WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump admits he tried to minimise the seriousness of the threat from COVID-19 at the outset of the pandemic in audio recordings released Wednesday from interviews with veteran US journalist Bob Woodward.
Coming eight weeks before the 3 November presidential election, the revelations add new pressure on Trump. Opinion polls show around two-thirds of Americans disapprove of his handling of the virus and he has often been accused of minimizing the crisis in order to try and boost his reelection chances.
In the interviews with Woodward, Trump made clear he'd understood at the outset that the virus was "deadly stuff" - far more dangerous than the ordinary flu. He points to early decisions to ban travel from China, where the virus first appeared, and from hotspots in Europe.
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