The Trump Tapes is the intimate and astonishing audio archive of Bob Woodward’s 20 interviews with Donald Trump.įeaturing more than eight hours of Woodward/Trump conversations, The Trump Tapes is as historically important as the Frost/Nixon interviews. Hearing Trump speak is a completely different experience to reading the transcripts or listening to snatches of interviews on television or the internet.”-Bob Woodward from The Trump Tapes As I listened to them again I was stunned by their relevance to understanding Trump. I decided to take this unusual step of releasing these recordings after relistening in full to all 20 interviews. I had also interviewed him in 2016 when he was a presidential candidate. In the fall of 2019 through August 2020, I interviewed President Trump 19 times for my second book on his presidency, Rage. “I’m doing something here that I’ve never done before, presenting the lengthy, raw interviews of my work.
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