Trump loses his $50 million lawsuit against one of the Watergate journalists.
$50M
Donald Trump takes a L amidst a long list of lawsuits he has filed in recent months, as a federal judge has just dismissed his $50 million lawsuit against notorious Watergate journalist Bob Woodward.
An audio book
In 2023, Donald Trump filed a lawsuit against Bob Woodward and the Simon & Schuster publishing house, which in 2022 had published a series of interviews with him in audiobook form entitled The Trump Tapes.
His copyright
Donald Trump maintained that these recordings violated his copyright, claiming that he had granted these interviews to Woodward solely for the book Rage, a bestseller published in 2020.
Using interviews
According to The Daily Beast, a federal judge appointed by George W. Bush sided with Bob Woodward, pointing out that Woodward had never agreed to restrictions on the use of the interviews with Trump, which had been conducted transparently and officially recorded.
An intention
The judge dismissed the lawsuit, finding that Trump had failed to demonstrate any intent to co-write between himself and Woodward, or that he held any copyright on the audiobook.