A federal judge in New York has dismissed a complaint President Donald Trump filed against journalist Bob Woodward, publisher Simon & Schuster, and then-parent company Paramount Global, over their use of taped interviews in an audiobook product Woodward produced.
On July 18, U.S. District Judge Paul Gardephe of the Southern District of New York granted the defendants a motion to dismiss the case Trump had brought against them.
Trump launched the lawsuit in January 2023 and filed two subsequent amended complaints, asserting he had consented to Woodward interviewing him, knowing that his statements may be reproduced in a written format.
Woodward had initially used several interviews with Trump to source quotes and details for the book “Rage,” which Simon & Schuster published in 2021. While Trump said that he expected the contents of his interviews to be repeated in written form, he objected to Woodward’s decision to later use the audio recordings for the audiobook version of “The Trump Tapes: Bob Woodward’s Twenty Interviews with President Donald Trump,” published in 2022….