Woodward: Trump ‘dangerous’ and ‘a threat to democracy’
Bob Woodward, one of America’s most famous journalists, said that he considers former US President Donald Trump “dangerous” and a threat to both democracy and the presidency.
According to Press TV, Woodward is the author of a new audiobook, titled “The Trump Tapes: Bob Woodward’s Twenty Interviews with President Donald Trump,” which includes the full audio of his 20 one-on-one interviews with Trump.
“Trump was the wrong man for the job,” Woodward said during an interview with CBS on Sunday. “I realize now, two years later, all of the Jan. 6 insurrection, leads me to the conclusion that he’s not just the wrong man for the job, but he’s dangerous, and he is a threat to democracy, and he’s a threat to the presidency because he doesn’t understand the core obligations that come with that office.”
Trump continues to pose a threat to US democracy Woodward wrote in an op-ed for The Washington Post published Sunday.
“‘The Trump Tapes’ leaves no doubt that after four years in the presidency, Trump has learned where the levers of power are, and full control means installing absolute loyalists in key Cabinet and White House posts” he wrote.
“The record now shows that Trump has led — and continues to lead — a seditious conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election, which in effect is an effort to destroy democracy,” he added.
“Trump reminds how easy it is to break things you do not understand — democracy and the presidency,” he wrote.
On January 6, 2021, Trump supporters occupied the US Capitol while lawmakers were in the process of reviewing the certification of state electors which indicated Biden's victory. Some Trump supporters had hoped that this process could have resulted in some of the electors being disqualified, thus overturning the outcome of the presidential election.
It is claimed by some that the demonstrators were infiltrated and incited by provocateurs from US intelligence agencies, who orchestrated the “false flag operation” in order to get rid of Trump.
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