![]() ![]() He was able to sell himself as a successful, wealthy businessman. Woodward says: “If you look back on 2016, there was a lot of good coverage but it was never enough. While there was some fine reporting that left America in no doubt about what it was getting, there was also wall-to-wall cable news coverage and a constant pressure for his opponent, Hillary Clinton, to respond to Trump’s latest unhinged tweet. Trump pulled off an unlikely victory in 2016 in what many saw as an indictment of the media. So who knows? You can’t record the future.”īut you can revisit the past. Clinton was not on the list he would have put himself there. I remember in 1990, before the ’92 presidential election, with a bunch of friends making a list of the 50 people who might be the next president. “Who knows? Trump’s got tens of millions of supporters. Woodward spoke to the Guardian by phone six hours before the disgraced one-term, twice-impeached president took the stage at Mar-a-Lago, his gaudy personal Xanadu in Florida, to announce what might or might not be the greatest political comeback of all time.ĭoes Woodward, who at 79 has written about nine American presidents, think Trump can win again? Or is Ron DeSantis, governor of Florida, hammer of wokeness, now the man to beat? ![]()
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