{"id":32265,"date":"2018-09-11T21:37:57","date_gmt":"2018-09-11T21:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=32265"},"modified":"2018-09-11T21:37:57","modified_gmt":"2018-09-11T21:37:57","slug":"trump-vs-woodward-my-money-is-on-the-journalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=32265","title":{"rendered":"Trump vs. Woodward: My money is on the journalist"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/bob-woodward-trump-new-book-copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-32111\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/bob-woodward-trump-new-book-copy-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/bob-woodward-trump-new-book-copy-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/bob-woodward-trump-new-book-copy-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/bob-woodward-trump-new-book-copy-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If I had to pick which man &#8212; Donald J. Trump or Bob Woodward &#8212; is more credible, believable, truthful and trustworthy, I am going to go with Woodward every day of the week &#8230;\u00a0 and twice on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Woodward&#8217;s 19th book, &#8220;Fear,&#8221; was released today on the 17th year commemorating the 9\/11 terror attack. It tells a stark story of dysfunction within the Trump White House operation. It speaks to attempts to prevent the president from acting on his more dangerous impulses.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has blasted Woodward. So have many of his top aides, senior advisers, Cabinet hands. I&#8217;m interested in the lack of specificity regarding the criticism.<\/p>\n<p>Woodward&#8217;s history as a journalist &#8212; dating back to the Watergate era that he covered along with his Washington Post reporting partner Carl Bernstein &#8212; reveals a journalist who takes meticulous care to ensure he reports the truth.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/406130-white-house-allies-step-up-attacks-on-woodward-book\">White House steps up attacks<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am sitting out here in the peanut gallery; I am aware that I am far from the fracas. However, Woodward&#8217;s reporting techniques have served well enough for him over the course of more than four decades. He has achieved iconic status for a good reason. The man does a thorough job of ensuring the veracity of whatever story he is seeking to tell.<\/p>\n<p>Trump? His record of veracity?<\/p>\n<p>Umm. Not so good. Not nearly so reliable.<\/p>\n<p>For the president to challenge the reputation of a legendary print journalist, thus, is laughable on its face.<\/p>\n<p>Except that none of it is funny.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I had to pick which man &#8212; Donald J. Trump or Bob Woodward &#8212; is more credible, believable, truthful and trustworthy, I am going to go with Woodward every day of the week &#8230;\u00a0 and twice on Sunday. Woodward&#8217;s 19th book, &#8220;Fear,&#8221; was released today on the 17th year commemorating the 9\/11 terror attack. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=32265\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trump vs. Woodward: My money is on the journalist<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7932],"tags":[696,1424,5635,5246],"class_list":["post-32265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-donald-trump","tag-bob-woodward","tag-donald-trump","tag-fear","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32266,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32265\/revisions\/32266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}