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Woodward book: Trump says he knew coronavirus was ‘deadly’ and worse than the flu while intentionally misleading Americans
WAPO ^ | 9/9/2020 | Robert Costa and Philip Rucker
Posted on 9/9/2020, 1:43:36 PM by bitt
President Trump’s head popped up during his top-secret intelligence briefing in the Oval Office on Jan. 28 when the discussion turned to the coronavirus outbreak in China.
“This will be the biggest national security threat you face in your presidency,” national security adviser Robert C. O’Brien told Trump, according to a new book by Washington Post associate editor Bob Woodward. “This is going to be the roughest thing you face.”
Matthew Pottinger, the deputy national security adviser, agreed. He told the president that after reaching contacts in China, it was evident that the world faced a health emergency on par with the flu pandemic of 1918, which killed an estimated 50 million people worldwide.
Ten days later, Trump called Woodward and revealed that he thought the situation was far more dire than what he had been saying publicly.
“You just breathe the air and that’s how it’s passed,” Trump said in a Feb. 7 call. “And so that’s a very tricky one. That’s a very delicate one. It’s also more deadly than even your strenuous flu.”
“This is deadly stuff,” the president repeated for emphasis.
LISTEN:
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Trump’s actual quote:
“I always tried to play it down because we weren’t sure how dangerous it was and we didn’t want people to panic but we now know it’s too dangerous and we had to shut it down.”
:: Ten days later, Trump called Woodward ::
Yeah, OK, Bob.
Like you’re BFFs and all that.
Trump: “Bob wanna go fishin’? This virus thing is gonna kick my ass...yaknow?”