Bob Woodward Has Let Himself Become Trump’s Human Shield
Weeks before the election, Donald Trump is now citing Bob Woodward’s self-serving decision to suppress the shocking coronavirus audiotape as proof that he did nothing wrong.
President Donald Trump holds up his face mask during a press conference at the White House on July 21, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images)
Yesterday, we published an essay stating what should be the obvious: Bob Woodward aided Donald Trump’s crime against humanity by suppressing an audiotape definitively proving Trump was misleading the country about the danger of coronavirus.
If you are an MSNBC-watching liberal sitting there denying Woodward’s aiding and abetting — if you are still somehow humming the West Wing theme song to yourself defending the honor of the country’s most famous establishment journalist — then you should take a look at Trump’s Twitter feed this morning. With 200,000 people dead, Trump is now using Woodward’s decision to suppress the tape as a means of defending himself in advance of the 2020 election. Put another way: Woodward has become Trump’s human shield protecting the president on the pandemic — the issue on which he’s most politically vulnerable.
The lesson here should be simple: It is very bad when journalists prioritize their interests over the public interest.
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