Bob Woodward, if you're listening,

[kpete]

Bob Woodward, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to release the hundreds of hours of recordings you have of Trump's allies bashing him. I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press.@realBobWoodward

Donald J. Trump
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@realDonaldTrump
The Woodward book has already been refuted and discredited by General (Secretary of Defense) James Mattis and General (Chief of Staff) John Kelly. Their quotes were made up frauds, a con on the public. Likewise other stories and quotes. Woodward is a Dem operative? Notice timing?

Link to tweet

[Achilleaze]

1. It would be a service to the nation

Make it so.

[samir.g]

2. Mattis and Kelly are lying sycophants

[kstewart33]

14. They are not.

Both know that if they don't deny their statements, they will be fired. And both are convinced that in this absurdly incompetent White House, they are the only ones between Trump and WW3.

[HumblePi]

18. Mattis and Kelly

These two men, three if we count Michael Flynn, all took an oath when they were commissioned. The oath was their pledge that they would uphold the U.S. Constitution, it wasn't to pledge dying support to any president.

In my eyes, all three are traitors to the U.S. and ultimately should be fired, receive a dishonorable discharge and stripped of any distinguished medals they've been awarded over their years of military service.

[kstewart33]

19. I respectfully disagree.

In my view, they see pledging support to the president is essential to keep their jobs so they can do everything they can to prevent Trump from violating the Constitution or to at least minimize the damage. In my view, this is particularly the case with Mattis.

[HumblePi]

22. I respectfully disagree with your disagreement, LOL!

That had me fooled but just for a little while. When John Kelly was installed as White House Chief of Staff, I breathed a little sigh of relief because I actually believed the assurances that he would be the stabilizer, the 'hall monitor' for Trump. The more we find out about what's happening out of public view inside the White House, it hasn't turned out to be the case at all.

John Kelly was supposed to keep Trump 'in check' and not step into any mine fields. That hasn't happened. John Kelly was supposed to make certain that Trump didn't cause WW3. But I think that John Kelly had his own agenda that he shared with Trump and that is the problem with illegal immigration. Kelly thought that if he remained long enough that he would get his own policies implemented such as building a wall between Mexico and nullifying the DACA agreement.

John Kelly is an 'Institutionalist', believing in set parameters of our social structure that aren't in line with tolerance for illegal immigrants. This is the reason why Trump tasked Kelly with shepherding his immigration proposals through Congress. John Kelly indicated that he's in lockstep with the president on "many issues", which I translate to immigration.

So no, I no longer believe that John Kelly is so altruistic that he will sacrifice his personal dignity and jeopardize his integrity and reputation just to save Trump from destroying our country. Each of them including Mattis has their own selfish agenda, and has nothing to do with helping Trump stay out of the black hole he's bringing us with him into.

[kstewart33]

25. Well, I respectfully disagree with your respectful disagreement of my respectful disagreement!

Or something like that. HP, you are making my head spin!

(Well, not a complete disagreement. You're right about Kelly's true support for some of Trump's nonsense.)

[Eliot Rosewater]

26. Before the WH was stolen, both of these guys were the HORRIBLE people

they are today.

Both of them have a list longer than Rhode Island of racism and bigotry and so on.

You are saying that even though they are despicable rightwing assholes, they dont want WW3, I agree.

[kstewart33]

27. Not sure about that.

I'm no expert on either man, but I do know that more often than not, those who rise to the rank of a multi-star general in the military have an exceptionally strong sense of duty to country.

I expect that both Mattis and Kelly have the same. IMHO, it's that sense of duty that keeps them in the White House.

But not for long, Eliot. It's reported today that Trump is actively looking for a replacement for Mattis.

And who knows what tweets will come tomorrow morning after Trump reads the NYT piece by an anonymous senior adviser? He most certainly will go ballistic.

[Eliot Rosewater]

28. You notice I said racist and bigotry, not traitorous.

I think they are despicable rightwing assholes but are NOT traitors as in working with putin

BTW, thanks for talking me down a bit. I am so fucking angry, being a real patriot does that sometimes.

you know what I mean

[kstewart33]

29. We are in historically unprecedented times.

And I feel helpless and completely fed up. We're all angry. We can vote, keep up and hope that someone somewhere will lead the charge to save our country though I have no idea who that will be.

[FakeNoose]

3. Woodward's tapes will be played as evidence when Cheeto sues him

I'm pretty sure Cheeto knows it, too.

[True Blue American]

4. Trump will not sue him

I am not happy with Woodward as a Republican lackey all these years, but even those he wrote books about say he checks facts.

Once those tapes are leaked little by little, trumps rages will increase to the point he will not be capable of much of anything. He has aleady been proved nutty as a squirrel.

[MyOwnPeace]

5. "will not be capable?"

He's ALREADY that - someone is pulling the puppet strings - or has his hand up the puppet's ..................

[RoBear]

11. The hand up his ass...

is Pootie Poot's!

[Fritz Walter]

10. You take that back!!

While squirrels are rodents, and therefore varmints, they’re not nearly as nutty as, say... their cousins, shit-house rats.

agolf twittler already meets or exceeds that level of nuttiness!

[True Blue American]

20. As someone who has cleaned up my front porch for 3 days now,

Where they are digging dirt out of my flower pots,I am ready to take action against the varmits!

[Fritz Walter]

23. You too?

Here’s my recommendation: buy a life-like rubber snake and place it near your flower pots. You have to move it around daily, or they’ll ignore it. But it worked like a charm when I was growing tomatoes in my garden. After raiding them daily last year, they stayed the hell away from the plots this year!

A word of caution: if you have a mailbox on or near your front porch, let your USPS letter-carrier know, so s/he’ll continue delivery and pick-up. Door-to-door sales/proceletizng visitors? Might be fun to watch...

[True Blue American]

24. Yeah,that would be a problem.:)

They seem to be trying to find moisture. It is in the 90’s and dry.

Never had this problem before.

On your tomatoes,cover your garden with black plastic after you till. Cut holes for the plants. Keeps out weeds,holds moisture. You just pick yout tomates.

[Nitram]

6. Woodward can only release those tapes in a very exceptional situation because he promised anonymity

to all his informants. If he released any of the recordings, his days as an interviewer under deep cover would be finished.

[Chipper Chat]

7. WOODSTEIN!!!!!!!

[Roland99]

13. lol

[DesertRat]

8. "In Watergate there was one 'Deep Throat' -- these are dozens of 'Deep Throats.'

Link to tweet

[geardaddy]

16. The throats don't need to be deep for Small Donnie.

[ehrnst]

9. I hope that Woodward avoids ordering tea in restaurants

and flying in small planes.

[Major Nikon]

12. The last guy who called him a fucking moron got fired

What do you expect them to say?

[SWBTATTReg]

15. You know something...you hear the republicans bashing democrats all of the time, ...

for supposedly wanting everything bad for this country. After multiple books already out on the antics and doings of the republicans in the WH and also in Congress, everything that the republicans have accused us (democrats) of doing has exactly landed squarely on the republicans instead! Everything!

No one can convince any longer that this man in the WH is an idiot, is a danger to others around him and the country itself. His personnel are having to hide stuff from him, it's illegal to assassinate anyone but rump is ordering folks to do so, and that he has the mentality of a 5th or 6th grade child. Rump has the classic signs of the endgame of a STD, mentally unstable, mind is wandering, etc.

Where is Congress? This president is nuts and is going to get us into a war!!!!!!

[kstewart33]

17. If he releases just one tape, his book writing career is over.

And he may well ruin the careers of a few good people. I'd wager that not every individual connected to Trump in some way is a complete a**hole.

As a former reporter for a city daily newspaper, I well learned the unwritten but well understood law: you never, ever expose a confidential source. Especially one on deep background.

[renate]

21. It's cute the way that whoever wrote this for him thought he knew the word "refuted"

Ivanka or Jared, maybe? Everyone else around him wants him to stop tweeting, so I wonder who else it could possibly be.