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Ahead of the release of his never-before-heard audio interviews with former President Donald Trump, Watergate journalist Bob Woodward wrote that after listening to the unreleased tapes again, he concluded that Trump was an "unparalleled danger" rather than just the "wrong man" to be president.

"The Trump Tapes: Bob Woodward's Twenty Interviews with President Trump," set to be released Oct. 25, is an audiobook of previously unreleased conversations between the veteran journalist and the businessman-turned-politician.

In an op-ed for the Washington Post released Sunday, which includes previously unreleased snippets of "The Trump Tapes," Woodward wrote that he had concluded his 2020 book on Trump by calling him "the wrong man for the job."

Woodward now says his assessment of Trump did not accurately describe the former president.

"Two years later, I realize I didn't go far enough. Trump is an unparalleled danger," Woodward wrote.

He continued: "When you listen to him on the range of issues from foreign policy to the virus to racial injustice, it's clear he did not know what to do. Trump was overwhelmed by the job. He was largely disconnected from the needs and leadership expectations of the public and his absolute self-focus became the presidency."

Woodward explains in his piece for the Post that he decided to release the tapes to capture Trump's personality in a way that the written word couldn't. "Trump's voice magnifies his presence," Woodward said.


(full article online)


 
  • A top federal appeals court denied former President Donald Trump a rehearing of his challenge to an order that several years of his tax returns and those of related businesses be turned over to the House Ways and Means Committee.
  • The denial sets the stage for Trump to make an expected request to the Supreme Court to hear an appeal of the order. However, the court is not obligated to grant that request.
  • A federal judge last December dismissed Trump’s challenge to the House committee obtaining his tax records from the Treasury Department as part of an inquiry into how the IRS audits presidential income tax returns.

 

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