The president wants to know why Woodward didn’t warn people sooner that he was lying about COVID-19
he waited it out because Trump is a habitual liar, and he hadn’t yet done the reporting necessary to know if the president was actually telling the truth in this instance, and He wanted to put the statements into context and publish them closer to the election so that people didn’t forget about them on their way to the polls:
Woodward said his aim was to provide a fuller context than could occur in a news story: “I knew I could tell the second draft of history, and I knew I could tell it before the election.” What’s more, he said, there were at least two problems with what he heard from Trump in February that kept him from putting it in the newspaper at the time: First, he didn’t know what the source of Trump’s information was.
In February, what Trump told Woodward seemed hard to make sense of, the author told me—back then, Woodward said, there was no panic over the virus; even toward the final days of that month,was publicly assuring Americans there was no need to change their daily habits. Second, Woodward said, “the biggest problem I had, which is always a problem with Trump, is I didn’t know if it was true.
Woodward’s effort, he said, was to deliver in book form “the best obtainable version of the truth,” not to rush individual revelations into publication. And always with a particular deadline in mind, so that people could read, absorb, and make their judgments well before November 3. “The demarcation is the election.”
That doesn’t necessarily mean it was a good idea to wait to tell people that the president of the United States was actively lying to them about a deadly disease, but just so we’re clear, that’s the new argument from Team Trump: This is all Bob Woodward’s fault.
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