Abcarian: Trump downplays real threats and inflates fake ones, as a new book makes clear (via latimesopinion)
After revelations this week that President Trump knew all along COVID-19 was a serious threat, he wants us to believe he was acting in the public interest when he repeatedly minimized the pandemic’s dangers.
And yet in public, he said repeatedly that COVID was less serious than the flu, that more Americans would die by suicide as a result of the economic shutdown than from the virus, that it would disappear when the weather warmed up.“Why did you lie to the American people, and why should we trust what you have to say now?” ABC’s Jonathan Karl asked Trump at a White House press conference on Thursday.
Leaving aside the mind-boggling proposition that Trump doesn’t consider himself the authority in this scenario, ita bit puzzling that Woodward sat on such explosive information for so many months. You could argue that if Woodward had blown the whistle sooner, lives might have been saved.
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