Washington Post’s Woodward, Costa to pen book on end of Trump presidency

The Washington Post’s Bob Woodward and Robert Costa are planning to write a book on the end of President Trump’s tenure and the beginning of President-elect Joe Biden’s administration, Axios reported Monday.

The book will be Woodward’s 21st and Costa’s first and will be published by Simon & Schuster, though the publication date has not been announced.

“We’re two pure reporters — what happened and why — and this is a perfect landscape for that kind of work,” Woodward told Axios.

Jonathan Karp, the CEO of Simon & Schuster, will edit the book.

Woodward plans to remain an associate editor at the Post during the project, while Costa will remain a national political reporter on leave, Axios reported. Costa is also the moderator and managing editor of “Washington Week” on PBS and a political analyst for MSNBC and NBC News.

The project will come after Woodward’s book “Rage” was published earlier this year following 18 on-the-record conversations with Trump. The book reported that Trump acknowledged the coronavirus was “deadly” in a March interview but said he “wanted to always play it down” to avoid creating a panic.

As of Monday afternoon, the coronavirus has infected more than 14.8 million people and killed 283,010 people in the U.S. since the beginning of the pandemic, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.