Trump Slams ‘Idiot’ Bob Woodward’

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TRUMP: "And by the way, then this idiot Woodward, who wrote this book, which is all fiction, said that I said something like that, but put it in a very crude manner. The concept is true, but the way it was said was very, you know, 'hey, I went like to the best college, I did lots of good', you read this thing, the quotes were wrong, all these John Kelly, General Mattis, they were all writing, I never said that, I never said that. Well, it is fiction, but they do put down the concept of I said that. Isn’t that horrible. Isn’t that crude? Crude? You know what, I want to have our nation protected and I don’t want to be taken advantage of by other countries in the world. You know what, they respect us more when they have to pay their bills and they can afford to pay their bills and it is going to make a big difference for our country, you wait, you watch, you see."

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