Woodward plans 2nd Trump book
As Donald Trump’s presidency wanes, another book about it by Bob Woodward is on the way.
Simon & Schuster announced Monday that the investigative journalist is joining forces with Washington Post colleague Robert Costa for his next title chronicling the final days of Trump’s presidency, and the beginning of Joe Biden’s.
The publisher’s announcement comes less than four months after the controversial publication of Woodward’s last Trump expose, “Rage,” which included a now-infamous interview revealing that the president knew early on that COVID-19 was “deadly” but that he “wanted to always play it down.”
That bombshell landed both Trump and Woodward in hot water, as many accused the veteran political author of shirking a moral obligation to immediately release Trump’s remarks in favor of selling more copies when the full book arrived months later.
“If I had done the story at that time about what he knew in February, that’s not telling us anything we didn’t know,” Woodward told The Associated Press, explaining that his primary goal was to get “Rage” out to the American public before the November election.
It’s unclear whether Trump will participate again in the forthcoming sequel by Woodward and Costa, who serve as associate editor and national political reporter, respectively, at the Post.
The untitled and unscheduled project will be
Woodward’s 21st book repped by Simon & Schuster, which rocked the literary world last month by announcing its plans to join Penguin Random House’s publishing empire in 2021.
— Los Angeles Times
Arrest made in break-in at Brady Brookline mansion
Police arrested a man
Monday they say broke into a mansion owned by former New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady and model Gisele Bundchen and made himself comfortable on a couch while no one else was in the home.
Police in Brookline responded to the home around 6 a.m. after a security company monitoring the home reported that alarms had gone off in the house. They reported seeing an intruder in the house on a security camera.
Officers found 34-yearold Zanini Cineus lying on a couch in the basement while no one was home. Brady and his family moved to Florida after he signed with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the offseason.
Cineus pleaded not guilty Monday to trespassing and breaking and entering charges during his arraignment in Brookline
District Court, according to prosecutors.
He was held in custody pending a competency evaluation on Tuesday. Cineus’ lawyer didn’t respond to an email seeking comment.
The former Rhode Island resident, whose last known address was in Brockton, was charged last year with stealing a signed Brady jersey from the New England Patriots Hall of Fame that had been valued at around $10,000.
At the time, he was ordered to stay away from Gillette Stadium, where the team’s hall of fame is located, the Boston Herald reports.
Brady’s 12,112-squarefoot mansion on 5 acres is for sale but is an off-market listing, so the exact asking price is unclear, The Boston Globe reported this month. It had mostly recently been listed at $33.9 million.