I've 'never seen anyone in government' so dangerous to national security as Trump: Bob Woodward

Legendary journalist Bob Woodward tore into former President Donald Trump in an interview on CNN Wednesday evening, calling him the largest threat to national security he had ever seen from any U.S. government official.

This comes amid the release of an audio tape of Trump boasting to patrons of his New Jersey golf club about possessing highly classified defense information about an attack on Iran — which he now denies — and reporting that he was motivated to do so by anger at Joint Chiefs Chairman Mark Milley for working to constrain his post-2020 election impulses.

"Bob, you've interviewed the former president a lot," said anchor Anderson Cooper. "We've discussed your own tape of him. What stands out to you about this latest recording?"

"Well, it really shows that Donald Trump is an alarming, dangerous threat to national security," said Woodward, who helped expose the Watergate scandal decades ago and has recently been caught up in a legal battle with Trump over White House transcripts. "In the book, 'Peril' that I did with Robert Costa, we recount two National Security Council meetings where Trump, not General Milley or the Defense Department, was agitating for a possible attack on Iran. And he is pushing it. And General Milley, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, the number one military man in the country, is telling Trump, you don't want a war. If you start a war, you're going to get into a conflict that you can't get out of."

"You see him in this reporting that we did from these meetings from notes, that it is the generals who say, no, no, no," Woodward continued. "And Trump says, well — in one of the meetings the Iranians have enough to make two nuclear bombs, and he's worried about that and thinking that maybe they should consider an attack. And these contingency plans are most sensitive documents in the government because what they do is they outline in a crisis how we might attack Iran, what the casualties would be, how many ships would be sunk, how long it might take. And that's something you can't treat casually, as Trump has."

"When I read this and connected some of the dots, I'd never seen anyone in government, let alone a president handle a situation like this so irresponsibly," Woodward concluded.

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