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September 9, 2020By Michael Cader

Trump Is Trump, Woodward Reveals — But Could Earlier Reporting Have Saved Us?

September 9, 2020By Michael Cader

The Washington Post moved the first story as usual on Bob Woodward’s RAGE, which publishes next Tuesday, and then others followed. Apparently, Trump knew all along how dangerous Covid-19 was, and chose to lie to the public and ignore the peril. In a February 7 interview he told Woodward, “It’s also more deadly than even your strenuous flu. This is deadly stuff.” A month later “Trump admitted to Woodward…that he deliberately minimized the danger.” There was immediate backlash online against Woodward for not having revealed any of this at the time. (Woodward explains to his colleague Eric Wemple at the […]

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