Washington: Trump and the White House are battling to control the damage from journalist Bob Woodward’s forthcoming book, Rage, in which Trump is quoted on downplaying the threat of the coronavirus to the American public.
The president discounted Woodward’s book in remarks to Fox News host Sean Hannity on Wednesday night: “He called. I didn’t participate in his last one, and he does hit jobs with everybody,” Trump said.
“He even did it on Obama … So I figured, you know, let’s just give it a little shot. I’ll speak to him. Wasn’t a big deal … I don’t know if the book is good or bad. I have no idea,” Trump continued. “Probably – almost definitely won’t read it because I don’t have time to read it. But I gave it a little bit of a shot. Sounds like it’s not going to be good,” Trump said.
In a tweet on Thursday, Trump picked up a new line of criticism of Woodward that the Washington Post columnist should have published the interviews sooner to save lives.
