But what did he do in the presidency?” Woodward told CBS. “In many ways it’s the missing piece of the Trump story. In recent days, Woodward has been on a media tour to promote the audiobook.
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Woodward’s calls with Trump-of which there were sixteen in total, plus some in-person interviews-formed the basis for Rage, Woodward’s September 2020 book about Trump, and, now, for The Trump Tapes, an audiobook, out today, pulling together the recordings of the calls collectively, they last eight hours, interspersed with commentary from Woodward. “But we’re in a different world now, sweetie.” “You kind of sounded like you were telling him what to do.… You don’t want to do that,” Walsh admonished Woodward. Walsh also sometimes commented on Woodward’s conversations with Trump, as she did in April 2020, when Woodward presented Trump with a list of steps that Trump’s own experts had said would be critical to tackling the pandemic.
“I sort of say-like Princess Diana-that there were three people in this marriage: Bob, me, and Donald Trump,” Walsh quipped to CBS recently.
Sometimes, Elsa Walsh, the former Washington Post and New Yorker journalist to whom Woodward is married, would get to the phone first. 23-06883.In 2020, whenever the phone rang in the home of Bob Woodward, the venerated political reporter, he would wonder whether it was a robocall or the then-president of the United States. District Court, Southern District of New York, No. The case is Trump v Simon & Schuster Inc et al, U.S. Paramount agreed last month to sell Simon & Schuster to private equity firm KKR for $1.62 billion in cash, subject to regulatory approvals. Trump holds a dominant lead in the race for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination. Woodward said he never promised to use the interviews only for "Rage," and had no obligation to mothball them. The $49.98 million damages request was based on what Trump's lawyers called projected sales of 2 million audiobooks at $24.99 each. Trump sued in January, claiming he told Woodward numerous times that the interviews were meant solely for the "written word," meaning the book. 2020, while the audiobook "The Trump Tapes," including Woodward's commentary, was released in Oct. 2020, and about 20% of "Rage" came from the interviews. Woodward interviewed Trump 19 times between Dec. Robert Garson, a lawyer for Trump, declined to comment on Tuesday. The defendants also said Woodward made fair use of Trump's interviews, calling it "classic news reporting" that advanced "the need to convey information to the public accurately." "This long tradition of candid reporting depends on an axiomatic principle-reflected in copyright law's prohibition on private ownership of government works-that the words a sitting President speaks about the discharge of his office belong to the People," the filing said. They also called Woodward the "sole architect and true author" of his interviews with Trump, just as journalists like the late Walter Cronkite and Barbara Walters were in interviews with other presidents. The defendants said no president before Trump ever demanded royalties for publishing presidential interviews, and federal law barred him from copyrighting interviews conducted as part of his official duties. Woodward, his publisher Simon & Schuster and the publisher's parent Paramount Global filed a motion to dismiss Trump's lawsuit on Monday in Manhattan federal court, where the case had been transferred last month from Pensacola, Florida. The American journalist Bob Woodward is seeking to end former President Donald Trump's nearly $50 million lawsuit for publishing tapes from interviews for Woodward's 2020 best-seller "Rage" as an audiobook.
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