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Former President Donald Trump filed a lawsuit against veteran journalist Bob Woodward on Monday, alleging Woodward included recordings of their more than a few interviews in the audiobook version of his 2020 book Rage “without President Trump’s permission.”

Trump’s legal professionals note that the previous president did certainly agree to be recorded in on-the-report conversations for the e book, some 19 interviews in total, in 2019 and 2020. “This case facilities on Mr. Woodward’s systematic usurpation, manipulation, and exploitation of audio of President Trump gathered in reference to a collection of interviews performed by way of Mr. Woodward,” the lawsuit reads.

“Paramount, [Simon & Schuster] and Woodward proceeded with such publication regardless of figuring out that President Trump had consented to being recorded only for the needs of “the book,”… and by no means consented to unlock of any audio recording, inclusive of the Interview Sound Recordings,” declares the lawsuit. The lawsuit additionally named Simon & Schuster, Woodward’s writer.

Trump is in quest of $forty nine million in damages from Woodward within the newest in a slew of lawsuits from the litigious former truth famous person and real property developer.

Trump sued CNN for $475 million in damages in early October:

CNN has sought to make use of its large affect— purportedly as a “trusted” information source—to defame the Plaintiff in the minds of its viewers and readers for the purpose of defeating him politically, culminating in CNN claiming credit score for “[getting] Trump out” within the 2020 presidential election. CNN’s marketing campaign of dissuasion in the type of libel and slander against the Plaintiff has handiest escalated in contemporary months as CNN fears the Plaintiff will run for president in 2024. As a part of its concerted effort to tilt the political steadiness to the Left, CNN has tried to taint the Plaintiff with a series of ever-extra scandalous, false, and defamatory labels of “racist,” “Russian lackey,” “insurrectionist,” and ultimately “Hitler.”

CNN sought to have Trump’s lawsuit thrown out in November. “The Criticism seeks to silence any criticism of Plaintiff’s debunked claim that the 2020 presidential election was ‘stolen.’ The lawsuit, though, does no longer even attempt to prove this declare is correct, for the straightforward motive that evidence of subject material election fraud does not exist,” CNN’s attorneys argued in their movement. “These claims are untenable and repugnant to a free press and open political debate.”

Trump also sued the Pulitzer Prize board in mid-December after the board completed a evaluation of its awards to the Washington Put up and the New York Occasions for their reporting on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. Trump demanded both papers have their Pulitzer’s rescinded for what he calls the “Russia hoax.” However, after a evaluation of the reporting that won the prize, the Pulitzer board concluded no mistakes or inaccuracies were made by both paper.

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