White House and Trump campaign scramble to respond to Woodward revelations

 https://edition.cnn.com/2020/09/09/politics/trump-woodward-fallout-coronavirus/index.html

 Journalist Bob Woodward's new book "Rage" sent shockwaves across Washington on Wednesday that left the White House, Trump campaign and congressional Republicans scrambling to react to revelations that President Donald Trump concealed what he knew early on about how dangerous and deadly the coronavirus was.

A source close to the Trump campaign told CNN many were shocked by the President's comments so early about how deadly coronavirus is, noting that the President kept that information from his own campaign.

"Hard to say fake news when there is audio of his comments," a Trump campaign adviser said.

Sen. Marco Rubio, a Republican from Florida, said in response to Woodward's reporting that if the President had made the decision earlier on to explain the dangers of coronavirus and the threat of the virus, it could have made "a little bit of a difference."

"A little bit of alarm about the seriousness early on could have made a little bit of a difference," Rubio said. "Getting people to think earlier on about some of the protective things we ultimately had to put in would have been better looking back."