President Trump told veteran journalist Bob Woodward that he wasn’t informed of Woodward’s attempts to interview him for his forthcoming book and would have participated if he had been.
Woodward said during the phone call with Trump last month, after the manuscript was complete, that he contacted six or seven people in the White House but never heard back on his request to interview the president, according to a transcript of a phone conversation between the two men published by The Washington Post.
White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, who was present on a portion of the phone call, said she “put in the request.”
“But you know, they — it was rejected,” she said. “I can only take it so far. I guess I can bring it right to the president next time.”
Trump said during the call that he regretted not being able to be interviewed by Woodward, saying that the reporter has “always been fair.”
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Trump claims nobody told him about Woodward's attempts to interview him for book https://t.co/O55rHVWHJw pic.twitter.com/MvA78rvYOP
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I wonder if he will still think that “Woodward has always been fair” now that book excerpts are getting out.
I’m guessing that no one wanted Trump within 20 feet of Woodward answering questions for the same reason they don’t want him talking to Mueller.
Of course Trump isn’t being completely truthful about this either. He had a phone conversation with Woodward and claimed that Lyndsey Graham had told him that Woodward wanted an interview in an interview and Trump said so in the conversation. Woodward recorded the conversation and there is a transcript of his phone call with Trump here:
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