Bob Woodward interviewed the president 17 times for his book. Trump pushed his narrative and bent reality in each, writes NPRrelving. His review:
The date on this conversation leaps out from the book's very first sentence: January 28. O'Brien and Pottinger were elevating the issue because days earlier Trump had dismissed the virus at a conference in Switzerland:"It's one person coming in from China," Trump had said."We have it under control. It's going to be just fine. We've already handled it pretty well.
At another point in the Feb. 7 conversation, Trump says COVID could be deadlier than the flu,"maybe five times more deadly."Stunning, because throughout the crucial month of February the president was sending a totally different signal to the American public.
Woodward quotes a subsequent interview on March 19, wherein Trump says:"I always wanted to play it down. I still like playing it down, because I don't want to create a panic." Was there no one in Trump's communications office to question this commitment of the president's time? Who but Trump could have arranged 17 interviews with a man who had written critically of eight presidents, including an earlier book characterizing Trump as unprepared and unfit for his office, a national disaster waiting to happen?Curiously, the earlier Woodward book featured zero interview material from Trump — there had been no interview.
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