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Tue Sep 15, 2020, 01:48 AM Sep 2020

New Audio: Trump Privately Called Virus A 'Killer' Days After Telling Public It Was In Retreat

Source: PoliticusUSA

In new audio from Bob Woodward that was obtained by CNN, Donald Trump privately called the coronavirus a “killer” just three days after he told the American public that it would soon be “in full retreat.”

“This thing is a killer if it gets you,” the president said on April 13, showing a pretty clear understanding that the virus was a growing, deadly threat. “It is the plague.”



New Woodward audio from April 13 via CNN:

TRUMP: This thing is a killer if it gets you. If you're the wrong person, you don't have a chance.
WOODWARD: Yes, yes, exactly.
TRUMP: So this rips you apart.
WOODWARD: This is a scourge. And--
TRUMP: It is the plague.

Read more: https://www.politicususa.com/2020/09/14/new-audio-trump-privately-called-virus-a-killer-days-after-telling-public-it-was-in-retreat.html



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New Audio: Trump Privately Called Virus A 'Killer' Days After Telling Public It Was In Retreat (Original Post) ffr Sep 2020 OP
Don't Expect His Polls #'s To Change sfstaxprep Sep 2020 #1
chip chip chip...hopefully nt msongs Sep 2020 #2
The only thing that seems to affect the numbers is when Grandma or OnDoutside Sep 2020 #3
His followers/supporters will never change their minds about Trump. no_hypocrisy Sep 2020 #6
Murderer! BigmanPigman Sep 2020 #4
REDRUM!! nt sfstaxprep Sep 2020 #5
In the last two weeks we have further confirmation that the guy kills people and pisses on war dead BeyondGeography Sep 2020 #7
"It is the Plague." Tom Traubert Sep 2020 #8

OnDoutside

(19,952 posts)
3. The only thing that seems to affect the numbers is when Grandma or
Tue Sep 15, 2020, 02:17 AM
Sep 2020

Grandpa, or even little Jimmy gets Covid. That's when it becomes real

no_hypocrisy

(46,068 posts)
6. His followers/supporters will never change their minds about Trump.
Tue Sep 15, 2020, 06:57 AM
Sep 2020

He can literally do no wrong. If he murdered another person on live TV (I mean, blood everywhere), they'd love him more, say he was a real bad ass. That he was doing something they wish they could do.

BeyondGeography

(39,367 posts)
7. In the last two weeks we have further confirmation that the guy kills people and pisses on war dead
Tue Sep 15, 2020, 08:08 AM
Sep 2020

Net impact on the race: zero. Hopefully this just means that people have made up their minds about him and the polling will hold. That’s the best I can do.

 

Tom Traubert

(117 posts)
8. "It is the Plague."
Tue Sep 15, 2020, 01:03 PM
Sep 2020

This really needs to be coined the “Trump Plague” and the term should be used by Biden and Harris.

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