Flagpole wrote:
However...I have seen him [Woodward] in a couple of interviews so far, and it doesn't appear to me that he tried hard enough to talk to some of the people, including Trump, to whom quotes were assigned by others for their side of the story. I suppose it isn't absolutely necessary for this kind of book, but his description of trying to talk to some of them, including the Trump phone conversation, made it seem like he wasn't as diligent as he could have been.
I guess you're just trolling for a response now.
He spoke to Kellyanne who speaks to Trump every day. She was in the room with Trump saying that she sent his request to someone else, but not Trump.
That proves Woodward's point. People are hiding things from Trump to keep him from doing stupid things.
What would Woodward get from talking to Trump?
A bunch of lies and denials in recorded conversations that would then go public.
It would be an unnoficial Mueller interrogation.
He got through to speak to Trump only because the book was done.
He didn't dial Trump directly. Someone finally patched him through.
Notice he hasn't done another Lester Holt type of interview since then because he admitted he fired Comey for personal reasons, not because of Rosenstein's advice.
His people are protecting him from lying on the record in response to questions he doesn't have in advance.
Woodward had no chance of getting a real interview with Trump.