'Play it down': Trump admits to concealing the true threat of coronavirus in new Woodward book | The Atlanta Voice

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'Play it down': Trump admits to concealing the true threat of coronavirus in new Woodward book | The Atlanta Voice

President Donald Trump admitted he knew weeks before the first confirmed US coronavirus death that the virus was dangerous, airborne, highly contagious and 'more deadly than even your strenuous flus,' and that he repeatedly played it down publicly, according to legendary journalist Bob Woodward in his new book 'Rage.' 'This is deadly stuff,' Trump told Woodward on February 7. In […]

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