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		</div><p>President Donald Trump seemed to understand the severity of the coronavirus threat even as he was telling the nation that the US government had it totally under control, according to a new book.<br />
“You just breathe the air and that’s how it’s passed,” President Trump said in a February 7 call with journalist Bob Woodward.</p>
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<p>“And so that’s a very tricky one. That’s a very delicate one. It’s also more deadly than even your strenuous flu.”<br />
“This is deadly stuff,” the president repeated for emphasis.</p>
<figure id="attachment_161825" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-161825" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/52CCF456-4BAC-46CB-8A14-D8700879FD17.jpeg" alt="" width="600" height="400" class="size-full wp-image-161825" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-161825" class="wp-caption-text">White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany</figcaption></figure>
<p>President Trump told Mr Woodward on March 19 that he deliberately minimised the danger.<br />
“I wanted to always play it down,” the president said.<br />
The Washington Post, where Mr Woodward serves as associate editor, reported excerpts of the book, Rage, on Wednesday.</p>
<p>The book also covers race relations, diplomacy with North Korea and a range of other issues that have arisen during the past two years.<br />
The book is based in part on 18 interviews that Mr Woodward conducted with President Trump between December and July.</p>
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<p>“Trump never did seem willing to fully mobilise the federal government and continually seemed to push problems off on the states,” Mr Woodward writes.<br />
“There was no real management theory of the case or how to organise a massive enterprise to deal with one of the most complex emergencies the United States had ever faced.”</p>
<p>White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said the president’s words to the public were designed to express confidence and calm at a time of insurmountable challenges.<br />
“The president has never lied to the American public on Covid. The president was expressing calm and his actions reflect that,” Ms McEnany said.</p>
<p>Ms McEnany took questions about the book during a briefing at the White House on Wednesday. She said his actions reflect that he took Covid-19 seriously.</p>
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