BREAKING: Outraged Donald Trump calls reporter 'disgrace' for lashing him over Covid lies
Donald Trump, pictured at the White House on Thursday, lashed out at a reporter for asking why he’d lied about how serious coronavirus was has lashed out at a journalist who confronted him over his lies about how deadly coronavirus was. ABC News political correspondent John Karl asked the president Thursday: ‘Why did you lie to the American people and why should we trust what u have to say now?’
He was referring to Trump’s newly-published on-the-record interviews with journalist Bob Woodward. Those saw the president admit he’d played down the threat of coronavirus despite knowing how dangerous and deadly it was. But Trump was unrepentant at Thursday’s Q&A, answering: ‘Such a terrible question and the phraseology.
‘What I said is we have to be calm, we can’t be panicked. I knew that these were. a series of mostly phone calls we had. Bob Woodward is somebody I respect from hearing the name for many, many years.‘I thought it would be interesting to talk to him. Certainly, if he thought that was a bad statement, he would have reported that, because you don’t want anybody to suffer because of some fact.Trump: Such a terrible question â and the phraseology.
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