Trump said he played down severity of Covid-19 to avoid panic
The virus has killed more than 189,000 Americans
09 September 2020 - 21:06
New York — President Donald Trump told journalist Bob Woodward that he intentionally downplayed the severity of the coronavirus in public comments to avoid triggering a panic.
“I wanted to always play it down, I still like playing it down, because I don’t want to create a panic,” Trump told Woodward, the author and associate editor for the Washington Post, on March 19 in one of a series of interviews for his book, Rage, due for publication in September. CNN published audio recordings of excerpts of the conversations on Wednesday...
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