Donald Trump denies discussing assassination of Syria’s Assad

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The e-book says Mr Mattis acknowledged Mr Trump’s request however then, after the dialog, advised an aide he wouldn’t do “any of that”.

But talking to reporters on Wednesday, the president said: “That used to be by no means contemplated, nor wouldn’t it be pondered.” He went directly to describe the book as “fiction”.

What else did the president say?

Mr Trump despatched out a series of tweets on Tuesday night time carrying his own perspectives, at the side of statements from Mr Mattis, leader of personnel John Kelly and White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders.

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Mr Trump says fees attributed to Mr Mattis and Mr Kelly were “made up frauds, a con at the public. Likewise different tales and quotes”.

He says the e book is “already discredited” with “such a lot of lies and phony sources”, rejecting an allegation that he had used the phrases “mentally retarded” and “dumb Southerner” to explain Legal Professional Normal Jeff Sessions.

The statement from Mr Mattis describes the e-book as “a made of a persons wealthy imagination”.

The statement from Mr Kelly says: “the theory I ever known as the president an fool is not true… He always knows where I stand and he and i each understand this story is overall BS…”

What else is within the book?

Woodward says leader financial adviser Gary Cohn and White Area staff secretary Rob Porter removed files from the president’s table to maintain Mr Trump from signing them.

The files could have allowed the president to withdraw from the North American Unfastened Business Settlement and a trade care for South Korea.

This amounts to an “administrative coup d’état”, Woodward says.

Jeff Periods: US attorney normal hits back at Trump

In different excerpts:

The book quotes Mr Kelly as pronouncing: “We Are in Crazytown… that is the worst process I’ve ever had” Ex-Trump attorney John Dowd calls the president “a expletive liar” Mr Trump’s courting with Rex Tillerson never recovered after studies the ex-secretary of state had known as the president “an expletive moron”