New recordings of US President Donald Trump paint a startlingly different picture to months of him publicly stating COVID-19 will “disappear”.
The quotes in his latest book come recordings of his conversations with Mr Trump after 18 on-the-record interviews between December 2019 and July 2020.“I still like playing it down, because I don’t want to create a panic.”Associate Editor of the Washington Post Bob Woodward reveals the conversations with Donald Trump in his new book Rage.
According to a tally from Johns Hopkins University in Maryland, there have been more than 6.33 million cases of COVID-19 recorded in the US and more than 189,000 deaths.Speaking on Wednesday, he said he did not people to be frightened by the coronavirus crisis. Picture: Mandel Ngan/AFPEarlier on Wednesday, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany defended Mr Trump.
“He makes clear that he doesn’t want to see chaos, by the way, which is the second part of the quote which you failed to read,” she continued, addressing a reporter who had read part of the quote.
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