Trump Calls Woodward Book ‘Fiction,’ Denies Assad Order

  • President dismisses account of turmoil as ‘boring and untrue’
  • Assad assassination ‘never even contemplated,’ Trump says
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President Donald Trump called journalist Bob Woodward’s forthcoming book on his administration a meaningless work of fiction, as he continued to seek to discredit the two-time Pulitzer Winner’s critical account of his White House.

“The book means nothing,” Trump told reporters at the White House on Wednesday. “It’s a work of fiction.”