Do-nuthin’ talk

‘I acted early,’ Don insists to Woodward

Five words from President Trump Monday offered a damning new indictment of his botched response to coronavirus.

“Nothing more could’ve been done,” Trump told Bob Woodward in a bombshell new taped excerpt of their final interview for the journalist’s new book.

“I acted early,” Trump insisted in the taped excerpt revealed by CNN. “So we’ll see.

Woodward already revealed that Trump knew how dangerous the pandemic was by the beginning of February, even as he downplayed it to the American people.

But the new interview excerpt showed that Trump’s deep denial of the consequences of his actions continues unchecked.

Trump spoke 19 times to Woodward for the forthcomingg book “Rage,”g includ- ing seven calls that the president himself initiated, CNN reported.

The dramatic final conversation between the president and the renowned Watergate scribe came on Aug. 14 as the summer surge in deaths hit a peak in the Sun Belt.

Trump was scrambling to shape what Woodward had alreadyy told him would be a “very tough book” focusing on his failure to lead the country through the pandemic.

“What won’t I like, Bob?” Trump asks, his calm demeanor betraying no sign of the danger lurking as Woodward prepared to drop an explosive and critical verdict on his presidency.

When Woodward mentioned the economic devastation the pandemic had inflicted on ordinary Americcans, Trump offered a tonedeaf response that Wall Street was booming again.

“You do know that the (stock) market is coming bback,” Trump continued, hoping to move Woodward away from coronavirus. “Did yyou cover that in the book?”

Woodward earlier reiterated the book’s most sshocking revelation: that Trump knew how dangerous coronavirus was last winter eeven as he told Americans it was “harmless” and a Democratic “hoax” that would soon go away.

As the pandemic death toll rises inexorably toward 200,000 Americans, Woodward admitted being taken aback at Trump’s admitted failure to act on the information he had in late January.

“The president possessed the specific knowledge that could have saved lives,” Woodward told NBC News.

The president continues to make excuses for why he admitted to scribe Bob Woodward (below) that he knew how deadly coronavirus was early on but lied to the country about it and took minimal action to fight the disease.