In Defense Of Bob Woodward!

Yesterday, American investigative reporter Bob Woodward and his publisher, Simon and Schuster, released several damning details of the interviews with TRAITOR Trump on which the upcoming book "Rage" by Woodward is partially based.  Those details included the fact that on tape TRAITOR Trump admitted that he had lied about how serious Covid 19 could be and as a result of those lies, at this point, nearly 200,000 innocent American victims have died.  Yet, many Americans are blaming Bob Woodward more than they are TRAITOR Trump which is completely baffling to me.  It is one of the most asinine cases of blaming the messenger I have ever seen.

Bob Woodward has gone on the record with several discussions of his reasoning for not releasing that information as soon as he had it on tape and his reasons make perfect sense from both a journalistic and political point of view. In interviews with the Washington Post and Associated Press, Woodward stated: "He tells me this, and I’m thinking, 'Wow, that’s interesting, but is it true?' Trump says things that don’t check out, right?" Woodward told AP, referring to Trump's habit of stretching or misrepresenting the truth. And he said he had to determine, "What did he know and when did he know it?" borrowing a phrase from his reporting for The Post on the Watergate break-in. The gist of that statement, based on at least forty years of the known history of TRAITOR Trump is that TRAITOR Trump always lies.  He would rather lie fifty times than tell the truth once.  No reputable journalist on earth, and especially Bob Woodward with his distinguished career of more than fifty years at the highest levels of American journalism, would stake their reputation on anything TRAITOR Trump told them without attempting to verify it from a more credible second, or even third, fourth, or fifth source.  TRAITOR Trump lies daily, hourly, just as automatically as he breaths. He has proven daily that he only hires people who will also confirm and support his most egregious lies with lies of their own. His entire life has been built on lies  His propensity to lie and to function without a moral compass has been verified by both his sister, retired federal judge Maryanne Trump Barry, who has even been recorded by their niece on tape discussing his lack of honesty and principles.  The niece,  Mary L. Trump, a licensed doctoral level psychologist, conducted the interviews with her aunt for her book "Too Much And Never Enough: How My Family Created The World's Most Dangerous Man".  When two such highly credentialed members of a person's immediate family use such terms to describe the person in question, you should believe them.  You should also believe Bob Woodward when he says he was waiting for verification of the things TRAITOR Trump was telling him.

But I also believe there are other even more compelling reasons Bob Woodward was considering when he waited to disclose what he knew.  Bob Woodward rose to fame as a young reporter for the Washington Post when he and his associate Carl Bernstein cracked the Watergate case by conducting clandestine interviews with Mark Felt, the Associate Director of the FBI, which they kept secret for decades until Felt himself, whom Woodward and Bernstein had dubbed Deep Throat, disclosed that he was indeed the secret informant whose work with the two writers had led to the disgrace and resignation of Former President Richard Nixon and the successful criminal prosecution of the Watergate burglars who were all in the employ of Nixon. No one on the face of the earth has more experience or more success than Bob Woodward in handling a cooperating witness or a loquacious felon and pathological liar such as TRAITOR Trump. I believe that Bob Woodward knew full well that he already had damning self confessions from TRAITOR Trump about his refusal  to do anything about the Corona Virus pandemic.  But I also believe that Bob Woodward believed quite appropriately that if he handled TRAITOR Trump well he might also get a confession from TRAITOR Trump of his TREASON with Russia and Vladimir Putin.  Bob Woodward was after bigger fish and his fishing expeditions were fully justified.  Don't blame Bob Woodward for doing excellent work.  Blame TRAITOR Trump for having known about the pandemic and its danger and having chosen to do nothing about it simply because he has never and will never give a tinker's damn about the United States of America.  You should also understand that the United States of America will be fine so long as we send TRAITOR Trump to the federal prison cell which he has so richly deserved for so long on Bomber Row in Colorado with the other enemies of the country. And when he has completed his life sentence, we need to bury him beside Osama Bin Laden.