The campaign for former President Donald Trump responded to the new book by journalist Bob Woodward on Tuesday, calling it "the work of a truly demented and deranged man."
Woodward's latest literary endeavor "War" details the "behind-the-scenes story of three wars: Ukraine, the Middle East, and the struggle for the American Presidency," according to the synopsis. Although the book dissects decisions made by President Joe Biden as well, one of the more incendiary allegations leveled against Trump was the former president has had multiple conversations with Russian President Vladimir Putin since 2021.
"None of these made-up stories by Bob Woodward are true and are the work of a truly demented and deranged man who suffers from a debilitating case of Trump Derangement Syndrome," Trump 2024 communications director Steven Cheung wrote in a statement.
"Woodward is an angry, little man and is clearly upset because President Trump is successfully suing him because of the unauthorized publishing of recordings he made previously."
Woodward, long known for having an extensive list of contacts in Washington wrote, according to Trump aides, there have been at least seven phone calls between Trump and Putin since the former president left the White House, CNN reported.
"President Trump gave him absolutely no access for this trash book that either belongs in the bargain bin of the fiction section of a discount bookstore or used as toilet tissue," Cheung's statement concluded. "Woodward is a total sleazebag who has lost it mentally, and he's slow, lethargic, incompetent and overall, a boring person with no personality.
Trump sued Woodward in 2023 for $50 million over a previous work, "Rage," which featured one-on-one interviews the journalist had with Trump between December 2019 and August 2020.