Trump Blames Woodward — A Journalist — For Not Being Presidential Enough To Alert Authorities On COVID

In a sign of his reelection desperation, President Trump on Thursday held his fourth press conference in a week as he continued fielding questions following reports on legendary journalist Bob Woodward’s book, which revealed that Trump purposefully downplayed the COVID-19 pandemic in its early stages.


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Boy, the buck really does stop “over there”.

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Damn that President Woodward! Don’t vote for president Woodward in November.
Uh…Wait…

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Good God that man will blame ANYONE. Now it’s Woodward’s fault…or Biden’s or SOMEONE but not HIM. POTUS. He lies and then lies about lying before stomping out because of ‘rude questions’ from journalists.

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Trump also admitted that he helped cover-up a murder, now let that sink in.
He lies all the time, because his entire world is make-believe .
The lies are the feature of trumps world.

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Big shout out to ABC News reporter Jon Karl for asking: "Why did you lie to the American people? And why should we trust what you have to say now?”

Now THAT’S what I call a reporter.

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He denied lying of course but yeah reporters need to call these lies out.

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Then donnie, the renowned scholar, asked this about Woodward: “I wonder whether or not somebody like that can write good,” Trump said. “I don’t think he can, but let’s see what happens.”

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I have nothing to say about trump right now. There is no more to add to what we already know about his existence.
everything dies sooner or later and with him, well, you know how I feel.
This country needs to turn the page and get on with it without him.

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Although I am the President of the United States with the vast Federal Govt at my beck and call with experts in every field and having the power to order the Federal Govt to save the public and further, having rejected every scientific opinion on Covid and threw out the Pandemic Manual guidebook and just winged it on my own because I am the smartest person in the room and everyone else is a loser, I blame Woodward for not going about his duty to warn the public about the dangers of Covid. In other words, despite all my actions and words, I am not to be blamed at all for this and I am happy to blame anyone or anything to cover my ass. The buck stops with everyone else.

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“See whether he can write good” - well, we know one thing, you worthless moron. Woodward can speak English like it isn’t a second language, unlike you, you malevolent mother fucker.

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WooDward diD lie of OmiSSion. peoPLe dieD.

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Y’all think this is bad that donnie claims Woodward isn’t presidential enough?
Try this:
trump is claiming he built a nuclear weapon “nobody else has”. And in the process blabbers about secret stuff that if divulged by anyone else… well they’d be in prison yesterday.

pssst…donnie…they got 'em too… from the shape this is a hydrogen bomb…

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The man that pushes you off center wins by distraction, reachout and reclaim your center.

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June 6, 2020 copy of Der Spiegel with the headline,

"The Fire Devil: A President Sets His Country on Fire”

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A tightening of these numbers had been occurring since the RNC-- until today. The sum of these exposés are having an effect. Trump’s ‘disapproval’ among ‘likely or registered voters’ has gone up almost 1.5% since Tuesday (in 2 days).

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Actually, I expected his book to be ungood.

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Pearl Jam. The Last Great Rock Band.

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The epitaph of Trump’s presidency:

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