AXIOS - September 6, 2018: President Trump is not just seething about Bob Woodward's new book. He’s deeply suspicious of much of the government he oversees — from the hordes of folks inside agencies, right up to some of the senior-most political appointees and even some handpicked aides inside his own White House, officials tell Axios. (BattleForWorld: The financial ruling elites are determine to oust President Trump from the White House using the Russian collusion scandal. They will get Trump in the activity of counsel, but nothing will come of it.)

A good number of current White House officials have privately admitted to us they consider Trump unstable, and at times dangerously slow.

For some time last year, Trump even carried with him a handwritten list of people suspected to be leakers undermining his agenda: He would basically be like, 'We’ve gotta get rid of them. The snakes are everywhere but we’re getting rid of them,'" said a source close to Trump. When he was super frustrated about the leaks, he would rail about the 'snakes' in the White House," said a source who has discussed administration leakers with the president.

The Times Op-Ed reinforces everything Trump instinctively believes: That a "Deep State" exists. It's trying to undermine him and — in the case of Jeff Sessions’ Justice Department, in Trump’s mind — is trying to overthrow his presidency. The Bob Woodward book, Trump believes, exposes that leakers are everywhere — and gunning for him.

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