Former President Donald J. Trump, who is also running for president in 2024, is suing longtime Democrat journalist Bob Woodward over his Trump Tapes audiobook.
Trump says that he owns the copyright to the conversations between Woodward and Simon & Shuster that happened when Trump was president. He wants Woodward and Simon & Shuster to pay him $49 million in damages.
In their recorded, on-the-record conversations, Trump can be heard calling Woodward “a great historian” and “the great Bob Woodward.” Trump is not happy about Woodward’s audio release, The Daily Mail said Monday.
Trump, who always looks for the best in people, might have been wishing when he said what he did. Roger Stone, a longtime friend of Trump’s and a political insider, reminded readers that Woodward has a long history of problems with telling the truth and being honest in his leftist political journalism.
Stone criticized Woodward and linked to an article that accused Woodward of spreading fake news. The author of the article that Stone linked to completely discredits Woodward, which backs up Trump’s claims in the lawsuit that Woodward is not honest.
From the article Stone linked:
“Woodward and Bernstein didn’t just destroy Nixon. They radically altered the course of American history. By bringing down Nixon, they gave us Jimmy Carter. They revealed to their colleagues in the American news media just how much power they all had to shape public opinion – and how much wealth and prestige they could accrue by bending the facts to fit a partisan narrative. Woodstein’s example made possible the news media’s use, decades later, of endlessly repeated lies about Donald Trump to bring down yet another successful presidency.
In short, the real story of Watergate is far different from the story we’ve been told all these years. The only remaining mystery now is this: to what, if any, degree will John O’Connor, in the face of a press corps and a community of academic historians who are devoted to the Watergate myth, succeed in replacing that myth, in the public record, with the Nixon-friendly, Post-damning facts?”
Check it out:
Trump should not be surprised. Bob Woodward lied about Watergate, lied about John Belushi lied about Bill Casey and Iran-Contra. Bob Woodward has always been full of shit https://t.co/eHW8FoKsBN
— Roger Stone (@RogerJStoneJr) January 31, 2023
According to a press release from his office Trump is aiming at Woodward for that exact same kind of political disinformation about Trump:
“I am continuing my fight against the corrupt, dishonest, & deranged Fake News Media by filing this lawsuit against a man whose image is far different from the fact, Bob Woodward…I will always champion TRUTH & battle against the evil forces of disinformation & Fake News!”
Read the lawsuit here:https://t.co/vGHi0YM4yB
— Liz Harrington (@realLizUSA) January 31, 2023
From the Daily Mail report on the details of the lawsuit:
Trump had earlier called Woodward ‘very sleazy’ and threatened to sue. On Monday, he finally did so in Florida, drawing a Pensacola judge who is battling terminal prostate cancer and who once issued a ruling that struck down Obamacare.
His new lawyer was born in Britain, and is licensed to practice law in Florida and New York as well as to appear in court as a barrister in the U.K. – and as he revealed to DailyMail.com has done voiceover acting for Wendy’s, Panera Bread, and other clients in a variety of accents.
Trump took part in 19 interviews with Watergate journalist Bob Woodward. He is suing for $49 million in damages after publication of The Trump Tapes
Trump’s lawyers claim the former president, who spoke to Woodward while he was in office in repeated interviews – which Woodward recorded – ‘for the sole purpose of a book.’
‘This case centers on Mr. Woodward’s systematic usurpation, manipulation, and exploitation of audio of President Trump,’ according to the suit.
Trump had done the interviews during the pandemic, as Woodward penned Rage, his follow-up to his 2018 book critical of Trump, Fear. Trump participated in 19 interviews with Woodward.
Trump filed suit in Florida after the FBI searched Mar-a-Lago looking for classified material, drawing a judge he appointed who ruled in his favor and appointed a ‘special master’ to sort through the material. An appeals court later struck down the ruling.
His attorney, Robert Garson, denied any kind of forum shopping. ‘He’s a Florida resident,’ Garson told DailyMail.com.
He also said the suit was not meant to make a political statement. ‘I don’t bring suits for headline grabbing. I’m not that sort of guy,’ he said.
Garson, who has won awards for his voiceover work, has a ‘remarkably versatile voice anchored in the British accent range,’ and has done work in Scottish, Irish, and American accents. He says he hasn’t repped Trump previously.
His suit bases the $49 million damages figure based on selling 2 million copies at $24.99 each, as Bloomberg reported, noting that all three judges in the division of the US District Court for the Northern District of Florida where Trump filed are GOP appointees.
Trump last week dropped his $250 million lawsuit against James, after a judge hit him with $1 million in fines over a suit that he called a ‘political manifesto outlining his grievances against those that have opposed him.’
Rephrased from: The Republic Brief By: Trump Knows
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