I know it was broken by CNN so of course there's bias here... but Woodward has proven to be a rather upright journalist with his history on the Nixon / Watergate scandal. This interview that Trump did with Woodward proves exactly what I've been arguing for months... that Trump knew and about how bad this virus could be and he continued to not just downplay the extent of the it, but straight up deny its legitimacy. He's giving Woodward an interview in early February talking about how it's airborne and how it's not just effecting the elderly.... then a few weeks later he's at a rally calling it a "Democratic Hoax".
I'm not saying that the president shouldn't have the right to try and keep the American population calm during a time of crisis. They should, of course, be allowed a strategy that might involve pointing out all of the preparation that an administration has already done and is currently doing to safeguard the American public. On the other hand straight up lying for MONTHS about the evidence he had already been presented is borderline criminal. If the administration knew about the airborne nature of the virus back in February, we should have at least had a plan for mask mandates in place by early March when the virus really started to explode in the US.
People here like to blame the decision to transfer Covid patients into nursing homes... well, imagine how that decision might have been different if there was notice given to the state and local officials that caution, due to airborne transmissability, might be necessary? Or, imagine the benefit we might have had if half of the nation wasn't crying "hoax" or "flu" for a month or more when this virus was starting to spread.
I don't appreciate myself and my fellow citizens being lied to repeatedly when the safety of hundreds of thousands of innocent people is at stake. That's been my biggest qualm with Trump since I first started to take notice of him at the RNC conventions in 2015. He straight up lies much to often. I admit that every president lies, but for Trump it's the only thing he's able to fall back on and it bit him, and all of us, in the ass.
I'm not saying that the president shouldn't have the right to try and keep the American population calm during a time of crisis. They should, of course, be allowed a strategy that might involve pointing out all of the preparation that an administration has already done and is currently doing to safeguard the American public. On the other hand straight up lying for MONTHS about the evidence he had already been presented is borderline criminal. If the administration knew about the airborne nature of the virus back in February, we should have at least had a plan for mask mandates in place by early March when the virus really started to explode in the US.
People here like to blame the decision to transfer Covid patients into nursing homes... well, imagine how that decision might have been different if there was notice given to the state and local officials that caution, due to airborne transmissability, might be necessary? Or, imagine the benefit we might have had if half of the nation wasn't crying "hoax" or "flu" for a month or more when this virus was starting to spread.
I don't appreciate myself and my fellow citizens being lied to repeatedly when the safety of hundreds of thousands of innocent people is at stake. That's been my biggest qualm with Trump since I first started to take notice of him at the RNC conventions in 2015. He straight up lies much to often. I admit that every president lies, but for Trump it's the only thing he's able to fall back on and it bit him, and all of us, in the ass.
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