Just received this text from my son.

[Arkansas Granny]

How to tell you're a very stable genius: You give 18 recorded interviews to Bob Woodward, the man who helped bring down Nixon.

[chillfactor]

1. LOL!

[FarPoint]

2. Hahaha..

Good one...

[Baitball Blogger]

3. Trump's Achille's Heel: E-G-O.

[malaise]

4. A friend pointed out that Nixon was 18 minutes of tapes

and the Con is eighteen recorded interviews

[House of Roberts]

6. 18 is also the number of holes on a round of golf.

[malaise]

7. Hahahaha

and he plays that badly as well - and cheats

[Dem2theMax]

8. I was thinking about that last night.

18 must be the new number 13. Bad luck!

[malaise]

9. ByeDon!

I'll scream that 18 times

[Dem2theMax]

10. Sort of like Beetlejuice 3 times?

Only it's ByeDon 18 times! I'll scream it with you!

[DonaldsRump]

19. Not exactly

Nixon recorded thousands of hours of tapes, and hundreds of those hours were relevant to Watergate and the related investigations.

The 18 minutes, which is actually 18.5 minutes, refers to the June 20, 1972 tape between Nixon and his Chief of Staff Bob Haldeman. This was the earliest known recorded meeting immediately after the Watergate break-in that happened on June 16-17. When Nixon had to produce this tapes, his lawyers discovered that there was an 18.5 minute gap caused by 5-9 separate erasures of a conversation that clearly covered the break-in.

Sorry to be a smarta**!

I take your point: Trump is an idiot to have said all this to Bob Woodward! But he is an idiot: a USELESS idiot.

[malaise]

20. Ha

Getting it right matters aka smarta**

[DonaldsRump]

21. You're too kind, Malaise

If I'm not mistaken, you live in Jamaica? If so, that's my spiritual homeland!

[malaise]

23. Yep

and LOL

[DonaldsRump]

24. Wonderful!

Most of my many trips there were in Montego Bay, with a trip to Kingston and 56 Hope Road. You probably know what I'm talking about!

Maximum respect!

[keithbvadu2]

26. Alas! To Putin, Trump is a USEFUL idiot.

Alas! To Putin, Trump is a USEFUL idiot.

[DonaldsRump]

27. True, BUT

RUSSIA: If you're listening, your useful idiot has completely demonstrated everything you're trying to do! Thank you for telling us what to look for! And,no, I will not accept a cup of tea from you, nor do I have any plans on lingering in front of open windows.

Seriously, Russia: GET RID OF PUTIN, and stop wasting your time on the US where your internet tricks won't work anymore. You will have much happier lives!

[MoonRiver]

5. That's great!

[Upthevibe]

11. Arkansas Granny....

Good one!

[czarjak]

12. When you're stupid enough to do that, you're stupid, for sure.

[bucolic_frolic]

13. lol, 46 years ago.

From the clips I heard, Woodward is a highly skilled interviewer, he just let him talk, asked an occasional question, and went along the route Trump took in spilling the beans.

[brush]

14. 18 degrees of separation from "I've got some sense. I'm not talking to Woodward."

In other words, trump is still the idiot thinking he's the smartest dude in the room (Dunning Kruger effect in action).

[BlueJac]

15. K&R

[Initech]

16. Someone needs to call the burn ward because Trump just got burned!

[Stuart G]

17. Trump took the fire and burned his own ass...not bright at all (sarcasm)

[magicarpet]

28. Oh Jeez,... don't call the burn center yet,... we ain't done barbequing him.

I just gifted him a five gallon canister of high test gasoline and suggested he pour it all over himself. He might be stupid enough to do it.

Pooooof,.. what a cook out & cook in that should be - with all his excess lard and fat he should come out well done and crispy just how he likes it.

Fry,... MF,... fry.

[demtenjeep]

18. haha

that is good

[BGBD]

22. Russia working hard

to discredit this report by attacking Woodward.

I'm sure Putin appreciates you going out of your way to take focus off of Trump.

[lagomorph777]

29. Can't discredit the tapes. Woodward is irrelevant; he's not the source.

Trump himself is.

[BGBD]

32. That isn't going to stop them

from trying. If it is said enough people will start to believe it. We don't need to be adding to that cacophony.

Woodward was likely under legally binding embargoes over when he could release information he got during these interviews. Both by the White House and by his publishers. Beyond that, he probably didn't realize how bad that Trump was saying was until the scale of the pandemic become public, at which point releasing the tapes wouldn't have done anything because at that point everyone understood how bad it was, or atleast should have known.

Had Trump been upfront about the virus before, the US could have had more time to plan and brace for it instead of being neck deep in it before we knew there was a problem. At the very least Trump could have been holding meetings to plan for pandemic response and informing governors that they needed to be ready. We could have started surveillance weeks or months earlier, developed more testing, used the WHO test, etc.

The problem isn't so much that Trump didn't tell the people or that he help back. It's that he stuck his head in the sand and the only defense he gave us was to shut down travel to China (but nowhere else, which sill allowed thousands of potentially infected people into the country daily) and hope that a virus would honor our immigration laws.

[pazzyanne]

25. ...

[RedSpartan]

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[Arkansas Granny]

31. I don't know if he authored that quote or found it elsewhere, but he'll love this.