BREAKING: Bob Woodward Has Tapes of Trump From Feb 7 Saying How Dangerous CV-19 Is!

[berni_mccoy]

He told Woodward it was much more deadly than the flu and had airborne transmission. Being covered now on MSNBC.

Woodward is releasing the tapes!

[OnDoutside]

1. WTF ???? Trump spoke to Woodward after his last book ? LOL !

[Siwsan]

2. I am absolutely shaking with rage, right now!!

It's not that I didn't suspect this, all along but none the less, having confirmation takes my breath away.

[Claustrum]

3. This could potentially be big

Saying bad things about vets might not affect everyone. But no one is spared by the effect of COVID, whether to have to wear a mask, lose their jobs, stay home more, home schooling, or lose a friend or family, etc.

But most people that dislike his COVID response already dislike him.

[berni_mccoy]

12. Potentially

[dhill926]

14. I know...

I fully expect it to play out by Friday, at which point we'll be outraged by something else. I sincerely hope I'm wrong...

[LonePirate]

4. Fuck Woodward for holding on to the tapes for seven months.

Thousands of deaths might have been prevented if he had released them back in February. He can rot in hell for holding these tapes for so long.

[Nevilledog]

5. +100000

[Renew Deal]

8. Why do you think he held tapes for 7 months?

How do you know when he got them?

[MrsCoffee]

13. Probably the same day that Trump said this stuff to him.

Why would it take 7 months to get the tapes?

[malaise]

9. True n/t

[berni_mccoy]

10. True. Multiply by 1 Million for Trump.

[Jirel]

15. Bah.

If he hadn’t, NOTHING would’ve changed, and he knew it. We had no dearth of information that Dump was BSing. The TrumpHumpers who follow his every mouth-fart would’ve been doing just as they have. At least this way the tapes can do some good as a September Surprise.

[LonePirate]

21. Nonsense. Some lives would have been saved and transmission rates lowered if this was public in Feb.

I will not trade lives for some perceived but uncertain political gain.

[Jirel]

22. Nice fantasy.

Nah, we had every politician and public health expert in the damned world in the same page, except Dump and friends. Every public health person here, too. What do you fantasize would’ve happened if the tape had been released? That the Narcissist In Chief would’ve apologized and changed his tune, not doubled down on the BS? That he would’ve allowed the CDC and other agencies to take it more seriously? That he would’ve taken action?

Not one life would have been saved. Dump has no conscience. His followers will do whatever he says, and he would’ve just said”fake news!” Yet again and they would’ve lapped it up as always. The rest of us didn’t need to hear it from him, when we were getting the best info we could find as far away from his orbit as possible.

[LonePirate]

28. More nonsense. The first US death was not until 3 weeks later. This tape would have saved lives.

It may not have saved 190K+ lives; but some people would have taken the virus seriously several weeks earlier, which would have led to reduced transmission and reduced cases and reduced deaths. This is not difficult to understand.

[Jirel]

29. Ridiculous wishful thinking.

You know what would have happened.

The narcissist would have lied his ass off.

Woodward’s tapes would have been called “fake news.”

A few media outlets and house members would have weakly objected and fact checked, to ultimately no avail, just like with EVERY OBVIOUS LIE TO DATE ABOUT COVID-19.

The Dump lie machine would have filled the airwaves and social media night and day.

Nothing would have been changed in practice.

Woodward would have shot his bolt.

[LonePirate]

30. You must have forgotten how the months of March and April verified Woodward's tapes.

[crickets]

23. Thank you! I am so furious with Woodward.

All of the posturing and lies we've had to listen to, all of the bleached bullshit trump's been able to shovel for months, all the mask aggro we've dealt with while Woodward sat on the tapes for his fucking book. Months of misinformation have contributed to the deaths of thousands while he held out for the oh-so-carefully timed 'bombshell' book sales.

Screw him.

[BannonsLiver]

6. Cue the "it'll never hurt him with his base" morons

As if they’re the only ones who vote.

[Roland99]

7. WaPo has details and audio snippets...

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.

[berni_mccoy]

11. Thanks.

[onetexan]

31. Damning. We gotta vote this crooked SOB out.

[Johnny2X2X]

16. INSANE!!!! But of course he knew.

Link to tweet

?s=20

[Johnny2X2X]

17. He says it was his strategy to mislead the American people

195,000 dead already and this guy now admits he lied to everyone so they wouldn't "panic." My god, he killed hundreds of thousands of people with his lies!!!

Link to tweet

?s=20

[Newest Reality]

19. And Putin smiled!

[CentralMass]

18. Why did Woodward sit on this for 8 months ?

[onetexan]

32. For his book :(

[Tanuki]

20. For comparison, here is a detailed timeline of Rapist45's failure to respond

https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/2020/6/8/21242003/trump-failed-coronavirus-response

[crickets]

24. Thanks, Tanuki. nt

[dalton99a]

25. Fuck Bob Woodward.

[Drahthaardogs]

26. I just laughed out loud

The MAGATs are gonna blow a gasket

[hedda_foil]

27. K&R!!!!!