I remember a story from the Iran-Contra days. At least, I think I remember it. The story went like this. CIA Director William Casey had a massive stroke. Bob Woodward claimed to have interviewed him in the hospital, where Casey lay terminally ill. Woodward came away from this interview with all kinds of juicy stuff about Iran-Contra.
In response to Woodward's story, Casey's wife wrote to the editor. She said her husband was in a deep coma, that he did not know her or their children and that he certainly had not been talking to Bob Woodward about Iran and Contras.
I suspect that a) Bob Woodward never recovered from his moment of Watergate glory and has been attempting to recapture it ever since and that b) he is a Republican, a shill for Republicans, no true journalist and a garden variety lier.