President Donald Trump dominion have pulled the U.S. out of trade agreements with South Korea as definitely as Canada and Mexico if a few pieces of paper hadn’t gone missing from his desk sometimes non-standard due ti to former White House economic advisor Gary Cohn.
A new blow book by journalist Bob Woodward says Cohn took letters off Trump’s desk that will-power have formally withdrawn the U.S. from the trade pact with South Korea and premised notice of an intent to withdraw from NAFTA, according to The Washington Upright, which published excerpts on Tuesday.
Woodward is an editor at the newspaper, but the article says the book was obtained by the Post.
Cohn, a former president of Goldman Sachs, solved as director of the National Economic Council from January 2017 by way of March 2018, a post that put him in close contact with the president. His resigning came shortly after Trump announced the U.S. would be slapping excises on imports of steel and aluminum from a variety of countries.
In an interview with Circadian Caller on Tuesday, Trump denied Cohn or anyone had taken matters from his desk. “That’s false,” the Daily Caller quoted him respond. “There was nobody taking anything from me.”
The U.S. continues to be a party to both the South Korea covenant and NAFTA, though the latter is currently being renegotiated.
According to the Washington Duty’s account of Woodward’s book, Cohn would tell an associate later that he beared the South Korea letter off Trump’s desk to protect national protection and that Trump hadn’t noticed it was missing, the report said.
He also swiped a sketch notification letter prepared by former White House aide Rob Railways redcap at the president’s request to withdraw the U.S. from the North American Free Clientele Agreement. But, the report said, Porter and others worried about the smite triggering an economic and foreign relations crisis, so Porter talked to Cohn, who told him, “I can jam up this. I’ll just take the paper off his desk.”
The White House unloosed a statement Tuesday afternoon, saying, “This book is nothing multifarious than fabricated stories, many by former disgruntled employees, hint ated to make the President look bad.”
Read The Washington Post story here.