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CNN, which has obtained a copy of the book, reports that Woodward interviewed Trump on February 7th. During that interview, the president disclosed that he knew COVID-19 was five times more deadly than the seasonal flu.
However, the president decided to not tell the public about the seriousness of the disease and its threat to Americans’ health.
“I wanted to always play it down,” Trump admitted to Woodward more than one month later. “I still like playing it down, because I don’t want to create a panic.”
During the same time, Trump was telling Americans that the virus was under control and would soon “disappear.”
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This was before the first American had contracted Covid-19. At the time is was still thought to be contained within China, but Trump — on tape — admits that the virus is airborne, that it affects both the young and the old, and that it’s about “five times more deadly” than the flu which he correctly states kills over 20,000 per year.
Now we’ve had 189,000 Americans dead. He’s had multiple public events without social distancing and without masks, including 1,500 on the South lawn of the White House for accepting his nomination by the RNC. He has repeatedly claimed that the virus will “go away with the warm weather.” Well, it’s the middle of summer and it’s still here. He’s trying to force our schools to open to in-person lessons while the virus is still raging, putting 20 million students at risk, also their parents, teachers and administrators.
This has been negligent manslaughter.
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