Ex-president United States of America, Donald Trumpfiled a lawsuit against famed journalist Bob Woodward for releasing an audiobook that includes recordings of eight hours of interviews he gave between 2019 and 2020.

Mr. Trump, who is also pursuing publisher Mr. Woodward, is seeking $49 million in damages, according to Bloomberg news agency.

Trump supporters argue that the fact that the recorded interviews are included in the audiobook format of Bob Woodward’s book violates the journalist and author’s promise that he would use them “solely and exclusively for the purpose of writing the book.”

The lawsuit and lawsuit, which refers to the real estate mogul as “President Trump” – according to a New York Daily News report relayed by a German agency – has been filed in federal court in the northern district of Pensacola, Florida. .

Bloomberg notes that Mr. Trump often files cases in this court, where he has appointed one of three judges who hear civil cases.

“They didn’t record for sale”

Donald Trump has announced that he will sue Bob Woodward when the audiobook is released. The interviews were recorded “for transcription, not for sale,” he told Fox News.

The audiobook includes 20 interviews that the journalist took from the former president on a variety of topics – from the novel coronavirus pandemic to international diplomacy. In mid-January, a hard copy of The Trump Tapes (Simon & Schuster) was released, which also contains part of Trump’s written correspondence with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.

The publisher did not respond to a Daily News request for comment.

Since the end of Mr. Trump’s term, there have been numerous trials in which he has been involved. Earlier this month, he and his lawyer were ordered to pay almost $1 million to file a lawsuit that a federal judge called “completely unfounded.”

Bob Woodward told The Washington Post in October that if there’s one thing he regrets in interviews he did for the book, it’s that he let the former president keep quiet in June 2020 that he didn’t get him to answer. how he would react if he lost the November elections of that year.

^{Source: APE – MEB, tca/dpa}