VIDEO: Woodward on Trump, Kavanaugh, and The White House “Zoo Without Walls”
Tuesday, October 02, 2018
Journalist and author Bob Woodward gave the keynote address at the Rhode Island Public Expenditure Council’s (RIPEC) 75th annual meeting on Monday -- and addressed the press prior to his speech at the Rhode Island Conventions Center.
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Woodward spoke about this new book on the White House under President Donald Trum, "Fear," and talked about Washington politics, the hearings for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, and what he has seen covering nine of the country's forty-five Presidents.
GET THE LATEST BREAKING NEWS HERE -- SIGN UP FOR GOLOCAL FREE DAILY EBLAST"We were interviewing Trump and he was on the verge of getting the Republican nomination but the common wisdom was he would not win -- so we spent some time looking at the larger questions," said Woodward. "The Presidency is about power so we asked him about power, and quoted some things Obama had said ...and Trump said real power is, and I don't even like to use the word, is fear."
"It was almost a Shakespearean aside, like Hamlet -- he turns to the audience and reveals himself," said Woodward. "No cameras were there, but it was jarring. You got a sense that's really what he thought.
"The criticism of Trump is not he's not normal -- is actually made by people who who didn't see what happened on the campaign because he campaigned not to be normal," said Woodward. "The people who are close to him feel he's a threat to national security and financial security. There's no team in the White House. As Reince Priebus -- Trump's first Chief of Staff said -- it's zoo without walls -- which was an alternative title [for the book]."
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