“I think, unfortunately, corporate media has been relatively successful in pushing out a myth that the president mishandled the virus, Cortes said, adding that he believes Woodward’s book “actually reveals an exemplary record of crisis management.”
“During the fog of biological war, when the information was disparate, at times even contradictory, he made two determinations,” he said. “No. 1, that he was going to reassure the American people that he was going to be the kind of leader who convinces the people that we can persevere through this epidemiological Pearl Harbor.”