One-time Watergate-fame 77-year-old journalist Bob Woodward exposed his relationship to the Democrat Party, releasing segments of his new hit-job book, “Rage,” out-of-context excerpts, innuendo, gossip and unquestionably biased account of how 74-year-old Donald Trump handled the coornavirus AKA SARS CoV-2 or Covid-19 crisis. Woodward presented the Democrat talking point for the 2020 presidential campaign, blaming Trump for the coronavirus epidemic and economic collapse in the United States. Woodward’s latest work displays a shell of the person who once exposed a real scandal involved in a burglary ordered by President Richard M. Nixon of the Democratic National Committee [DNC] headquarters at the Watergate Hotel in Washington, D.C. in 1968. Woodward and his 76-year-old Washington Post colleague Carl Bernstein did the nation a real service back then.
Now Woodward has swallowed the Cool-Aid of today’s unethical journalism, citing unnamed or anonymous sourcing to advance political agendas. Today’s journalism has seen an erosion of the wall between politics and news, facts and opinion, where journalists now advance political agendas, not work, as once required, to get out the facts to the public. Trump told Woodward, for instance, “This is deadly stuff,” referring to the coronavirus global pandemic. “You just breathe the air and that’s how it’s passed,” Trump told Woodward. “This is deadly stuff,” Trump said Feb. 7, telling the public on Twitter that he thought the virus would go away when “the weather starts to warm.” Woodward said nothing about Trump banning flights from China Jan 31, eventually banning flights from Europe March 12. If that’s not considered decisive early intervention, then what is?
Woodward’s splicing of quotes from his interview with Trump to tweets made by Trump’s attempt to show something nefarious, some type of public deception. On March 7, according to Woodward, Trump said, “No, I’m not concerned at all,” when asked if he was concerned about the spread of the virus. Woodward quotes Trump’s March 9 tweet: “So last years 37,000 Americans died from the common flu. It averages between 27,000 and 70,000 per year. Nothing is shut down, life & the economy go. At this moment there are 546 confirmed cases of CoronaVirus with 22 deaths. Think about that.” Woodward’s trying to point out how Trump downplayed the virus, letting it get far worse in the United States than it had to. That’s the Democrats No. 1 talking point why voters should deny Trump another term. Woodward’s account is a perfect example that “hindsight is 20/20” and an egregious political hit.
Woodward shared more excerpts from “Rage,” quoting Trump downplaying the virus. “”I wanted to always play it down,” Trump said. “I still like playing it down, because I don’t want to create a panic.” Woodward views that as proof Trump lied to the public, when, he was giving the best evidence available at the time. Woodward quotes Trump on March 9 but he says nothing about the World Health Organization [WHO] saying Jan. 14 that there was no evidence of “human-t-human” transmission in Wuhan, China, referring to the virus spreading. Woodward mentions nothing about the guidance the U.S. received on Covid-19 from WHO. When Woodward interviewed Trump on March 19, it was only eight days after WHO declared a global pandemic March 11. Trump acknowledged March 19 that young people were also susceptible to the virus. “Now it’s turning out, it’s not just old people.”
Woodward said Trump was told by National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien that the coronavirus would be the “biggest national security threat” of his presidency May 5. Asked if he recalled O’Brien’s warning, Trump said, “No, I don’t.” I’m sure if he said it—you know, I’m sure he said. Nice guy,” Woodward quoted, suggesting that Trump listened to O’Brien on matters related to the virus. Woodward knows that Trump had a Coronavirus Task Force headed by Vice President Mike Pence, National Institutes of Health Infectious disease chief Dr. Anthony Fauci and State Department epidemiologist Dr. Debra Birx. Woodward knows that O’Brien wouldn’t be in the loop when it came to managing the coronavirus epidemic because he wasn’t on the Task Fore. Yet if you listen to Woodward’s spin, it puts Trump in the worst possible light, showing, for all to see, his political bias.
Woodward does expose the loveable liberal grandpa Fauci as a partisan hack. Woodward said Fauci told him that Trump was unfocused when it came to meetings on the Coronvirus Task Force. “His attention span is like a minus number,” Fauci told Woodward. “His sole purpose is to get reelected,” exposing for all to see why Trump replaced Fauci with Dr. Scott Atlas. Fauci let his politics get in the way of his job on the Coronavirus Task Force. Fauci and Birx were the ones that pressed Trump to shut down the economy from April to May, causing lasting damage to the U.S. economy. Fauci welcomed numerous interviews given to the anti-Trump press to embarrass the president on numerous occasions. Fauci pretends he’s just doing his job, when, in fact, he’s doing everything possible to prevent Trump’s reelection. Woodward, too, showed he’s nothing more than a partisan hack.
