How to defuse a Bob Woodward book bombshell

Thought Leader: Jen Psaki

September 6, 2018

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By Chris Cillizza (original source CNN Politics)

“(CNN) – The Trump White House has been rocked this week with early details from Bob Woodward’s book “Fear: Trump in the White House.” President Trump has, as usual, reacted aggressively to the book, which casts him as petulant and insecure, a man deeply out of his depth who is being purposely kept out of the loop by senior administration officials in order to keep the country safe.

This is not Woodward’s first rodeo. He has written a series of books documenting each of our recent presidents. So how did the White Houses of George W. Bush and Barack Obama handle Woodward when they learned he was writing on them? For that answer I reached out to Jen Psaki, former White House communications director in the Obama administration (and a CNN contributor) and Ari Fleischer, who served as the press secretary for Bush.”

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