Trump wanted to kill Assad?

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Fact, or fiction?

Trump denies he wanted Syria leader killed

Donald Trump denies discussing assassination of Syria's Assad

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Media captionTrump: 'Woodward book a work of fiction'
US President Donald Trump has denied assertions by prominent journalist Bob Woodward in his new book that he ordered the assassination of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

Mr Trump said the idea was "never even discussed" with defence officials.

Defence Secretary James Mattis has also denied words attributed to him in Woodward's book.

The book Fear: Trump in the White House depicts a chaotic administration in a "nervous breakdown of executive power".

Mr Trump has already condemned the new work as a "con on the public".

In the book, senior aides are quoted as saying they hid sensitive documents to prevent Mr Trump signing them and as calling him an "idiot" and a "liar".

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Woodward is a widely respected, veteran journalist who helped expose President Richard Nixon's role in the Watergate scandal in the 1970s.

A day after extracts of the book were published in the Washington Post, another daily the New York Times posted an opinion piece attributed to an unnamed senior White House official saying that the root of the administration's problems was Mr Trump's amorality.

 

[JGalt]

Fact, or fiction?

Trump denies he wanted Syria leader killed

Donald Trump denies discussing assassination of Syria's Assad

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Media captionTrump: 'Woodward book a work of fiction'
US President Donald Trump has denied assertions by prominent journalist Bob Woodward in his new book that he ordered the assassination of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

Mr Trump said the idea was "never even discussed" with defence officials.

Defence Secretary James Mattis has also denied words attributed to him in Woodward's book.

The book Fear: Trump in the White House depicts a chaotic administration in a "nervous breakdown of executive power".

Mr Trump has already condemned the new work as a "con on the public".

In the book, senior aides are quoted as saying they hid sensitive documents to prevent Mr Trump signing them and as calling him an "idiot" and a "liar".

• Why the Woodward effect damages Trump
• The most explosive quotes from Woodward's book
• The White House revolving door: Who's gone?

Woodward is a widely respected, veteran journalist who helped expose President Richard Nixon's role in the Watergate scandal in the 1970s.

A day after extracts of the book were published in the Washington Post, another daily the New York Times posted an opinion piece attributed to an unnamed senior White House official saying that the root of the administration's problems was Mr Trump's amorality.

Fiction. Everything in that goofy book was made up or came from a source who knows a source who knows a source.

Besides, if Trump had wanted him dead, he would be dead.

 

[Rambunctious]

It would have been short sighted to not ask about every possibility....sounds like some resist fagot is stretching and coloring facts....yawn

 

[whitehall]

The president's right, Woodward is a pitiful tool of the democrat party. Obviously he never actually heard the president say anything in private because he was never a guest in the White House. So what are we to conclude about Woodward's scoops? He heard them second or third hand from Obama appointed leakers or he invented them.

 

[JGalt]

Besides, why would Trump want to drop a cruise missile on his ass? That Assad goober has a semi-hawt wife...