{"id":46642,"date":"2020-09-09T11:46:06","date_gmt":"2020-09-09T18:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=46642"},"modified":"2020-09-09T11:46:06","modified_gmt":"2020-09-09T18:46:06","slug":"rage-bob-woodward-book-reveals-that-trump-deliberately-lied-about-the-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=46642","title":{"rendered":"RAGE: Bob Woodward Book Reveals that Trump Deliberately Lied About the Coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For months after the coronavirus was known to spreading throughout the United States, Donald Trump was pretending that it wasn&#8217;t anything to be concerned about. He claimed it was no more dangerous than the common flu. He insisted that that he had it under control. Now, after more than 190,000 Americans have died, we have some evidence of just how dishonest Trump was with the American people.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-virus-fear.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump, Coronavirus\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-45257\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A new book is being released next week. And <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/338sP3U\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">RAGE, by Bob Woodward<\/a><\/strong> is already creating a tsunami that pulls the veil from Trump&#8217;s lies. Excerpts are beginning to be reported by the media. And they are nothing less than shocking. For instance, as <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/bob-woodward-rage-book-trump\/2020\/09\/09\/0368fe3c-efd2-11ea-b4bc-3a2098fc73d4_story.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a><\/strong> by Robert Costa of the Washington Post&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;&#8216;This will be the biggest national security threat you face in your presidency,&#8217; national security adviser Robert O\u2019Brien told Trump, according to a new book by Washington Post associate editor Bob Woodward. &#8216;This is going to be the roughest thing you face.'&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Ten days later, Trump called Woodward and revealed that he thought the situation was far more dire than what he had been saying publicly. &#8216;You just breathe the air and that\u2019s how it\u2019s passed,&#8217; Trump said in a Feb. 7 call. &#8216;And so that\u2019s a very tricky one. That\u2019s a very delicate one. It\u2019s also more deadly than even your strenuous flu.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At that time, Trump was telling the nation that the virus was no worse than a seasonal flu, predicting it would soon disappear, and insisting that the U.S. government had it totally under control.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Trump admitted to Woodward on March 19 that he deliberately minimized the danger. &#8216;I wanted to always play it down,&#8217; the president said.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Fauci at one point tells others that the president &#8216;is on a separate channel&#8217; and unfocused in meetings, with &#8216;rudderless&#8217; leadership, according to Woodward. &#8216;His attention span is like a minus number,&#8217; Fauci said, according to Woodward. &#8216;His sole purpose is to get reelected.'&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Most of this has been known to those who have been paying attention for the past six months. It was easy to conclude from Trump&#8217;s behavior and public comments that he was lying to advance his political interests. But for the first time we have Trump himself confessing to this outrageous and deadly dishonesty. And to make matters worse, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/09\/09\/politics\/bob-woodward-rage-book-trump-coronavirus\/index.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">there are tapes<\/a><\/strong> <em>(see below)<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>This is an abhorrent betrayal of the American people by a president who clearly couldn&#8217;t care less about who gets hurt. And he&#8217;s still doing it. He&#8217;s still playing it down with demands that schools reopen, that professional sports and other large public events resume, and that the country returns to a pre-virus lifestyle before it is safe to do so.  And it&#8217;s still <em>&#8220;his sole purpose&#8230;to get reelected.&#8221;<\/em> Anyone still not convinced that Trump is a narcissistic sociopath is just a devoted cult follower who wants to be be deceived.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00QSSMOES\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B00QSSMOES&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=newscorpsecom-20&#038;linkId=TLI6JC2OYE22MUTS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><br \/>\nAvailable now at Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">In new tapes, President Trump admits to Bob Woodward he concealed critical details he knew about the coronavirus. &quot;I wanted to always play it down.&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eICaAx70mY\">https:\/\/t.co\/eICaAx70mY<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zXNOZtIBx7\">pic.twitter.com\/zXNOZtIBx7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; CNN News Central (@NewsCentralCNN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NewsCentralCNN\/status\/1303731716645937153?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 9, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For months after the coronavirus was known to spreading throughout the United States, Donald Trump was pretending that it wasn&#8217;t anything to be concerned about. He claimed it was no more dangerous than the common flu. He insisted that that he had it under control. Now, after more than 190,000 Americans have died, we have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45257,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,1200,13],"tags":[1402,402,1397,554],"class_list":["post-46642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-politics","category-scandalous","tag-anthony-fauci","tag-bob-woodward","tag-coronavirus","tag-donald-trump"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-virus-fear.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-c8i","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":48552,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=48552","url_meta":{"origin":46642,"position":0},"title":"Loony GOP Chair On &#8216;Who Should Be Forever Remembered for Worsening the Pandemic&#8217;","author":"Mark NC","date":"2\/15\/2021","format":false,"excerpt":"There are plenty of deranged commentaries and perspectives being disgorged by today's Republican Party. 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