Wednesday, September 9, 2020
A new book reveals that President Donald Trump seemed to understand the severity of the coronavirus threat even as he was telling the nation it was no worse than the flu and insisting the government had it totally under control.
According to Bob Woodward’s book, Trump told the Watergate journalist on Feb. 7: “You just breathe the air and that’s how it’s passed.” Trump is also quoted as saying, “It’s also more deadly than even your strenuous flus.”
Trump said today that in public he was just being a “cheerleader” for the nation and trying to keep everyone calm.
The President called Woodward’s new book a “political hit job.”
Excerpts from the book were reported today by The Washington Post and CNN.
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