Watching 77-year-old former Vice President and Democrat nominee Joe Biden’s lead shrink in national and in key battle ground states to a virtual dead heat, the anti-Trump press continues to hit the president with everything but the kitchen sink. Promoting his new book, “Rage,” a compendium of politically biased spin about 74-year-old President Donald Trump, 77-year-old former Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward preaches to the anti-Trump choir, pretending he’s a journalist when he’s no different than Trump’s niece Mary L. Trump, 71-year-old former national Security Advisers John Bolton and 54-year-old former Trump personal attorney Michael Cohen, all capitalizing on the Election Year to sell books. While such low-lifes are expected from Trump’s enemies, it’s not from a once esteemed journalist who helped save the nation with his 76-year-old Washington Post colleague Carl Bernstein.
In the nearly 47 years since Watergate, Woodward has capitalized on his fame, selling enough books and speaking engagements to make him filthy rich. Now he’s embraced by today’s generation of corrupt journalists, crossing that sacred line between politics and news. Woodward’s book “Rage” stands as one of worst examples of pernicious propaganda, designed to advance the Democrat strategy of defeating Trump on Nov. 3. Once Joe’s polls started to drop, unknown women are coming out the woodwork together with new defamatory books designed to discredit the president before the election. Woodward recorded Trump in a Feb. 7 interview saying the coronavirus was “more deadly than even your strenuous flus,” insisting Trump knew how deadly the virus but didn’t properly warn the American public. Woodward insists Trump knew everything Feb. 7.
When Woodward interviewed Trump Feb. 7, it was only a week after he banned flights from China, attributing the virus spreading from Wuhan, China. Woodward knows on Feb. 7 that the World Health Organization [WHO] confirmed Jan. 14 that there was no “human-to-human” transmission in Wuhan, China, the presumed origin of the virus. Woodward’s case against Trump is the most flimsy, most twisted, most malicious interpretation of Trump’s remarks. Trump went against his handlers’ advise granting Woodward any interviews, knowing his anti-Trump bias. When Trump told Woodward, “this is deadly stuff,” he wanted Woodward to know he wasn’t minimizing the virus. “You just breathe the air and that’s how it’s passed.” Trump said. “This is deadly stuff.” From those words, Woodward concludes that Trump knew more than the World Health Organization.
Woodward’s indictment of Trump is so obviously political, giving the president no benefit of the doubt but leaping to the most malignant conclusions. It’s obvious Trump was trying to show Woodward he wasn’t minimizing the seriousness of the virus. At the same time, there were only a few cases of coronaviurs and no deaths until Feb. 29. Woodward acts like Trump should have gotten on his White House bullhorn and announced a major infectious disease crisis before the National Institutes of Health [NIH], Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], and, most importantly, the World Health Organization. How biased, how misguided, how perverse, how insane are Woodward’s statements from his Feb. 7 tape recording of Trump. Woodward acts like Trump had a crystal ball, knew everything that would happen with the virus before his medical experts or world health authorities.
When 55-year-old Ethiopian-born WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom held a news conference Feb. 5, he told the world that Trump’s decisions to ban flights from China was premature, unnecessary, an overreaction, when WHO said Jan. 14 there was no human-to-human transmission in Wuhan, China, the epicenter of the virus. Yet to Woodward, because Trump acknowledged the potential seriousness of the virus, it means he deliberately withheld vital information to warn the U.S. public. How misguided, how foolish, or more to the point, how devious of Woodward to spread such pernicious propaganda, ignoring all the relevant facts about the virus back in February. In another tape recording of Trump March 19, Trump said, “I wanted to always play it down,” Trump told Woodward. “I don’t want to create a panic,” the day when the U.S. recorded only 52 deaths.
When Trump was looking at 2018-2019 data about 34,500 seasonal flu deaths, how could Woodward expect Trump to take only 52 deaths from Coronavirus AKA SARS CoV-2 or Covid-19 as a national emergency. Woodward’s book find a ready audience in the anti-Trump crowd, ready to lap up his nonsense. Why no one calls Woodward out a complete charlatan is anyone’s guess. Riding on his past reputation, it’s obvious he’s out to get Trump, using his book and interviews to upend Trump 2020 presidential campaign. Woodward never asked Trump why he didn’t shutdown the economy or warn U.S. citizens about the seasonal flu. No, Trump knew everything Feb. 7 or March 19, far more than the NIH, CDO or WHO. Where’s the objective scrutiny of Woodward’s nonsense. Woodward expected Trump to forecast Feb. 7 the nearly 200,000 deaths, something health experts couldn’t do.
