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Bob Woodward is an associate editor at @washingtonpost . New Audiobook: THE TRUMP TAPES, โ€ฆ

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"I am convinced that people need to wake up and not kind of pretend this is just politics or this is partisan. ... We are at a pivot point in history." @nprfreshair
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Fresh Air
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. @realBobWoodward : 'People Need To Wake Up' To What's Happening Under Trump
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Celebrating Carlโ€™s 79th birthday on Valentineโ€™s Day in New York City. We met in the @washingtonpost newsroom 51 years ago to work on a story. 51 years of genuine friendship. @carlbernstein
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. @StephenAtHome , whose head is not shown because his face is on our book, realizes the PERIL facing the United States.
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"Fear: Trump in the White House" is available for pre-order and will be out September 11 in hardback, ebook and as an audiobook. More info here:
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"The approach is to talk to people, then go back, then go back again. Talk to more people. Get more questions. Look at the written record, look at the paper trail, follow the money, follow the things that are concrete.โ€ #ThrowbackThursday @WritersDigest
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In the @WritersDigest archives I found an insanely relevant article about #BobWoodward 's work and investigative journalism techniques. FASCINATING and still helpful. @realBobWoodward So of course I uploaded it to the WD website for everyone to read:
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From @AriFleischer , the Republican former White House Press Secretary for President George W. Bush:
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Ari Fleischer
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I've been on the receiving end of a Bob Woodward book. There were quotes in it I didn't like. But never once - never - did I think Woodward made it up. Anonymous sources have looser lips and may take liberties. But Woodward always plays is straight. Someone told it to him.
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Midnight release of Fear in DC tonight #Fear #DC #atKramers
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TONIGHT! In-store midnight release for @realBobWoodward 's FEAR: TRUMP IN THE WHITE HOUSE @simonschuster #atKramers #dc
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"I've never seen an instance when the president is so detached from the reality of what's going on...This has not been treated seriously enough...The things โ€” some of the things โ€” that Trump did and does jeopardizes the real national security." @TODAYshow
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"A devastating reported account of the Trump Presidency that will be consulted as a first draft of the grim history it portrays...not just the story of a deeply flawed President but also, finally, an account of what those surrounding him have chosen to do about it." @sbg1
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Susan Glasser
6 years
I read the โฆ @realBobWoodward โฉ book. You should too. My latest Letter from Washington is up โฆ @NewYorker โฉ >>>
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โ€œSupreme Court Justices arenโ€™t bound by the judicial code of conduct... Yet Justices are subject to a federal lawโ€ฆ 28 U.S.C. s 455, also requires them to disqualify themselves from any proceedings in which their โ€œimpartiality might reasonably be questioned.โ€ @JaneMayerNYer
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Jane Mayer
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Breaking: Legal Scholars Are Shocked By Ginni Thomasโ€™s โ€œStop the Stealโ€ Texts- and demanding Thomas recuse
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โ€œNo one works in the White House who doesn't bring stuff home. And they say no, no, no. And then about the third visit, they say, oh yeah, maybe I have something upstairs. And then they come down with three boxes of documents.โ€ @colbertlateshow
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"Rage" will be released September 15.
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โ€œThe disturbing revelations only deepen the threat her entanglements pose to the courtโ€™s legitimacy.โ€โฆโฆโฆ @washingtonpost โฉ editorial board on our latest reporting on the 29 text messages btw Ginni Thomas and Meadows. โฆโฆโฆโฆ @costareports โฉ
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Jim Mattis Compared Trump to โ€˜Fifth or Sixth Grader,โ€™ Bob Woodward Says in Book (9/4/18) @MarkLandler @maggieNYT @nytimes
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"Often there are diaries, or notes, or documents supporting it...When somebody looks at this in 20, or 30, or 40 years, boxes of recordings and documents, they will see that this was very carefully done." @AC360 @CNNPolitics
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"You crank out the great Washington denial machineโ€ฆ.I've seen this over the years, going back to the Nixon case....But I've done hundreds of hours of interviews with people. ... These things happened." @rachelnpr @MorningEdition
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โ€œThis is a picture of a Ukrainian soldier. . . He is fighting for the freedom of Ukraineโ€”his country, but heโ€™s defending our freedom also.โ€
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"People who work for him are worried ... that he will sign things or give orders that threaten the national security or the financial security of the country, or of the world," Woodward said. @cbssunday @cbsdavidmartin
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"This is a time we're being tested. Let's not be chickenshit about this. ...This is the final exam for democracy."
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โ€œThe incidents are not anonymous. It gives a date, it gives a time, who participates, most often the president himself and what he says." #Fear @TODAYshow @SavannahGuthrie
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Virginia Thomas urged White House chief to pursue unrelenting efforts to overturn the 2020 election, texts show
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โ€œJustice Thomas has already participated in two cases related to the 2020 election and its aftermath, despite his wifeโ€™s direct involvement in the so-called Stop the Steal efforts. A third case, John Eastman v. Bennie Thompson, may soon reach the Court.โ€ @JaneMayerNYer
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The @Watergate documentary begins tonight on @HISTORY . #WatergateDoc #Watergate
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"Whatโ€™s the job of the president? My definition of the job is to figure out the next stage of good for a majority of people in the country. ... As best I can tell, in Trump's world and presidency that never comes up.โ€ @TheDailyShow @TrevorNoah .
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Hereโ€™s the full interview with @realBobWoodward :
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"My nightstand is crowded. It holds books Iโ€™ve recently read, partially read, am waiting to read, and occasionally consult." @nytimesbooks
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"Fear: Trump in the White House" will also be available as an audiobook on September 11th. Pre-order your copy today: Audible: Google Play:
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"How many people did you interview?" "Over a hundred. I would say that maybe half of those are key people." @CBSSunday @CBSDavidMartin #Fear
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Bob Woodward: Trump's aides stole his papers 'to protect the country' @CNNPolitics
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โ€œThe most memorable contribution to this yearโ€™s American political literature, however, was not a printed book. The Trump Tapes, subtitled โ€œBob Woodwardโ€™s Twenty Interviews with President Donald Trumpโ€ โ€ฆoffers a passport to the heart of darknessโ€
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"In an age of 'alternative facts' and corrosive tweets about 'fake news,' Woodward is truthโ€™s gold standard." @JillAbramson @PostOutlook
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After the firing of Sec Def Esper, Gina Haspel told Chairman Milley on Nov. 10, 2020 at 8:10am: โ€œYesterday was appalling. We are on the way to a right-wing coup. The whole thing is insanity. He is acting out like a six-year-old with a tantrum.โ€
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"This one was in the belly of the beast...people better wake up to what's going on." @CBSSunday @CBSDavidMartin #Fear
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I'll be on @colbertlateshow ย with @stephenathome tonight. #LSSC
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Logs show 7-hour gap in Trumpโ€™s Jan. 6 calls. @costareports
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"His reporting on power has been the gold standard ever since he and Carl Bernstein broke Watergate." @jonallendc @NBCNews
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Following his resignation, #Nixon gave a farewell speech to White House staff saying, "Always remember, others may hate you, but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself." #NixonResigns @carlbernstein @washingtonpost
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Woodward and Bernstein watching Nixonโ€™s resignation announcement, 44 years ago this evening.
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"I have to take you as seriously as you take yourself. ... let the silence suck out the truth. And so just be quiet, and people want to talk. โ€ฆ Itโ€™s a way of saying, youโ€™re important to this story. I take you seriously." @StephenAtHome @colbertlateshow
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My new piece with โฆโฆ @carlbernstein โฉ comparing the presidencies of Richard Nixon and Donald Trump โ€” published as a new foreword in the 50th Anniversary edition of All The Presidentโ€™s Men. โฆโฆ @simonschuster โฉ
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Tomorrow on @CBSSunday : "In an interview with @CBSDavidMartin , Woodward talks about the behavior of President Donald Trump and the actions of those on his staff who, they claim, are trying to protect the country and its institutions from the president's own inclinations."
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Bob Woodward and @costareports , both of The Washington Post, are teaming up to write a book on the final days of the Trump presidency and the first phase of the Biden presidency.
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โ€œ'Fear' is a remarkable feat of reportingโ€ฆIn the absence of an Oval Office taping system like the one that destroyed Nixon during Watergate, Woodwardโ€™s interviews, conducted under the shroud of deep background, are a pretty comprehensive substitute."
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I remain happily at @washingtonpost , where I have worked since 1971.
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โ€œLetโ€™s present the rock solid evidence of what happens. Thereโ€™s documents, thereโ€™s notes...I just think too many people have lost their perspective and become emotionally unhinged about Trump....The media should respond with what really happened.โ€
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Terrific story. So well reported and presented.
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"I think our job is not to love or loathe people weโ€™re trying to explain and understand. It is to tell exactly what people have done, what it might mean, what drives them, and who they are." @ericallenbeen
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@eastcitybooks
East City Bookshop
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FEAR by @realBobWoodward is out tomorrow! Have you reserved your copy? Preorder:
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My assistant of over 13 years, @_EvelynMDuffy , has been my in-house editor, researcher, transcriber and better part of my brain. She is launching her own book-doctor practice for journalists and other nonfiction writers:
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"He's detailed the good, the bad and the ugly of presidential decision-making without regard for the party or political agenda of the commander in chief since before many White House aides were born."
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Our greatest sympathy, affection and respect to Navalny and his family. A tragic loss for Russia and the world.
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From @sirharrysummit : @realBobWoodward and Carl Bernstein on the importance of the message they received last May from Alexei Navalny.
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"Woodwardโ€™s meticulous reporting in the 1970s is even more invaluable today: His utter devotion to 'just the facts' digging and his compulsively thorough interviews, preserved on tape for this book, make him a reliable narrator." @JillAbramson @PostOutlook
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Youโ€™re organizing a literary dinner party. Which 3 writers, dead or alive, do you invite? "Lincoln, F.D.R. and Nixonโ€”on the record, with multiple tape recorders running. Nixon, though, might not come. If not, I would substitute Eisenhower." @nytimesbooks
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"An especially damning portrait...Trump can't be trusted to tell the truth even when his presidency could be on the line....It suggests a White House full of top aides who have almost no confidence in the man they're serving..." @AaronBlake @thefix
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โ€œWe have a contest in this country. Not just a political one but a moral one, a religious one, about whatโ€™s true. Right? And people debate it and argue very intensely about it. And thatโ€™s kind of the life force of democracy, isnโ€™t it?โ€ @maddow
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"I think that the most ardent Trump supporter could read the book and not feel comfortable about the management and the staying the course. Thereโ€™s not a team. You know, itโ€™s a team of predators." @NYMag @Olivianuzzi
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"'Fear' is full of Nixonian echoesโ€ฆ[Woodwardโ€™s] work has been factually unassailable. โ€ฆ From the very first pages of the gripping prologue it is a shocking view." @JillAbramson @PostOutlook
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Bob Woodwardโ€™s new book reveals a โ€˜nervous breakdownโ€™ of Trumpโ€™s presidency @PhilipRucker @costareports
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5 storylines to watch in the unfolding saga of Donald Trump and Bob Woodward @CillizzaCNN @CNN
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"Destroying alliances is...[Trumpโ€™s] genuine, unquenchable passion...His stamina in pursuit of these demons is impressive. Every day in his White House has the disintegrating feel of final days, but the next day is the same, and the story never ends."
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Long After Watergate, Woodward and Bernstein Make News @carlbernstein @washingtonpost @ap #Fear @nytimes @cnn
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The Associated Press
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Press on: Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein still making news, over 40 years after their pivotal Watergate reporting.
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Woodward: President Trump proud of fueling rage in people @CNN @TheLeadCNN @jaketapper
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The @CBSSunday interview with @CBSDavidMartin airs today. A photo from filming:
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A great summer read. Danny Silva has done it again. A master of the craft! @danielsilvabook @jamiegangel
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"50 years from now whatโ€™s going to be important about the Trump presidency is what he does or doesnโ€™t do. And if Iโ€™m right, itโ€™s a nervous breakdown.... Things are not connected....I think itโ€™s accurate. And I think itโ€™s demonstrated."
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"[President Trump] has denied not only saying the things attributed to him, but also that he has ever said anything like them. The problem for Mr. Trump is that, in some cases at least, the record shows that he has." @peterbakernyt @maggieNYT
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"There is a kind of deep reporting to everything in the book....It's a reliable book from reliable sources. There are people and there are documents and I quote from documents at length. So, it's carefully, meticulously done." @cspanwj
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โ€œThere is plenty to discover in this meticulously reported account...brings the readers inside the room and on the phone line...its timing could not be more critical...the impressive bounty of evidence compiled by Woodward.โ€ @JohnDiazChron @sfchronicle
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"On Jan. 28, it was laid out to him in the clearest terms that a pandemic was coming, that it was going to be like the 1918 Spanish flu epidemic...Trump, instead of telling the public about it, covered it up." via @derspiegel
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Thanks to all who have helped make #Fear number 1 on @amazon and @BNBuzz ! @simonschuster @washingtonpost @CNN
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"Since I have written books on the last nine presidentsโ€”Nixon to Trumpโ€”I try to buy and read (or skim in detail) all the major books on those presidents. These are grouped by subject. Fiction and other nonfiction areโ€ฆletโ€™s say somewhat less organized."
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[link corrected] Watch the @Watergate documentary airing on the @HISTORY Channel, a three-night event starting 11/2. #WatergateDoc #Watergate
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The audiobook edition of #Fear : Trump in the White House is available everywhere from @SimonAudio : Amazon: B&N: Audible: Google Play: iTunes:
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"In fairness to Trump, he's a disrupter. He's somebody who was elected to change things. ... If we have a real crisis, how do you put all this together? How do you get information? How do you evaluate it? How do you determine what's real?" @Nightline
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"An ardent Trump supporter would read this and have to pause. Because whether you like Trump or don't like Trump, it's a management issue." @AC360 @CNNPolitics
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"You can, in an almost microscopic way, establish what occurred โ€” and that's what I've done in this book." @rachelnpr @MorningEdition
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"Specific incidents are the building blocks of journalism." @CBSSunday @CBSDavidMartin #Fear
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"The book that Fear really reminded me of is The Final Days...The depth of dysfunction inside the White House. The President's unpredictability and moodiness. The White House's inability to focus." @CarlosLozadaWP @CillizzaCNN @carlbernstein
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Pentagon buries evidence of $125 billion in bureaucratic waste
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The 2018 Vanity Fair Hall of Fame; photograph by Annie Leibovitz
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"The Watergate reporter has written another sober, must-read dissection of corruption and rot at the White House...'Fear' depicts a White House awash in dysfunction...Woodwardโ€™s 'Fear' is big on facts and short on hyperventilation." @guardian
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โ€œโ€˜We are going to kill it in the crib. Kill the Biden presidency in the crib,โ€ โ€” Steve Bannon. December 30, 2020. p. 208, Peril.
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