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Trump sues Bob Woodward and publisher for $50 million over use of his interview recordings
CNBC ^ | 01/30/2023 | Kevin Breuninger

Posted on 01/30/2023 8:37:33 PM PST by SeekAndFind

Former President Donald Trump sued famed journalist Bob Woodward on Monday over the release of audio recordings of his interviews with Trump, who claims he never agreed to allow those tapes to be sold to the public.

Woodward, publisher Simon & Schuster and its parent company, Paramount Global, “unlawfully usurped” Trump’s copyright interests and other rights by publishing an audiobook featuring hours of “raw” audio from Woodward’s many interviews with Trump, the lawsuit alleges.

The suit seeks $50 million or more which it says is based on an estimate that the audiobook, “The Trump Tapes,” sold more than 2 million copies at $24.99 apiece.

The 31-page complaint, filed in federal court in Pensacola, Florida, alleges that Trump “repeatedly stated to Woodward, in the presence of others, that he was agreeing to be recorded for the sole purpose of Woodward being able to write a single book.”

That book, 2021′s “Rage,” failed to replicate the success of Woodward’s previous book on the Trump White House, according to the lawsuit. Woodward then “decided to exploit, usurp, and capitalize upon President Trump’s voice by releasing the Interview Sound Recordings of their interviews with President Trump in the form of an audiobook,” the complaint alleges.

Simon & Schuster did not immediately comment on the lawsuit.

Woodward interviewed Trump over the phone and in person 19 times between December 2019 and August 2020, according to the lawsuit. Woodward and his publisher assembled more than eight hours of audio from those interviews, plus another from 2016, for the audiobook, which was released last October “without President Trump’s permission,” the lawsuit says.

Trump “made Woodward aware on multiple occasions, both on and off the record, of the nature of the limited license to any recordings, therefore retaining for himself the commercialization and all other rights

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bobwoodward; lawsuit; trump
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To: CaptainK

“Trump wanted to be loved by lib backstabbers like Woodward. It’s his fatal flaw.

DeSantis has contempt for all of them. Which is the way it should be.”
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Yes


41 posted on 01/31/2023 6:23:43 AM PST by Dr. Scarpetta ( )
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To: Drew68

“Trumps sits down with all these liberal journalists who hate his guts and then cries when they repeat the things he said that he thought were off the record. Woodward wasn’t the only one. There were many others.”
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Trump has been NAIVE in that regard.


42 posted on 01/31/2023 6:26:36 AM PST by Dr. Scarpetta ( )
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To: lowbridge

No, but you jogged my memory. Not sure, but I believe it was Lindsay Graham


43 posted on 01/31/2023 6:30:59 AM PST by j.havenfarm (22 years on Free Republic, 12/10/22! more then 6500 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: vivenne

Actions speak louder than words.


44 posted on 01/31/2023 6:33:05 AM PST by CaptainK ("If life's really hard, at least its short")
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To: SoConPubbie

Or maybe Trump thinks he can win them over and then he never does. And then he never stops talking about them.

Reference his never ending tortured relationship with Maggie Haberman. What a waste of time.


45 posted on 01/31/2023 6:37:39 AM PST by CaptainK ("If life's really hard, at least its short")
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To: vivenne

Really? Did Trump attach a written contract regarding dissemination of recordings to his Pensacola complaint? I don’t think so. Was this failure to have a written rule of engagement naive of a King of media? I don’t think so. Does Trump have a history of saying and doing things with the media that seems questionable? Does Trump have a history of forum shopping? Has Trump endorsed lawsuits in his name that were frivolous? Can you say Kraken? 99% of Americans have forgotten about Woodward and his book.


46 posted on 01/31/2023 6:46:44 AM PST by Oystir
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To: SeekAndFind

I think Trump did a lot of good things. But this is a prime example of Trumps incredible lack of judgment when it comes to the media. What the Hell was he thinking when he gave these interviews and allowed them to be taped? Did he really think he could control how they were used or what was in the book? I don’t think he is naive. I think its arrogance.


47 posted on 01/31/2023 6:52:07 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: SoConPubbie

“Yea, that’s the difference between Trump and his Mini-Me DeSantis.”

True. One shoots himself in the foot at least once a week, and the other has discipline and won re-election by a huge margin.


48 posted on 01/31/2023 6:52:23 AM PST by Mr Rogers (We're a nation of feelings, not thoughts.)
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To: Dr. Scarpetta

Yapping little dogs trashing Trump. It is getting funny at this point.


49 posted on 01/31/2023 7:18:51 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: CaptainK
Or maybe Trump thinks he can win them over and then he never does. And then he never stops talking about them.

Trump always wanted to be welcomed into the Manhattan social scene yet no matter how rich he became, or how famous he was, to them, he would always just be a "loudmouth from Queens."

It ate at him.

He continues to covet their acceptance. He'll never receive it.

50 posted on 01/31/2023 7:26:49 AM PST by Drew68 (Ron DeSantis for President 2024)
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To: SeekAndFind

**Trump “made Woodward aware on multiple occasions**, both on and off the record, of the nature of the limited license to any recordings, therefore retaining for himself the commercialization and all other rights

No reason why Trump can’t win but Biden will do all he can to stop it.

Karl Marx taps box


51 posted on 01/31/2023 8:37:22 AM PST by Vaduz (LAWYERS )
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To: Vaduz

RE: No reason why Trump can’t win but Biden

No reason to believe Trump LOST to Biden in 2020, but what ever hanky panky was done then will certainly be repeated or made worse in 2024.


52 posted on 01/31/2023 8:40:01 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: Drew68

That assessment is wrong, imo.


53 posted on 01/31/2023 8:52:00 AM PST by knarf (I say things that are true . . . I have no proof, but they're true.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Agree not sure we can make it to 2024 at the rate Biden is going risks increase by the hour with him.


54 posted on 01/31/2023 9:22:21 AM PST by Vaduz (LAWYERS )
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To: joesbucks

No. It’s not clear at all.


55 posted on 01/31/2023 3:25:19 PM PST by vivenne
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