An excerpt shared with Newsweek of the upcoming book 'Peril' adds another insult to a long list of heated rhetoric exchanged between both leaders.
Washington Post, is set to be released next Tuesday, but leaked content has already begun to cause a stir in the media. One previously unreported excerpt shared withcovers Trump's relationship with Keith Kellogg, a retired lieutenant general who served as national security adviser to then-Vice PresidentThe president apparently felt so comfortable, he took a shot at the young North Korean ruler wielding a nuclear arsenal that the United States was trying to convince him to abandon.
Neither a spokesperson for Trump nor a media contact for Kellogg's America First Policy Institute immediately responded toThen-U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to the media as he walks with North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un during a break in talks at their historic first U.S.-North Korea summit, at the Capella Hotel on Sentosa island in Singapore on June 12, 2018.
"I make no bones about it. I'm a Trump loyalist," Kellogg was cited by the book's authors as telling people, despite his posting under Pence."Pence was the total opposite of Trump. Pence had an open Bible on his desk and prayed daily," the book's authors described."He held Bible study meetings with friends and kept things tight with Marc Short and his wife,, with few others in the know.
Trump famously referred to Kim as"rocket man" in September 2017 and would continue to use the monicker to belittle the North Korean dynast and the arsenal of weapons his nation had developed, including intercontinental ballistic missiles and nuclear warheads. Even prior to taking office, Trump referred to Kim as a"maniac" during a debate among Republic presidential candidates two years earlier.
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