1/30/2023

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 […]

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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 […]

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1/12/2023

NORTH KOREA/NUCLEAR: “Behind closed doors in 2017, President Donald Trump discussed the idea of using a nuclear weapon against North Korea and suggested he could blame a U.S. strike against the communist regime on another country, according to a new section of a book that details key events of his administration.” -Rebecca Shabad, “Trump discussed […]

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9/29/2022

DONALD ON DONALD: “I know many people who wanted to write a really good book about me, but their publishers wouldn’t let them. They were not interested in any way, shape, or form unless they were willing to say bad things. Some took a pass, and some sold out to the Enemy.” -Donald Trump, “Statement […]

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9/15/2022

PUERTO RICO: “New details have emerged about former President Donald Trump’s alleged desire to have the United States acquire the island of Greenland while in office. According to a forthcoming book, the former president at one point even suggested to aides that the U.S. could trade Puerto Rico for it… According to the book, former […]

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5/15/2022

2020 ELECTION: “Former President Donald Trump told supporters on Saturday that he’s writing a book about his baseless claim that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him and said he’ll title it ‘The Crime of the Century.’ As he spoke for over an hour at an event in Austin, Trump criticized the integrity of […]

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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, […]

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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 […]

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11/17/2021

2020 ELECTION/CIVIL UNREST: “Jonathan Karl’s new book ‘Betrayal,’ released Tuesday [November 16, 2021], documents the historic presidential election, unprecedented claims of fraud, the January insurrection at the U.S. Capitol and the stirrings of the novel COVID-19 virus that marked the final days of former President Donald Trump’s presidency… Trump looks back on Jan. 6 ‘fondly,’ […]

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11/12/2021

2020 ELECTION/MIKE PENCE: “Donald Trump defended rioters at the Capitol on 6 January who threatened to ‘hang Mike Pence’, his vice-president, according to recorded remarks released on Friday [November 12, 2021]… Trump was speaking to the ABC chief Washington correspondent, Jonathan Karl, for his book Betrayal: The Final Act of the Trump Show… The recording […]

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7/15/2021

2020 ELECTION/MILITARY: “The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Mark Milley, worried that then-President Donald Trump would try to use the military to attempt a coup after the 2020 election and vowed to prevent it. That’s according to a new book by Washington Post reporters Phil Rucker and Carol Leonnig… ‘They may try’ but […]

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10/2/2020

CORONAVIRUS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Even as President Donald Trump privately admitted to journalist Bob Woodward earlier this year that the coronavirus was highly contagious and dangerous, Trump claimed he wasn’t worried about contracting the virus himself. CNN on Friday obtained a new audio recording from Woodward’s April 13 interview with Trump that sheds new light on […]

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9/30/2020

FBI/JAMES COMEY/MEDIA/RUSSIA INVESTIGATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: Former FBI Director James “Comey is a disaster who cheated and lied. How do you write books when you can’t remember anything? Should be tried for treason. This is ridiculous! RT @paulsperry_ all this memory loss and out-of-the-loop i dunnos is strange for a guy who took copious notes after […]

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9/15/2020

DOJ/JOHN BOLTON/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The Justice Department has opened a criminal investigation into whether President Trump’s former national security adviser John R. Bolton unlawfully disclosed classified information when he published a memoir this summer, a case that the department opened after it failed to stop the book’s publication this summer, according to three people familiar with […]

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9/14/2020

CORONAVIRUS: “Stephen Colbert got a scoop tonight for his CBS late-night show. Veteran journalist and Rage author Bob Woodward brought along what he calls a ‘quite revealing’ exclusive recording of President Donald Trump from five months ago saying of the coronavirus, ‘Bob, it’s so easily transmissible, you wouldn’t even believe it.’ Woodward tells Colbert and […]

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9/14/2020

CORONAVIRUS: “CNN released another snippet of the on-the-record, taped conversations between President Donald Trump and journalist Bob Woodward, this time revealing that the nation’s leader was admitting on April 13 that the Covid-19 virus was ‘a killer.’… CNN then played the audio of Trump saying, ‘This thing is a killer if it gets you. If […]

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9/10/2020

CIA/SAUDI ARABIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump bragged that he had saved a Saudi crown prince who the CIA concluded ordered the murder of a U.S. journalist and prominent Saudi critic. He derided U.S. generals as a ‘bunch of pussies,’ while his son-in-law and senior adviser dismissed some early White House officials as ‘overconfident idiots.’ And […]

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9/10/2020

SAUDI ARABIA: [Reporter: “Mr. President, what did you mean when you said you ‘saved MBS’s ass’ to Woodward? What did you mean when you said you saved him?”] “Who are you talking about? [Reporter: “Mohammed bin Salman.”] “Oh, I don’t know. You’ll have to figure that out yourself.” -Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump Before […]

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9/9/2020

CORONAVIRUS: [Reporter: “Mr. President, can you address the concerns from the Woodward book in regards to whether — did you mislead the public by saying that you downplayed the coronavirus and that you repeatedly did that in order to reduce panic?”] “Well, I think if you said ‘in order to reduce panic,’ perhaps that’s so. […]

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9/9/2020

OBAMA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Aside from exploring Trump’s handling of the pandemic, Woodward’s new book, ‘Rage,’ covers race relations, diplomacy with North Korea and a range of other issues that have arisen during the past two years… The book is based in part on 18 on-the-record interviews Woodward conducted with the president between December and July… ‘I […]

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9/9/2020

CORONAVIRUS: “President Trump’s head popped up during his top-secret intelligence briefing in the Oval Office on Jan. 28 when the discussion turned to the novel coronavirus outbreak in China. ‘This will be the biggest national security threat you face in your presidency,’ national security adviser Robert O’Brien told Trump, according to a new book by […]

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9/9/2020

FAKE NEWS/IMPEACHMENT/INVESTIGATIONS/MEDIA/RUSSIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/UKRAINE: “For years Fake stories and investigations, then the phony Russia, Russia, Russia HOAX, next Ukraine and the failed Impeachment, now the crummy Atlantic Magazine’s MADE UP STORY, and lastly, the political hit job by rapidly fading Bob Woodward and his boring book. It never ends!“ ––Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 9, 2020 […]

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9/9/2020

CHINA/CORONAVIRUS: “We have to have leadership. We have to show leadership. And the last thing you want to do is create a panic in the country. This [coronavirus] was a horrible thing. It was sent to us by China. It should not have happened — should never have happened. This is a disgusting, terrible situation […]

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9/7/2020

MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP PEOPLE/VLADIMIR PUTIN: “In ‘Disloyal: A Memoir,’ [Donald Trump’s former] lawyer, Michael Cohen, writes that he believes his longtime client won’t leave office willingly if he is defeated in the November election… Cohen said Trump praised Russian President Vladimir Putin during the 2016 campaign because he assumed he would lose and wanted to make […]

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8/29/2020

FAKE NEWS/JOHN BOLTON/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP FAMILY: “About the only way a person is able to write a book on me is if they agree that it will contain as much bad ‘stuff’ as possible, much of which is lies. It’s like getting a job with CNN or MSDNC and saying that ‘President Trump is great.’ […]

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8/14/2020

DEMS/FAKE NEWS/GOP/HILLARY CLINTON/MEDIA: “Everybody does phony books on Donald Trump and Republicans, just like the Fake Dossier, which turned out to be a total fraud perpetrated by Crooked Hillary Clinton and the DNC… …The Bob Woodward book will be a FAKE, as always, just as many of the others have been. But, believe it or […]

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8/13/2020

MICHAEL COHEN/RUSSIA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Trump had colluded with the Russians, but not in the sophisticated ways imagined by his detractors. I also knew that the Mueller investigation was not a witch-hunt… Trump had cheated in the election, with Russian connivance, as you will discover in these pages, because doing anything — and I mean anything — […]

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8/13/2020

2016 ELECTION/MICHAEL COHEN/TRUMP PEOPLE: “In an upcoming book, Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s former attorney, alleges that Trump worked with Russia to win the 2016 presidential election… Cohen claims that Trump lied when he told the American public he had no dealings in Russia, because Cohen personally oversaw Trump’s efforts to secure a major real […]

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7/18/2020

MARY TRUMP/TRUMP FAMILY: “President Donald Trump’s niece Mary Trump — a psychologist whose recently published book criticizes the President and his family — asserted Friday [July 17] that her uncle’s childhood is affecting his ability to govern in a crisis… She has faced litigation from Robert Trump, the President’s brother, who argued in court that […]

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7/17/2020

MARY TRUMP/TRUMP FAMILY: “The simplest way I could put it, which may be one of the more effective ways to put it, is that Donald is a psychologically, deeply damaged man, based on his upbringing and the situation with his parents. He is not going to get better, and he is, without question, going to […]

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7/17/2020

MARY TRUMP/TRUMP FAMILY: “I think that when you’re – when you’re looking at somebody’s pathologies, it’s not just how they come across. It’s also how it affects them and their day-to-day functioning. So – although, again, that’s also hard to suss out because he’s [Donald Trump], as I say in the book, institutionalized to some […]

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7/17/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/MARY TRUMP/TRUMP FAMILY: “[Y]ou’ve seen what’s been going on with COVID-19, you’ve seen what’s been going on with racial strife in this country. The problems are getting exacerbated every day. We are in serious trouble here. And a large part of that is because Donald is incapable of leading, and he’s being enabled by people, […]

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7/17/2020

JOHN BOLTON/MARY TRUMP: “I am the ultimate member of The Book of the Month Club. First I have lowlife dummy John Bolton, a war mongering fool, violating the law (he released massive amounts of Classified Information) and an NDA in order to build badly needed credibility and make a few dollars, which ….will all end […]

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7/2/2020

ECONOMY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/QUOTE: ” ‘It’s a trap because they want to tank the economy and make everything look trrrible so they can make President Trump look bad in November. They want Trump to have to send in troops so it looks bad for him.’ Dave Rubin, author of ‘Don’t Burn This Book.’ @seanhannity“ –Donald Trump, […]

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6/22/2020

JOHN BOLTON/QUOTE: “See, Bolton broke the law. Classified Information! @YonhapNews (2nd LD) Cheong Wa Dae says much of Bolton’s memoir on Korea ‘distorted,’ urges U.S. gov’t to address such ‘dangerous’ case“ –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 22, 2020 6:53 pm […]

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6/22/2020

JOHN BOLTON/TRUMP PEOPLE: “John Bolton was a stupid guy, and he was a guy with no heart. And he also had a statement that he would lie whenever he had to. He has that statement. It’s a well-known statement. And I fired him. And I didn’t think it was a big deal. And I didn’t — […]

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6/22/2020

JOHN BOLTON/TRUMP PEOPLE: “I gave John Bolton, who was incapable of being Senate confirmed because he was considered a wacko, and was not liked, a chance. I always like hearing differing points of view. He turned out to be grossly incompetent, and a liar. See judge’s opinion. CLASSIFIED INFORMATION!!!“ –Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 22, 2020 […]

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6/21/2020

JOHN BOLTON/TRUMP PEOPLE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “This is not a conservative administration nor is policy made in a coherent, competent way… There really isn’t any guiding principle — that I was able to discern other than– what’s good for Donald Trump’s reelection. Now, look, you can’t take the politics out of politics. It plays a role in […]

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6/20/2020

JOHN BOLTON/MEDIA: “BIG COURT WIN against Bolton. Obviously, with the book already given out and leaked to many people and the media, nothing the highly respected Judge could have done about stopping it…BUT, strong & powerful statements & rulings on MONEY & on BREAKING CLASSIFICATION were made…. ….Bolton broke the law and has been called […]

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6/20/2020

JOHN BOLTON/QUOTE: “Wow, I finally agree with failed political consultant Steve Schmidt, who called Wacko John Bolton ‘a despicable man who failed in his duty to protect America.’ Also stated that he should never be allowed to serve in government again. So true! Plain and simple, John Bolton,…. …..who was all washed up until I […]

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6/18/2020

JOHN BOLTON/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Bolton’s book, which is getting terrible reviews, is a compilation of lies and made up stories, all intended to make me look bad. Many of the ridiculous statements he attributes to me were never made, pure fiction. Just trying to get even for firing him like the sick puppy he is!“ […]

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6/17/2020

JOHN BOLTON: “Wacko John Bolton’s ‘exceedingly tedious'(New York Times) book is made up of lies & fake stories. Said all good about me, in print, until the day I fired him. A disgruntled boring fool who only wanted to go to war. Never had a clue, was ostracized & happily dumped. What a dope!“ –Donald […]

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6/17/2020

CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOHN BOLTON/MEDIA/TARIFFS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Bolton never told me to do tariffs on China. Bolton never thought you could get any tariffs done on China. Bolton has no economic sense. Bolton never thought you could get tariffs on China. They paid us billions of dollars. I gave our farmers $12 billion and $16 billion dollars out […]

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6/17/2020

IRAQ/JOHN BOLTON/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Now, I don’t know what Bolton has said [in his forthcoming book]. I haven’t seen it yet. But Bolton is a disgruntled guy who made tremendous mistakes. He was one of the architects of the Middle East policy. And the only thing I liked about Bolton was that everybody thought he was […]

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6/15/2020

JOHN BOLTON/TRUMP PEOPLE: “[T]he guy [John Bolton], I gave him a break. He couldn’t get Senate-confirmed. He was never Senate-confirmed the first time. I don’t think he’s supposed to even be calling himself an ambassador because he couldn’t get Senate-confirmed… I put him here [as National Security Advisor] because he couldn’t get Senate-confirmed. This was […]

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