From the Trump biography of his 4 years in high office: "Rage"
https://peoplesworld.org/article/trump-lied-americans-died/
“#TrumpLiedAmericansDied” it reads.
Because that, according to 18 tape-recorded interviews Woodward had with Trump, which are now playing on the Internet, is what the GOP president did when the coronavirus pandemic hit.
Trump knew as early as January 28 the pandemic hitting the U.S. was dangerous and thousands of Americans would sicken and die. Yesterday Trump admitted it all, including that he had told Woodward of Watergate fame about it months ago.
Trump’s own national security staff caught his attention, sharply, in a January briefing,
by flatly saying the coronavirus would be the top U.S. security threat of his term and as bad, if not worse, than the flu pandemic a century ago.
Trump paid attention, (
**to what the science was saying)
yet kept lying to the country about the pandemic. But not to Woodward.
“You just breathe the air and that’s how it’s passed,” Trump said of the pandemic in that early February call to Woodward. “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.” Trump initiated the calls.
But publicly then, and for months afterwards, Trump compared the coronavirus to the common cold and predicted it would go away of its own accord. His regime also did nothing about it. It still hasn’t, says Trump’s foe in the fall general election, former Vice President Joe Biden.
“To be honest with you, I wanted to always play it down,” Trump told Woodward, on the record and on tape on March 19. And when the book excerpts hit the wires on September 9, Trump reiterated that point in his press conference that afternoon.
All this led Woodward, at the end of the book, to write: “Trump never did seem willing to fully mobilize the federal government and continually seemed to push problems off on the states. There was no real management theory of the case or how to organize a massive enterprise to deal with one of the most complex emergencies the United States had ever faced.”
Meanwhile, the coronavirus has raged. As of 10:30 a.m. on September 10, 6.366 million people have tested positive for the virus since the government finally formally acknowledged the pandemic on March 13. And 190,909 have died, according to Johns Hopkins University’s worldwide coronavirus tracker, one of the nation’s most authoritative sources.
It’s as if every man, woman, and child in Chicago and Los Angeles caught the virus and everyone in Mobile, Ala., plus 2,000 people in its suburbs, is dead.
The U.S. accounts for 22.8% of the world’s people who have tested positive and 21% of the dead, all because of Trump’s inaction.
No wonder one sign posted in a photo on Twitter, called Trump “Murderer.”