Trump On Defense After Admitting To Publicly Downplaying COVID-19 Threat | NBC Nightly News

As President Trump campaigns in Michigan, he’s facing backlash for admitting to publicly minimizing the danger of the coronavirus in audio excerpts recorded by journalist Bob Woodward. In another recording made a month after George Floyd was killed by police, Trump responds to questions about white privilege and systemic racism.

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[maximeprometheas]

As much as I would have prefered to have had the information in Bob Woodward's tapes earlier, I see where he's coming from: As any investigator could tell you - whether journalist or police -, when a suspected criminal is volunteering a confession, you don't close the case, you keep them talking. If Woodward would have revealed the info he got after the first interview, I strongly doubt Trump would have sat for the other seventeen.

[musclehead]

He made people sign contracts to not sue him when he hosted his rally in Tulsa. I wonder why he needed to cover his A$$?

[davidellis]

Coming in 2021, Trump in an orange jumpsuit.

[bigjay]

Dude is like Thanos’ little orange brother. Doesn’t understand how evil his actions really are😂

[monian]

he is so ill that he may say that was not him speaking to Bob. That he never spoke to Bob and Bob made it up. Get him treated, I tell you!

[jt-wdtl]

Trey Gowdy:
“What I heard from Biden is a long list of things he had a chance to do in his 47 years in politics and he didn't do it, ”
“I mean, there's nothing new in what he proposed. So why didn't he do it when he had eight years in the White House?”..
TRUTH REALLY HURTS.

[jtrax]

Seeing nothing but Trump respond rationally to loaded questions riddled with false premises. Is this supposed to be making trump look bad? No wonder nobody is watching these videos, my first and last time.

[Chashunka]

Donald Trump: _"I'm still hiding my tax releases because I don't want to cause any panic."_

[lonefoxbushcraft]

In 1972, a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit. These men promtly escaped the maximun security stockade to the Los Angeles Underground. Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire the A-team.

[jimbob-rfmn]

You may as well stock up on tissue paper because Trump is gonna win again .

[soapng]

So he is saying, I know the truth, doesn't it mean I want to tell you?

[fish]

Here America.
Here's your answer.
Now, do the right thing.

[haroldpinteresque]

Mister President was just recruiting his supporters into the Herman Cain loyalty program.

[chesterbarnett]

Of course he played it down people were buying up toilet paper and going crazy they would have been killing each other

[richardk.flowers]

The Hill July, 2020: Trump earlier this month said that 99 percent of coronavirus cases are "totally harmless, " a claim not backed by evidence. Previous estimates from experts have said about 80 percent of coronavirus cases do not require hospitalization and 20 percent do, though there remains uncertainty about how many cases are going undetected.

[deesommer]

Sad thing is that no matter how much Trump downplays his blatant lies, debunks the science experts and science-based evidence, so many Americans are not concerned by his actions. I will never understand what they see Trump. I just don’t get it.

[MissCorleone]

I cant understand why Americans only rely on the American media and what they are told by their authorities. Why dont they inform themselves as mature adults through English-speaking foreign media?
They could have easily informed themselves online how other countries deal with covid 19 and draw own consequences - instead if trusting someone who has been accused if lying for ages.

[onthetrail]

It's amazing Trump saying Woodward's judgement is the validation that what he did was right. Woodward must be like a God to Trump.

[robertjaskulski]

If Trump knew in February why were hospitals short of ppp and ventilators shouldn't Trump should have ordered these things so we did not have a shortage of these items, and wht did the states have to broker deals to get ppp for hospitals? These are the questions the press should be asking. This is what an absent Leader is!

[davidhyde]

I am unsure why every news station is going on about the recent recordings that should only be viewed as a total dereliction of duty on not just the presidents but mr woodward also .
This man has to be held responsable for this inexcusable act of total disregarded of the health and well-being of every American citizen.