Trump sees democracy as ‘enemy territory’ says journalist who helped carry down Nixon

Longtime Washington Publish journalist Bob Woodward stated he believes former President Donald Trump “appears at democracy as enemy territory” throughout an interview on MSNBC.

“The issue with Trump is, I believe he appears at democracy as enemy territory, to be fairly frank,” Mr Woodward informed the community’s Ari Melber on Tuesday.

Mr Woodward is aware of a factor or two about scandal-plagued presidents. He and Carl Bernstein’s reporting on Watergate on the Washington Publish helped finish Richard Nixon’s presidency greater than 5 a long time in the past.

Extra just lately, Mr Woodward has reported extensively on Mr Trump. In 2018, Mr Woodward revealed a ebook known as Concern: Trump within the White Home on Mr Trump’s presidency and has since revealed a number of extra books in regards to the former president.

The newest of these books — The Trump Tapes: Bob Woodward’s Twenty Interviews with President Donald Trump — featured transcripts of Mr Woodward’s 20 interviews with Mr Trump. The previous president sued over the discharge of the tapes of the interviews, although Mr Woodward’s writer Simon & Schuster has maintained that the tapes had been all on the file.

Now, with Mr Trump establishing himself because the frontrunner for the Republican nomination for president for a 3rd consecutive election, quite a few People are fearful about what his potential return to the White Home would possibly imply for American democracy.

As he runs for president, Mr Trump is actively underneath investigation for his participation in efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. He’s additionally underneath federal indictment for allegedly mishandling categorized paperwork after leaving the presidency and is underneath indictment in New York Metropolis for his alleged function in a hush cash fee scheme as properly.

Mr Woodward spoke to Melber for a particular edition of Melber’s present The Beat, discussing not simply Mr Trump’s lack of respect for democratic norms, but in addition his dealing with of the Covid-19 disaster.

If Mr Trump does certainly advance to subsequent 12 months’s common election to face Mr Biden, will probably be the primary time two individuals who have already served as president have confronted off in an election since Grover Cleveland defeated Benjamin Harrison all the way in which again in 1892. There hasn’t been a rematch for president in any respect because the second contest between Dwight Eisenhower and Adlai Stevenson in 1956.