CORONAVIRUS: “Now it’s turning out it’s not just old people, Bob. Just today and yesterday some startling facts came out, it’s not just older– plenty of young people…”
[Bob Woodward: “It’s clear just from what’s on the public record that you went through a pivot on this [coronavirus] to ‘oh my God, the gravity is almost inexplicable and unexplainable.’”]
“To be honest with you, I wanted to always play it down. I still like playing it down because I don’t want to create a panic.”
-Donald Trump in a Mar. 19, 2020 call with Bob Woodward, as quoted with audio recording by Robert Costa and Philip Rucker, “Woodward book: Trump says he knew coronavirus was ‘deadly’ and worse than the flu while intentionally misleading Americans,” washingtonpost.com, Sep. 9, 2020