Bob Woodward, reckoned the best investigative reporter in the USA, has his take on the Trump presidency out in September in a book called simply ‘Fear.’ He has written books on three past presidents all with their cooperation which was not forthcoming this time round. But he appears to have persuaded insiders to talk in private. One former official said: ‘It’s gonna be killer. Everyone talked with Woodward.’ Former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said: “He has an extraordinary ability to get otherwise responsible adults to spill [their] guts to him…his ability to get people to talk about stuff they shouldn’t be talking about is just extraordinary and may be unique.”
The book title came from a conversation with Trump during the 2016 campaign when he said: ‘Real power means you can get what you want without having to exert violence. Real power is Fear.’
Woodward was born 26 March 1936 6.35pm Geneva, Illinois, the son of a judge, served in the navy and then went into journalism, hitting the bullseye with his expose of Watergate, along with fellow reporter Carl Bernstein, which brought Richard Nixon down. Since then he’s written 18 non-fiction books, 12 of them best-sellers, and has remained at the top of his game being part of the Pulitzer prize winning Washington Post team not just for Watergate but also 9/11. He’s been married three times.
He has a 7th house Aries Sun and Mercury in late Pisces opposition Neptune on his Ascendant – perhaps why he’s able to get underneath interviewees’ defences to winkle out the truth. He’s got a courageous and ruthlessly determined Mars in Aquarius in the spotlight 5th opposition Pluto square Venus in Taurus in the 8th. His Venus in the 8th will also give him the ability to plug into people at a deep level. He has a talented Half Grand Sextile off the Mars opposition Pluto, sextile Sun and Saturn (Uranus) in Gemini. With Uranus trine Neptune sextile Pluto. His crusading Sagittarius Moon is in the journalistic 3rd; with a successful Jupiter in his 10th. He has a subtly powerful and very influential chart with a leadership North Node in Leo.
His Sun falls in Trump’s secretive 8th house; with his Mars opposing Trump’s Pluto for a definite clash. And Woodward’s innovative Saturn Uranus falls in Trump’s 10th, which has the capacity to affect the reputation and status of both for good or for ill.
Their relationship chart has an argumentative and competitive composite Sun Mercury opposition Mars; with the Sun in a power-struggling square to Pluto; a suspicious/paranoid Saturn square Neptune being triggered now; and Uranus hitting both the composite Venus and Moon, so not a chummy friendship.
Trump is continuing his summer of bad-temper and high angst with tr Uranus still in square to his Mercury/Mars and Venus/Pluto up to publication date. Immediately after tr Uranus returns to square his Saturn/Pluto – self-destructive energy, egotistical, violent.
The strain on that man’s heart must be extraordinary from rolling, screeching tantrums. What he ought to do is maintain a discreet silence and let it blow over but on past form when he’s let fly a twitter storm at James Comey and Michael Wolff’s respective books, they shot to the top of the best seller lists.
Transiting Uranus is also squaring the Sun (supreme power in mundane
astrology) and the Saturn/Neptune midpoint in Trump’s term chart. The latter is a real throne-toppler.Fingers
crossed.
As for Mr. Bernstein’s book I cannot wait to read it.
“The strain on that man’s heart must be extraordinary from rolling, screeching tantrums. ” Those late-night Happy Meals aren’t doing him any further good. Now the tweets and comparisons about “collusion is not a crime.”
“War is peace
Freedom is slavery
Ignorance is strength.”
“Arbeit macht frei”
All too Orwellian.