WASHINGTON – U.S. President Donald Trump admitted to a reporter at the beginning of the coronavirus epidemic that he played a role in health risks despite having evidence to the contrary, according to a new book.
ICNN on Wednesday broadcast Woodward’s interviews with Trump over his new book “Rage.” The letter, which will go on sale next Tuesday, a few weeks before the November 3 presidential election, comes amid criticism of Trump’s efforts to fight COVID-19.
The Republican president, attacked by his Democratic Alliance rival Joe Biden over the U.S. government’s slow response to the coronavirus, has been playing the issue for months as it grips and spreads across the country.
In an interview on March 19, Trump told Woodward that some “amazing facts” simply showed the magnitude of those at risk: “It’s not just that they’re old, old. And young people, a lot of young people.”
Trump on Wednesday defended his control of the virus, which has killed more than 190,000 people in the United States.
“The truth is that I am a happy leader of this country. I love our country and I don’t want people to be scared, ”Trump said in the White House. “We’ve done well on any level.”
According to interviews, CNN and The Washington Post reported, Trump knew the virus was dangerous in early February.
“It’s in the air,” Trump said during a recording of the February 7 interview with Woodward. “That is always stronger than touch. You don’t need to touch things. Right?
“And then that’s very deceptive. That is very serious. It is also more deadly than even your severe fever. ”
A week after that discussion, Trump said at a White House meeting that the number of U.S. coronavirus cases.
Woodward in an interview with the Associated Press defended himself against online critics who asked why he kept Trump’s remarks to himself for months as the epidemic was rampant.
Trump says nonsense, doesn’t he?
Some Republicans defended Trump coronavirus’s response Wednesday.
Woodward conducted 18 interviews with Trump over the book. Other revelations include Trump’s defamatory remarks about U.S. military leaders. He received criticism this week following reports that he had downplayed military personnel and fallen veterans.
In Woodward’s letter, former aide to former Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis heard Trump say at a conference, “my stupid generals are a bunch of pussies” because they were more concerned with federations than in trade. Mattis asked his assistant to write the words in an email, the Washington Post reported.
Regarding the Black Lives Matter movement, Woodward asked Trump for his opinion on the concept of white rights and how he felt separated from that right in the plight of black Americans.
“No. You really drank Cool-Aid, didn’t you? “Hey. No, I don’t feel that at all.”