Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel chalked up veteran journalist Bob Woodward’s revelations about President Trump in his book Rare as an attack by the media.
Recordings from Woodward’s interviews, which were published Wednesday, have put Trump under scrutiny on a number of issues, including early remarks he made about wanting to downplay the coronavirus pandemic. Woodward also wrote that Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats believed Russian President Vladimir Putin “had something” on Trump.
The Watergate guru also presented over 25 letters showing the friendly relationship between Trump and North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un.
“I think we know that the press is out to get this president right now,” McDaniel said Thursday on Fox News’s Bill Hemmer Reports. “And Bob Woodward had no intention of writing anything nice about this president just like anybody in the media. They’ve done everything they can from day one to be an arm of the Democrat Party.”
McDaniel also called criticism of Trump’s early comments on the pandemic “disgusting,” defending his handling of the pandemic that has infected more than 6 million people in the United States.
“I think it’s disgusting to say that the president should have gone out and panicked the American people and have a run on the banks and a run on the grocery stores and scare people,” McDaniel said. “The president did everything right. He cut down travel in January. He created the coronavirus task force in February. He initiated the private sector early on to get PPE to ramp up testing.”
