"The Trump Tapes" audiobook

Thought for the day

"The Trump Tapes" is Bob Woodward's new audiobook.  It will be released next week and includes excerpts from twenty interviews and eight hours of recorded questions and answers.  All I can say is when it’s available, "Listen with your eyes wide open."  I realize this is a bit odd to say, but nonetheless it's the right thing to do.  

The interviews are the most extensive recordings of Trump speaking about his presidency.  They include his reasons for meeting Kim Jong-un, his relationship with Vladimir Putin, and Trump’s detailed assessment of the U.S. nuclear arsenal.  

The audio also shows how Trump decided to share with Woodward the letters Kim wrote to him – the same letters that helped set in motion the DOJ investigation into classified documents Trump took to Mar-a-Lago.   

Woodward describes the former president as “raw, profane, divisive and deceptive.  His language is often retaliatory.”

“Yet, you also will hear Trump engaging and entertaining, laughing, ever the host.  He is trying to win me over, sell his presidency to me.  The full-time salesman,” Woodward says. 

According to the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, “I wanted to put as much of Trump’s voice, his own words, out there so people could hear and judge and make their own assessments.”

As for his own assessment, Woodward says this in the epilogue of his new audiobook:  “Trump is an unparalleled danger.  The record now shows that Trump has led — and continues to lead — a seditious conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election, which in effect is an effort to destroy democracy.”

Like I said at the top, listen with your own eyes.  If you ask me, the damage Trump has done to America is "crystal clear" as Richard Nixon used to say.

-DF