President Trump launched a new counterattack against Bob Woodward today — arguing the reporter would have released recordings of the president’s Covid remarks sooner if they were truly politically damaging or revealed a threat to Americans’ safety
President Donald Trump launched a new counterattack against The Washington Post’s Bob Woodward on Thursday — arguing the veteran reporter would have released recordings of the president’s remarks about the coronavirus sooner if they were truly politically damaging or revealed a threat to Americans’ safety.
“We had to show calm. The last thing we can show is panic or excitement or fear or anything else. We had to take care of the situation we were given,” Trump told reporters, adding that “leadership is all about confidence, and confidence is confidence in our country.” "Bob Woodward is somebody that I respect, just from hearing the name for many, many years. Not knowing too much about his work, not caring about his work," Trump said of the celebrated journalist of Watergate fame who has been the subject of an Academy Award-winning movie. "But I thought it would be interesting to talk to him for a period of, you know, calls."
“While President Trump was already taking decisive action to protect the country in the early months, Biden was saying barely anything about the pandemic and continuing about his campaign as normal,” Trump’s campaign wrote in the email — which included a chronology of seemingly dismissive statements by the former vice president and his advisers about the coronavirus.
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