intelligence in north-east Asia, and in addition had the potential of housing defense missiles that could eventually knock down North Korean nuclear attack missiles aimed at the U.S.

troops in that country.Ĭohn, Porter and their allies in the military establishment argued that South Korea played a vital role in U.S. Trump wanted to eliminate an $18 billion annual trade deficit with South Korea and a $3.5 billion annual expenditure to maintain 28,500 U.S. President Trump wanted to abruptly withdraw from the United States-Korea Free Trade Agreement, known as KORUS, a treaty in effect since the 1950s. In his prologue Bob Woodward describes a political fiasco that was prevented in the White House in September 2017 by the chairman of the National Economic Counsel Gary Cohn, and by Staff Secretary Rob Porter. The basic tactic Porter had employed from the Priebus days until now was to stall and delay, mention the legal roadblocks and occasionally to lift the drafts from the Resolute desk (p.261).’’ Trump had no understanding of how government functions. Woodward portrays the disorder in the operation of Trump’s White House: ‘’Chaos and disorder were inadequate to describe the situation. Trump in her 2020 book and by countless authors and media commentators. This 2018 book confirms the negative image of Donald Trump which has been conveyed by his niece Mary L. Among his 20 previous books, 12 have been best-sellers.

Bob Woodward is a renowned investigative journalist, author and historian.

Bob woodward fear review