LAWSUIT/MEDIA: “Former President Donald Trump is suing journalist Bob Woodward for releasing recordings of interviews that he gave to the journalist in 2019 and 2020, claiming he never agreed to those tapes being shared with the public. In a lawsuit filed Monday against Woodward, Simon & Schuster Inc., and the publisher’s parent company Paramount Global, Trump […]
Tag: book tell-all
1/19/2023
IVANKA/JARED KUSHNER/MIKE POMPEO/TRUMP PEOPLE: “In a new memoir peppered with broadsides at potential rivals in the 2024 Republican presidential primary, Mike Pompeo, the former secretary of state, accuses Nikki Haley of plotting with Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump to be named vice-president, even while she served as Donald Trump’s ambassador to the United Nations. Describing […]
5/8/2022
TRUMP PEOPLE: “Trump called [Mark] Esper’s claims [in his new book about being Defense Secretary under Trump] a ‘complete lie’ in a statement to 60 Minutes, saying that 10 witnesses would back him up. ‘Mark Esper was weak and totally ineffective, and because of it, I had to run the military. I took out ISIS, […]
5/5/2022
MEXICO/PROTESTS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald J. Trump in 2020 asked Mark T. Esper, his defense secretary, about the possibility of launching missiles into Mexico to ‘destroy the drug labs’ and wipe out the cartels, maintaining that the United States’ involvement in a strike against its southern neighbor could be kept secret, Mr. Esper recounts in his […]
3/4/2022
ATTORNEY GENERAL/WILLIAM BARR: “Former Attorney General William Barr said in an interview aired on Friday that he believes former President Trump is responsible for the Capitol riot ‘in the broad sense of that word.’ […] ‘I do think he was responsible in the broad sense of that word, and that it appears that part of […]
12/7/2021
BRETT KAVANAUGH/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “During Brett Kavanaugh’s controversial 2018 Supreme Court confirmation hearings, President Donald Trump ‘strongly considered’ dropping the nominee and instead going with a ‘stronger candidate,’ according to a new book by Trump’s former chief of staff Mark Meadows. It wasn’t because of accusations that Kavanaugh had sexually assaulted Christine Blasey Ford while […]
12/1/2021
COVID-19/DEBATES/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Donald Trump tested positive for Covid-19 three days before his first debate against Joe Biden [on September 29, 2020], the former president’s fourth and last chief of staff has revealed in a new book. Mark Meadows also writes that though he knew each candidate was required “to test negative for the virus within […]
11/15/2021
JOHN KELLY/TRUMP PEOPLE: “John Kelly, Donald Trump’s former White House chief of staff, did not mince words about his ex-boss as rioters violently stormed the Capitol on January 6, according to a new book. ‘If he was a real man, he would go down to the Capitol and tell them to stop,’ Kelly said of […]
11/1/2021
2020 ELECTION/GEORGIA: “Donald Trump was threatening Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger when he asked him to help ‘find’ enough votes to overturn his loss in Georgia to Democratic President Joe Biden, Raffensperger writes in a new book. The book, ‘Integrity Counts,’ was released Tuesday. In it, Raffensperger depicts a man who defied pressure from […]
10/7/2021
JOHN BOLTON/POLITICAL FIGURES: “Fiona Hill was terrible at her job… She was very close to one of the dumbest and most ‘crazed’ people in Washington, John Bolton… Fiona Hill was a Deep State stiff with a nice accent. Books are being written by people like her who had virtually no access to me, and who […]
7/9/2021
TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “It seems to me that meeting with authors of the ridiculous number of books being written about my very successful Administration, or me, is a total waste of time. They write whatever they want to write anyway without sources, fact-checking, or asking whether or not an event is true or false. Frankly, […]
6/21/2020
JOHN BOLTON/TRUMP PEOPLE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Well, my experience was he very rarely read much. The intelligence briefings took place perhaps once or twice a week… It’s very unusual. They should take place every day. The president should read extensively the material he’s given. It’s not clear to me that he read much of anything. I […]