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If this book has a single point to drive home, it is that the president of the United States is a congenital liar

Fear: Trump in the White House

Bob Woodward

Simon & Schuster

420 pages; $30

Nothing in Bob Woodward’s sober and grainy new book, Fear: Trump in the White House, is especially surprising. This is a White House that has leaked from Day 1. We knew things were bad. Woodward is here, like a state trooper knocking on the door at 3 am, to update the sorry details.

Some of these details, at first glance, are amusing. Donald Trump lamented when Twitter, the social media platform on which he dispenses Pez-sized pellets of discourtesy, raised the maximum size of an individual tweet from 140 to 280