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Trump lawsuit against Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward dismissed
A federal judge on Friday dismissed a lawsuit brought by President Donald Trump that attempted to sue Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward for publishing interviews during his first administration in an October 2022 audiobook called 'The Trump Tapes.' According to the court filing, Trump did not demonstrate that he and Woodward intended to be co-authors or that Trump had any copyright interest in his on-the-record responses during the interviews with Woodward. Trump's amended complaint 'does not plausibly allege that Woodward and Trump intended to be joint authors of The Trump Tapes,' U.S. District Judge Paul G. Gardephe for the Southern District of New York wrote. The suit also named Woodward's publisher, Simon & Schuster, and its former parent company, Paramount Global, as defendants. The judge, however, gave Trump the chance to amend and refile his complaint by Aug. 18, though he said it appears 'unlikely' that Trump could 'adequately plead a plausible copyright interest.' The White House did not respond to a request for comment. Lawyers for Woodward did not respond to a request for comment. Woodward, a longtime investigative journalist and a lead reporter who uncovered the Watergate scandal at The Post, had conducted several interviews and audio recordings with Trump during the final year of his first term. The recordings were the foundation of his book 'Rage,' his second book in a trilogy on Trump's presidency, and published in September 2021. The print telling unveiled Trump's responses to several crises, including his impeachment trial, his efforts to downplay the severity of the deadly coronavirus pandemic and escalating tensions with North Korea. Those interviews served as the basis for the audiobook. In 2023, Trump sued Woodward for almost $50 million, claiming in a lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida that he owned the copyright to the 20 interviews and that they were recorded 'for the sole purpose of Woodward being able to write a single book.' Lawyers for Woodward and the publishing company have long rejected Trump's assertion, and in a joint statement in 2023, argued the suit was 'without merit.'
Bloomberg
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- Bloomberg
Why the World Is Haunted by This White House
Donald Trump is the 14th US president of my lifetime, and he claims a unique distinction. Through all the previous White House incumbencies, months went by when even educated, informed British, German, Indian, Brazilian, French or Australian people did not give a moment's thought to America's leader. Sure, we noticed when a president visited our country or started a war or got impeached or had an incredibly beautiful wife who dressed wonderfully. We knew that the US was the richest and most influential nation on earth, and that on the big things we needed to play follow-my-leader. But even somebody like me, who lived in the US for a couple of years, and visited regularly until January 2025, did not lie awake nights wondering what our neighborhood superpower might do next.
New York Times
2 hours ago
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Sorry, This Epstein Stuff Isn't Going to Hurt Trump
Donald Trump's political obituary has been written more times than anyone could hope to count without the resources of a large data processing center. The 'Access Hollywood' tape in 2016, impeachments in 2019 and 2021, the specter of Gov. Ron DeSantis in 2022, a conviction on felony crimes last year: In these and many other instances, reports of Mr. Trump's political demise have been greatly, perhaps even desperately, exaggerated. Now we are being told that Mr. Trump's conspiracy-deflating about-face on the subject of Jeffrey Epstein — the financier and sexual predator whose suicide in jail and supposed client list Mr. Trump now dismisses as 'pretty boring stuff' — presents a grave threat to his support. I think this is rather unlikely. Give it a week or a month or a year, and I suspect that all of it, including any unsealed grand jury transcripts, will be forgotten by nearly everyone except his political opponents. There are two popular misconceptions about the sort of conspiracy theories that swirl around the MAGA movement, both of which lead people to overestimate the risk Mr. Trump is taking in backing away from these narratives. One mistake is thinking that such theories are the exclusive province of flat-earth kooks, rather than a default rhetorical tool of any political opposition. Critics of Bill Clinton accused him of smuggling cocaine through an Arkansas airport when he was governor of the state and insinuated that he and his wife were involved in the death of the White House aide Vince Foster. Opponents of George W. Bush claimed that he stole the 2004 election with the help of rigged electronic voting machines and that he invaded Iraq to benefit Halliburton, the oil services company for which Dick Cheney had served as chief executive. Barack Obama was said to be a Kenyan by birth and ineligible for the presidency. To many of Mr. Trump's detractors during his first term, he was a Kremlin asset. Conspiratorial thinking is popular not because people are credulous or insane but because it is a graspable idiom, comparable to myth, for expressing aspirations, anxieties and feelings of hopelessness in the face of vast structural forces that would otherwise resist deliberation. In the case of Mr. Epstein, these theories — that he used his sex ring to blackmail politicians and other powerful people, that he was an Israeli intelligence operative — reflect a widely shared sense of elite betrayal and institutional inertia. For many Americans, such stories have far more explanatory power than, say, a primer on neoliberalism by Wolfgang Streeck. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
