Trump Denies He Called Jeff Sessions ‘Mentally Retarded’: Bob Woodward ‘Made This Up’

President Donald Trump is pushing back hard on numerous excerpts coming from Bob Woodward‘s new book Fear.

One of the wildest excerpts from Woodward was Trump’s reported attacks against Attorney General Jeff Sessions, alleging he called him “mentally retarded” and dismissed him as a “dumb Southerner.”

Per Woodward:

A near-constant subject of withering presidential attacks was Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Trump told [Rob] Porter that Sessions was a “traitor” for recusing himself from overseeing the Russia investigation, Woodward writes. Mocking Sessions’s accent, Trump added, “This guy is mentally retarded. He’s this dumb Southerner. … He couldn’t even be a one-person country lawyer down in Alabama.”

Well, the president is firing back on Twitter completely denying he said such things.

The already discredited Woodward book, so many lies and phony sources, has me calling Jeff Sessions “mentally retarded” and “a dumb southerner.” I said NEITHER, never used those terms on anyone, including Jeff, and being a southerner is a GREAT thing. He made this up to divide!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 5, 2018

“The already discredited Woodward book, so many lies and phony sources, has me calling Jeff Sessions ‘mentally retarded’ and ‘a dumb southerner,'” Trump tweeted. “I said NEITHER, never used those terms on anyone, including Jeff, and being a southerner is a GREAT thing. He made this up to divide!”

Trump attacked Woodward earlier refuting book portions invoking Secretary of Defense Gen. James Mattis and WH Chief of Staff John Kelly.

The Woodward book has already been refuted and discredited by General (Secretary of Defense) James Mattis and General (Chief of Staff) John Kelly. Their quotes were made up frauds, a con on the public. Likewise other stories and quotes. Woodward is a Dem operative? Notice timing?

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 4, 2018

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