According to the interviews, CNN and the Washington Post reported, Trump knew the virus was especially deadly in early February. "It goes through the air," Trump said in a recording of a Feb. 7 interview with Woodward. "I wanted to always play it down," Trump told Woodward on March 19, days after he declared a national emergency. In that conversation, Trump also told Woodward that some "startling facts" had just come out about the virus's targets: "It's not just old, older. Woodward told the AP during a telephone interview.

Source: CBC News September 09, 2020 18:09 UTC