Former US President Donald Trump (2017-2021) announced this Tuesday in a statement that he is suing journalist Bob Woodward and his editors for publishing an audiobook with the interviews he recorded for his book “Rage” and for which he asked for almost 50 million dollars try to make it “look ugly”.
“I keep fighting against corrupt, dishonest and deranged fake news media file this lawsuit against a man whose image is very different from his real life, Bob Woodward, his publisher Simon & Schuster and its parent company, Paramount Global,” Trump said.
Lawsuit Filed in Courts of Pensacola (NW Florida) Has To Do With Audiobook “The Trump Tapes”, made of twenty talks the former governor had with Woodward for the book “Rage”, released in 2020.
Woodward, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, is a journalist known for having discovered, together with Carl Bernstein, the Watergate wiretapping scandal, which led to the resignation of President Richard Nixon (1969-1974).
According to the former president, he never gave his permission so that tapes of his interviews with Woodward for publication would be used for an audio book.
The tapes “should just used for the written wordthat is, to aid in the accuracy of his book,” he said.
“A blatant attempt to make me look bad”
“This was an open and blatant attempt to make me look as bad as possible,” she added.
The former president, who has already started his campaign to get the Republican nomination for the presidential elections of 2024 with demonstrations in different areas of the USA, with this lawsuit he is asking for compensation from nearly 50 million dollars.
To fix the amount of $49,980,000, it was calculated that they sold at least 2 million copies of “The Trump Tapes” audiobook, for $24.99 each.
This case centers on the “systematic misappropriation, manipulation and abuse” of former President Trump’s audio collected in connection with a series of interviews Woodward conducted, Trump’s lawyers say in the lawsuit.
According to the judicial text, ”he said audio It was copyrighted material. subject to various restrictions on use and distribution, such as a matter of copyright, license, contract, basic principles of the publishing industry, and the core values of fairness and consent.”
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Source: Clarin
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