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*WASHINGTON DC - *US President Donald Trump had ordered assassination of the Syrian President Bashar ul Asad, a new report has revealed.
Trump wanted to have Syrian President Bashar al-Assad assassinated last year but his defense secretary ignored the request, according to a new book that depicts top Trump aides sometimes disregarding presidential orders to limit 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 famed Watergate reporter Bob Woodward, were published by the *Washington Post* on Tuesday. The book, which is scheduled for release on Sept. 11, is the latest to detail tensions within the White House under Trump’s 20-month-old presidency.
“It’s just another bad book,” Trump told the *Daily Caller*.
The Republican president said in a Twitter post that quotes in the book attributed to Defense Secretary James Mattis, White House Chief of Staff John Kelly and others “were made up frauds, a con on the public.”
