Among the egregious allegations levied against the Trump administration by Bob Woodward's "Fear: Trump in the White House" are stories of staffers compelled to withhold, and even steal, national security documents off President Donald Trump's desk "to protect the country," as CNN reported.
"President Donald Trump's closest aides have taken extraordinary measures in the White House to try to stop what they saw as his most dangerous impulses, going so far as to swipe and hide papers from his desk so he wouldn't sign them, according to a new book from legendary journalist Bob Woodward," CNN reported.
In the book's opening, former economic adviser Gary Cohn reportedly swiped a letter that would have pulled the United States out of a trade deal with South Korea, which might have compromised the U.S.'s "ability to detect a North Korean missile launch within just seven seconds," per CNN.
Former White House staff secretary Rob Porter allegedly had stolen or hidden documents on other occasions, according to Woodward's reporting, "to stall and delay decisions or distract Trump from orders they thought would endanger national security," CNN reported.
"A third of my job was trying to react to some of the really dangerous ideas that he had and try to give him reasons to believe that maybe they weren't such good ideas," Porter reportedly told Woodward.
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