CORONAVIRUS: “CNN released another snippet of the on-the-record, taped conversations between President Donald Trump and journalist Bob Woodward, this time revealing that the nation’s leader was admitting on April 13 that the Covid-19 virus was ‘a killer.’…
CNN then played the audio of Trump saying, ‘This thing is a killer if it gets you. If you’re the wrong person, you don’t have a chance…’
In the clip, Woodward said: ‘It’s going to be a contest between you and Biden. It’s going to be a contest between both of you and the virus. The virus is — because it’s in real people’s lives, you know, all those tens of millions of people who don’t have jobs, who don’t have —’
‘I know,’ Trump responded, and then moments later, plaintively insisted: ‘Nothing more could have been done. Nothing more could have been done. I acted early. I acted early.'”
-Reed Richardson, “Trump Warned Bob Woodward About the Lethality of Covid in April: ‘This Thing Is a Killer,’ mediaite.com, Sep. 14, 2020