In Woodward’s new book RAGE:

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 in his new book "Rage."

"This is deadly stuff," Trump told Woodward on February 7.

In a series of interviews with Woodward, Trump revealed that he had a surprising level of detail about the threat of the virus earlier than previously known. "Pretty amazing," Trump told Woodward, adding that the coronavirus was maybe five times "more deadly" than the flu.

Trump's admissions are in stark contrast to his frequent public comments at the time insisting that the virus was "going to disappear" and "all work out fine."

The book, using Trump's own words, depicts a President who has betrayed the public trust and the most fundamental responsibilities of his office. In "Rage," Trump says the job of a president is "to keep our country safe." But in early February, Trump told Woodward he knew how deadly the virus was, and in March, admitted he kept that knowledge hidden from the public.

"I'm shocked to learn this!"

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Trump says the job of a president is "to keep our country safe."

"Our country" means himself to Trump.

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"I'm shocked to learn this!"

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exactly

....Trump only cares about himself......

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I reject your reality and substitute my own!

Learning about Trump is like looking into an abyss. There’s really nothing there.

The link, or a link, [www.washingtonpost.com]

I’ll warn the 0.0000001 % of children who read this forum that Bob Costa’s news story contains adult, 4-letter words rhyming with “duck”.



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Now he'll deny he ever said that to Woodward and the cult will again suspend disbelief and support him because they simply want to believe.

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Now he'll deny he ever said that to Woodward and the cult will again suspend disbelief and support him because they simply want to believe.

Are t some of his book from audio tapes of the prez?

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Learning about Trump is like looking into an abyss. There’s really nothing there.

That's unfair to all the abysses out there. If you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you. If you gaze long enough at Trump, it just makes you ill, want to vomit, and take a shower.

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barely holding in the laughter as he grifts the suckers and losers

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Now he'll deny he ever said that to Woodward and the cult will again suspend disbelief and support him because they simply want to believe.

Are t some of his book from audio tapes of the prez?

get ready for the shift from 'anonymous sources = FAKE NEWS!' to 'pfft... whatever... it doesn't matter'

The spin is he misled to protect people so they wouldn't panic...

murderer

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Now he'll deny he ever said that to Woodward and the cult will again suspend disbelief and support him because they simply want to believe.

Are t some of his book from audio tapes of the prez?

That WaPo link has audio excerpts. Denial isn’t really an option. Only a political spin remains a possibility.

Someday, like magic, he’ll just go away.

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Now he'll deny he ever said that to Woodward and the cult will again suspend disbelief and support him because they simply want to believe.

Are t some of his book from audio tapes of the prez?

That WaPo link has audio excerpts. Denial isn’t really an option. Only a political spin remains a possibility.

Just listened to the audio.

Dumbf does it again. Stupid is as stupid does.

Woodward does it again. Puts another crooked president in the hot seat with the crook's own words - spoken from the crook's own mouth. On tape.

Wow. Just. Wow.

I got the sense that Trump was impressed with COVID-19, so much so that he wanted to brag at how awful it is. And then in a different setting realized he wanted to pretend the opposite ... not caring if the two stances contradicted themselves.

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I got the sense that Trump was impressed with COVID-19, so much so that he wanted to brag at how awful it is. And then in a different setting realized he wanted to pretend the opposite ... not caring if the two stances contradicted themselves.

One was politically expedient; the other was not.

And his lack of public health decision-making was wrong at every level. If he should be fired for any reason, and there are plenty of them, it should be this one.

That’s not what Kayleigh “I Cannot Tell a Lie” McEnany says:


[www.newsweek.com]

When Trump was hugging and kissing the flag, it became quite apparent that he thinks of his base as morons and does whatever he thinks will please them.

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What would he do in a fire or flood. Say the fire will burn out or the flood will recede. Just dog paddle or blow real hard.

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Learning about Trump is like looking into an abyss. There’s really nothing there.

And the US has suffered indelibly.

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Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

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Apologies to the anonymous forum member affected by my previous sig pic. It was my personal pic of a country expressing great grief as their leader, one of the most recognized people in the world, lay on his deathbed 8 years ago, days before he died. Like a naif, I did not realize it was offensively political, I considered it an expression of deep emotion and a reminder of the mortal coil's nature; that we all, great and small, can only hope to make a difference in our short time here, no matter the personal cost.

I'll post another pic from my work in South Africa that is, hopefully, apolitical.

good comment:
"He didn't want anyone to panic but he falsely tweets everyday about cities under being under attack etc... The hypocrisy and lies just keep coming...."

So he didn't want to cause a panic by yelling "Fire!" in a crowded theater... Whilst there was a fire in the crowded theater?

"We weren’t as innocent as we meant to be when we did the Martian broadcast. We were fed up with the way in which everything that came over this new magic box, the radio, was being swallowed. . . . So, in a way, our broadcast was an assault on the credibility of that machine. We wanted people to understand that they shouldn’t take any opinion predigested and they shouldn’t swallow everything that came through the tap, whether it was radio or not." - Orson Welles

CW2V

I'm just catching up on all of this news ... just hearing about all the details of this now.

The claim of "I didn't want to panic anyone" just doesn't hold water in any way. By NOT telling us all the truth, he directly caused the death of literally thousands of Americans... how many people died because his public face was presenting this as "we've got it all under control" and "it'll magically go away on its own." (Not to mention that at the same time, he was advocating false treatments, such as hydroxychloroquine and bleach... and also remember that he was dodging the impeachment bullet in the Senate, which in retrospect may have influenced his decision to keep the truth from the public.)

If he weren't a sitting President, he would have been indicted for criminal negligence -- he SHOULD be indicted for criminal negligence, certainly after he leaves office. As terrible as what Nixon did, this is not anywhere in the same league, and at least Nixon had the good sense to resign. Truly, Trump should do the same, and let Pence deal with the mess that he's left.

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What would he do in a fire or flood. Say the fire will burn out or the flood will recede. Just dog paddle or blow real hard.

I think that blowing real hard part was already covered: [www.youtube.com]

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"I didn't want to panic anyone" = I don't want to panic Wall Street

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The US Senator from your backyard chimes in:

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The US Senator from your backyard chimes in:

Kennedy is one of the worst Trump apologists out there. He's occasionally done some good work, so I'll grant him credit for that, but the majority of the time... he's just regressive and representing the people of his state in the way most of them seem to want him to represent them.

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So he didn't want to cause a panic by yelling "Fire!" in a crowded theater... Whilst there was a fire in the crowded theater?

"We weren’t as innocent as we meant to be when we did the Martian broadcast. We were fed up with the way in which everything that came over this new magic box, the radio, was being swallowed. . . . So, in a way, our broadcast was an assault on the credibility of that machine. We wanted people to understand that they shouldn’t take any opinion predigested and they shouldn’t swallow everything that came through the tap, whether it was radio or not." - Orson Welles

CW2V

Welles could never have dreamed our present reality. But he was on the right track.

Remember the cartoon, with the wolf saying, “I will eat you.” And one sheep saying to the other sheep in the field, “I like him because he tells it like it is.”

When Trump says he’ll lie to you it’s the one thing he’s telling the truth about.