Read this article.
Some excerpts.
The book is filled with searing indictments of Trump. Mattis is quoted criticizing the President both for his chaotic process and ill-advised, go-it-alone policy decisions. When Trump says he wants to withdraw US troops from Afghanistan and South Korea, Mattis privately told Coats, "That's dangerous," Woodward reports. "The President has no moral compass."
Coats agreed. He's quoted as saying, "To him, a lie is not a lie. It's just what he thinks. He doesn't know the difference between the truth and a lie."
...
In a remarkable revelation, Woodward writes that Coats "continued to harbor the secret belief, one that had grown rather than lessened, although unsupported by intelligence proof, that Putin had something on Trump."
Coats and his top staffers "examined the intelligence as carefully as possible," Woodward writes. "There was no proof, period. But Coats's doubts continued, never fully dissipating."
"How else to explain the president's behavior? Coats could see no other explanation,"
...
"So you just had to deal with it," Mattis is quoted as saying. "It was, how do you govern this country and try to keep this experiment alive for one more year?"
Mattis said he ultimately
resigned after he was blindsided by Trump's announcement that he would withdraw troops from Syria. Woodward quotes Mattis as saying the decision "went beyond stupid to felony stupid."
...
When Trump showed Rosenstein a draft letter justifying why he wanted to fire Comey, Rosenstein is quoted as saying the letter "showed a disturbed mind."
Dr. Anthony Fauci, a key White House coronavirus task force member and the nation's leading infectious disease expert, is quoted telling others Trump's leadership on the virus was "rudderless" and his "sole purpose is to get reelected."