Woodward Releases Unedited Tapes Of Trump Interviews

Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward has published several books on Donald Trump and each time he records the conversations.

Photo Insert: Trump attacked Woodward's book Rage as "very boring," after claiming he read the nearly 400-page book in "one sitting."

The recordings are valuable for anyone who interviews Trump as he tends to claim after the fact that things are "fake news" or that people are lying. So, recordings can help in defense of any reporter forced to face off against Trump after he's gone on the attack, Sarah K. Burris reported for Raw Story.

In the case of Woodward, Trump attacked his book Rage as "very boring," after claiming he read the nearly 400-page book in "one sitting."

Trump also explained why he spoke to the Watergate reporter: “Well, because I assumed he was a little bit fair.” Speaking to Fox about the Woodward book, Trump also called it "inaccurate."

A review of the tapes by National Public Radio (NPR) showed Trump currying favor with Woodward, who exposed his multiple lies.

In his new piece for the Washington Post, Woodward explained that he never reveals "raw interviews" or a "full transcript" of his recordings. With Trump, he explained, it was different.

"I was struck by how Trump pounded in my ears in a way the printed page cannot capture," Woodward wrote. "In their totality, these interviews offer an unvarnished portrait of Trump. You hear Trump in his own words, in his own voice, during one of the most consequential years in American history: amid Trump’s first impeachment, the coronavirus pandemic and large racial justice protests."

Trump has come out against the tapes, saying that they belong to him, not to Woodward, and certainly should not have been published. Trump didn't make the recordings, and he never had possession of them, but like the classified documents he stole from the White House, Trump claims that they're his.

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