Article snippet: Explosive excerpts from Watergate reporter Bob Woodward’s highly anticipated book about the Trump White House landed with a boom on Tuesday, rocking Washington and creating a new crisis for the president as his party enters a pivotal stretch. “Fear: Trump in the White House” casts the administration as rife with infighting, depicting White House aides as attempting to rein in MORE’s worst impulses — at least judged by the excerpts published Tuesday by The Washington Post. Woodward paints the picture of an administration having a “nervous breakdown,” describing instances where staffers snatched papers off of Trump’s desk so he couldn’t see them or follow through on what they believed would be catastrophic decisions on trade or national security. Aides likened Trump’s paranoia about special counsel MORE to former President Nixon’s final days in the White House, and the book is chock-full of examples of Trump and aides targeting one another with insults, according to excerpts published by the Post. Democrats said the book, which hit No. 1 on the Amazon best-sellers list on Tuesday, underlined their argument that Trump is unfit for the White House, a message they are using to suggest that voters should put congressional majorities in their hands to act as a balance to the president. The White House, which had been bracing for the book, did not comment for several hours after the excerpts went public, but eventually took aim at Woodward’s credibility. In an interview... Link to the full article to read more