Ex-Adviser Says Putin Played on Trump’s Ego and Insecurities
Former President Donald Trump’s one-time National Security Advisor Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster wrote in his new book, At War With Ourselves: My Tour of Duty in the Trump White House, obtained by The Guardian, that Russian President Vladimir Putin tantalized Trump by preying on his “ego and insecurities.”
The book, which details McMaster’s time in the Trump White House, comes out on Aug. 27.
“This is nothing more than fake news intended to use made-up, salacious fabrications in order to sell copies of a book that belongs in the bargain bin of the fiction section,” Trump spokesperson Steven Cheung said of the book in a statement emailed to the Daily Beast.