President Donald Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani on Wednesday fired back at the authors of an unflattering book and The New York Times op-ed about the president, saying he did not trust the Times and he had "no respect" for journalist Bob Woodward.
"I have no respect for a man who writes a scurrilous thing about me, that I'm a baby, that I need to be in diapers, and he doesn't call me to ask me my version of it?" Giuliani told CNN's Chris Cuomo about Woodward's book "Fear: Trump in the White House." "He doesn't call anybody else to ask their version of it?"
"How do I know what's true?"
Giuliani also slammed the unidentified author of an op-ed published Wednesday in the Times who wrote the president is "not moored to any discernible first principles that guide his decision making."
"Do I trust The New York Times? I'm sorry Chris, I know this shocks you, I do not trust the New York Times," he told Cuomo, adding later he did not think the author was "telling the truth."
"I don't trust anything I read anymore, not after the stuff that's been done to me."
Woodward's book, which is set to be released Sept. 11, reveals a nervous breakdown of Trump's presidency through the eyes of the president's inner circle. Giuliani says claims related to him – including that Trump was quoted as calling him a "little baby that needed to be changed" – were entirely untrue.
Giuliano also slammed Woodward's book as a money-making scheme.
"He had a nice juicy little thing he could use to promo his book, make money, and this is the Woodward scheme . . . [he] had calculated 'this can sell me books,'" Giuliani told CNN's "Cuomo Prime Time."
"Woodward is a genius at knowing how to sell books," he said later in the show.
Woodward's book, according to the Post, is based on hundreds of hours of interviews with firsthand sources, meeting notes, personal diaries, files, and documents.
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