TIME Magazineのインスタグラム(time) - 10月2日 05時00分

At 75, White House chronicler @realbobwoodward's status as the best investigative #reporter of his generation—O.K., maybe any generation—is assured. Woodward latest book, 'Fear: Trump in the White House,' sold more than 1.1 million copies in its first week partly because it’s by Woodward, who has been reporting this kind of behind-the-scenes stuff for years, and partly because his latest volume includes hair-curling tales of top officials working behind the scenes to foil and undermine a President they consider to be unstable. 'Fear,' Woodward admits, was harder to write than many of his 18 previous books because he was trying to record, and make sense of, a chaotic presidency even as it was unfolding. It lays bare so many shortcomings of Donald Trump’s decision­making that it’s hard to contain them. Trump insists on actions but rarely follows through. He has so much trouble telling the truth that his lawyer calls him “disabled.” The President undercuts and insults his aides while expecting loyalty in return. (Instead, they call him an “idiot” and a “moron.”) Woodward’s sources tell him that Trump knows little about economics, trade, capital flows, global supply chains, defense spending, mutual security or nuclear strategy and dismisses anyone who says they do. Top aides ignore or dismiss Trump’s orders, conspiring to remove decision memorandums from his desk rather than run the risk of letting him sign them. When asked, Do White House aides leak more—and resist more—than when you first talked to Nixon’s advisers during Watergate, 45 years ago? Woodward thinks back. “Nixon’s aides went along. They resisted some things. But basically they got with the program. Obviously a lot of Trump’s aides, former and current, are not with his program.” Then he adds, “The word resistance, I don’t know if that’s the right word. I think it’s defiance.” People need to wake up, Woodward has said repeatedly. He is worried about what a President with a disruptive bent will do in a genuine crisis. Photograph by @gregkahn for TIME

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