A federal judge dismissed President Donald Trump’s lawsuit against the legendary journalist Bob Woodward on Friday that involved the publication of audiotapes from interviews that Woodward conducted with Trump for his 2020 book, “Rage.”

Trump sued Woodward in 2023, alleging the agreement he gave for the 19 interviews conducted in 2019 and 2020 did not apply to the inclusion of audio files used in the “The Trump Tapes,” an audiobook collection published in 2022.

Trump’s legal team argued that the president was a joint author of the tapes and that Woodward and his publisher, Simon & Schuster, did not have the right to sell the recordings. The lawsuit sought $49 million in damages, based on projected sales of the audiobook.

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