personalizes all of these and in the midst of it he can t think strategically. and anybody who s covered trump knows that the full picture of what woodward is present sng only consistent with all the reporting that s been out there for the last 2 1/2 years since trump began running, it s consistent with who donald trump has been since he was about 7 years old. he ran the trump organization this way. it was a bunch of people biting each other in the back, not loyal to him ultimately, and he ran roughshod over all of them. he ran his political campaign when he ran for the presidency exactly the same way. you were in the midst of that, john. you know what that was about. and the picture that s created here is amply solidified and backed up by lots of other reporting. with the additional factor that now you have bob woodward and the woodward method, which is he triangulates with sources, he backs things up with documents. he has tapes. it s a different order of
majority leader s office, in the speaker s office. but no one ever asked if he or she could have my notes. bob woodward always goes for the best possible sources and notes are always better than human memory. many years later, when i was no longer working in government, i visited bob woodward s home a few times, where much of the space is devoted to his office, where his assistants are constantly transcribing audio recordings. he gave me a tour of the workshop, a place where you can see decades and decades of archived audio recordings, recordings that are the building blocks of the investigative journalism that has so often become the defining version of a presidency, the woodward version. what bob woodward calls the best obtainable version of the truth. and so tonight bob woodward has tapes and the white house has press releases. the most damning quotes in the excerpts of bob woodward s book
presidency, the woodward version. what bob woodward calls the best obtainable version of the truth. and so tonight bob woodward has tapes and the white house has press releases. the most damning quotes in the excerpts of bob woodward s book that were already released todaa from the president s former criminal defense lawyer john dowd.de bob woodward describes a rehearsal session with the president where john dowd pretended to be robert mueller asking the president questions. the washington post reports that in that rehearsal session donald trump s answers were stumbles, contradictions, and lies until the prevent eventually lost his cool. this thing s a god damn hoax trump erupted at the start of a 30-minute rant that finished with him saying i don t really want to testify. the book then describes a meeting john dowd with had he robert mueller and mueller s deputy james quarles in which dowd explained why he didn t n
against him ai and i had tapes. and you had tapes. of the depositions and so forth. but talk about trump, when he s up against something he doesn t understand because you experienced that with your own n book about trump and his business. well, the tricky thing here is he is constantly up against things he doesn t understand because he s impatient, he s ignorant, and he has no real sense that he s vulnerable to anything. he s been protected his whole life, first by wealth, then by celebrity, and now by the presidency. and he s never really suffered the consequences of his phenomenally bad decision-making. until he actually stares it in the face. it clicked with him a couple wc months ago that don jr. might ee un suddenly be vulnerable in the mueller investigation. in our case i don t think he ever thought the new york times or my publisher would he retain attorneys to back me up. he then never thought they would get him for two days, for two eight-hour depositions in which we
magnitude from any kind of reporter that trump has ever dealt with before. in the same way that the mueller investigation is of a different order of magnitude on the legal side. but let me just say on this for a second as you you were a different kind of reporter than trump had ever dealt with before when he dealt with you, and he ended up in court with you because he was stunned that you were the one who he could not con on the question of how rich he was. so and you won the lawsuit against him and i had tapes. and you had tapes. of the depositions and so forth. but talk about trump, when he s up against something he doesn t understand because you experienced that with your own book about trump and his business. well, the tricky thing here is he is constantly up against things he doesn t understand because he s impatient, he s ignorant, and he has no real sense that he s vulnerable to anything. he s been protected his whole life, first by wealth, then by celebrity, and now b