Judge dismisses Trump's copyright lawsuit against Bob Woodward and
audiobook publisher
President Trump's lawsuit against journalist Bob Woodward and his
publishing house Simon & Schuster was dismissed by a federal judge on
Friday, the same day that Trump filed a new and unrelated suit against
the Wall Street Journal.
US District Judge Paul Gardephe of the Southern District of New York
gave Trump's legal team a month to file another amended complaint. But
for now, he dismissed the current iteration and said "it appears
unlikely" that Trump "can adequately plead a plausible copyright
interest in 'The Trump Tapes.'"
That was the name of an audiobook released by Woodward in 2022, which
contained the 20 interviews the veteran journalist conducted with
Trump from 2016 through 2020.
Trump filed the lawsuit in early 2023, claiming that Woodward had
released audio from their interviews without Trump's consent.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/18/media/trump-bob-woodward-simon-schuster-lawsuit-dismissed
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