'Tell the public the truth' — Bob Woodward tells Shepard Smith that President Trump failed to rally the U.S. around the coronavirus fight.
as part of The Post's coverage of 9/11. "It was bad news. People won't flee from bad news. People in this country are problem-solvers, I believe."
Asked specifically by CNBC's Smith if the Trump administration did "have a plan" to respond to the eventual pandemic, Woodward said, "They didn't." "One of my findings in the book is that President Trump is a one-man band. He decides things. He has his impulses. There are not the kind of serious regular meetings of the National Security Council or the National Economic Council. And being a one-man band, he acts on the impulse of the moment," Woodward added.
Woodward's book is partly based on nearly 20 interviews he conducted with Trump over the course of several months. Last week,that Trump told Woodward in mid-March that he "wanted to always play it down," referring to the threat of the coronavirus.
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