A TIME ARRIVES IN EACH MANAGEMENT WHEN BOB WOODWARD APPEARS. You may not like it, or in the case of the White House, you may not like it, do not respect it or fully perceive the news hounds, however, you still do not have a selection to participate in WOODWARD because, if you do not, you will, and that will be extraordinarily bad for you.
IT’S CLEARLY AFTER “THE FEAR,” WOODWARD’s 18th best-seller, President DONALD TRUMP has become aware of the WOODWARD media. And, probably by coincidence, TRUMP gave him 18 official interviews. Given that TRUMP dealt with WOODWARD a lot (he had called him frequently, just to chat and in many cases show off), many in the White House were afraid of what the e-book would contain.
AS TRADITION, WOODWARD’s journalistic space – THE WASHINGTON POST – had the first contact with the book, with our colleagues BOB COSTA and PHIL RUCKER recounting some of their peak moments.
WOODWARD will be the owner next week. He will appear on “60 MINUTES” Sunday night with SCOTT PELLEY, and his e-book will be out on TUESDAY. The story of Costa and Rucker, quoted in Array . . CNN has some of the recordings of Woodward talking to Trump
SOME CONDITIONS:
– TRUMP knowingly misled the United States about COVID: “” You just breathe the air and this is how it happened, “Trump said in a call on February 7 [to Woodward]” And it’s a very sensitive question. It is a very delicate question. It is also even more fatal than his intense flu. ”“ It is a fatal thing, ”repeated the president to insist.
“At the time, Trump was telling the country that the virus was no worse than a seasonal flu, predicting that it would soon disappear, and insisting that the United States government had it completely under control . . . Trump admitted to Woodward on the 19 of March”. that he was intentionally minimizing the danger. “I tried to minimize it,” said the president.
– ON CAREER RELATIONSHIPS: “In a momentary conversation on June 19, Woodward asked the president about white privilege, noting that they were white men of the same generation who had had a privileged education. Woodward cautioned that they had a duty to “better understand the anger and pain” felt by black Americans. “No,” Trump replied, his voice described through Woodward as mocking and incredulous. “You drank the Kool-Aid, didn’t you?” Listen to yourself. Sensational. No, I don’t feel that at all. “”
– ON THE MILITARY: “Not to mention my fucking generals are a bunch of fags. They care more about their alliances than they do industry deals,” Trump told White House industrial adviser Peter Navarro at one point. , according to Woodward.
“Trump was seduced by [KIM JONG UN]’s compliments,” Woodward wrote, proudly saying that Kim had addressed him as ‘Excellence’. Trump noted that he was surprised to meet Kim for the first time in 2018 in Singapore, saying and locating that Kim was beyond intelligence. Trump also boasted to Woodward that Kim “tells me everything,” adding a graphic account of Kim killing his uncle.
– GIVING SECRETS . . . THE U. S. NEWSOF A NEW WEAPON SYSTEM: “Reflecting on America’s proximity in 2017 to the wage war against North Korea, Trump revealed, ‘I built a nuclear, a formula of weapons that no one has in this country before. We have things you haven’t even noticed or heard. We have things Putin and Xi have never heard of before. There’s no one, what we have is amazing. ” Woodward writes that un nameless resources later demonstrated that the U. S. military had a new secret weapons formula, however, they would provide details, and resources were surprised that Trump had revealed it.
– ABOUT BARACK OBAMA: “I don’t think Obama is smart . . . I think he’s very overrated. And I don’t think he’s a smart speaker. ” Trump added that North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un thought Obama was “an idiot. “
– JARED KUSHNER is “abundantly quoted” in the book, writes COSTA and RUCKER. “Woodward writes that Kushner informed others that one of the most important political texts to perceive the Trump presidency is” Alice in Wonderland. ” , a novel about a young woman who falls into a rabbit hole, she chose the Cheshire cat whose strategy is to maintain power and perseverance, not leadership.
– FAUCI ON JARED: “Woodward describes Fauci as disappointed in Kushner for speaking like a cheerleader as if everything was fine. In June, when the virus spread wildly from coast to coast and the number of cases soared in Arizona, Florida, Texas and other states, Kushner said of Trump: “ The purpose is to move from governance to the countryside. ”
CNN WITH THIS DETAIL: “Woodward reports new key points on Russian election interference, writing that the NSA and CIA have classified evidence that the Russians had placed malware on the voter registration systems of at least two counties in Florida, St. Lucia and Washington. “
– CNN: “Woodward concludes his e-book by saying that” Trump is not the right guy for the job. “”
Good Wednesday afternoon. The KAYLEIGH MCENANY press officer will be reporting shortly. TRUMP will be reporting at five p. m.
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ALORS, is WASHINGTON publicly throwing in the towel on Covid’s efforts in September?
SECRETARY OF TREASURE STEVEN MNUCHIN, speaking with Daily Mail bundler EMILY GOODIN this morning at the White House, said the administration is targeting an interim funding bill, with no foreign policy attached, and the draft Targeted Relief Act. Covid of the Republican Party.
– Translation: Focuses on government investment without Covid’s relief, and focuses on a Republican bill that will pass the Senate. That’s the prestige of things with something like 10 LEGISLATIVE DAYS until the government runs out of money. More from Marianne LeVine and John Bresnahan
PUT ALL THESE things together, and the bottom line is: Covid’s chances of relief are falling faster than the Yankees’ chances of reaching the playoffs!!(I’m sorry, Bres. )
NEVER NEVER FAKE IT AGAIN! . . . MNUCHIN, via GOODIN: “Asked what are the Covid relief bill possibilities this year:” I don’t know. We’ll see. I hope there are. It is vital for many other people »”.
VERY GOOD! . . . Senate Majority Leader MITCH MCCONNELL this morning, via WaPo’s ERICA WERNER, when asked if she had 51 votes on her meager Republican proposal: “Well, we’re going to vote in the afternoon and locate us “.
CHUCK SCHUMER, SENATE MINORITY LEADER this morning: The Senate Republican Party bill is “partisan” and “thinner and meaner” than its previous proposals. “Cynical . . . It is not about legislating. . . . Possibly it would not happen on Thursday and we will return to where we are today. “
Meanwhile . . . NPR: “The monetary pain of the coronavirus pandemic is ‘much, much worse’ than expected”: “In the 4 largest cities in the US, at least some other people report suffering the loss of a task or a relief in wages or painting hours in your family since the start of the coronavirus epidemic. This is the conclusion of a new survey published Wednesday through NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the School THChan Public Health Department at Harvard.
“Many of those disruptions are concentrated among Black and Latino families in the 4 cities . . . Nationally, the NPR survey shows very large proportions of families reporting that their savings were depleted due to the pandemic (if they had savings in the first place) or they dropped on housing bills or had disturbances in paying debts and / or application bills NPR . . . The survey
JOE BIDEN is on his way to MICHIGAN. He did not contact reporters on the runway before boarding his plane, according to NYT’s TOM KAPLAN, today’s pool manager.
ABOUT THE BACKGROUND – “Joe Biden to Say Michigan: It Will Impose Taxes on Corporations Moving Abroad,” through Todd Spangler and Dave Boucher of detroit Free Press: “In any other crusade, it would be a crusade of the Democratic handbook, but since President Donald Trump made the same claims at the center of his presidency, this is a frontal attack on Trump’s economic record in a state that has earned tenths of 1% Array.
“If elected, Biden said: Cabildea would be required by a law that would increase the highest corporate tax rate from 21% to 28% and apply an additional surcharge to any production transferred abroad from the United States on goods and facilities for sale or re-Enter. The United States . . . Ask Congress to approve a 10% tax credit “Made in America” . . . Sign decrees in your first week in the workplace that would include the so-called “Buy American” provisions.
WAR REPORT – “U. S. troops in Iraq at 3,000 as Trump seeks to keep his election promise,” through Lara Seligman: “The United States plans the presence of troops in Iraq from 5,200 to 3,000 until the end of September as President Donald Trump seeks to maintain an election promise to end America’s “endless wars. “Trump is also expected to announce a troop relay in Afghanistan in the coming days.
CAOS IN THE POST OFFICE – “Patients might have noticed ‘significant’ delays in drug shipments through the USPS, according to a Senate report,” via Tony Romm of WaPo: “Several major U. S. pharmacies have been able to do so. But it’s not the first time They have told the two lawmakers leading the investigation – Democratic Rep. Elizabeth Warren (Massachusetts) and Robert P. Casey Jr. (Pennsylvania) – that average delivery times are higher since spring, which has led to an avalanche of consumer percentage calls and expensive requests to return to their medications. Wapo. . . The report
AP ELANA SCHOR: “The Republican Party Is Attacking Harris In The Middle Of The War For Catholic Voters”: “The [anti-Catholic] indictment stems in part from Harris’ 2018 questions from a federal justice candidate about his club At the Knights of Columbus, a lay Catholic Harris Fraternal Organization asked the candidate if he agreed with the organization’s leader’s anti-abortion views, which largely reflect the position of the Church.
At the time, he inflamed Republicans, with one senator drafting a solution to affirm the constitutional prohibition on testing devotees to federal officials and claim that the club in the Catholic organization is not “disqualifying. ” Now that Harris is Biden’s vice president, Conservatives are repeating the moment to seek to seize the Democratic price appeals in favor of abortion for devoted voters. AP
REEFER MADNESS – “Voting for Marijuana Puts Democrats at Risk in November,” via Natalie Fertig and Paul Demko: “Democrats are making an unprecedented gamble this month: vote to legalize hashish at the federal level. The MORE law would eliminate the consequences for marijuana, expunge the records of some criminals, and create subsidy systems for those affected by the war on drugs.
“Democrats say the time is perfect: support has been created to ease marijuana restrictions over the past decade. The demands for racial justice that increased after the murders of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd gave the bill the last effort she needed to get a vote on the floor. . . But there are dangers related to voting. It lands amid a confrontation between House of Commons President Nancy Pelosi and the White House over a new coronavirus aid bill, raising considerations about focusing on marijuana as a pandemic. “Political
DO A TEST – “The coronavirus is designed to be loose. Surprise expenses come anyway,” by Sarah Kliff in The Upshot: “Congress passed legislation requiring insurers to pay for Array and the Trump administration has created a program to cover the expenses of the uninsured. Cities and states have established loose check sites.
“Patients, with and without insurance, are starting to have gaps in these new policy programs. Array. . Approximately 2. 4% of coronavirus tests billed to insurers leave the patient guilty by the Array payment component. In some cases, fees appear to violate new federal legislation that aims to make coronavirus tests loose for Array personal insured patients In other cases, insurers interpret the gray spaces of those new regulations in a way that works in their favor. “
DEATH DISPARITIES . . . SIDNEE KING and JOEL JACOBS of the WCO: “[T]he federal government is not following this demographic. However, a Washington Post investigation into the knowledge of more than two dozen states found that the mortality rate is more than 20% in black-majority establishments than in predominantly white establishments.
“The analysis, which used demographic data compiled through Brown University and included about 11,000 nursing homes, nearly three-quarters of all services in the United States, also found that mortality rates were rising. as the proportion of black citizens increased.
PPP PROBLEMS – “Rolls-Royces, Rolexs and Townhouses: The federal government takes strong action against small business loan fraud,” through Kellie Mejdrich: “Federal prosecutors are stepping up investigations against others who fraudulently received government-guaranteed small business loans. . . The Justice Department has filed more than 40 cases involving false claims for more than $170 million from the PayCheck Protection Program and some other federal loan vehicle. And the workplace of the Small Business Administration inspector general says he has “launched heaps of prospects fraud cases” in any of the programs.
“Officials are targeting other people who submitted false claims to the SBA, primarily through the PPP, which presented loans to employers that can be canceled if they agree not to fire workers. Prosecutors are also targeting the Economic Disaster Loan Program, which is based on the government budget and not on personal banks. “POLITICAL
CALIFORNIA BURNING . . . SFGATE: “Bay Domain Sky Turns Bright Orange, Some Spaces See Ash ‘Snow'”
WALL STREET FILES – “Deutsche Bank hires Barr Friend for his game in Washington,” through Greg Farrell, Steven Arons, Christian Berthelsen and Tom Schoenberg of Bloomberg: “The resolution came from Frankfurt, where the bank’s supervisory board led through President Paul Achleitner has hired Robert Kimmitt, according to others familiar with the matter. Kimmitt, 72, is a lawyer and former U. S. ambassador to Germany whose friendship with Barr dates back to the 1980s.
“The exact role of Kimmitt is unclear, even to many of the bank’s executives. According to some, Frankfurt’s view is that the bank’s high control prompted it earlier this year to its presence in the US capital, where, in addition to criminal investigations, Democratic lawmakers are examining the bank’s relationships with one from them. his top featured clients, Preaspectnt Donald Trump. Opinion on the US side of the business has been clouded. Bloomberg
HOT ON THE GAUCHE – “Black Caucus faces turmoil as tension mounts”, via Sarah Ferris and Heather Caygle: “[W] ua and several progressive blacks are expected to win in November, the tension will rise in the CBC to embrace the left turn of their new recruits and their challenge to the broader establishment of the party. Longtime members have already begun to privately worry about how the CBC will be forced to evolve in the next Congress and how you will shape an organization that has long been a central authority on House politics . . .
“Several members said they were eager to see what would happen next. Seniority and deference to the party elders, the core values of the 50-year caucus, slowly began to erode. And the main challenges, which have lately been seen as a private affront to any incumbent, may soon become the norm. In an interview, [Jamaal] Bowman said that progressives like him and [Cori] Bush are encouraged to take their fight to Congress, adding within the CBC if necessary. “POLITICAL
BATTLE FOR THE SENATE . . . SABATO CRYSTAL BALL KYLE KONDIK: “If things don’t break in the race for the majority of the Senate next year, Democrats can be placed in a scenario similar to hillary Clinton’s presidential crusade four years ago: making raids on traditionally unfavorable places claims, but without winning any of those goals, while not reaching high-level racing. . .
“While Democrats have a transparent trail of 50 seats in the Senate, hoping that a Democratic vice president will break ties, we wonder how genuine their trail is to more than 50 seats. And even some of the basic races that shape the basis of the most transparent democratic path to the majority remains highly controversial . . . We still think a Senate 50-50 is the highest likely outcome.
WELCOME TO THE WORLD – Katie Rogers, White House correspondent for the NYT, and John Chinoransky, Latham audiovisual specialist