The most recently released novel was The Trump Tapes: Bob Woodward's Twenty Interviews with President Donald Trump which was released in 2023. The first was released in 1979 with the novel The Brethren: Inside the Supreme Court. Woodward attended Yale University where he received a BA.īob Woodward is probably best known for his Non-Fiction Books. Bob Woodward was born in Geneva, Illinois, USA. Martin Finucane of the Globe staff contributed to this report.Bob Woodward (Robert Upshur Woodward) was born on March 26th, 1943 and is currently 80 years old. It’s either that or an orange jumpsuit.” Trump insisted he would be “a real good witness.” “You are not a good witness,” Dowd said. What are we dealing with this idiot for?’ ”ĭowd later advised Trump: “Don’t testify.

And you publish that transcript, because everything leaks in Washington, and the guys overseas are going to say, ‘I told you he was an idiot. “I’m not going to sit there and let him look like an idiot. In a meeting with Mueller, Dowd talked about the session and explained to Mueller why he was trying to keep the president from testifying. Dowd peppered Trump with questions and elicited stumbles, contradictions, and lies. John Dowd, then Trump’s personal attorney, staged a practice session to see if Trump would commit perjury if he were questioned by special counsel Robert Mueller, who is investigating possible collusion between the Trump 2016 campaign and Russia. I’ll just take the paper off his desk.” The United States remains in NAFTA, though it’s negotiating new terms with Canada and Mexico. In one case, an aide prepared a letter withrawing the United States from NAFTA. Senior aides conspired to remove official papers from Trump’s desk so he couldn’t see or sign them. “I would have taken that resignation letter and shoved it up his ass six different times,” Kelly told Cohn. Cohn met with Trump to give him his resignation letter, but Trump persuaded him to stay.

We’re going to be much more measured.”įormer economic adviser Gary Cohn came to view Trump as a “professional liar” and threatened to quit over how Trump handled a deadly white supremacist rally in Charlottesville. Mattis hung up and told a senior aide, “We’re not going to do any of that.

“Let’s kill the lot of them,” Trump said. Trump called Mattis, saying he wanted to assassinate the Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad, after Assad launched a chemical attack on civilians in April 2017. He couldn’t even be a one-person country lawyer down in Alabama.” Trump was vicious in his remarks about Attorney General Jeff Sessions, saying at one point to an aide, “This guy is mentally retarded. He also said McMaster dressed in cheap suits “like a beer salesman.” McMaster, puffing up his chest and exaggerating his breathing. Trump often mocked his former national security adviser, retired Army general H.R.

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