Woodward and Costa portray Gen Mark Milley, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, as “certain that Trump had gone into a serious mental decline in the aftermath of the election”, which he insisted without evidence was fixed.
A week before publication day, the Post and CNN published extracts.įollowing the first two books in the series, Fear and Rage, Peril covers the end of the Trump presidency and the start of Joe Biden’s first term in the White House. The soldiers had told him that NATO staff were totally dysfunctional,” the book says.The Watergate veteran’s third Trump book, Peril, is written with Robert Costa, another Post reporter. Ghost soldiers – those paid but not serving – are ripping us off. Six months later, Trump in a new year tweet on January 1 announced stopping all military aid to Pakistan arguing that it is not taking action against terrorist groups operating from its soil.Īccording to the book, Trump told his national security aide that US is losing in Afghanistan. And the US ‘must stop payments to Pakistan until they cooperate’,” Trump said. I’m not making a deal on anything until we get minerals. “The US needed to get some of Afghanistan’s valuable minerals in exchange for any support. We don’t take it like others – like China,” Trump is quoted as saying during the July 19 situation room meeting. “He (Modi) told me the US has gotten nothing out of Afghanistan. According to Woodward, Trump made this comment during a Situation Room meeting in the White House on July 19 last year, nearly three weeks after he had a very successful meeting with Modi at the White House on June 26. The White House has described the book as “reckless” and a work of fiction with the president calling it a “joke”.
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