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Another outrage follows the Trump crown scandal: Why did journalist Bob Woodward (77) wait so long to publish his interviews with Donald Trump (74)?
It emerged on Wednesday that the US president had admitted in several conversations with Woodward that he had deliberately downplayed the risk of corona. He already knew the dangers at the end of January, but he described the pandemic as a “hoax by the Democrats.” All his statements are on tape.
Trump is harshly criticized. Journalist Carl Bernstein (76), who, along with Bob Woodward, uncovered the Watergate affair and thus overthrew then-President Richard Nixon (1913-1994) in 1974, believes that the revelations made by his colleague are “more serious” than then. at Watergate.
“An error occurred here”
But now there is criticism against Woodward, who will publish the recordings in the book “Rage” next week: Why did he not inform the public before about Trump’s scandalous statements, involving life and death? For example, Scott Nover, a reporter for the American advertising magazine Adweek, wrote: “This is disturbing. Journalists must work in the public interest. I think there was a mistake here. “
Best overview in the book
Woodward had conducted a total of 18 interviews with Trump between December 2019 and the end of July 2020. He told the Washington Post that he could provide a better overview with a book than with a single article. It took me months to understand everything myself and create a text that put everything in context. He also discussed it with Trump. Woodward: “I told him it was for the book.”
He tried to deliver “the best possible version of the truth” in book form and not publish individual revelations. Woodward: “The biggest problem I had, which is always a problem with Trump, was that I didn’t know if it was true.”
But he made sure the book hit the market on time before the November 3 presidential election, so readers could make a judgment on time.
Woodward made headlines as early as 2005 because he had been knowledgeable for a long time. So it was the Plame affair. Woodward had to admit that he had long known of the indiscretions of government officials that led to the revelation of the identity of undercover CIA agent Valerie Plame, 57. The Washington Post called this offense a “grave sin.”
“Worst crime”
But Donald Trump is still at the center of the scandal. The waves against his statements are high. Trump challenger Joe Biden (77) says: “He lied to the American people.”
And the journalist Carl Bernstein criticized: “This is the worst crime of a president of the United States.” Thousands upon thousands of people have died because Trump put his own re-election above the safety, health, and well-being of the people in the United States. “We have never had a president who has done something like that.” (gf)
