Woodward.Īt the same time, the combination of the presidential remarks about the military and the Woodward book make for a combustible mix less than two months from the election, particularly because they involve a voting group that the President himself believes is devoutly attached to him. The Democrats surely will exploit the President’s private description of the coronavirus as “deadly stuff” at the very time he was minimizing its threat in public, and suggesting it would disappear swiftly and effortlessly. The danger to the President’s campaign is difficult to measure he has survived such contretemps before, including the release of a videotape during the 2016 campaign in which he spoke of grabbing women’s genitals and, because of his celebrity, said he had the ability to “do anything” with women. Woodward holds the title of associate editor, came after the release of damaging information in a book from former Trump fixer Michael Cohen and after the President was accused of dismissing America’s war dead as “losers” and suckers.” The excerpts of the book, titled Rage, that appeared in The Washington Post, where Mr. Trump deliberately played down the danger of COVID-19, said that he does not comprehend the anger Black Americans feel and compared the way North Korean Leader Kim Jong-un clings to his nuclear arsenal to “somebody that’s in love with a house and they just can’t sell it.” The latest came in excerpts from a book, to be published next week, by the American investigative reporter Bob Woodward, who in 18 interviews with the President and more with others asserts that Mr. Trump’s re-election campaign just got its third gut punch in a week’s time.
It may not qualify as a September Surprise, but President Donald J.
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