Fear: Trump in the White House

Bob Woodward

Sep 2018 · Sold by Simon and Schuster

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“Explosive.”—The Washington Post

“Devastating.”—The New Yorker

“Unprecedented.”—CNN

“Great reporting...astute.”—Hugh Hewitt

THE INSIDE STORY ON PRESIDENT TRUMP, AS ONLY BOB WOODWARD CAN TELL IT

With authoritative reporting honed through nine presidencies, author Bob Woodward reveals in unprecedented detail the harrowing life inside President Donald Trump’s White House and precisely how he makes decisions on major foreign and domestic policies.

Fear is the most intimate portrait of a sitting president ever published during the president’s first years in office. The focus is on the explosive debates and the decision-making in the Oval Office, the Situation Room, Air Force One and the White House residence.

Woodward draws from hundreds of hours of interviews with firsthand sources, meeting notes, personal diaries, files and documents. Often with day-by-day details, dialogue and documentation, Fear tracks key foreign issues from North Korea, Afghanistan, Iran, the Middle East, NATO, China and Russia. It reports in-depth on Trump’s key domestic issues particularly trade and tariff disputes, immigration, tax legislation, the Paris Climate Accord and the racial violence in Charlottesville in 2017.

Fear presents vivid details of the negotiations between Trump’s attorneys and Robert Mueller, the special counsel in the Russia investigation, laying out for the first time the meeting-by-meeting discussions and strategies. It discloses how senior Trump White House officials joined together to steal draft orders from the president’s Oval Office desk so he would not issue directives that would jeopardize top secret intelligence operations.

“It was no less than an administrative coup d’état,” Woodward writes, “a nervous breakdown of the executive power of the most powerful country in the world.”

Ratings and reviews

Justin trudeau, photos of him in black face and making fun of handicap people. French president Macron, deemed the French news "fake news" producers and actually passed laws to stop "fake news". Britians prime minister boris johnson faced several sexual assault scandles, a leader in british goverment response was "My honest view is : who cares". Myanmars leader, sat by, while her government and military carried out genocide of an muslism people called the Rohingyas. All current leaders from around the world. Trump was nothing out of the ordinary.

First book was excellent written. But President Trump was being attacked before ha was even sworn into office. I'm someday it will be exposed those who in their hatred for Trump. Democrats and Republicans alike were willing to destroy America or anyone else to try to destroy him.

This is my first book by Bob Woodward and I must say it was very interesting. I was surprised with it's content to tell the truth. I had first thought it would just be a long tale of Trump bashing but it does almost the opposite. It doesn't vindicate Trump, nor does it condemn him. It tells the story of the inner workings of the White House over roughly the first two years of Trump's presidency, and does a great job filling in the gaps in the media's narratives while showing what usually went on behind the scenes.

About the author

Bob Woodward is an associate editor at The Washington Post, where he has worked for more than 50 years. He has shared in two Pulitzer Prizes, one for his Watergate coverage and the other for coverage of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. He has authored 21 bestselling books, 15 of which have been #1 New York Times bestsellers.