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Woodward: Trump Knew Virus Was Deadly But Wanted To ‘Play it Down’

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🗓️ 10 September 2020

⏱️ 22 minutes

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President Donald Trump told journalist Bob Woodward that he knew early on that the coronavirus was “deadly stuff” but did not share that information with the public, saying he did not want to cause panic. Woodward recorded the interviews for his upcoming book “Rage”.  “I wanted to always play it down,” Trump told Woodward. We’ll talk about the president’s remarks and other revelations from Woodward’s book with NPR’s Ron Elving.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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From KQED. Welcome back to the forum. I'm Michael Krasny. President Donald Trump told journalist Bob Woodward that he knew early on that the coronavirus was deadly stuff, but did not share that information with the public, saying he did not want to cause panic. Woodward recorded the interviews for his upcoming book,

1:31.7

Rage, and in other White House news yesterday, a Department of Homeland Security official has filed a whistleblower complaint saying that he was pressured to alter reports that might

1:36.5

contradict false claims by the president, including intelligence on Russian election

1:41.0

interference and the threat from white supremacists. And Pierre's Ron Elving joins us now to talk about those stories and more.

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And welcome Ron.

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Good to be with you, Michael.

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Good to have you with us.

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Well, a lot brewing here and a lot to talk about.

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Let's talk about Bob Woodward's book first and what's been exposed here.

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Already, Republicans are defending the the president as can be expected uh

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senator vice president biden has called it disgraceful and has said essentially that um it is um well i didn't

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