The news is stunning: President Donald Trump told longtime reporter Bob Woodward that he “wanted to always play [the threat posed by the coronavirus] down” and “still like[d] playing it down, because I don’t want to create a panic” even as the virus that has now sickened more than 6.3 million Americans and killed almost 190,000 was beginning to rage across the United States.
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Source: cnn news