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Posted on 09/09/2020 11:36:24 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda
Woodward book: Trump says he knew coronavirus was ‘deadly’ and worse than the flu while intentionally misleading Americans
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
A big nothing-burger of a story.
Yeah, and when he “played down the virus” we didn’t have ONE DEATH in the US. Not one. And Nancy Pelosi was waltzing around Chinatown telling everybody not to be afraid.
Trump called Woodward?????
Woodward starts screaming “Watergate! Watergate! Listen to me, I’m important!” 2 months before the election.
Yea right. Nice try Mr. Relic.
And not to mention that when he knew when to take the virus seriously (travel restrictions, etc), Pelosi, Cuomo, De Blasio, and others of the Democrat talking class said it was reactionary and racist.
Yeah would have been SO much better had Trump gone on TV and screamed “WE ARE ALL GONNA DIE” yeah that would have SO looked SO Presidential LOL. Im glad Trump did what he did, was he worried about the virus, yes, he didnt want to go on TV and scare people, he told everyone repeatedly that everything will be fine..and Im glad that he did so..a real leader doesn’t scare everyone
Marxist can lie. It’s in the Marxist rule book. Actually Marxists are required to lie.
This CIA spook turned Wapo stooge thinks Watergate is forever.
He sure did, probably knew he would be taped..honestly this entire “tape” ive heard Trump said repeatedly for 7 months now..what is the big bombshell he has said the same things to Hannity, Ingraham, Wallace, everyone
It’s not worse than the flu unless you are already really sick. and the deaths were exagerated by about 95%.
It’s a big nothingburger.
I just posted a comment on the Washingtoncompost website talking about how Trump wanted a travel ban and Biden called him racist, and wadda ya know, it got deleted. F them!
“Trump says he knew coronavirus was ‘deadly’ and worse than the flu ...”
That narrative would be a lot more effective if the virus were to actually be a lot deadlier than it is. They have been hoaxing the numbers since the beginning. 90 year old cancer patient dies from COVID-19 after falling from 30th floor balcony! DEAD!
Just more inane blathering from the Democratic controlled Lame Street Media. The this story and the one from Atlantic are just forerunners of what to expect between now and the election. I wood expect one that will eventually read “ Breaking news: Pres. Trump picked his nose and stuck the booger on the bottom of the Resolute desk. Shittforbrains and Nosey Nadler start impeachment hearings”.
Bob Woodward is a mediocre reporter and writer that got lucky when “Deep Throat” used him to spill the beans on Nixon and the Watergate operatives. He is an opportunist of the highest order. He is a journalistic whore available for sale. He is trying to ring his cash register again at President Donald Trump’s expense.
That’s just not what Trump said. Everything he said was pretty consistent with his public announcements, and stating that he didn’t want to create panic is perfectly reasonable. He never said the Corona virus was no more deadly than the flu, in fact he has discussed the differences many times and in particular emphasized how this virus ismuch more transmittable. That’s exactly what he told Bob Woodard.
This is unreal, so now after deleting my comment, they signed me out and now I can’t sign back in. This is why every single comment on Wapo is anti-Trump. Imagine the censorship that’s going to go on in the media if Kamalho takes power. I saw Kamalho because that’s who will be President if the Joe Biden hologram succeeds in stealing the election.
Personally, I didn't and don't believe any of these actions but the first was necessary. But to argue he "did nothing" is beyond absurd. People's memories are short, but usually not this short. The smell of desperation is like an open ripe latrine.
The quote in the article puts perspective to Trump’s decision to shut off travel from China at the end of January. After he was briefed that the virus was going to be bad, he thought about it for a couple of days, then shut down flights from China.
The Democrats then went nuts trying to criticize his decision. It’s not like Biden can say “See? I told Trump to do X, but he did Y. And X was the right thing.” Trump wasn’t flawless, but Biden was demonstrably wrong on everything he ever uttered about COVID-19.
My thinking is this. Trump might go down in history as a leader who literally had to walk alone on his path of leadership during a world-changing event. Even Churchill, at the depths of WWII, wasn’t alone like Trump is. The Democrats were nipping at Trump’s heels, and most Republicans were willing to stand WAY back from Trump as he navigated those early days. Fauci and his science buddies were still saying everything was fine as late as middle of March. Trump did everything possible to forestall the panic, but once that British report came out claiming 2M Americans were going to die (later revealed as BS), he had no choice but to shut everything down.
Maybe this release was set up by Trump. It makes people revisit the timeline and remember the sequence events correctly...
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