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Cable News Hosts Rip Trump’s COVID-19 Lies: ‘Arguably Worst Cover-Up’ In U.S. History

Cable news network hosts on Wednesday night excoriated Donald Trump over the bombshell revelations in journalist Bob Woodward’s new book “Rage,” which details how the president understood the deadly threat of COVID-19 in early February but lied about its risks for months.

Anchors on CNN and MSNBC hammered Trump ― who was taped in early February admitting to famed Watergate reporter Woodward that he knew the coronavirus is “more deadly than even your strenuous flus” ― for endangering Americans by ignoring the advice of public health experts to increasingly politicize the pandemic that has now killed more than 190,000 people nationwide.

“This president has betrayed you,” said Don Lemon, the host of “CNN Tonight.”

“It’s just plain out betrayal,” he continued. “It doesn’t matter if you support him or if you don’t support him, he’s betrayed you.”

Check out Lemon’s comments here:

CNN’s Chris Cuomo said “there is no price worth forgiving this kind of perfidy.”

He called for those in the Trump White House who knew of the president’s deceit but remained silent to be “exposed” and “shamed.”

Check out Cuomo’s comments here:

“People say lives have been lost, but they haven’t been lost, they are dead,” noted CNN’s Anderson Cooper.

“190,000 Americans are dead and the president lied to us when it really mattered when action could have been taken based on the information the president had that would have saved lives,”...

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