“I think there was denial across the board,” Woodward told The Post’s Philip Rucker when asked whether White House staffers who also knew about the lethality of the virus denied its severity. Jared Kushner, a White House senior adviser and Trump’s son-in-law, defended the administration’s response to the coronavirus in an interview Tuesday morning on NBC News’s “Today” show. AD“The president was very forthcoming with the American people about what he knew and when he knew it,” Kushner said. But Woodward said Tuesday that the action was actually suggested by others in the administration and did not originate with Trump. So, that was never implied in that regard,” he told NBC News’s Savannah Guthrie.

Source: Washington Post September 15, 2020 17:03 UTC