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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DR. FAUCI DISPUTES WOODWARD’S ACCOUNT

Bob Woodward’s bit about President Trump allegedly downplaying the Wuhan coronavirus is floundering. Calling for a shutdown of the U.S. economy seems like an odd way to downplay something.
Old Washed Up Woodward wants us to believe that Trump intentionally deceived the American people. He knew how serious the virus was, but wanted to hide its seriousness from the public to avoid a panic. That’s the Fake News line.
Dr. Fauci
isn’t buying it. Fauci, who had the advantage of being there, says:
I didn’t get any sense that Trump was distorting anything. My discussions with him were always straightforward about the concerns that we had. And when he would go out, I’d hear him discussing the same sort of things.
Woodward is lying, distorting and fabricating to sell books, how novel.
I don’t recall anything different than in our discussions that we had with the president that he said things quite similar publicly. I didn’t see any discrepancies between what he told us and what we told him, and what he came out publicly and said.
So Woodward is lying distorting fabricating and deceiving to try to make a buck, or a million bucks. John Roberts asked Fauci about comments Woodward has attributed to him regarding the President’s coronavirus response. Fauci didn’t recall ever saying anything like what has been reported.
FAUCI: If you notice, it was ‘others’ who have said that. You should ask ‘others.’ I don’t recall that at all.
ROBERTS: So you would question that account, then?
FAUCI: Yeah, yeah.
Washed up Woodward is a liar, fabricator and a deceiver. Sad!