Wait, what? Woodward had Trump on tape that the coronavirus was airborne BACK IN FEBRUARY (seems he learned this from Xi) and sat on it, presumably to release his book closer to the election? As we've been saying, the US crisis is elite failure *across* the political spectrum. https://twitter.com/mshelton/status/1303747254314962944 …
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But Woodward could play the audio recordings...Trump sounds as lucid as I’ve ever heard him and it would be impossible to deny. I prefer Woodward losing interview access to 180k+ deaths.
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They would just (as they already are today) spin hard on "didn't want the nation to panic" angle.
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Yes, but he would be on the record and could have corrected course. The self serving nature of when Woodward chose to release this is inexcusable
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There's no reason, given the sheer denial and gaslighting of this administration in other matters, to think there would be any change. Not with a stock market and an election in their minds.
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Access is not a reason to no report on something. I and fine with him not rushing out with the tapes the next day if he was still working the story. But I have a huge problem with sitting on them until a fucking book comes out
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It's not actually new information regarding Covid, or that Trump was wrong. His wrong statements on covid has been highlighted many times. What's new is Trump's frame of mind and it's damning. But it would have made no difference in policy.
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if Woodward came out in feb or march or April, then there would’ve been months upon months of news and ads blasting out a tape where the president contradicts his own public statements. and maybe that breaks the facade held up by covid deniers.
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can you explain what releasing it months later accomplishes? what’s the benefit, if I may ask?
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It's on tape
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He would deny what he was saying on a recording that could be played on TV?
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