In the book “The Trump Tapes”, Woodward reproduces 20 interviews with Trump from the period 2016 to 2020. Woodward says that he publishes the raw recordings to give people the opportunity to hear Trump’s own words and make their own assessments. Woodward warned in his book “Rage” from 2020 that “Trump is the wrong man for the job” (as president). In this year’s book, he writes that he did not go far enough, and now describes Trump as “a danger without parallel”. – Destroy democracy Woodward writes according to CNN that “history shows that he has led, and continues to lead, an outrageous conspiracy to change the 2020 election, which is in reality an attempt to destroy democracy”. The publisher Simon & Schuster Audio states that “The Trump Tapes” will be released on 25 October. Woodward and Washington Post colleague Robert Costa interviewed Trump in 2016 when Trump was fighting to be nominated as the Republican presidential candidate. Woodward then interviewed Trump 19 times in 2019 and 2020 while Trump was president. The conversations were partially reproduced in the bestseller “Rage”. Now he publishes the audio recording himself. – I am doing something here that I have never done before, by presenting the long raw interviews from my work. Out of consideration for history, I wanted to include as much as possible of Trump’s voice, his own words, so that people can listen and make their own assessments, Woodward explains in the foreword to the audiobook. Boasting of secret weapons Former first lady Melania Trump, son Donald Trump jr. and Vice President Mike Pence are among several who came by while Woodward and the president were talking. The audiobook also includes Woodward’s conversations with Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner and Trump’s national security adviser Robert O’Brien. Among the topics in the talks with Trump, Woodward heard the president’s assessments of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and Russian President Vladimir Putin. He also points out that Trump showed him secret documents and boasted about the US’s secret weapons system. .
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