“This is deadly stuff.”
– President Donald Trump to Bob Woodward on February 7, 2020
In a series of taped interviews with Woodward earlier this year, Trump admitted he knew weeks before the first confirmed U.S. coronavirus death that the virus was dangerous, airborne, highly contagious and “more deadly than even your strenuous flus,” and that he repeatedly played it down publicly. Woodward, a veteran and legendary journalist who first gained fame with an expose of the Watergate scenario, recounts his conversations with Trump in his new book “Rage.” Not surprisingly, Trump is now trying to downplay the interviews.
Chief Writing Wolf 