He's still advertising the Woodward book

If there's really justice in America, it will be from a prison cell.

Senior officials know they have a problem with Woodward. "The problem is his credibility," a source with direct knowledge told me. "They know they can’t give him the Michael Wolff treatment." Wolff, who authored the bombshell "Fire and Fury" was notoriously averse to basic fact-checking — and could be more easily dismissed. Woodward, by contrast, has hundreds of hours of tapes and made every effort to talk to all the main players.

  Axios

Tom Bossert, now a homeland security analyst for ABC News, approached Trump and asked if the president had a moment to speak.

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"I want to watch the Masters...You and your cyber...are going to get me in a war — with all your cyber shit,” Trump said according to an excerpt of Woodward’s book Fear obtained by Axios.

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Woodward writes that Trump “was given a Reader’s Digest version of the Hezbollah briefing.”

  Newsweek

President Trump is livid at the betrayal and stunning allegations in Bob Woodward’s forthcoming "Fear," but limited in his ability to fight back because most of the interviews were caught on hundreds of hours of tape, officials tell Axios.

The book, out Tuesday from Simon & Schuster, re-creates — verbatim — page after page of private conversations with him. The 420-page portrait is all the more damaging because many of the scenes concern foreign policy and national security.

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Trump to James Clapper, then Director of National Intelligence, who briefed him at Trump Tower during the transition on the intelligence community's findings that Putin had interfered in the election: "l don't believe in human sources ... These are people who have sold their souls and sold out their country ... I don't trust human intelligence and these spies."

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"Trump was editing an upcoming speech with [then-staff secretary Rob] Porter. Scribbling his thoughts in neat, clean penmanship, the president wrote, 'TRADE IS BAD.'"

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Former White House economic adviser Gary Cohn told Trump: "You have a Norman Rockwell view of America."

"Several times Cohn just asked the president, 'Why do you have these views [on trade]?' 'I just do,' Trump replied. 'I've had these views for 30 years.' 'That doesn't mean they're right,' Cohn said. 'I had the view for 15 years I could play professional football. It doesn't mean I was right.'"

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The book's last paragraph: "[I]n the man and his presidency [former Trump lawyer John] Dowd had seen the tragic flaw. In the political back-and-forth, the evasions, the denials, the tweeting, the obscuring, crying 'Fake News,' the indignation, Trump had one overriding problem that Dowd knew but could not bring himself to say to the president: 'You're a f@#$ing liar.'"

  Axios

And Cohn has spent 30 hours testifying to Mueller investigators. (In addition to being wrong about his football chances, Cohn, who came from Goldman Sachs, also thinks trickle-down economics is a good thing.)

On the day after Robert Mueller was named special counsel, Bob Woodward writes in "Fear," President Trump "erupted into uncontrollable anger, visibly agitated to a degree that no one in his inner circle had witnessed before."

"He watched a two-hour block of Fox News, and then most of the two-hour long blocks of MSNBC and CNN that he had TiVo'd. ... He raged at the coverage. ... 'Everybody's trying to get me ... It's unfair. Now everybody's saying I'm going to be impeached ... They're going to spend years digging through my whole life and finances.'"

  Axios

It's the finances he's particularly worried about.

President Trump is reportedly furious at former White House aides Gary Cohn and Rob Porter after the pair featured in excerpts of Bob Woodward's forthcoming book on the Trump administration.

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Trump denied last Tuesday an section in the book about how Cohn once took a letter from his desk to prevent him from exiting a trade deal with South Korea. Trump condemned the claim as "false" and "made up."

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Porter is mentioned in a separate section in which Trump calls his second speech seeking to clarify his remarks that there were "very fine people on both sides" of the deadly confrontations in August 2017 between white nationalists and counterprotesters in Charlottesville, Va.,

“That was the biggest f---ing mistake I’ve made,” Trump told Porter, according to the book. “You never make those concessions. You never apologize. I didn’t do anything wrong in the first place. Why look weak?"

  Washington Examiner

Veteran journalist Bob Woodward on Sunday described an incident in which President Trump once drafted a tweet that North Korea would have read as a warning of an imminent U.S. attack.

"[Trump] drafts a tweet saying, 'We are going to pull our dependents from South Korea — family members of the 28,000 people there,' " Woodward said during an interview with CBS.

"At that moment, there was a sense of profound alarm in the Pentagon leadership that 'my God, one tweet and we have reliable information that the North Koreans are going to read this as an attack is imminent,' " Woodward said.

Explosive excerpts from Woodward's upcoming book, "Fear: Trump in the White House," have emerged throughout the week, documenting a chaotic White House in which staffers regularly attempt to act against the wishes of their boss.

  The Hill

We're at a hinge point in the Trump presidency, and staff sound as unsettled as I've heard them in the 19 months since he took office.

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Here's a long list of likely investigations awaiting Trump. [ed: in that Axios article: "The spreadsheet — which I'm told originated in a senior House Republican office — catalogs more than 100 formal requests from House Democrats this Congress, spanning nearly every committee."]

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Trump has grown to resent and distrust his White House Counsel, Don McGahn, who has spent hours cooperating with Robert Mueller's team.

McGahn leaves this fall and he leaves behind an office unprepared to deal with the blizzard of subpoenas, investigations and possible impeachment proceedings that likely await it next year. Almost all of McGahn's deputies have already gone.

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Bob Woodward's book hits the stands on Tuesday. Trump's advisers have spent the past few days reading a PDF of the book, and the president now knows that some of his previously trusted White House aides play starring roles in Woodward's narrative.

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The White House press and communications teams are very thin, after a handful of staff resigned or were forced out. They are wrestling with a firehose of bad news.

  Axios

But it's a smooth running operation, according to His Lardship.