Carl Bernstein Calls Revelations in Bob Woodward’s Book ‘Graver Than Watergate’

Famed journalist Carl Bernstein says the details of how President Donald Trump handled the 🦠Coronavirus Outbreak laid out in Washingon Post Associate Editor 📰Bob Woodward’s new book are “stunning” and “one of the great presidential felonies of all time.”

Bernstein, known for his work with Woodward reporting on the Watergate scandal for the Post, reacted to revelations in his former colleague’s new book about the Trump administration on Wednesday.

“It’s stunning,” Bernstein said during an appearance on CNN. “I think we all need to take a deep breath and understand exactly what it is we have learned. We are listening to the president of the United States, on tape deliberately undermining the security, the national security of the United States, the health and well being of the people of the United States, and he’s doing this knowingly, in real-time.”

He continued to call the book, and the audio recordings of Trump’s interviews a “smoking gun of his negligence.”

“More than anything, instead of leveling with the country, he covers up. We listen to him cover up this grave national emergency. This is one of the great presidential felonies of all time, maybe the greatest presidential felony. And we have the smoking gun tape of the president committing the felony.”

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Bernstein suggested Trump downplayed the threat of the virus to bolster his re-election bid, a move he called a “kind of homicidal negligence.”