Bob Woodward Recalls What Trump Told Him In 2016 And Why ‘We Better Be Frightened’ | EUROtoday

Legendary Watergate reporter Bob Woodward on Tuesday remembered what President-elect Donald Trump informed him in 2016 about his concept of energy and defined what it may imply for Americans throughout Trump’s second time period.

“Asked about power, what is power, and he [Trump] said ‘Real power is … I even don’t like to use the word … but real power is fear,’” Woodward recalled to CNN’s Laura Coates.

“That’s something Trump realized eight years ago, maybe all of his life, and realizes now, you have to scare people,” Woodward added.

Trump is “going to be president for four years” and “having chronicled 10 presidents going back to Nixon, they have extraordinary power, and Trump’s going to use it,” Woodward stated later.

“He used it his first term, maybe not adequately from his own point of view, so he’s going to use it, and we better be frightened,” he added.

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During an interview with MSNBC’s Ari Melber, Woodward stated Trump risked squandering the goodwill usually given to incoming presidents along with his controversial Cabinet picks.

“If he’s just going to throw sand in the eyes of his own party and rationality, he’s going to defeat himself, in a way,” steered Woodward, who has interviewed Trump a number of instances for his books.

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