President Donald Trump announces opioid response grants to state governments in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, September 4, 2019.
Erin Scott | Reuters
President Donald Trump admitted that he wanted to publicly downplay the threat of the coronavirus even as his advisors warned him about the dangers of the disease, Bob Woodward wrote in his forthcoming book about the Trump administration, multiple outlets reported Wednesday.
“I wanted to always play it down,” Trump told Woodward in mid March, CNN reported. “I still like playing it down, because I don’t want to create a panic.”
“Rage,” Woodward’s second book on Trump’s presidency, is due out Sept. 15.
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