Judge dismisses Trump lawsuit against journalist Bob Woodward over 'Trump tapes'

A federal judge in New York on Friday dismissed President Donald Trump’s lawsuit against journalist Bob Woodward regarding the ownership of interviews with the president published by the leading reporter.

In the last year of his first term in the Oval Office, Trump sat for over a dozen interviews with Woodward as the journalist wrote the 2020 book, Rage. Two years later, Woodward used audio recordings from the interviews as the basis for a second book, The Trump Tapes, leading the president to mount a $49 million lawsuit in 2023, alleging that he owned the copyright to 20 interviews and that they were recorded “for the sole purpose of Woodward being able to write a single book.”