White House denies Trump downplayed covid even though he admits it on tape

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Despite his own admission, the White House claims Trump never downplayed the deadly coronavirus.

White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany speaks during a briefing in the Brady Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, DC on September 9, 2020."I wanted to always play down. I still like playing it down, because I don't want to create a panic," Donald Trump admitted to journalist Bob Woodward in a March 19 interview that was taped.

Despite that admission, revealed Wednesday along with other excerpts and tapes from Woodward's 18 interviews with the president since December, the White House claims Trump never downplayed the disease. "The president never downplayed the virus," White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany told reporters Wednesday.

Referencing a stack of detailed notes and timelines, McEnany set out to refute the damning admissions contained in Woodward's forthcoming book,According to Woodward's book and recorded conversations made public Wednesday, Trump knew that the virus was highly-contagious and deadly—even before the United States had reported a single Covid-19-related death.

 

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Obama Biden hini Ran out all our medical supplies. Then crossed their fingers and stopped testing

You are the problem media. Maybe if you used your positive media our politicians would be truthful. He did what leaders do. That tape is what we need from a pres.

Democrats need to listen to Dr. Fauci, like they always do, the good scientists even said you don’t need mask , not the President. So how would that change anything, except no panic.

Hoax. It’ll just disappear.

The President was following science and went against what the World Health Organization said as not spreading from human to humans and closed flights now ASAP, while Democrats was having a mental fit over that. All Corona is air born, colds included.

Darwinism is alive and well in MAGA2020

For the sake of the Republican Party....

TrumpKnew and trumpdidntcare

How dare that evil orange man not tell us the world was going to end! How dare you be hopeful and calming in times like these realDonaldTrump

Fake news. He never said he was downplaying it.

Kayleigh McNazi got blindsided! LoL

When y'all reporters going to stop playing with this little girl and let her know 45 and she lies about everything.

Whitehouse denial of the day.

Every political person downplays situations when it suits their agenda. Trump isn’t the only person to blame. He’s not GOD. Newsweek is to blame too. How many news stories did you NOT COVER? You know the ones about looting, several cities burning, rioting. Hmmm

When you're competing with the Atlantic on who has the worst rag

Another day and another mess that Trump,has made, stepped in and spread around the country. Maybe clean up a mess before stepping in it resulting in dead.

He will never admit he’s wrong

Is she drugged?

LOL. Kayleigh is a 'lier.'

The most 2020 headline award goes to...

She looks defeated?

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