Member-only story
Trump Deliberately Downplays Virus
His “leadership” has cost thousands of lives
1 min readSep 9, 2020
In a taped conversation with journalist Bob Woodward for his new book, Rage, Trump tells him he knew the virus was deadly. He said in the Feb 7th phone call with Woodward, “This is deadly stuff.”
So he knew how bad it was going to be, but he downplayed it