Donald Trump condemned the book ‘FEAR’ as he describes journalist Bob Woodward as a “con on the public”

US President Donald Trump has condemned a book on his White House by renowned Watergate journalist Bob Woodward as a “con on the public”.

BBC

Mr Trump’s chief of staff and defence secretary, in responses posted by the president on Twitter, described the book as “pathetic” and “fiction”. He sent out a series of tweets carrying his own views, along with statements from Defence Secretary Jim Mattis, chief of staff John Kelly and White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders.

Mr Trump says quotes attributed to Mr Mattis and Mr Kelly were “made up frauds, a con on the public. Likewise other stories and quotes”. He says the book is “already discredited” with “so many lies and phony sources”, rejecting an allegation that he had used the terms “mentally retarded” and “dumb Southerner” to describe Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

The statement from Mr Mattis describes the book as “a product of someone’s rich imagination” and adds: “The contemptuous words about the president attributed to me in Woodward’s book were never uttered by me or in my presence.”