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4/13/20 Trump to Woodward: coronavirus is "so easily transmissible, you wouldn't even believe it"
On April 17, Trump tweets in all caps to LIBERATE Minnesota, Michigan and VirginiaBob Woodward’s hours of interviews with Donald Trump have yielded yet another confirmation that Trump does not care about the lives of ordinary Americans, including his own supporters.
In an April 13 interview, Trump says the coronavirus is “so easily transmissible, you wouldn't even believe it. I was in the White House a couple of days ago. Meeting of 10 people in the Oval Office. And a guy sneezed, innocently. Not a horrible—just a sneeze. The entire room bailed out, okay? Including me, by the way.”
So before April 13, even with all of the testing being done on people in proximity to Trump, people in the White House were seriously afraid of being in a room with a person showing any kind of symptoms at all. On April 13, Trump got up and held a news briefing in which he insisted: “Everything we did was right.”
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