Donald Trump told Bob Woodward, the Washington Post journalist, that he played down the seriousness of the coronavirus pandemic even after his aides warned that it would be the “roughest thing” he would face as US president.
Mr Trump told Mr Woodward in March that Covid-19 was “deadly stuff” while simultaneously dismissing the seriousness of the virus, according to Rage, the latest book on the presidency from the journalist.
“I wanted to always play it down,” Mr Trump told Mr Woodward, the veteran journalist whose stories on the Watergate scandal led to the resignation of Richard Nixon as president.
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