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电话录音揭露特朗普早知新冠病毒是"致命的”，拜登亦抨击特朗普“玩忽职守”

今天凌晨，CNN揭露特朗普早在2月7日就知道新冠病毒是"致命的”。

当地时间9月9日，民主党总统候选人拜登指责特朗普背叛了美国人民，“特朗普在新型冠状病毒的致命性问题上故意撒谎，这相当于他‘玩忽职守’。”

“他知道这病毒有多致命，”拜登在密歇根州发表竞选演讲时说：“他对美国人民撒了谎。数月来，他故意隐瞒新冠疫情对美国人民构成的威胁。”

鲍勃·伍德沃德是一名调查记者，曾获普利策奖。自1971年以来一直为《华盛顿邮报》工作。他和卡尔·伯恩斯坦一起揭发了导致理查德·尼克松总统辞职的水门事件。这位记者写了19本关于美国政治的书，其中大部分是关于美国总统的。

伍德沃德在他的新书《愤怒》中描述，特朗普总统承认，在美国发现首例新冠死亡病例之前，他就知道这种病毒是危险的，可以通过空气传播，并具有高度传染性，甚至比剧烈的流感还要致命，但是他一再公开淡化这种病毒的威胁。

“这是致命的病毒。”特朗普在2月7日电话采访中告诉伍德沃德。

在与伍德沃德的一系列采访中，特朗普透露，这种病毒的威胁超出了人们此前所知的程度。特朗普对伍德沃德说：“太不可思议了，这种冠状病毒的'致命性'可能是流感的5倍。”

特朗普的言论与他在当时公开发表的言论形成鲜明对比，他坚称病毒“将会消失”，一切都会好起来。

U.S. President Donald Trump admits he knew how deadly and contagious the coronavirus was but played it down because he did not want to create a panic in audio recordings released Wednesday from interviews with veteran U.S. journalist Bob Woodward.

"I wanted to always play it down," Trump said in an interview with Woodward on March 19, according to a CNN preview of the book "Rage," due to be published September 15.

"I still like playing it down, because I don't want to create a panic," he said in the conversation with Woodward.

Though Trump himself has admitted he played the epidemic down in the recordings, the White House press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany, told reporters on Wednesday that "the president never downplayed the virus."

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In the interviews with Woodward, Trump made clear he'd understood at the outset that the virus was "deadly stuff" – far more dangerous than the ordinary flu.

"This is deadly stuff. You just breathe the air and that's how it's passed," Trump told Woodward in one of the interviews in February. "And so that's a very tricky one. That's a very delicate one. It's also more deadly than even your strenuous flu."

In public, however, Trump told Americans immediately after his remarks that the virus is "a little like the regular flu" and it wasn't dangerous and would "disappear" by itself.

在《愤怒》一书中，特朗普称，总统的工作是“保护我们国家的安全”。但在2月初，特朗普告诉伍德沃德，他知道这种病毒有多致命。2020年3月，他承认自己对公众隐瞒了这一点。

3月19日，特朗普对伍德沃德说：“我想一直低调处理新冠疫情这件事，因为我不想制造恐慌。”

专家认为，如果特朗普没有淡化疫情的严重性，而是在2月初果断采取行动，要求民众严格保持社交距离、勤洗手以及在公共场合佩戴口罩，数千名美国人的生命原本可以得到挽救。

特朗普在白宫对记者发表讲话，谴责这本书是“其它政治势力打击共和党的工具”，并表示，他淡化疫情，是为了防止出现“社会恐慌”并进而引起骚乱。

Speaking to reporters at the White House, Trump denounced the book as "another political hit job" and said if he'd downplayed COVID-19 it was to prevent a "frenzy."

"I'm not going to drive this country or the world into a frenzy," he said. "We have to show leadership and the last thing you want to do is create a panic."

《愤怒》一书还强调，特朗普不适合担任美国总统。

到目前为止，美国是世界上死于冠状病毒人数最多的国家。截至2020年9月9日，美国累计新冠死亡病例超过19万例，中西部的爱荷华州和南达科他州在过去几周成为新高风险地区。

"He knew how deadly it was," Democratic presidential challenger Joe Biden said while campaigning in Michigan. "He lied to the American people. He knowingly and willingly lied about the threat it posed to the country for months."

"And while this deadly disease ripped through our nation, he failed to do his job – on purpose. It was a life-and-death betrayal of the American people," Biden added

So far, the United States has suffered the highest number of coronavirus deaths in the world. Deaths topped 190,000 on Wednesday along with a spike in new cases in the Midwest with states like Iowa and South Dakota emerging as the new hot spots in the past few weeks.