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The Guardian - US
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David Smith in Washington

‘It’s on the tape’: Bob Woodward on Donald Trump’s ‘criminal behavior’

Donald Trump makes a phone call in the Oval Office.
Donald Trump pulled off an unlikely victory in 2016 and, despite his failed presidency, is running for office again. Photograph: Michael Reynolds/EPA

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water. Donald Trump is running for president again. That was not a prospect Bob Woodward had to deal with when Richard Nixon resigned in 1974, after Woodward and his Washington Post colleague Carl Bernstein cracked open the Watergate scandal.

“Our long national nightmare is over,” declared Nixon’s successor, Gerald Ford, and it was. Nixon faded into jowly retirement. But Trump yearns to regain the crown.

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