The Woodward Story: Too Much, Too Late – And It’s Not a Scoop

RUSH: They’ve got nothing on Donald Trump, and they are attempting to make it up even now, … they’re trying to make this stuff up with the Woodward book and the panic and the COVID-19.

The Bob Woodward book. I know that many people ask, “Why would Trump even do it? Why would he give Bob Woodward so much time?” I’ll tell you why. There are a couple of primary reasons. Number one: Donald Trump thinks that this is what all serious presidents have done since Bob Woodward has been writing. They all sit for an interview. Trump sat for, whatever, 18 times, interviews, hours, whatever the number is.

The second reason is that Donald Trump believes that he can charm these people one on one. He’s never gonna change in that belief.

Now, think about the Woodward book too. Here’s the first thing that I noticed. I knew by the time I got here behind the microphone that everybody else would have mentioned this. So Donald Trump tells Bob Woodward all of this supposedly damning stuff, that he knew it was bad. It was really bad! It was much worse than Trump wanted to admit, but he didn’t want to panic anybody.

That’s the big story. That’s it. That’s what Woodward’s got. After all these conversations, that’s it. Why didn’t Woodward put that on page one of the Washington Post seven months ago when he got it? I mean, that is a newsworthy story, is it not? But what did he do? He sat on it. He buried it. He kept it. For what? Money! He kept it for his book, which is what journalists these days do.

And even Fauci said this COVID rift with him never happened.

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