Bob Woodward has no excuse

He's complicit in the deaths of thousands of Americans.

Journalist Bob Woodward defended his decision to delay reporting that President Trump privately told him the coronavirus pandemic would be particularly deadly.

“He tells me this, and I’m thinking, ‘Wow, that’s interesting, but is it true?’ Trump says things that don’t check out, right?” Woodward told The Associated Press in reference to Trump telling him the virus was “deadly stuff” in February. Trump made the comments in an interview for Woodward's book “Rage,” which is set to be released next week.

Woodward told the AP he was not convinced Trump was receiving accurate information about the virus until May, when it had spread around the country.

  The Hill

Bob Woodward is an investigative journalist. To hear people tell it, one of the best. Other people knew as early as January. It wasn't a universally well-kept secret. Bob Woodward could easily have checked it out. And I'm sure he did.

“If I had done the story at that time about what he knew in February, that’s not telling us anything we didn’t know,” he said, saying that at that point he prioritized getting the book published before the election in November.

Yes. Over the lives of tens of thousands of Americans.