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 […]
Tag: tell-all
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
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 […]
8/13/2020
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, […]
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 — […]
6/21/2020
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 […]
6/17/2020
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 […]