A younger Bob Woodward wouldn't have sat on this vital information for the better part of a year.

[soothsayer]

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Max Burns
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A younger Bob Woodward wouldn't have sat on this vital information for the better part of a year.

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Breaking News: President Trump admitted to the journalist Bob Woodward that he had knowingly played down the coronavirus even though he was aware it was “deadly.” https://nyti.ms/2DIT8VE

[fleur-de-lisa]

1. While people were fucking dying!

[beachbumbob]

2. I lost all faith in woodward back in GWB/Cheney days

[lostnfound]

18. Me too. Bernstein was the better half. I've suspected Woodward was a mockingbird kind of guy.

Like a Psy ops background.
Maybe not, but a nagging doubt about him for a long time.

[BGBD]

3. Stop deflecting attention

Trump just admitted to being responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Ameircans.

When Bob Woodward decided to release the tapes of it is irrelevant.

[nolabear]

5. Agree! Control your rage! We have work to do!

Those assholes will do all they can to discredit Woodward. Let’s not help them.

[SWBTATTReg]

4. I wonder why the hell he sat on this information for so long, in order to just parley some ...

money into his own pockets, his own selfish greed over American lives?

[triron]

7. Worse than that imo. Endangering our republic.

[Thekaspervote]

9. How many times did other experts same the same or similar.? How would his voice have changed

It? Seriously!!
He may have sat on this releasing it time close to election thinking it might hurt his re-election chances.

Let’s not bury the man.. please

[still_one]

13. I don't think so. The whole story needed to be completed, and the interviews lasted for months

and ended in June

The book documents more than just the virus response, the relationships with dictators and others is also damning

Listening to the press conference right now they are still lying about it, saying our first amendment rights need to be protected

There is no ambiguity about the danger of virus now, and a lot of people still don’t heed the warnings

[Klaralven]

6. He was better with Bernstein

[still_one]

8. The book had to be completed first. It had to be completely documented. This book is more than

just the handling of the virus. THe revelations from the book are damning on everything

The tapes and interviews lasted through June

[Greybnk48]

10. Woodward has always been a right winger. Always.

Even back in the day. He's not a Trumper, but he's a Republican.

Bernstein is and always has been a liberal, and much smarter intellectually than Woodward. The paper wouldn't listen to the liberal hippie Bernstein about Nixon, so he went to a conservative reporter (Woodward) and convinced him that Nixon was a crook and they needed to dig deeper.

It's all in the book "All The President's Men."

[lostnfound]

24. Part of a quiet careful cleanup crew, vs the quiet careful coverup crew.

Impressive discipline there, Woodward as the former and mueller as the latter.

Maybe.

[Midnight Writer]

27. Pre-journalism days, Woodward was in Military Intelligence. Not a lot of liberals there.

[RockRaven]

11. Hundreds of thousands of dead Americans. What if antimask MAGAts/GrOPer govs had heard

those tapes in Feb or March? How many fewer of us would have died?

Blood on his hands. There are more important things in this world than access journalism, personal ambition, and your next book, you ghoul!

[octoberlib]

16. Absolutely nothing would have happened, that's what. Wouldn't have made a single

bit of difference.

[OhZone]

12. Yeah, but anyone who saw tRump saying he missed touching his face way back in March knew he was -

aware of the danger.

“I haven’t touched my face in weeks!” Trump joked. “I miss it.”

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/04/trump-jokes-touching-face-coronavirus-121135

So you could see he knew this was deadly and was trying to protect himself for weeks as of 3/4

[octoberlib]

14. What would have happened if he had? Absolutely nothing.

We were getting this information from other sources. Trump still wouldn't have taken appropriate actions to stem the pandemic and would have called Woodward a liar.

[agingdem]

15. not true...

a younger Bob Woodward would have been just as calculating then as he is now...honestly I don't care about the when and why of the tape's release...that orange dung heap knew how deadly the virus was..and because he unilaterally did away with all the safe-guards Obama had put in place, he chose, instead, to wave his magic wand and make it all disappear...and when his poll numbers started swirling the toilet he suggested ingesting and injecting Clorox and Lysol as a cure-all..and the results of his callous disregard for human life...190,000 dead and counting, the economy teetering, parents terrified to send their kids back to school...my question...who else knew about what was coming our way and chose to keep quiet?

[world wide wally]

17. Woodward is like Bolton.

Neither one would dare do anything that would hurt the sale of their books.

[Thekaspervote]

20. Oh stop!! Every thing Woodward is claiming had already been said multiple times!

Timing is everything! This may hurt dotard, or at least keep him playing defense. He’s at his worst when he is forced to play defense.

Biden can bring this fresh information to the debates and hammer him with it again and again

[SWBTATTReg]

26. Good point!

[WhiskeyGrinder]

19. What would have been different if he had released this as soon as he had it?

[Thekaspervote]

21. Nothing..unfortunately.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

23. Exactly.

[ismnotwasm]

22. Political timing. Dude is probably right

[tritsofme]

25. Couldn't disagree more. What would an earlier release have accomplished?

It is most impactful now.