New Woodward tape: Trump told young son COVID was 'very bad' and should have been revealed 'months earlier'
New tapes from Bob Woodward's conversations with Donald Trump reveal what the former president was telling his own family behind the scenes.
Previously, recordings showed that Trump always wanted to play down the pandemic because, "I don't want to create a panic."
In newly revealed recordings shared by MSNBC's Ari Melber, Trump also told Woodward what he was telling his youngest son behind closed doors.
"So you told Barron, you said, 'It's bad, it's bad.' And then —" Woodward said.
"No, I said, it's a very bad thing, but we're going to straighten it out," Trump claimed.
"Did he have any other questions about, like, how are you going to..." Woodward said.
"He said, how did it happen? I said, it came out of China, Barron. Pure and simple. It came out of China. And it should've been stopped," Trump relayed.
"And to be honest with you, Barron, they should've let it be known it was a problem two months earlier. And we wouldn't — the world would not — we would have 141 countries have it now. And I said, the world wouldn't have a problem. We could've stopped it easily."
In a later tape with Woodward from July 2020, Trump told him that he knew about the disaster as early as Jan. 2020. He continued to downplay it until the election in November.
See the clip of the audio tape in the video below or at the link here.
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