5/9/2023 0 Comments Rage bob woodward review![]() ![]() That he knew the virus was “deadly” but continued to “play it down” makes him, according to a certain kind of media personality, uniquely responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of Americans. A few hours after I received my copy, news websites were ablaze with headlines announcing newfound evidence of Mr. These presidential reflections are helpfully related in the prologue, on pages xviii and xix, presumably in order to allow reporters at the nation’s largest news organizations to announce the book’s big reveal without having to read its 400 pages. In dramatic detail, Woodward takes readers into the Oval Office as Trumps head pops up when he is told in January 2020 that the pandemic could reach the. “I still like playing it down, because I don’t want to create a panic.” ![]() It’s Woodward’s second book about Trump the previous one, Fear was not as well-written as most of Woodward’s earlier political books. ![]() “I wanted to always play it down,” he told the author on March 19. Rage, by Bob Woodward, is his latest attempt to try to understand and explain Donald Trump and his presidency. Woodward-or “admits” to him, to use headline language-that he deliberately downplayed the virus. Woodward in an interview that the novel coronavirus is “deadly stuff”-“more deadly than even your strenuous flus”-but continued to de-emphasize the virus’s lethality, comparing it to “the regular flu that we have flu shots for” and so on. ![]() Most readers of this review will already know the big news item issuing from “Rage,” Bob Woodward’s second account of the Trump White House. Donald Trump speaks during a news conference in July. ![]()
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