Legendary Watergate reporter Bob Woodward said Donald Trump would have easily won the 2020 election had he not spectacularly botched his handling of the coronavirus pandemic, which claimed the lives of more than 1 million people in America alone.
“It is a moral felony what he [Trump] did in covering up and tamping down” the threat of COVID-19, Woodward told “Late Show” host Stephen Colbert during an interview Thursday about his new book, “War.”
Had current GOP nominee Trump “gone public when he got the warnings from experts and said, ‘I’ve been warned about this, let’s develop a plan, let’s be careful,’ he would have been reelected in 2020 in a landslide,” said Woodward.
Colbert asked Woodward, who has interviewed Trump on multiple occasions, why he believes Trump hadn’t done that.
Woodward replied, “Because he has this idea that he knows things he doesn’t know.”
The audience laughed. Then, Colbert agreed, saying: “I think that encapsulates a lot.”
In his 2020 book “Rage,” Woodward revealed how Trump told him — in February of that year — of the dangers of the virus, describing it to Woodward as “deadly stuff.”
“I wanted to always play it down,” Trump then reportedly told Woodward in March 2020. “I still like playing it down, because I don’t want to create a panic.”
Watch Colbert’s interview with Woodward here: