Veteran journalist Bob Woodward is working on a new book about President Trump.
The famed Watergate sleuth, who has written books about the last nine U.S. presidents, confirmed the he is working on a follow-up to his 2018 book Fear during a talk in western New York over the weekend.
Woodward likened Fear: Trump in the White House, which covered Trump’s successful 2016 presidential campaign and the first year-plus of his administration, to “Part I and Part II.” Woodward said this new book will focus on “Part III and Part IV.”
The publisher of Fear, Simon & Schuster, declined to comment and referred the Washington Examiner to Woodward. An email sent to Woodward was not immediately returned.
This appears to be the first time Woodward has mention his next book, but over the past few months the Washington Post associate editor has let slip hints about his investigative endeavors, including a project related to special counsel Robert Mueller.
In a late May podcast interview with former Obama adviser David Axelrod, Woodward said he was not confident that Mueller did an exhaustive job in his investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. Asked if he thought Mueller did a thorough job, Woodward said, “No. I found people who Mueller didn’t interview.” He did not elaborate.
Fear was released on Sept. 11, 2018. Simon & Schuster announced the very next day that the book was already a record-setter for the publishing company. The book sold more than 1 million copies across all platforms in its first week. The book ultimately sold more than 2 million copies, according to the publisher.
The book largely focused on the inner workings of the Trump White House over which the dark cloud of the Mueller investigation loomed large. Woodward relied on hundreds of hours of interviews with people on “deep background,” as well as meeting notes, personal diaries, files, and government or personal documents. Woodward said Trump declined to be interviewed for that book, and afterwards he accused Woodward of making up quotes attributed to him.
Woodward, who is best known for his investigative reporting with Carl Bernstein that shed light on the Watergate scandal leading to President Richard Nixon’s resignation in 1974, heavily leans on the practice of recording conversations and has said he is looking for tapes of conversations of Trump and people in his inner circle.
“I keep — every time I interview someone I ask, ‘Do you have tapes?’ And I’m waiting. And I have not got a yes. But this is the world of surveillance. It is the culture of surveillance. So maybe there’s something out there. So keep asking,” Woodward told PBS last month.
