Donald Trump insisted Friday that investigative journalist Bob Woodward's recordings of his multiple interviews with the former president, featured in Woodward's upcoming audiobook, "Belong" to him.
Trump told Fox News host Brian Kilmeade on his radio program that he had hired lawyers to file a lawsuit against him. He said that Bob Woodward was a very sleazy guy.
Bob Woodward is releasing an audiobook on Tuesday called "The Trump Tapes: Bob Woodward's Twenty Interviews with President Trump". It contains more than eight hours of the journalist's interviews with Trump.
The rights to use the tapes belonged to Trump, but he conceded that Woodward was the one who set up the tapes.
Trump said he likes the tapes, but he also said the tapes belonged to him. We will probably end up in litigation over the deal Woodward made. He said that tapes for the written word are not tapes to sell.
These tapes are for the written word, these tapes are not for sale, these are tapes for your book, to help you. He said that he liked that it was more accurate.
He will be sued because he is making an audiobook out of it.
Woodward was not reachable for comment.
Some of the revelations from Woodward's book have already been reported.
The Washington Post reported that Trump admitted in an interview that the letters from Kim were top secret. He showed them off to someone else. Don't say I gave you the items. On the tape, Trump can be heard making a statement.
In a 2020 interview with Woodward, Trump said he preferred tough and mean leaders.
After getting an advance copy of the audiobook, Trump said he liked Putin.
It's a good thing to get along with Russia. He told the journalist that they have a lot of nuclear weapons.
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