The former US president Donald Trump taught the reporter Bob Woodward the confidential letters that the North Korean leader Kim Jong Un he wrote to him, as he revealed this Wednesday from the chain CNN.
The American media had access to part of a new audiobook by the aforementioned journalist entitled “Trump’s tapes”which will be released on October 25 and contains eight hours of interviews he did with the former Republican president during his presidency.
During one of those meetings in the Oval Office of the White Housein December 2019, the journalist of the Washington Post he asked the president if his bellicose rhetoric towards the North Korean leader was intentional bring Kim to the negotiating table.
“No. No. It was decided by whatever it was, it was decided. Who knows? Instinctively. Let’s talk about instinct, okay? (…) Because you really don’t know what’s going to happen. But it was very hard rhetoric. The hardest, ”Trump hears on the tape, which was seen on CNN.
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trump then he asked his assistants to show it to him Woodward your photos with Kim in the DMZ (demilitarized zone between the two Koreas). “Here we are, him and me. This is the line, right? Then I crossed the line. Very nice. You know? Very nice. Right? ”He said.
Part of this new audiobook by Woodwardwhich contains the 20 interviews he conducted with the former president between 2016 and 2020, talks about what Trump thought of his relationship with Kim.
In them, the former president also admits that he does not have a clear strategy North Korea after the threats he made to him Kimin which trump assured it had a “much larger nuclear button” what North Koreasays the CNN.
The interviews offer insight into the former president’s worldview and are the most extensive tapes of trump talk about their mandate, including an explanation the reason for his meeting with Kimhis relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putinand detailed views of the former ruler on the nuclear arsenal AND AND. UU.
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The audio also shows how trump decided to share with Woodward the letters that Kim he wrote him some secret letters which at the end of his presidency the millionaire took to his residence Palm Beach and Floridaand that led to Department of Justice to start an investigation on the confidential documents he had appropriated.
“And don’t say I gave them to you, okay?”Trump told Woodward as he showed him the cards.
The reporter, who helped uncover the scandal puddle of waterand how much the presidency cost Richard Nixon in 1974, in the introduction to the audiobook, he said he publishes these tapes in part because “hearing Trump speak is a completely different experience. read the transcripts or listen to excerpts from interviews on television or on the Internet “.
Describe Trump as “Crude, profane, confrontational and misleading. Their language is often vindictive. “ensures the CNN.
“However, it also sounds attractive and pleasant, to laugh (…). She’s trying to win me over, sell me his presidency. He is a full time salesman, ”Woodward said.
“I wanted to put most of Trump’s voice, his own words, for the historical record and so that people can listen, judge and make their own assessments”, The journalist specified.
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In the interviews, trump shares her views on the strong men she admires, including Kim, Putin and the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoganand reveals his general conviction that he is the smartest person here.
In a June 2020 interview, which followed nationwide protests following the police killing of George Floyd, Woodward churches trump if they helped him to write the speech in which the “president of public order”.
“Comes with ideas. But the ideas are mine, Bob. The ideas are mine … It’s all mine, everything, “Trump told Woodward.
To a question about the nuclear program of North Koreathe president boasted of the nuclear capabilities of European Union and he mentioned a new weapon system that was probably top secret, which one Woodward reiterated the “Casual and dangerous way” where the former president deals with confidential information.
“I built a weapons system that no one has ever had in this country before,” Trump told Woodward. “We have things you haven’t even seen or heard. We have things Putin and Xi have never heard of before. “She said.
