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“This book is nothing more than fabricated stories, many by former disgruntled employees, told to make the president look bad,” Sanders said in a statement.
Sanders contended that Trump has delivered “unprecedented” success for the country and that while his approach is unconventional, “he always gets results.”
“Democrats and their allies in the media understand the president’s policies are working and with success like this, no one can beat him in 2020 — not even close,” she said.
Sanders’ statement follows a report by The Washington Post earlier Tuesday on several episodes detailed by Woodward in his forthcoming book, Fear.
They include one meeting in which Trump vented to his personal attorney that the Russian probe is “a goddamn hoax” and said after learning of the appointment of special counsel Robert Mueller, “Everybody’s trying to get me.”
In the 448-page book, Woodward also reports on a small group meeting at which White House Chief of Staff John Kelly ranted about Trump to colleagues.
“He’s an idiot. It’s pointless to try to convince him of anything. He’s gone off the rails. We’re in Crazytown,” Kelly said, according to Woodward.
Kelly disputed the depiction of the meeting in a statement on Tuesday in which he called the book “another pathetic attempt to smear people close to President Trump and distract from the administration’s many successes.”
“The idea I ever called the president an idiot is not true,” Kelly said.
