GARY COHN/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “One of President Donald Trump’s former senior aides and his former chief economic adviser have issued statements claiming that Bob Woodward’s bombshell new book, ‘Fear,’ is inaccurate and misleading, after the book featured their statements and descriptions of the President’s actions in a negative light. The White House applied ‘a lot of pressure’ on former Trump chief economic adviser Gary Cohn and former White House staff secretary Rob Porter to issue statements supporting Trump, and made it known the President was upset, a source close to the White House told CNN. A separate source close to the White House said the White House is ‘pushing anyone who is remotely associated with the book to discredit the information.’ Neither statement directly refutes specific details presented by Woodward, whose book hit shelves on Tuesday [9-11-18]. Cohn said in a statement to Axios on Tuesday that the ‘book does not accurately portray my experience at the White House.'”
–Maegan Vazquez, Jim Acosta, Kevin Liptak, Cristina Alesci and Kate Sullivan, “Gary Cohn and Rob Porter push back on Woodward book,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, September 11, 2018 8:20 pm