‘I didn’t lie’: Trump addresses Woodward revelations on coronavirus
By AFP
11 September 2020 |
1:18 pm
US President Donald Trump says that he never lied to the American people about the severity of the coronavirus after a book by journalist Bob Woodward revealed he deliberately minimised the pandemic in public.
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