Donald Trump insisted Friday that investigative journalist Bob Woodward’s recordings of his more than one interviews with the previous president, featured in Woodward’s upcoming audiobook, “belong” to Trump.
“We’ve already employed the legal professionals to sue him,” Trump informed Fox Information host Brian Kilmeade Friday on his radio program. “Bob Woodward’s an overly sleazy man,” he added of the famed Watergate journalist.
Woodward’s audiobook, “The Trump Tapes: Bob Woodward’s Twenty Interviews with President Trump” is scheduled for unlock on Tuesday. It contains greater than 8 hours of the journalist’s 20 interviews with Trump over time, interspersed with statement from Woodward.
Trump seemed to concede that Woodward was once the person who arrange the tapes and recorded the interviews, however insisted the rights to make use of the tapes belong to him.
“In some ways, I just like the tapes, I insist on tapes, however I additionally say the tapes belong to me,” Trump informed Kilmeade. “In order that manner Woodward has to get no matter deal he made, you realize, we’ll almost certainly finally end up in litigation over it. As a result of we gave tapes for the written phrase, no longer tapes to promote, and that’s at all times made transparent,” he mentioned.
Trump insisted he informed Woodward “those tapes are for the written phrase, those tapes are to your [previous] ebook, those aren’t to be bought, those are tapes to your ebook, that will help you. I really like that as it’s extra correct,” he added.
“So now he’s making an audiobook out of it, so we’ll sue him,” Trump mentioned.
Woodward may no longer straight away be reached for remark.
Some revelations from Woodward’s ebook have already been recounted in media retailers that acquired advance copies.
In one of the most interviews in 2019, Trump admitted that letters from North Korean chief Kim Jong Un that have been seized in August from his Mar-a-Lago compound have been “so most sensible secret,” The Washington Put up reported. But he nonetheless confirmed them off to Woodward. “Don’t say I gave them to you, OK?” Trump will also be heard announcing on tape.
In every other audio recording from a 2020 interview with Woodward, Trump mentioned he most popular “harder and meaner” global leaders.
“I really like Putin,” Trump informed Woodward, CNN reported after acquiring an advance replica of the audiobook.
“Getting at the side of Russia is a great factor, no longer a foul factor, all proper? Particularly as a result of they’ve 1,332 nuclear fucking warheads,” he informed the journalist.