*WASHINGTON DC – *US President Donald Trump had ordered assassination ofthe Syrian President Bashar ul Asad, a new report has revealed.
Trump wanted to have Syrian President Bashar al-Assad assassinated lastyear but his defense secretary ignored the request, according to a new bookthat depicts top Trump aides sometimes disregarding presidential orders tolimit what they saw as damaging and dangerous behavior.[image: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. PHOTO:REUTERS]
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. PHOTO:REUTERS
Excerpts from the book, “Fear: Trump in the White House,” written by famedWatergate reporter Bob Woodward, were published by the *Washington Post* onTuesday. The book, which is scheduled for release on Sept. 11, is thelatest to detail tensions within the White House under Trump’s 20-month-oldpresidency.
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“It’s just another bad book,” Trump told the *Daily Caller*.
The Republican president said in a Twitter post that quotes in the bookattributed to Defense Secretary James Mattis, White House Chief of StaffJohn Kelly and others “were made up frauds, a con on the public.”
