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CONSCIOUS DECEPTIONS: In the forthcoming Washington Post-affiliated Bob Woodward book on Donald Trump, it appears that Trump, in a telephone interview between the two, has said that he deliberately led Americans behind the light. He himself knew how deadly he was. Here’s Trump at an election campaign event in Winston-Salem, North Carolina on Tuesday. Photo: Evan Vucci / AP
“You just breathe air and that’s how it spreads. It is more deadly than severe flu. These are fatal cases,” Trump is said to have said in a telephone conversation with Bob Woodward.
A forthcoming book by journalist Bob Woodward in the Washington Post claims that the President of the United States, ten days after a top-secret letter on the coronavirus in late January, was fully aware that the United States was facing a pandemic in line with the Spanish flu in 1918.
Woodward is one of two journalists behind the revelations of the 1974 Watergate scandal.
“Senses”
Woodward’s next book is called “Rage” and touches on topics such as Trump’s handling of the crown pandemic and relations with North Korea, among others. The relationship with former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis is also a topic of the book, writes the Washington Post.
The book is based on 18 open telephone interviews Bob Woodward has had with Trump between December 2019 and July this year. Also, Woodward must have had access to “deep background sources.”
Ten days after the briefing in the Oval Room, Trump called Woodward and revealed that he thought the situation was much more dire than what he told the people of the country.
Deliberately minimized the danger
At the same time that he had the knowledge, Trump told the people of the United States, with many listeners around the world, that the coronavirus was no worse than the usual seasonal flu and that it would “go away” immediately.
Trump repeatedly declared that the situation was under control.
In a conversation with Woodward on March 19, Trump is said to have admitted that he deliberately downplayed the danger of the virus in his remarks.
“I always wanted to take it off, I didn’t want to panic,” he told Woodward.
The audio recording of the conversation is available on CNN.
SCARED: – It’s scary to fool people into thinking that something is less dangerous than it is. When it comes to the fact that you knew better, you destroy people’s trust in experts and authorities, says lead researcher Svein Melby of the Department of Defense Studies. Photo: Sigurdsøn, Bjørn / SCANPIX
– Now “fake news” is not useful
Lead researcher Svein Melby from the Department of Defense Studies says his first reaction is the severity of what emerges.
– Now President Trump confirms that he was well informed by experts at an early stage that it was an extremely dangerous virus. Then he says otherwise in public. It is completely reprehensible. It is absolutely crucial to play open cards and to tell pure facts, also about uncertainty, as was done here at home. Build confidence in the population around the measures and also in the experts, says Melbye.
– Is the web starting to revolve around Trump now?
-This case is probably even more serious for him, because here he cannot say that journalists lie. Here you hear him say what he says. There is no use here to say that the media is “fake news”, that it often gets its way. Here he is caught by his own words, says Melby.
However, Melby thinks it is uncertain whether the fans, who usually stick with it and flare up with him, will withdraw support after this.
– The large group of white middle class perceives him as a protector of what they consider their America and its culture.
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No management
In the book, Woodward writes that Trump did not seem to want to fully mobilize the government to deal with the pandemic.
“There was no real leadership or initiative to deal with one of the most complex dangers the United States has ever faced,” Woodward wrote, according to the Washington Post article.
In the book, Woodward also addresses the president, the widespread protests in the United States in recent months.
“We’ll get ready to send some of those miserable bastards, who don’t know what they’re doing, these miserable radical leftists to the military and the National Guard,” he said.
During another conversation, he says, according to the book:
“I have done a colossal job for black communities and I honestly don’t feel a special love.”
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Cohen: thinks Trump is going to jail
It’s not just Woodward who writes books about Trump.
This week, Michael Cohen, President Trump’s former personal attorney, published the book “Disleyal: A Memoir,” “fundamental proof” that Trump is guilty of a crime.
A central theme in the book is the so-called secret money of the porn actor Stormy Daniels.
Cohen writes that the payment to Daniels was made at Trump’s request, and that the current US president “knows very well that he is guilty of the same crimes” that led to Cohen’s conviction.
“Without the immunity from prosecution that comes with being president, Trump will undoubtedly face trial in New York State. He will likely be convicted on federal and state charges and receive a severe prison sentence,” Cohen says.
