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Woodward Rejects Claims He Could Have Saved Lives By Revealing Trump’s COVID-19 Comments Sooner

TRUMP: "Why didn’t he immediately report them in an effort to save lives?"

Joseph Curl
Woodward Rejects Claims He Could Have Saved Lives By Revealing Trump’s COVID-19 Comments Sooner
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Bob Woodward is defending himself against charges that he should have come forward sooner with President Donald Trump’s comments about COVID-19, which the journalist collected months ago in interviews but saved for his latest book that was released this week.

Trump told Woodward in March that as the pandemic began to spread across America, he tried to downplay the seriousness of COVID-19.

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