WASHINGTON — President Trump, a commander in chief with a well-known bunker mentality, has long doubted the ability of his aides to protect him from outside attacks. But his anxiety about whom he can trust has only increased in the days since anonymous administration members — a number of them in Bob Woodward’s book “Fear,” and one in an opinion piece published in The New York Times — laid out in stark detail concerns about his volatile personality and doubts about his ability to lead. This is all according to one of the few people who still has the president’s confidence: a family member. “I think there are people in there that he can trust,” Donald Trump Jr., the president’s eldest son, said of the Trump White House in an interview on ABC’s “Good Morning America” on Tuesday. “I just think it’s a much smaller group than I would like it to be.”But public denials — however nonspecific — from aides that they were the ones speaking out against him seem to have momentarily buoyed the president.

Source: New York Times September 12, 2018 00:11 UTC