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Donald Trump insisted Friday that investigative writer Bob Woodward’s recordings of his aggregate interviews with the erstwhile president, featured successful Woodward’s upcoming audiobook, “belong” to Trump.
“We’ve already hired the lawyers to writer him,” Trump told Fox News big Brian Kilmeade Friday connected his vigor program. “Bob Woodward’s a precise sleazy guy,” helium added of the famed Watergate journalist.
Woodward’s audiobook, “The Trump Tapes: Bob Woodward’s Twenty Interviews with President Trump” is scheduled for merchandise connected Tuesday. It includes much than 8 hours of the journalist’s 20 interviews with Trump implicit the years, interspersed with commentary from Woodward.
Trump appeared to concede that Woodward was the 1 who acceptable up the tapes and recorded the interviews, but insisted the rights to usage the tapes beryllium to him.
“In galore ways, I similar the tapes, I importune connected tapes, but I besides accidental the tapes beryllium to me,” Trump told Kilmeade. “So that means Woodward has to get immoderate woody helium made, you know, we’ll astir apt extremity up successful litigation implicit it. Because we gave tapes for the written word, not tapes to sell, and that’s ever made clear,” helium said.
Trump insisted helium told Woodward “these tapes are for the written word, these tapes are for your [previous] book, these are not to beryllium sold, these are tapes for your book, to assistance you. I similar that due to the fact that it’s much accurate,” helium added.
“So present he’s making an audiobook retired of it, truthful we’ll writer him,” Trump said.
Woodward could not instantly beryllium reached for comment.
Some revelations from Woodward’s publication person already been recounted successful media outlets that obtained beforehand copies.
In 1 of the interviews successful 2019, Trump admitted that letters from North Korean person Kim Jong Un that were seized successful August from his Mar-a-Lago compound were “so apical secret,” The Washington Post reported. Yet helium nevertheless showed them disconnected to Woodward. “Don’t accidental I gave them to you, OK?” Trump tin beryllium heard saying connected tape.
In different audio signaling from a 2020 interrogation with Woodward, Trump said helium preferred “tougher and meaner” satellite leaders.
“I similar Putin,” Trump told Woodward, CNN reported aft obtaining an beforehand transcript of the audiobook.
“Getting on with Russia is simply a bully thing, not a atrocious thing, each right? Especially due to the fact that they person 1,332 atomic fucking warheads,” helium told the journalist.
This nonfiction primitively appeared connected HuffPost and has been updated.
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