Home News 3 Stories You Should Read 9/09/2020: West Coast Wildfires, ¨This is deadly stuff¨, Russian Meddling

3 Stories You Should Read 9/09/2020: West Coast Wildfires, ¨This is deadly stuff¨, Russian Meddling

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In the category of:  Devastation

Wildfires rage in California, Oregon and Washington

In the category of:  Blatant Lies

Trump Admits He Lied About COVID-19 Threat In New Woodward Book

President Donald Trump knew in early February that the coronavirus posed a unique and deadly threat to the United States, and was “more deadly than even your strenuous flus.”

At the time, Trump repeatedly publicly downplayed the virus as no more dangerous than the flu.

The revelation is one of many in journalist Bob Woodward’s forthcoming book, “Rage,” for which Trump granted Woodward a series of interviews. 

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

“This is deadly stuff,” he repeated.

“I wanted to always play it down,” Trump told Woodward on March 19, according to a copy of the book obtained by CNN. “I still like playing it down, because I don’t want to create a panic.”

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