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Yavin4

(35,438 posts)
Thu Sep 10, 2020, 05:52 PM Sep 2020

Dear Mr. Woodward, please release whatever else you have immediately.

Trump's incompetency, criminality, potential threats to national security are not the Intellectual Property rights of you and your publisher. They are facts that the American people need to know heading into a presidential election.

You are sitting on the lives, health, and safety of the American people, not The Winds of Winter.

Thank you.

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Dear Mr. Woodward, please release whatever else you have immediately. (Original Post) Yavin4 Sep 2020 OP
Won't bring the election any sooner jcgoldie Sep 2020 #1
I agree with this TheRealNorth Sep 2020 #2
Mid-October? crimycarny Sep 2020 #13
True enough TheRealNorth Sep 2020 #24
This! Thekaspervote Sep 2020 #20
I don't want to take that risk. Yavin4 Sep 2020 #4
I don't trust America's attention span jcgoldie Sep 2020 #8
Slow release is better. Drip, drip, this thing to death. Funtatlaguy Sep 2020 #12
Slow release also keeps Trump on the defense so they can't make up some BS attack for Biden Claustrum Sep 2020 #15
Exactly. Keep them on defense. Keep Biden on offense. Funtatlaguy Sep 2020 #16
Patience, Grasshopper. Let's let the effect of this sink in for a while. brush Sep 2020 #18
Yes! Alacritous Crier Sep 2020 #6
I'd guess he has something left for 60 Minutes underpants Sep 2020 #3
We need to know now what else he has. Yavin4 Sep 2020 #5
YES!!! progressive nobody Sep 2020 #7
Agreed. AngryOldDem Sep 2020 #9
I Agree With This Premise, But... SDJay Sep 2020 #10
We only have to wait four more days. Mike 03 Sep 2020 #11
No, he needs to do it if the stupid media Rice4VP Sep 2020 #14
He needs to release 2 to 3 audio tapes avebury Sep 2020 #17
He released them malaise Sep 2020 #19
He's on a week long promotional tour, then the book comes out Fiendish Thingy Sep 2020 #21
K&R UTUSN Sep 2020 #22
I'll take a slow trickle over the next 4 weeks. Bombshell after bombshell In It to Win It Sep 2020 #23

jcgoldie

(11,631 posts)
1. Won't bring the election any sooner
Thu Sep 10, 2020, 05:54 PM
Sep 2020

I'd prefer a bombshell a week for the next 7 weeks. Just keep dunking that orange fucker every time he tries to come up for air...

TheRealNorth

(9,481 posts)
2. I agree with this
Thu Sep 10, 2020, 05:55 PM
Sep 2020

If all the dirty laundry gets dumped out all at once this far from election day, it will have left the national consciousness by mid-Oct. Better to let each outrage sink in a little.

crimycarny

(1,351 posts)
13. Mid-October?
Thu Sep 10, 2020, 06:06 PM
Sep 2020

You’re being generous. I was going to say 48 hours.

Besides our short attention span, if we get hit with all the bombshells at once it will be information overload and people will simply tune out for self-preservation. Too much bad news all at once can be overwhelming.

Yavin4

(35,438 posts)
4. I don't want to take that risk.
Thu Sep 10, 2020, 05:56 PM
Sep 2020

We need to know what else he has in order to protect the nation and the electoral process. I don't want to know a week before the election that Trump and Putin have worked out a plan to steal the election.

jcgoldie

(11,631 posts)
8. I don't trust America's attention span
Thu Sep 10, 2020, 06:00 PM
Sep 2020

The pussy grabbing tape was old news in 2 weeks. Slow release dominates the news cycle.

Claustrum

(4,845 posts)
15. Slow release also keeps Trump on the defense so they can't make up some BS attack for Biden
Thu Sep 10, 2020, 06:16 PM
Sep 2020

The problem in 2016 was that nothing followed the "access Hollywood" tape and there was room for Trump and the GOP to cook up the "but her email" story. We need to keep the fire on Trump for the next 60 days.

brush

(53,778 posts)
18. Patience, Grasshopper. Let's let the effect of this sink in for a while.
Thu Sep 10, 2020, 06:27 PM
Sep 2020

And if there's more, dribble it out a bombshell at a time. And remember, Goldberg at "The Atlantic" says he has more damning stuff to come too.

underpants

(182,803 posts)
3. I'd guess he has something left for 60 Minutes
Thu Sep 10, 2020, 05:56 PM
Sep 2020

On Sunday. If nothing else maybe his declaration of how unfit Trump is. How in over his head he is.

SDJay

(1,089 posts)
10. I Agree With This Premise, But...
Thu Sep 10, 2020, 06:05 PM
Sep 2020

at this point, I honestly don't think there is ANYTHING that could come out that would actually prompt Dump's enablers in the Senate to do something. I think they're as bought-and-paid-for as Dump. Therefore, despite how it goes against all logic (and that's been the story of the country for 4 years now), I'd rather it be a drip-drip-drip until the votes are in.

You have to keep hammering away at this guy relentlessly, constantly making him and his sycophants twist and lie and run from microphones.

It's a sad reality, but I think that's the best thing right now.

Rice4VP

(1,235 posts)
14. No, he needs to do it if the stupid media
Thu Sep 10, 2020, 06:10 PM
Sep 2020

stops pounding away at Trump for doing nothing as almost 200,000 people died. They already got bored with the suckers and losers story.

The only thing that has sustained is COVID-19 but that got a short break after George Floyd was murdered and the protests that followed

avebury

(10,952 posts)
17. He needs to release 2 to 3 audio tapes
Thu Sep 10, 2020, 06:23 PM
Sep 2020

a week. That would leave a drip, drip, drip nightmare for Trump for the rest of the race.

malaise

(268,997 posts)
19. He released them
Thu Sep 10, 2020, 06:29 PM
Sep 2020

Woodward on Wednesday released the tapes of his interviews with Trump. Portions of the audio were played by CNN, MSNBC and released on The Washington Post website, where Woodward is an associate editor.

https://thehill.com/homenews/media/515675-woodward-calls-trump-wrong-man-for-the-job-in-new-book

Fiendish Thingy

(15,611 posts)
21. He's on a week long promotional tour, then the book comes out
Thu Sep 10, 2020, 07:32 PM
Sep 2020

Woodward’s tapes will be in the news for at least the next 10 days.

Voters will have all that they need to know, straight from Trump’s mouth.

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