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Trump Sues Journalist Bob Woodward for Releasing Interview Recordings

  • Suit seeks $49 million in damages, alleges copyright violation
  • Trump has a track record of suing reporters and news outlets
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Former President Donald Trump is suing journalist Bob Woodward for releasing recordings of interviews that he gave to the journalist in 2019 and 2020, claiming he never agreed to those tapes being shared with the public.

In a lawsuit filed Monday against Woodward, Simon & Schuster Inc., and the publisher’s parent company Paramount Global, Trump claimed that although he had given Woodward consent to record their conversations “for the sole purpose of a book,” that didn’t extend to packaging those recordings as an audiobook.