I think/hope it’s this. Woodward’s timing it to promote his book 9/15, but I wouldn’t be surprised if he drops another bombshell from it on like 9/14. Gotta hope the Biden campaign itself has some stuff ready for like 10/21 range.
There’s a decent likelihood the Dems just have one thing a week ready to go that’s massive.
Bob Woodward is a national treasure. Gotta give Bernstein credit too on Nixon, but if Trump loses and these tapes help, he’d be playing a pretty key role in ending both the Nixon and Trump presidencies.
Holy fuck on the Woodward book. He’s got him on fucking tape in January admitting he knows just how bad COVID is going to be while simultaneously telling teh public it’s NBD, and admitting to Woodward that he is deliberately downplaying it. Just holy fuck the amount of blood on his hands. Anyone still arguing that GWB has more blood on his hands is fucking insane.
This is probably still arguable given just how bad Bush’s Middle East entanglements were. In the long run Trumps administration probably “wins” but on climate change inaction, not Covid.
There are going to be 400,000+ dead by fucking January in this country alone. Trump is absolutely going to win on COVID alone. This thing will easily have killed 1 million plus Americans in the next few years.
It seems like the Trumpkin response to this is to say that Donnie had our best interests in mind by not causing a panic. I am seeing that everywhere along with a Dan Crenshaw on Maher’s show YT where he allegedly owns him on this topic.
I haven’t gotten completely caught up, but why do I think these “bombshell tapes” will somehow be spun, with the media lapping it up, as “See, the Dems said Trump didn’t take the virus seriously, but here he is on tape showing how concerned he is was early on! And that’s why China ban, Europe ban, blah blah blah…”
Unless he’s on tape saying he’s downplaying it because of the election, because he needs to politically, etc., it’s a nothingburger.
Yeah I hear you and don’t really dispute it. The observation was really more around the fact that there are long term implications of many policy decisions. By contrast, Donnie Dumb Dumb is overseeing the immediate deaths of Americans so the emotional reaction is more visceral.