Bob Woodward interviewed Donald Trump back in January and February and now tells us that, way back then, Trump realized that the coronavirus was not only quite deadly and would infect even children, but also was airborne and highly contagious.

Right now it's fashionable to attack Bob Woodward for having sat on all that information, and debate whether he had a "duty to warn."

It's a reasonable discussion, but it misses the larger picture.

If Donald Trump knew how deadly Covid was, Bob Woodward could not have been the only person he told. Everybody in the Cabinet, the Vice President, the Health and Human Services Secretary, and pretty much everybody working around him in the White House had to have known.

He even put Mike Pence in charge of the coronavirus task force back then. They all knew.

Read more here.

-Thom

Monday's Daily Stack

Article: "Portland isn't done with smoky skies and hazardous air quality yet" by Lizzy Acker.

Article: "Oregon's air quality is so far beyond 'hazardous' that no one knows what it means for health" by Joseph Winters.

Article: "Washington County wine grower on climate change and wildfire: The grapes don't lie" by Jeff Manning.

Article: "Trump goes to California amid devastating fires, as governors put focus on climate change" by Jordyn Phelps.

Article: "Yes, Donald Trump did call climate change a Chinese hoax" by Louis Jacobson.

Article: "Tapes of Trump's conversations released" by Mike Hayes, Meg Wagner and Veronica Rocha.

Article: "'Play it down': Trump admits to concealing the true threat of coronavirus in new Woodward book" by Jamie Gangel, Jeremy Herb and Elizabeth Stuart.

Video: 60 Minutes: Why did President Trump speak to Bob Woodward?.

Article: "Perdue, Loeffler among senators whose stock trading during coronavirus raises questions" by Tia Mitchell.

Article: "CNN Medical Analyst Calls Indoor Trump Rally 'Negligent Homicide,' Suggests Trump Should 'Shake Some Hands'" by Colby Hall.

Article: "Political activist Herman Cain dies after covid fight" by Louis Nelson.

Article: "Darwin Awards" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Taiwan's COVID-19 Success Story Continues as Neighbors Fend Off New Outbreaks" by Nick Aspinwall.

Article: "Canada reports zero COVID-19 deaths for first time since March" by Reuters.

Article: "Fact check: Coronavirus deaths surpass combined battle fatalities in several US wars" by Matthew Brown.

Article: "2002 Memorandum to Bush White House" (on changing the issue of 'Global Warming' to a new and improved name, 'Climate Change') by Frank Luntz.

Article: "Nicolae Ceaușescu" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Benito Mussolini" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Nuremberg trials" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Rudolf Hess" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The coronavirus has hammered Brazil. But somehow, Bolsonaro is getting more popular." by Terrence McCoy.

Article: "Narendra Modi" (India) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Herd immunity" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Will there be another lockdown in the UK?" by Jon Rogers.

Article: "COVID-19 pandemic in Sweden" by Wikipedia.

Site: eHistory.

Article: "Trump, who told Obama to resign after one Ebola death, calls 160,000 COVID-19 deaths "fantastic job"" by Igor Derysh.

Article: "Efforts to impeach Barack Obama" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Bowling Green massacre" by Wikipedia.

Article: "First It Was The Immigrant Caravan Coming To Kill You In Your Sleep, Now It's Democrats!" by John Amato.

Article: "Trump Says He Prevented Panic On Pandemic. That's Not His Usual Approach" by Tamara Keith.

Article: "Wall Street Crash of 1929" by Wikipedia.

Article: "COVID-19 deaths worldwide per million population as of August 10, 2020, by country" by Statista.

Article: "Tracking coronavirus' global spread" by Henrik Pettersson, Byron Manley and Sergio Hernandez.

Article: "COVID-19 pandemic in Taiwan" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Detroit's Production Battle to Win World War II".

Article: "Pence says Trump never 'belittled' coronavirus threat. Here are 19 times he did." by Emily Singer. "Looks like by April, you know, in theory, when it gets a little warmer, it miraculously goes away"

Article: "Woodward book: Trump says he knew coronavirus was 'deadly' and worse than the flu while intentionally misleading Americans" by Robert Costa and Philip Rucker.

Quote: "This is a flu. This is like a flu" by Donald J. Trump.

Article: "US alerted Israel, NATO to disease outbreak in China in November - TV report" by Times of Israel.

Article: "Estimated Influenza Illnesses, Medical visits, Hospitalizations, and Deaths in the United States — 2018–2019 influenza season" by CDC.

Article: "Electoral College" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Great Depression (1929 - 1930s) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Herbert Hoover" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Cyrus the Great in the Bible" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Cyrus the Great" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Why Trump Reigns as King Cyrus" by Katherine Stewart.

Hour Two: How to Dismantle White Supremacy...
- Barbara Smith, Feminist/Activist & Organizer / Founder of the Combahee River Collective / Contributor-The Nation Magazine / Coauthor of the Black feminist "Combahee River Collective Statement." In 2005, she was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Article: "How to Dismantle White Supremacy" by Barbara Smith.

Article: "The problem is white supremacy" by Barbara Smith.

Article: "Marshall Plan" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Black patients half as likely to receive pain medication as white patients, study finds" by Amanda Holpuch.

Article: "Dunning-Kruger effect" by Wikipedia.

Article: "We just passed 6 million cases, and it didn't have to be like this — if we'd had a leader" by Bob Cesca.

Article: "Michael Caputo" by Wikipedia.

Video: Under Trump, formerly stalwart CDC goes soft on meat plants.

Article: "As states lift restaurant restrictions, CDC report links dining out to increased COVID-19 risk" by Erika Edwards.

Article: "Susan Page of USA Today criticized for hosting off-the-record event honoring Trump appointees" by Jeremy Barr.

Article: "Wisconsin Supreme Court temporarily blocks absentee ballots from being mailed a week before deadline" by Caroline Kenny.

Article: "Wisconsin Braces for a Critical Court Ruling on Its Election" by Stephanie Saul and Nick Corasaniti.

Article: "Start of Pennsylvania's election is on hold because of ballot delay" by Kristen Holmes, Ellie Kaufman and Kelly Mena.

Article: "Make America Rake Again: Finland baffled by Trump's forest fire raking claim" by Martin Belam.

Article: "California Forests" by University of California.

Article: "Trump says he's not worried about contracting coronavirus at rallies" by Morgan Chalfant.

Article: "Alexander Lukashenko" (Belarus) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Germany says top Putin opponent Alexei Navalny was poisoned with Novichok nerve agent" by John Haltiwanger.

Article: "The American Middle Class Is Losing Ground" by Pew Research.

Article: "Mohammed bin Salman" (MBS) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan" (MBZ) by Wikipedia.

Article: "Fact-checking Rush Limbaugh's misleading claim that the new coronavirus is "the common cold"" by Bill McCarthy.

Article: "The Lincoln Project" by Wikipedia.

Article: " Sanders warns Biden could lose if he doesn't step up economic focus" by Tory Newmyer, Brent D. Griffiths.

Article: "In Turkey Versus Kurds Dispute, Trump Chooses The Side Where He Has A Condo Complex" by S.V. Date.

Article: "Second Temple" by Wikipedia.

Book: The Late Great Planet Earth by Hal Lindsey with Carole C. Carlson.

Article: "2 Arabs Are Killed As Israeli Attacks Dome Of The Rock" by David K. Shipler.

Article: "Third Temple" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Dome of the Rock" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Second Coming" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Apocalypse" by Wikipedia.

Article: "God Will Destroy Earth By Fire".

Quote: "We do not have to invade the United States, we will destroy you from within." - Nikita Khrushchev.

Article: "Gottfried Müller (1914-2009)" by Salem International.

Article: "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" by Wikipedia.

Book: "Mein Kampf" by Adolf Hitler.

Article: "Armin D. Lehmann" by Wikipedia.

Book: In Hitler's Bunker: A Boy Soldier's Eyewitness Account of the Fuhrer's Last Days by Armin D. Lehmann.

Article: "QAnon is a Nazi Cult, Rebranded" by Gregory Stanton.

Article: "Trump: "I Could Stand In the Middle Of Fifth Avenue And Shoot Somebody And I Wouldn't Lose Any Voters"".

Article: "Trump Judges or Federalist Society Judges? Try Both" by Caroline Fredrickson and Eric J. Segall.

Article: "Aerial firefighting" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Reward offered for suspect who shot 2 LA sheriff's deputies" by CBSNews.

Article: "LA Protesters Scream 'Death to Police,' Block Entrance to Hospital As 2 Deputy Sheriffs Undergo Surgery for Gunshot Wounds" by Charlie Nash.

Tweet: "To the protesters blocking the entrance & exit of the HOSPITAL EMERGENCY ROOM yelling "We hope they die" referring to 2 LA Sheriff's ambushed today in #Compton: DO NOT BLOCK EMERGENCY ENTRIES & EXITS TO THE HOSPITAL. People's lives are at stake when ambulances can't get through." by LA County Sheriffs.

Article: "Video catches Los Angeles sheriffs in lie about events outside hospital where ambushed cops were recovering" by Sarah K. Burris.

Article: "Pizzagate conspiracy theory" by Wikipedia.

Book: "They Thought They Were Free" by Milton Mayer. "First they came for the ... What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to being governed by surprise..."

Article: "Night of the Long Knives" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Kristallnacht" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Portland detectives reveal details of deadly shooting between Patriot Prayer, Antifa supporters" by Andrew Blake.

Article: "Eyewitness testimony: Death of Portland protester Michael Reinoehl was targeted assassination" by Patrick Martin.

Tweet: "Trump on a purported antifa sympathizer who allegedly killed someone in Portland being killed by federal forces: "This guy was a violent criminal, and the US Marshals killed him. And I'll tell you something -- that's the way it has to be. There has to be retribution."" by Aaron Rupar.

Article: "Trump Health Aide Alleges Broad Conspiracies and Warns of Armed Revolt" by Sharon LaFraniere.

Article: "White supremacy" by Wikipedia.

Article: "GOP senators visited Moscow on July 4, warned Russia against meddling in 2018 election: report" by Emily Birnbaum.

Article: "Ron Johnson (Wisconsin politician)" by Wikipedia.

Article: "McCarthyism" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Rand Paul" by Wikipedia.

Site: National Popular Vote.

Article: "Spanish flu" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Compulsory mask-wearing in Pacific Northwest caused spirited debate -- and a jury trial -- during 1918-19 flu pandemic" by Douglas Perry.

Article: "Shadow Cabinet" by Wikipedia.

Article: "U.S. Army liberates Dachau concentration camp" by History.com.

Article: "Liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp" by Wikipedia.

Site: I Will Vote.

Tuesday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 12-3pm ET

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