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President Trump: "You have to explain that to me sometime, okay?"
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At one point in Bob Woodward's "Rage," Donald Trump does something that one is not used to: he admits a mistake.
"Fear", Woodwards' first book about the Trump administration, published two years ago, was horrific, the author quotes the president.
"But that was my mistake."
He would have liked to meet Woodward, Trump explains.
"But I wasn't told you had called."
This time the president wanted to do it differently.
Believing that he could bewitch the famous journalist face to face, Trump made himself available to him for a series of personal talks in recent months.
The interviews, some of which Woodward taped, form the basis of "Rage," the author's second major report on the Trump White House.
A president who turtles with despots and deceives the public
On 480 pages, the image of a narcissistic, in the matter haphazard president, who turtles with despots and deceives the public in matters of life and death, emerges.
Worrying, definitely, but not surprising after almost four years of Trump's presidency.
At the same time - without addressing them - the book raises the question of the significance and scope of political scandals in the White House.
It is a question that can be studied particularly well using an example: the career of the author.
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