The Watergate journalist said Trump 'is putting his own narrow presidential re-election efforts in front of the safety, health and well-being of the people of the United States.'
Investigative journalist Carl Bernstein commented on the revelations about President Donald Trump brought to light by his former colleague Bob Woodward in his new book, saying that Republicans will be"responsible" if they don't work to counter the president's"dereliction of duty."
Bernstein, whose reporting with Woodward led to crucial disclosures in the 1970s Watergate scandal, which led former President Richard Nixon to resign, made the remarks during a Wednesday interview with CNN. Woodward's book includes several taped interviews with Trump, in which the president admitted that he intentionally downplayed the coronavirus's threat to the American people and that he understood it was more deadly than the common flu, despite suggesting the opposite in public.
"It's up to Republicans especially to counter that lie," Bernstein told CNN."At this point, if the Republican leadership—McConnell, McCarthy and others—try to contradict this obvious grave dereliction of duty by the president of the United States that is captured on tape, they too are responsible for what has happened here.
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