Trump Brags On Tape About ‘Airtight’ Non Disclosure Agreements White House Staffers Signed

In interviews with legendary reporter Bob Woodward for his new book, Donald Trump openly bragged about the "airtight NDAs" that he made his White House staffers sign before working with him. This is an unusual move for a President, but there was obviously nothing normal about Trump's administration. In the same tapes, Trump also talks about how much he likes Putin and how stupid he thought George W. Bush was. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins discusses this.

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*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.

As part of his new audio book, Legendary Journalist, Bob Woodward. Um, part of the book actually talks about, actually doesn't talk about it, has Donald Trump and his son Trump Jr. On tape bragging about their airtight non-disclosure agreements. I'm gonna read you the exchange that took place. Again, this is part of the audio book with Bob Woodward, Donald Trump and his son Donald Trump Jr. Talking about the NDAs. Donald Trump says, I do have nondisclosure deals with. And then Trump Jr. Jumps in. Uh, Corey has one, hope has one senior pops in. Corey has one hope, has one, uh, to do so. So I won't even ask one question, even as I have Junior then chimes in, uh, I don't have one, and I'm in the middle of a book, and then senior says, he's the one I'm most worried about. To which junior replies, I'm not getting next week's paycheck until I sign one. And then Mr. Woodward trying to get the conversation back on track, asked this, Uh, do you think these are airtight agreements that no one could write a book? And this is where Trump responds. This is where the good part is. I think they're very airtight. I think they're extremely airtight. And anybody that violate it, let's put it this way, it's so airtight that I've never had, you know, I've never had a problem with this. I don't like people that take your money and then say bad things about you. Okay?

But saying bad things about you isn't exactly a reason for somebody to sign a non-disclosure agreement, right? I mean, is your ego really that fragile? That you have to tell people that, Listen, if you wanna be near me, you're not ever allowed to tell anybody any of the bad things I ever did. I mean, for Trump, yes, that's, that's the way he operates. It's the way he operates with his business. It's the way he operated while at the White House, which yes, was very out of the ordinary. It wasn't because people were handling classified documents. It wasn't because they were privy to information that they legally couldn't share with the rest of the public. It's because he didn't want them talking about the horribly stupid things that he did. That's what these are about. And most other presidents didn't do that. Sure, they understood the risk that come along with the job. You do something, somebody's gonna put it in a book sometimes, somewhere, there's little you can do about it. Trump, of course, tried to head that off at the past before it even happened. And now here he is bragging about it. I have effectively silenced these people from sharing my deepest, darkest secrets. And they're so airtight that if anybody violates it, he wouldn't even get into what would happen. Like that's the truly terrifying

Part. He wouldn't even say what would happen to those people if they violate those non-disclosure agreements. Now, here's the other part of this. Donald Trump's non-disclosure agreements have not held up in court because he made them too broad. So we've had many people that have challenged them in court and won. So they're not exactly as airtight as you'd like them to be, buddy, because you're not doing such a good job legally defending any of them. But another part of this I did find interesting that has nothing to do with the nondisclosure agreements is the part where Donald Trump said, of Vladimir Putin, I respect Putin. I think Putin likes me. I think I like him.