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Top General Milley Reassured China, Others in Secret Calls as Trump Pushed Election Lies, Spokesman Says
Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Mark Milley called his Chinese counterpart twice as Trump’s presidency waned to reassure Beijing the U.S. wouldn’t attack.
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Bob Woodward to Take on Final Days of Trump's Presidency
Bob Woodward’s next book finds him in the familiar world of documenting a presidency’s ending. Woodward is teaming with Washington Post colleague Robert Costa on a book about the waning days of Donald Trump’s administration and on the initial phase of Joe Biden’s presidency.
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White House Defends Coronavirus Policies As US Passes 200K Deaths
While the number of U.S. coronavirus deaths passed 200,000 over the weekend, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany defended the handling of the coronavirus pandemic by President Donald Trump, saying, “We were looking at the prospect of 2 million people potentially perishing from the coronavirus in this country.” When questioned about the president’s comments to journalist Bob Woodward in which...
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Trump Denies Downplaying Virus, Casts Doubt on Mask Usage
President Donald Trump is denying he played down the threat of the coronavirus earlier this year, although there is an audio recording of him stating he did just that.
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Trump Played Down Danger of COVID in January: Woodward
Journalist Bob Woodward says President Donald Trump knew in late January how great the threat posed by the COVID-19 pandemic would be. Speaking on the Today Show, Woodward explained the timeline of when he learned that the president knew more than he was telling the public.
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Woodward: Historians Will Write About Trump's ‘Lost Month of February'
Revelations from an upcoming book on Trump by journalist Bob Woodward include that the president publicly downplayed the danger of the coronavirus.
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‘Late Night': Trump, GOP Rocked by Woodward Tapes
Seth Meyers takes a closer look at President Donald Trump confessing he lied to the Americna public about the severity of the coronavirus.
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'No Big Thing': Trump Says Everyone Knew Coronavirus Was Airborne in February, But Scientists Weren't So Sure at the Time
President Donald Trump on Thursday defended comments he made to reporter Bob Woodward in early February in which he acknowledged the coronavirus “goes through air” despite publicly downplaying the threat in public and telling Americans the virus would disappear.
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Trump Defends Downplaying Pandemic: ‘We're Leading in a Proper Way'
After audio tapes were released this week of President Donald Trump admitting to publicly downplaying the severity of the coronavirus, the president continued to falsely equate COVID-19 with the flu and defended his handling of the pandemic, saying, “I don’t want to start jumping up and down and screaming, ‘Death! Death!’”
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Woodward Defends Decision to Withhold Trump's Virus Comments
Bob Woodward, facing widespread criticism for only now revealing President Donald Trump’s early concerns about the severity of the coronavirus, says he needed time to be sure that Trump’s private comments from February were accurate.
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Trump Responds to Woodward Interview
President Donald Trump addressed comments he made to journalist Bob Woodward in February about the coronavirus, in which he admitted to “down playing” the severity of the virus. “I don’t want people to be frightened. I don’t want to create panic,” Trump said. “Whether it was Woodward or anybody else, you cannot show a sense of panic or you’re gonna...
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Trump Feels No Need to Understand Black Americans, New Book Says
President Donald Trump’s comments about the threat from the novel coronavirus attracted widespread attention after excerpts from journalist Bob Woodward’s book “Rage” were released. The excerpts also provide new details about the president’s thoughts on North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, racial unrest and a mysterious new weapon that Trump claims other world powers don’t know...
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Biden: Trump ‘Lied to the American People' About Coronavirus
Joe Biden commented on one of journalist Bob Woodward’s interviews with President Donald Trump, in which Trump admits he knew the coronavirus was deadly in February but wanted to “play it down.” “He failed to do his job on purpose,” said Biden. “He lied to the American people.”
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Bob Woodward Booed During ‘Uncomfortable' Event With #MeToo Reporters
A discussion Wednesday evening between journalist Bob Woodward and the two New York Times reporters who uncovered the Harvey Weinstein sex scandal turned “incredibly uncomfortable” when Woodward repeatedly interrupted them and questioned whether their sources were credible, audience members said.
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‘Late Night': A Closer Look at Trump's Woodward Attacks
Seth Meyers takes a closer look at President Donald Trump calling for an investigation into The New York Times’ anonymous op-ed and slamming Bob Woodward’s book about the chaos in the White House.
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White House Continues to Criticize Woodward Book
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Monday denied the truthfulness of elements of Bob Woodward’s new book “Fear: Trump in the White House.”
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Woodward's Book Places Pressure on Trump White House
The Trump White House is under increasing pressure as Bob Woodward gives his first interviews about his new book, “Fear,” which hits store shelves Tuesday.
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‘Tonight': Donald Trump Reacts to Bob Woodward's New Book
President Donald Trump, played by Jimmy Fallon, takes a moment to address the criticisms in Bob Woodward’s “biased” book about tensions inside the White House.
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Bob Woodward Book Reveals Aides Undermined President to ‘Protect the Country'
Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward’s explosive new book, “Fear: Trump in the White House,” reveals multiple instances in which top aides went behind President Donald Trump’s back to undermine his decisions. The president’s trusted aides and lawyers doubted his ability to say the right things and make appropriate decisions, according to examples published by The Washington Post on Tuesday, ahead...
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Bob Woodward Writing Inside Account of Trump White House
The next writer to take a close look at the Trump presidency: Bob Woodward. The celebrated journalist of Watergate fame has written “Fear: Trump in the White House,” Simon & Schuster announced Monday. The book is coming out Sept. 11. According to the publisher, Woodward is drawing on “hundreds of hours” of interviews, along with notes, files and diaries to...