Bob Woodward has tapes. On Feb. 7 Trump tells him how deadly the coronavirus was.

[PA Democrat]

CNN is playing tapes right now.

This information is revealed in Woodward's new book Rage.

Story and actual audio of Trump at link:

https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/09/politics/bob-woodward-rage-book-trump-coronavirus/index.html

[PA Democrat]

1. Admits he intentionally concealed the seriousness of the threat.

He said he played it down to "prevent a panic."

[fleur-de-lisa]

2. CNN is playing the tapes right now.

[PA Democrat]

3. He knew in early February that the virus was highly contagious and transmitted through the air.

[PA Democrat]

4. CNN is playing his admissions to Woodward and then playing his PUBLIC comments

where he said the opposite.

[lagomorph777]

5. Holy shit. This is going to sting.

[MissB]

15. Of course I'm hoping that makes it into some very short and powerful ads

Like today...

Keep hitting him. I’m not as concerned about Woodward waiting this long. It’s pretty much just the right time to hit trump with a ton of these sort of things, as the first states are ready to cast mail in ballots.

[PA Democrat]

6. OMG. Mattis is directly quoted calling Trump dangerous and unfit, lacking a moral compass.

[PA Democrat]

7. Fauci said Trump's attention span was a negative number.

[SoonerPride]

17. hhahahaha

[malaise]

8. The Con's attention span is like a minus number

and his only interest is being re-elected - Fauci
Coates - does not know the difference between truth and a lie

[PA Democrat]

10. Thanks Malaise. I can't type fast enough to cover all the newest crap on Trump.

[malaise]

12. You're welcome

Love that they played that Q & A session from Feb 27 with Gupta stating the difference between flu and Covid 19 and the Con went on and on about the fifteen people who would recover

[PA Democrat]

9. He also called "his" generals "p***ies."

[Vinca]

11. This is amazing. I swear I see an orange mushroom cloud in the sky.

[malaise]

14. Look for a shitshow this afternoon

[PA Democrat]

20. Trump was scheduled to do a press conference at noon.

Wonder why they are running late?

[malaise]

23. See your first post above

[Roland99]

13. WaPo has details and audio snippets here....

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/bob-woodward-rage-book-trump/2020/09/09/0368fe3c-efd2-11ea-b4bc-3a2098fc73d4_story.html

“You just breathe the air and that’s how it’s passed,” Trump said in a Feb. 7 call. “And so that’s a very tricky one. That’s a very delicate one. It’s also more deadly than even your strenuous flu.”

“This is deadly stuff,” the president repeated for emphasis.

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Listen: In a Feb. 7 interview, when asked what President Xi told him about the virus, Trump says, “This is deadly stuff.”
At that time, Trump was telling the nation that the virus was no worse than a seasonal flu, predicting it would soon disappear, and insisting that the U.S. government had it totally under control. It would be several weeks before he would publicly acknowledge that the virus was no ordinary flu and that it could be transmitted through the air.

Trump admitted to Woodward on March 19 that he deliberately minimized the danger. “I wanted to always play it down,” the president said.

[PA Democrat]

16. Trump on coronavirus: "more deadly than even your strenuous flus"

President Donald Trump admitted he knew weeks before the first confirmed US coronavirus death that the virus was dangerous, airborne, highly contagious and "more deadly than even your strenuous flus," and that he repeatedly played it down publicly, according to legendary journalist Bob Woodward in his new book "Rage."

"This is deadly stuff," Trump told Woodward on February 7.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/09/politics/bob-woodward-rage-book-trump-coronavirus/index.html

[LisaL]

18. So they knew covid was airborne at least as far back as February.

Yet cdc was telling people to not wear masks.
Trump of course claimed at some point that it was a hoax.

[malaise]

24. He said something about it during the SOTU

on February 5

[Klaralven]

19. Trump did exactly what the provincial leadership in Wuhan did - ignore, suppress, hope it goes away

In China, the national leadership in Beijing took control.

Unfortunately, we had no national leadership.

[GusBob]

21. Murder by depraved indifference

lock him up

[tulipsandroses]

22. Can't wait for the Lincoln Project ad

Hmm, its a hoax to his supporters

But meanwhile saying I know its dangerous.

Suckers!!!

As we mourn for almost 200, 000 dead. I hope some of those suckers come to their senses. Wanting to own the libs, should not mean murder. This is pretty much murder as far as I am concerned. I can't think of any profession, where you are in charge of lives and deliberately put them in harm's way, for your selfish reasons that you would not face consequences.

[malaise]

25. Here

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100214046525