“'Nothing more could have been done' ... I mean, it almost took my breath away,' Bob Woodward tells '60 Minutes.'
That’s what President Donald Trump told journalist Bob Woodward in August of the U.S. government’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, Woodward revealed on CBS’s “60 Minutes” on Sunday night.
iframe.twitter-tweet { width: 100% !important; } Trump’s comments were recorded in an Aug. 14 phone interview with Woodward. Last week, excerpts from Woodward’s upcoming book revealed that Trump knew the coronavirus was “deadly stuff” early in the pandemic, but continued to play down its severity so as not to panic the American people.
“I think he did not understand the American public,” Woodward told “60 Minutes.” “And he said, ‘Well, I don’t wanna create a panic.’ We know, from history, when the public is told the truth, they organize. ‘We have a problem. We’re going to step up.’ And Trump thought, ‘Oh, well, they’ll panic.’ When there’s a crisis, when the president, particularly, knows something, it’s time to tell the public in some form. He failed.
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