Woodward book: Trump says he knew coronavirus was ‘deadly’ and worse than the flu while intentionally misleading Americans
President Trump speaks at a coronavirus news briefing at the White House on Aug. 13.
President Trump speaks at a coronavirus news briefing at the White House on Aug. 13. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)
By Robert Costa and Philip Rucker
September 9, 2020 at 11:55 AM EDT
President Trump’s head popped up during his top-secret intelligence briefing in the Oval Office on Jan. 28 when the discussion turned to the coronavirus outbreak in China.
“This will be the biggest national security threat you face in your presidency,” national security adviser Robert C. O’Brien told Trump, according to a new book by Washington Post associate editor Bob Woodward. “This is going to be the roughest thing you face.”
HE KNEW AND LIED
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