I’m not going to go through this, Coats said. It could be a thousand cuts. Most of the published reports come from anonymous sources only cited as senior White House officials or Trump friends. He had seen this before. When Trump was unhappy with someone, out came the endless undermining and criticism. Trump dismissed this. The White House sources were fake, he said. “I didn’t say that.” Coats did not believe the president’s denials for a minute.
