Bob Woodward's book Fear: Trump In The White House, which is flying off the shelves (publisher Simon & Schuster said 750,000 copies were sold in the first two days), starts with the quote that inspired the title: "Real power is - I don't even want to use the word - fear."
That is what then presidential candidate Donald J. Trump told journalists Robert Costa and Mr Woodward in an interview on March 31, 2016, at the Old Post Office Pavilion in the Trump International Hotel in Washington, DC.
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