O’Brien told Trump, according to a new book by Washington Post associate editor Bob Woodward. “This will be the biggest national security threat you face in your presidency,” national security adviser Robert C. 28 when the discussion turned to the coronavirus outbreak in China. President Trump’s head popped up during his top-secret intelligence briefing in the Oval Office on Jan. In the first published report of the contents of Woodward’s new book, titled “Rage,” The Washington Post provided a taste of how much the president knew about the virus, even while denying and downplaying the threat that was about to befall America: We will never know how America’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic might have been different if Bob Woodward revealed in February what we know now: that President Donald Trump considered the virus to be deadly and that the president underplayed his concerns so as not to alarm the public.
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