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The book detailed President Trump's intentional downplaying of the pandemic, describing internal White House discussions and his misleading statements to the public.
President Trump knowingly misled the country, he leads about the risks of the coronavirus pandemic. That is the top line of Bob Woodward's new book, excerpts began to trickle out from today.
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The book detailed President Trump's intentional downplaying of the pandemic, describing internal White House discussions and his misleading statements to the public.
President Trump knowingly misled the country, he leads about the risks of the coronavirus pandemic. That is the top line of Bob Woodward's new book, excerpts began to trickle out from today.
Now Ron, since you reviewed the book for NPR, you're one of probably at this point a handful of people in the country who have actually read the full book.
It seems to be obviously an intentional decision in the early weeks and months. The book actually begins, the first sentence of the prologue talks about an Oval Office meeting on January, now we're talking January 28th where the top two people on the National Security Agency team ... told the president this is not only going to be a big deal, this is going to be the biggest challenge of your presidency.
Ron, like I said, you have read the whole book already. There was a lot more material in here aside from how the president has handled the coronavirus. What else jumped out to you?
Bob Woodward's conclusion when he says that he has simply reached the conclusion that Donald Trump is not the man for the job.