![]() ![]() This time around, as though to compensate and produce a better narrative, Trump goes to the opposite extreme. ![]() The president said his staff had not told him of Woodward's many requests. "Pray to God we don't have a crisis," Woodward said when Fear first appeared.Ĭuriously, the earlier Woodward book featured zero interview material from Trump - there had been no interview. ![]() Was there no one in Trump's communications office to question this commitment of the president's time? Who but Trump could have arranged 17 interviews with a man who had written critically of eight presidents, including an earlier book characterizing Trump as unprepared and unfit for his office, a national disaster waiting to happen? Where did Woodward get these arresting statements? They were part of a series of interviews Trump granted the venerable journalist from The Washington Post - a total of 17 in all, stretching from December to late July. I still like playing it down, because I don't want to create a panic." Woodward quotes a subsequent interview on March 19, wherein Trump says: "I always wanted to play it down. ![]()
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