Bob Woodward nearly a decade ago, talking about Watergate

Wait, So Now We’re Blaming Bob Woodward?

We really that mad he might go 2 for 2 in bringing down corrupt Presidents?

Seeing many ludicrous push-backs to the revelations in Bob Woodward’s new book about the Trump Presidency.

Just to quickly make sure we’re all on the same page: Woodward has Trump on tape admitting both that he knew COVID-19 was extremely serious as far back as January, and also admitting, in March, that he was deliberately downplaying it to the American public.

So at first what we see most widely in response, mostly from Trump supporters, is simply an assertion that the President of the United States deliberately lying to the American people, while simultaneously admitting that lie to a member of the media, only really matters to the media. Nobody else will or should give a hoot. But that doesn’t seem to stick.

But then something else does start sticking, and from several angles. And it comes hard and fast on my social media: both from Trump supporters, and also some highly respectable journalists. That maybe Woodward deserves to be demonized too. As much as Trump. Maybe even more, because we all already know Trump lies all the time. Because Woodward held back information he had on tape from his conversations with Trump from as far back as January, which might have made a…