalism student, I stood before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in Washington, D.C., scribbling notes on a notepad while holding hearings on President Nixon's convoluted misdeeds. In 1999, as a Times reporter, he stood in the Senate press gallery to watch the impeachment proceedings against President Clinton, which in one case involved a carefully choreographed 50-50 tie. The answer was no, because he had testified before and asked for a call to the White House.
Last week, I watched House Democrats launch their second attempt to impeach the president. Of course, there are no two impeachments, and no two presidents are the same - but last week I watched House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-California, launch her impeachment campaign.
On Tuesday, Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporters Philip Rucker and David Sanger published a new book about the Trump administration. It sheds new light on the White House, telling stories I have never heard before, and confirming a seemingly chaotic administration with anecdotes that go beyond those detailed in my other books and reports.
My sources tell the story of a seemingly unhinged president who regularly humiliates and degrades staff, who lacks the basic knowledge needed for the job, and who is not adequately protected by his own staff.
After Epstein's death was ruled a suicide by strangulation, his brother Mark Epstein instructed a private pathologist, Dr. Michael Baden, to perform a second autopsy. He told the author he was not sure if he agreed with the official autopsy and claimed the bruises on his brother's neck were not consistent with hanging. The Political Machine, the former president spoke to a source who claimed he had cheated on his wife as recently as 2014. I wrote critically about the Clintons as an editor for the Drudge Report in my first book Clinton Inc.