President Donald Trump admitted he knew weeks before the first confirmed US 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, according to legendary journalist Bob Woodward...
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Bob Woodward’s Own Reaction Shows His Big Trump Virus ‘Scoop’ Is Total Nonsense. And It Gets Worse…
Bob Woodward’s latest “blockbuster” book floating the idea that President Trump withheld life-saving information about the seriousness of the coronavirus is belied by the author’s and
The Washington Post’s own reactions.
We ask this question of Bob Woodward:
If this so-called lack of information cost American lives, then why did Bob Woodward withhold this life saving information till just mere weeks before the election?
Even kooky Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot wondered to
The Chicago Sun-Times that if the Woodward revelation was true, why didn’t he put it out before to save American lives?
Rush Limbaugh asked a similar question.
Why didn’t Woodward put that on the front page of The Washington Post seven months ago when he got it?
The AP asked Woodward about this, and all he could come up with was a confusing and meandering, non-denial-denial with 3 answers, all of which come down to: I wanted to keep it for my book but it would have been “unthinkable” to keep it to myself if I thought there was a public health hazard, so there’s no public health hazard.
Even Bob Woodward doesn’t think Bob Woodward’s “scoop” is a real “scoop.”
The Post’s media and Trump critic, Erik Wemple, in a series of six tweets, was quick to come to the defense of the man whose name is still on the masthead as “
associate editor.”
Wemple argues that Woodward didn’t do anything “unethical or untoward in ‘holding’ on to his scoop about Trump’s admission that he played down the coronavirus. I disagree with the criticism.”
What Wemple basically said. Woodward didn’t do anything to harm public health by withholding it till now because it wasn’t a detriment to public health.
Worse for Woodward, not only was his story not a scoop, but Trump himself said out loud – multiple times – at White House news conferences, that his aim in being positive about the coronavirus was to calm the American people. He explains just that in this typically bitter exchange between Trump and CNN’s Sassy Jim Acosta.