{"id":1960,"date":"2023-01-30T17:39:25","date_gmt":"2023-01-30T22:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greatamericanewsdesk.com\/?p=1960"},"modified":"2023-01-30T17:39:26","modified_gmt":"2023-01-30T22:39:26","slug":"trump-sues-prominent-journalist-bob-woodward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greatamericanewsdesk.com\/news\/trump-sues-prominent-journalist-bob-woodward\/njackson\/2023\/01\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Sues Prominent Journalist Bob Woodward"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Former President Donald Trump suing journalist\u00a0Bob Woodward\u00a0over interview recordings that Trump alleges he didn\u2019t agree could be included in his audiobook, &#8220;the Trump Tapes.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The lawsuit,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.flnd.456079\/gov.uscourts.flnd.456079.1.0.pdf\">filed<\/a>\u00a0in the Pensacola division of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida, names Simon &amp; Schuster Inc. and its parent company Paramount Global as defendants along with Woodward. Trump seeks more than $49 million in damages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/regulation\/court-battles\/3836526-trump-sues-journalist-bob-woodward\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Hill<\/a>, Trump noted that he consented to Woodward recording their conversations for the purpose of a book, and gave 19 interviews to the veteran journalist in 2019 and 2020, which Woodward included in his 2020 book \u201cRage\u201d but did not agree to the interviews&#8217; being published via audiobook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cThis case centers on Mr. Woodward\u2019s systematic usurpation, manipulation, and exploitation of audio of President Trump gathered in connection with a series of interviews conducted by Mr. Woodward,\u201d Trump\u2019s team argues in the filing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Defendants\u2019 ongoing concerted efforts to profit off the protected audio recordings and the works they have distributed derived from the protected audio recordings have caused President Trump to sustain substantial damage,\u201d the suit continues.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The former president&#8217;s team is pursuing a number of counts against the defendants, including unjust enrichment, violation of Florida trade law and breach of contract. At one point, the filing also alleges that the audiobook misrepresented one of the pair\u2019s interviews through editing.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Woodward, 79, is one of the two Post journalists that famously broke the Watergate scandal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Donald Trump suing journalist\u00a0Bob Woodward\u00a0over interview recordings that Trump alleges he didn\u2019t agree could be included in his audiobook, &#8220;the Trump Tapes.&#8221; The lawsuit,\u00a0filed\u00a0in the Pensacola division of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida, names Simon &amp; Schuster Inc. and its parent company Paramount Global as defendants along with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[437,8,103],"class_list":["post-1960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-bob-woodward","tag-donald-trump","tag-trump-lawsuit"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - 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