President-elect Donald Trump’s attorney has requested that a federal judge proceed with his lawsuit against journalist Bob Woodward over audio recordings of interviews conducted for Woodward’s 2020 book. Woodward, a prominent journalist known for his Watergate reporting, is currently an associate editor at The Washington Post.
In November, Trump’s lawyers wrote in a letter to the judge:
The court is aware that President Trump is soon due to be inaugurated as the 47th President of these United States of America. The issue in this case, namely the unlicensed for-profit use of President Trump’s voice that was recorded in an unofficial interview, is both timely and ripe, for fear of further unaccounted for profit being made from the President’s voice. In addition, we trust that the Court can accommodate a discovery process that will cause minimal interference…
