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The Media Are Still Making the Same Mistake With Trump

Journalists—and all of us—are better off ignoring him.
Source: Jocelyn Augustino / Redux

Bob Woodward has a new Donald Trump book out. It’s called It’s an audiobook with recordings of the Trump interviews that Woodward conducted for the second of Woodward’s three earlier Trump books. Two days before the release of Woodward’s , Woodward’s home base, , published a , adapted from Woodward’s , on the importance of Woodward’s . Woodward has never before released “raw interviews or full transcripts of my work,” Woodward reveals in the essay adapted from Woodward’s . But Woodward has taken this unprecedented step in his new audiobook because Woodward’s is “central to understanding Trump essay adapted from Woodward’s . “You cannot separate Trump from his voice,” Woodward explains. “Trump’s voice magnifies his presence.”

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