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
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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,’ […]
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 […]
11/12/2021
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 […]
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 […]
7/15/2021
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
9/17/2020
MEDIA/MIDDLE EAST/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Bob Woodward’s badly written book is very boring & totally ‘obsolete’. Didn’t even talk about the recent Middle East deal. Just another tired, washed up Trump Hater, who can’t stand that I have done so much, so quickly! #MAGA“ ––Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 17, 2020 1:22 pm […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.’ […]
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 […]
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 — […]
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 […]
7/19/2020
MARY TRUMP/TRUMP FAMILY: [Chris Wallace: “Your niece, Mary Trump, has written a book about you and your family. And one of her main points is that she says your dad, Fred Trump Sr., damaged the whole family.”] “My father liked to win. My father was a very good man. He was a strong man. It’s […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 — […]
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 […]
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 […]
6/20/2020
COURTS/JOHN BOLTON/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Well, we had a very good decision in the John Bolton book case. And the judge was very powerful in his statements on classified information and very powerful also on the fact that the country will get the money — any money he makes. So I hope a lot of […]
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 […]
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 […]
6/18/2020
JOHN BOLTON/NORTH KOREA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “When Wacko John Bolton went on Deface the Nation and so stupidly said that he looked at the ‘Libyan Model’ for North Korea, all hell broke out. Kim Jong Un, who we were getting along with very well, went ‘ballistic’, just like his missiles – and rightfully so…. ….He didn’t […]
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!“ […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
6/16/2020
2016 ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/MELANIA: “Melania Trump, the first lady, remained in New York during the first months of her husband’s presidency because she was renegotiating their prenuptial agreement after his surprise victory in the 2016 election, according to a new book [released on June 16, 2020]. In the book, ‘The Art of Her Deal: The […]
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 […]