Trump Again Claims He Misled to Instill Calm

“A visibly agitated and angry President Trump on Thursday defended his decision to intentionally mislead the public about the lethality of the novel coronavirus by saying he had an obligation as the nation’s leader to prevent panic,” the Washington Post reports.

“Staring down reporters at a White House news conference in the wake of revelations from Bob Woodward’s new book, Rage, Trump cast his deception as a virtue — a president instilling calm to protect the people.”

Said Trump: “I don’t want to jump up and down and start screaming ‘Death! Death!’ because that’s not what it’s all about. We have to lead a country. There has to be a calmness.”

“Trump evidently did not feel the same presidential obligation to imbue serenity a few hours earlier, however, when he sounded the alarm on Twitter about a number of other topics.”