As CBS News teased a 60 Minutes interview with Bob Woodward over his bombshell new book Rage, the star investigative journalist defended a lingering question over the timing of some of its biggest revelations.
According to the book, Trump told Woodward on Feb. 7 that the coronavirus posed a much greater and deadly threat than he was letting on in public. Trump went on to downplay the virus, and it was not until March 13 that the White House declared the outbreak a national emergency.
So why didn’t Woodward sound the alarm back then, about what the president knew and when he knew it?
In an interview with The Washington Post‘s Margaret Sullivan, Woodward said during the month of February, there was not a panic over the virus and no calls for Americans to take social distancing or other precautions. He said that “the biggest problem I had, which is always a problem with Trump,...
According to the book, Trump told Woodward on Feb. 7 that the coronavirus posed a much greater and deadly threat than he was letting on in public. Trump went on to downplay the virus, and it was not until March 13 that the White House declared the outbreak a national emergency.
So why didn’t Woodward sound the alarm back then, about what the president knew and when he knew it?
In an interview with The Washington Post‘s Margaret Sullivan, Woodward said during the month of February, there was not a panic over the virus and no calls for Americans to take social distancing or other precautions. He said that “the biggest problem I had, which is always a problem with Trump,...
- 9/10/2020
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
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