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The Covid-19 epidemic caught up with Donald Trump on Wednesday, September 9. As the President of the United States tries to place the unrest occasioned by the demonstrations against police violence at the center of the presidential campaign, the publication of excerpts from a book to be published on September 15 by journalist Bob Woodward has rekindled the debate about his reaction to the disease.
In a little over six months, from December 2019 to July 2020, Bob Woodward spoke eighteen times with the President, face to face and by telephone, and he recorded their exchanges with his consent. CNN previewed two of the recordings, dated February 7 and March 19. The first corresponds to the period during which the president minimized the dangerousness of the virus and praised the response provided by China, the first epicenter of a health crisis destined to become global. Donald Trump is however very alarmist.
“You just have to breathe the air and that’s how it circulates. And so this is a very delicate question. This is a very delicate question. It is also more deadly than an intense flu ”, the president confides to Bob Woodward. “It’s more deadly. It’s five, you know, it’s five percent versus one percent and less than one percent [pour la grippe]. You know. So these are deadly stuff ”, he adds.
In the second excerpt broadcast by CNN, the president also admits that he deliberately concealed the gravity of the situation from the Americans. “To be honest with you, I always wanted to minimize [l’épidémie]. I still want [la] minimize because I don’t want to create panic ”, says Donald Trump. He has just announced to the reporter that the virus is even more dangerous than initially estimated. “Now, it turns out it’s not just old people, Bob. Today and yesterday, surprising facts have come out. It’s not just the old, the old (…). Young people too, many young people ” are affected, he said.
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