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MAD DOG: General Mattis Torches Bob Woodward For ‘Fiction’ Anti-Trump Book

Amanda Prestigiacomo

Journalists began their Pavlovian foaming-at-the-mouth on Tuesday with the release of Bob Woodward’s salacious, largely anonymously-sourced anti-Trump book “Fear.” Within the book, Woodward claims Secretary of Defense James Mattis told “close associates that the president acted like — and had the understanding of — ‘a fifth- or sixth-grader.'”

Living up to his “Mad Dog” nickname, General Mattis released an unfiltered statement on Tuesday afternoon denying the accusations and slamming Woodward for his “uniquely Washington brand of literature.”

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