Throughout the interviews, Trump references the hatchet job Woodward did across the books: Bush at War, Plan of Attack, and State of Denial.
During the sluggish, repetitive interviews, Trump seemed increasingly concerned that Woodward was not out to allow the President his say, but rather to mock, ridicule, and implicate him across his books: Fear, Rage, and Peril.
"It's important to try to answer the question why Trump would agree to do these interview with me. One reason is that Lindsey Graham told Trump that he was confident I would not try to put words in Trump's mouth, but would report accurately what was said."
Handily recalling facts about Joe Biden's own "Quid pro quos," as well as his conversations with Volodymyr Zelensky, no amount of Woodward demanding Trump make a national apology would shake the President.
Quick to cast judgment and aspersions on Trump and his other interview subjects, Woodward hesitates not - over the course of his conversations with Trump - to lobby for lying bureaucrats like Antony Fauci, or extremist groups like Black Lives Matter and AntiFa.
In truth, the Trump Tapes give a tepid and embarrassing insight into America's long-crumbled journalistic institutions; Trump's persistent naivety in dealing with the forces trying to assail him; and the pointlessness of entering into "Good faith" interviews with doddery has-beens desperately trying to crowbar a headline or a news hook from their latest bête noire.
The only redeeming feature of the whole thing for Donald Trump is that far from being mauled by a rapacious reporter searching for the truth, the Trump Tapes sound more like what Denis Healey once described as "Being savaged by a dead sheep."
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