Posted on 09/11/2018 2:15:19 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Veteran journalist Bob Woodward said a “key” official in the Trump administration privately told him that the details in his books are “1000 percent true,” but later publicly defamed him.
Woodward was interviewed on The New York Time’s podcast, “The Daily,” on Tuesday — the day his book “Fear: Trump in the White House” was officially released.
Woodward told reporter Michael Schmidt that after excerpts of his book began circulating last week, someone working for the administration called him to praise the accuracy of his book.
“After the information in ‘Fear’ started breaking last week, one key person who’s in office called and said ‘Everyone knows what you said here is true. It’s 1,000-percent correct,’” Woodward said. “And then this person has said some public things that contradict that.”
Woodward declined to name the official and said he wasn’t pleased with the official’s public statement.
“And I’m not happy but I have a smile on face because the truth in all of this is going to emerge,” Woodward said. “There’s too much evidence, too many witnesses.”
President Trump and White House aides have rushed to condemn the book and undermine Woodward’s credibility in recent days.
Defense Secretary James Mattis, Chief of Staff John Kelly, ex-White House press secretary Rob Porter and former top economic adviser Gary Cohn all released statements criticizing the book.
Woodward has stood by his reporting despite the White House's response, saying on Sunday that Kelly and Mattis are "not telling the truth" in their denials.
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders dismissed the book as “reckless” during Monday’s press briefing.
“I think I would certainly rather take the actual on-record account from people who are here — who have been working in this building, who have interacted with the president day-in, day-out, like General Mattis, like General Kelly, like myself — and not disgruntled former employees that refuse to put their name on things when they come out to attack the president," Sanders said.
Woodward, who worked with reporter Carl Bernstein to break the news of the Nixon-era Watergate scandal, said the use of anonymous sources is necessary when covering presidential administrations.
He said The Washington Post reporting duo started using unnamed sources “because you can’t get the truth, you won’t get the straight story from someone if you do it on the record.”
Woodward, however, said that he did not agree with the phrase “anonymous sources.”
“Sources are not anonymous to me, I know exactly who they are,” Woodward said on the podcast. “So I think it’s — in a sense — the wrong phrase. They are deep-background or background sources.”
He said he understands the “skepticism” around unnamed sources but added that it would be nearly impossible for reporters to get certain documents and testimony on the record.
They are all in cahoots against this President! He is a threat because he is for US, not them, the Establishment enemies of the people.
On the other hand, when I talked with Woodward yesterday, I told him the book was lies.
This is like a note from Epstein’s mom, explaining that Epstein did do his assignment but now Epstein doesn’t know where Epstein put it.
Actually, the Trump official told Woodward it was a THOUSAND MILLIONY PERCENT CORRECT.
If they are that bad with simple arithmetic....
My sources say he is full of $hit.
Woodward also said CIA director Casey woke up and talked only to him about Reagan.
Casey was in a coma and was already brain dead....
You might think that somebody as 'smart' as Woodward and his anonymous high-ranking administration source would be aware of this fact. But then, you would be wrong...
They're all dumb-asses!
Hey Bob, try that in court.
Dickhead over here told me it was true. See where it gets you.
A key Woodward official told me that Woodward is a lying douche bag.
If there was really a phone call, then the bastard will be exposed.
Bob, it is not what you believe, but, what I believe, and, there is not a chance is hell I am going to vote for a Bolshekrat.
1,000 percent true?
Saying anything is over 100% is meaningless codswallop.
Woodward has been full of Obama for decades.
“Woodward is a clown who’s been living off his Watergate fame for too long.”
Exactly. Last Sunday on C BS Sunday morning show they had Woodward on. And they just had to show Redford and the runt in the movie about his great accomplishment. Unnamed sources reads gossip. Anyone can claim that, and what’s the defense? He speaks like the old guy he is, either suffering the effects of a stroke or dimentia, he’s frail and a damn liar!
Unnamed sources claim he’s also gay. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.....
let’s say Trump is a tyrant for a boss, first maybe he feels like he needs to be to accomplish His intended goals, complacency in war brings defeat..
he is establishing a new work model..
ok, many folks I know think Trump may be a sleaze bag, well how many sleaze bag presidents have we had? And most of them were probably being too busy being a sleaze to form coherent direction..unlike el presidente supremus Trumpus! he can set aside the billionaire sleazing and run the friggin country, imagine that..this reversal of course to kill the coup, will not be without pain..we need someone who despite their human frailties, can focus on why they were elected.. I say if he truly wants to be great declare an invasion to the country in an attempt to skirt law, thereby destroying the country into mob rule, then put the military on the border(build the wall), and surround one city with the army, and go block to block weeding out the illegals, afterwards tell the country if the illegals leave now there will be no prosecution, if we have to find you..stated punishment here...
i now all here think this is too far, well how else to play it? wait for the coup to be complete and hope for the best?Hope that the wave of illegal immigrants does not eventually force you to pay them for what they want in the name of some racist crap..? We all see presently there is no law for the leadership, which is a close definition to tyranny is it not..so with all these choices that I believe lead to war, would it not be better to act first with necessary dispensation of marshall law or some form of take control back now, destroy all agencies which do not do so, reform , lather, repeat..
else roll the dice which means , let’s hope it works out! Which i doubt is the motto of the coup plotters or the illegal armies infiltrating us...maybe we can achieve it politically, yea right...half the country thinks a wealthy lifestyle comes from always who you know..priviledge as it is said..this will never right itself without a military intervention IMO..hopefully not from another invading country..
nice
Woodward is 1000% caca del toro.
He’ll say whatever to get people to buy his book.
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