Listening to the Woodward tapes... Trump has similarly explained his early coronavirus messaging before.

He told reporters April 7 that he’s a “cheerleader for the country” and didn’t want to “create havoc and shock” by speaking in dire terms.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-vice-president-pence-members-coronavirus-task-force-press-briefing-april-7-2020/
Listening to the Woodward tapes... Trump has similarly explained his early coronavirus messaging before.He told reporters April 7 that he’s a “cheerleader for the country” and didn’t want to “create havoc and shock” by speaking in dire terms. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-vice-president-pence-members-coronavirus-task-force-press-briefing-april-7-2020/
Listening to the Woodward tapes... Trump has similarly explained his early coronavirus messaging before.He told reporters April 7 that he’s a “cheerleader for the country” and didn’t want to “create havoc and shock” by speaking in dire terms. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-vice-president-pence-members-coronavirus-task-force-press-briefing-april-7-2020/
Here’s the video of Trump saying that very thing
In the Woodward audio, on March 19, Trump says, “I wanted to always play it down. I still like playing it down. Because I don’t want to create a panic.”

That last sentence - “don’t want to create a panic” - doesn’t appear in the WaPo news copy.

You have to listen to the clip.
Here’s the WaPo story with the Woodward clips. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/bob-woodward-rage-book-trump/2020/09/09/0368fe3c-efd2-11ea-b4bc-3a2098fc73d4_story.html
Woodward book: Trump says he knew coronavirus was ‘deadly’ and worse than the flu while intention...

In new book ‘Rage,’ Trump says he deliberately played down threat of pandemic and says he feels no responsibility to better understand the anger and pain of Black Americans.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/bob-woodward-rage-book-trump/2020/09/09/0368fe3c-efd2-11ea-b4bc-3a2098fc73d4_story.html
And in case this entire news cycle fees like it happened before, that’s because it did.

Complete with a lecture from Chris Cuomo:
By the way, that Cuomo clip starts with heavy sighing that Wisconsin voters were lining up at the polls that day to vote in the primary.

Since then, the CDC has concluded that there was no rise in cases connected to voting there.

#OpenThePolls https://madison.com/wsj/news/local/health-med-fit/no-covid-19-surge-in-milwaukee-from-wisconsins-april-7-election-cdc-says/article_1ab8aab7-4099-5189-a5af-2ec25d75d062.html
No COVID-19 surge in Milwaukee from Wisconsin's April 7 election, CDC says

Wisconsin’s April 7 election caused “no clear increase” of COVID-19 in Milwaukee, likely because steps were taken to reduce spread of the coronavirus, according to the Centers for Disease Control

https://madison.com/wsj/news/local/health-med-fit/no-covid-19-surge-in-milwaukee-from-wisconsins-april-7-election-cdc-says/article_1ab8aab7-4099-5189-a5af-2ec25d75d062.html
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