Woodward puts Donald Trump on the defensive with his book

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The US president, Donald Trump, harshly attacked the book of the famous journalist Bob Woodward that describes a White House of "asylum" and said it is a "shame" based on "totally invented stories".

"Is not it a shame that someone can write an article or book with totally invented stories and form the image of a person who is literally the exact opposite of the facts, and leaves without punishment or cost?" Said Trump in his account of Twitter.

"I do not understand why Washington politicians do not change libel laws," the president added.

Woodward, whose work published in The Washington Post on the Watergate case contributed to the resignation of President Richard Nixon (1969-1974), explained that he based the book on interviews with eyewitnesses of the White House, who spoke under anonymity.

The book, which some extracts were known on Tuesday, is titled Fear: Trump in the White House (Fear: Trump in the White House) and will go on sale on September 11.

In another message on Twitter, the president stressed that the scenes in the book have been "refuted" by Defense Secretary James Mattis and his chief of staff, John Kelly, and stressed that the quotes of both "are frauds invented", at the same time that he insinuated that Woodward is in the service of the democratic 

In one of the scenes described in the book, Trump asked the Pentagon for a plan to launch a "preventive" military attack on North Korea, while criticizing the high cost of protecting South Korea. Mattis was "exasperated and alarmed" of a meeting with Trump on that subject, and commented that the president had "acted like a child of 10 or 11 years."

In the same vein, Trump said he had never discussed with the Pentagon chief the possible assassination of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.