While it was previously reported that Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, thought Trump preached “the gospel of the Führer,” that Milley had sought to reassure his Chinese counterpart that Trump was not planning to launch a sudden military strike against the People’s Republic of China was new. There are some novel details in the new book. In Woodward’s new book, Peril, co-authored with fellow Washington Post reporter Robert Costa, it’s no surprise that Trump is depicted as off his rocker - that’s been reported in detail almost every day for years, and regularly demonstrated by the former president’s own statements and behavior. His and Carl Bernstein’s depiction of a drunk, unhinged Richard Nixon in 1976’s The Final Days shocked the country in an age of three television networks and zero social-media platforms. When Bob Woodward first breathlessly reported the fragile mental state of a president on his way out of office, it was a national sensation. We want to show strength.Photo: Andy Jacobsohn/AFP via Getty Images And certainly, I’m not going to drive this country or the world into a frenzy. “I don’t want to create panic, as you say. And I don’t want people to be frightened,” Trump told reporters at the White House when asked if he misled the public. “So the fact is, I’m a cheerleader for this country. Trump, for his part, justified his response, saying that he didn’t want to cause panic. He knowingly and willingly lied about the threat it posed to the country for months,” said Biden while visiting the United Auto Workers training facility in Warren, Michigan, the Washington Post reports. not all of them but many of them could have been prevented.” “His delay, distortion and denial about the threat is responsible for many of the deaths and infections. . .

“He understood better than he let on when he was calling it a hoax,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA.) said in an interview on MSNBC on Wednesday afternoon. The fallout that occurred after news broke was swift, with several officials from Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi calling the impeached president out for his lies. I still like playing it down, because I don’t want to create a panic,” Trump said on March 19. would just “disappear,” assuring the American people that the virus was under control.Ī little over a month later, Trump revealed to Woodward that he intentionally downplayed the virus to avoid panic. However, as the report notes, Trump spent most of the next month claiming that cases in the U.S. “This is 5 percent versus one percent and less than 1 percent.

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