As predicted, the net effect of reports on the Woodward tapes has been as much a boon to Trump as a detriment—as pieces like this one now *falsely* date Trump's knowledge of the virus' danger to when *Woodward* learned of it—not weeks or months *earlier*. cnn.com/2020/09/10/pol…
PS/ The same thing happened with FEAR, two years ago. Woodward—on the basis of his interviews and no other research—declared that there had been no collusion. The media ran with it, and it and Woodward were *wrong*. They're wrong now about when Trump learned of the virus' danger.
PS2/ As I detail based on major-media reporting in Proof of Corruption, the Trump White House learned all about the virus—*everything* it needed to know to take *immediate emergency action*—in November 2019, *three months* before CNN now reports Trump apprehended imminent danger.
PS3/ The *absolute latest*—and I mean the *very* latest—that Trump was personally and robustly briefed on the cataclysmic danger of the virus was *one month* before CNN now says he was.

CNN's reporting makes Trump's "China ban" (which wasn't a ban) seem timely rather than tardy.
PS4/ So yes—people should listen to the tapes. Then they should *ignore the reporting surrounding them*, as it cannibalizes the tapes by doing some absolutely irresponsible "contextualizing."

That contextualizing is being done by people who don't know what they're talking about.
PS5/ I've provided the full COVID-19 timeline on my Twitter feed. I've provided excerpts from my book detailing the timeline on my website. Unlike Woodward, I held nothing back. If you want all that info in one place—a way to contextualize the tapes—it is in Proof of Corruption.
PS6/ Because I teach journalism, I often critique it—even as I celebrate it in my books. The right thing for media to do when the tapes dropped was to talk to *two* groups: 1) medical experts, 2) authors who've written books on the pandemic.

It dropped the second group entirely.
PS7/ The result was that we had talking heads on CNN and MSNBC and elsewhere sagely telling us that Trump learned of the virus' danger in February—because that's when Woodward told America *he* learned of it. This sort of asinine logic is unacceptable during a national emergency.
PS8/ If media thinks it's big news that Trump was lying about the virus when all of America knew he was lying, it should *really* consider it big news that—still—no one in America knows the *incredibly damning* timeline of Trump's knowledge of the virus and his pandemic response.
PS9/ Journalism profs around the country are attacking Woodward for sitting on this info as 190,000 died—the Post just covered it. I've attacked him also. But the key thing *now* is for us to take this national moment of reckoning as a chance to discuss Trump's COVID-19 timeline.
TIMELINE/

9/2019: Virus hits China—hospitals packed.

11/2019: US military briefs Trump White House on virus.

12/2019: More White House briefings. Trump permits pandemic clause in China trade negotiations.

January (first 72 hours): Latest date Trump gets first robust briefing.
TIMELINE 2/

February (first 72 hours): Trump takes his *first* action on virus, *3 months* after the White House was first fully briefed on it. Trump's action is a laughable "travel ban" that allows *40,000 people* to come from China in the first five weeks after it is issued.
TIMELINE 3/

February 7: Trump and Woodward discuss the dangers of the virus—*3 months* after the White House knew of them, at *least* a month after Trump did, and *6 months* after the White House modeled the dangers of *just* the sort of virus it knew it faced back in November.
TIMELINE 4/

February 7: Woodward keeps the tapes to himself to launch a multimillion-dollar book 6 months on. Under 10 Americans had died of the virus at this point; had Trump's words gotten out, the White House would have been forced to ramp up a robust pandemic response ASAP.
TIMELINE 5/

February 2020: Virus pours into NYC from Europe—not China. Trump still a month from issuing travel restrictions relating to Europe; when he does, he exempts any nation in which he has a golf course. He's still talking to Woodward; Woodward is still burying the tapes.
TIMELINE 6/

March (first 72 hours): Livid at Azar because one of his subordinates said the virus could affect the stock market, Trump moves all pandemic response from DHHS to Pence—causing a *2-week delay* in any White House action.

Research says this caused 90%+ of all deaths.
TIMELINE 7/ It is only after *all of these things* have happened—on March 19, 2020—that Trump makes the infamous statement about "playing down" the virus that the media is talking about. This event happens many, *many* months into Trump's criminal negligence on pandemic response.

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12 Sep
Longtime Kremlin agent @MichaelRCaputo—just caught doctoring CDC reports for Trump at DHHS in a way that kills Americans—is now attacking my feed. He likely knows Proof of Corruption is a damning indictment of DHHS. I hope you'll RT this link to honor him: amazon.com/dp/1250272998?…
PS/ @MichaelRCaputo—again, quite seriously, a longtime Kremlin agent who is now doctoring CDC reports and thereby killing Americans during a pandemic, doing the bidding of his old-and-possibly-current boss—is now trolling this feed and blocking my readers. Wow. #ProofofCorruption
PS2/ I knew the Trump administration would ultimately grapple with Proof of Corruption—and I'm not surprised it's DHHS, given this is in significant part a book addressing a pandemic that DHHS mishandled—but why let @MichaelRCaputo attack me, when he's so obviously damaged goods?
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11 Sep
BREAKING: "Grand Bargain" Revealed in Proof of Conspiracy Takes Next Step

{Nations at the secret pro-Israel, pro-Trump 2015 Red Sea Summit that have recognized Israel}:

🇪🇬 ✅ Egypt
🇦🇪 ✅ UAE
🇯🇴 ✅ Jordan
🇧🇭 ✅ Bahrain
🇸🇦 🅾️ Saudi Arabia*

*Open question. nbcnews.com/news/world/bah…
PS/ Understand that these announcements are coming now *not* because these detentes *just happened*—which the media will erroneously report, despite these nations having colluded with Trump and Israel since 2016—but because the aim here is to benefit Trump's re-election campaign.
PS2/ You can't even imagine the machinations that must be going on behind the scenes between Kushner and MBS to try to get the Saudis to recognize Israel right before the November election as an "October surprise" to push Trump to victory and get him a fake-ass Nobel Peace Prize.
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11 Sep
This article will blow your mind.

It's long and complex—it *has* to be read carefully. You can't just read the headline. But fair warning: when Christopher Steele gets a chance to speak back to the scurrilous criticism he's facing, it's astounding.

Link: spectator.co.uk/article/was-th… Image
PS/ One reads an article like this and wonders, frankly, what happened to journalism in America.

At *any time* U.S. media could have done a deep dive into the disinformation campaign that's been waged against a trusted FBI partner and former MI6 Russia desk chief—and no one did.
PS2/ Lindsey Graham took a Steele sub-source saying some of his information was gathered in meetings in bars—where people *do* meet, you know, in life, to talk—and *twisted* that into a claim that everything Steele got was "bar talk," which *isn't* what the Senate was told. Ever.
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10 Sep
(IMPORTANT) I have something I must say, but I must say it carefully and ethically because I teach journalism, believe in journalism, and believe journalists must respect their roles. What I have to say will take a few tweets, but at the end you'll see it's important. Nationally.
(1) I am a curatorial journalist—a metajournalist. I compile, curate, and connect reliable major-media investigative reporting from around the world and going back decades. I do that job ethically. I am not a reporter. I do not wish to be a reporter. I will not become a reporter.
(2) Since I began writing the Proof series, I have been inundated with leads. Requests to connect by encrypted messaging. 99% of these were clearly dead ends, but it didn't matter because—again—I'm a curatorial journalist, not a reporter. And I told those who contacted me that.
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10 Sep
(AUDIOBOOK EXCLUSIVE) I've decided to make Chapter 1 of Proof of Corruption available on Twitter. My goal is for potential readers to understand how profoundly different from conventional nonfiction "curatorial journalism" is.

I hope you'll listen and RT.
(PS) All I ask of metajournalism skeptics is that you listen to one chapter—knowing that, while you can't see it (because you're listening to the audiobook) there's an endnote at the end of almost every sentence you're hearing that takes you to a major-media investigative report.
(PS2) If this audiobook exclusive garners enough interest, I'll keep releasing chapters here on Twitter, so that people can better understand how metajournalism works: how dense it is, how free of gossip or extraneous information, how focused *exclusively* on major breaking news.
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10 Sep
I'll bite.

✝️ You have this.
🔫 No one wants your small arms.
🇺🇸 Democrats are largely capitalists.
🚔 Weeding out bad cops isn't anti-police.
🇺🇸 Trump hates and endangers our troops.
🗣️ You have this.
🚧 Walls don't secure borders.
👶 OK.
🇺🇸 BS.
❤️ Trump is evil.
✝️ See above.
PS/ If a voter wants to throw away *every other issue*—like Trump killing 250,000 Americans in 6 months—because of the abortion question, there's nothing you can say to that voter. But every other "justification" for voting for Trump is a steaming turd pie of self-exonerating BS.
PS2/ None of us can stop our fellow Americans from knowingly voting for a monster who believes in *nothing* just to stop a moderate Democrat from occupying the White House. But what I can't stomach is such people pretending they don't hate what America stands for—because they do.
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