[Mick]

Could have released the audio in Feb, doubt it would have changed anything besides being a headline for a day or two.

Just so I understand...you're saying that the noted, celebrated truthteller and revealer of odious, perfidious presidential wrongdoings journalist Bob Woodward would not have had an impact on the public perception of and response to the COVID pandemic had he released Trump's lies to the public thirty seconds after he recorded them?  You think it wouldn't have had an impact on Congress, on the media, on the CDC, on the public?  Particularly since a of immense proportions portion of the liberal Elite, the conservative Elite, the middle-of-the-road Elite, the Media Elite, the Medical Elite and the Political Elite hate his guts and have a massive interest in removing him from office no matter what?

Have to disagree with you.

There is almost nothing that could have been released that would have swayed Trump supporters from following his public pronouncements. There is nothing that will change 40% of the adults in the country from approving of everything he does and says. Nothing. They would have said and thought the tape was fabricated and not real. Trump certainly wouldn't have changed his tune. And there was plenty of info out there that it was spread through droplets and aerosol. I'll bet 30% of the adults in this country still believe it's all made up.

I disagree.  I think if Woodward had released it at the time, it would remove a level of plausible deniability, and would have gotten a lot more people off the dime.  Ideally, it would have armed Trump's democratic opponents so they would have modified their behavior.  I think it would have made an enormous difference from a highly plausible source, literally the opposite of Trump's implausibility crusade and would have exposed the lies that Trump tells in a much more substantive way.

[Mick]

Could have released the audio in Feb, doubt it would have changed anything besides being a headline for a day or two.

Just so I understand...you're saying that the noted, celebrated truthteller and revealer of odious, perfidious presidential wrongdoings journalist Bob Woodward would not have had an impact on the public perception of and response to the COVID pandemic had he released Trump's lies to the public thirty seconds after he recorded them?  You think it wouldn't have had an impact on Congress, on the media, on the CDC, on the public?  Particularly since a of immense proportions portion of the liberal Elite, the conservative Elite, the middle-of-the-road Elite, the Media Elite, the Medical Elite and the Political Elite hate his guts and have a massive interest in removing him from office no matter what?

Have to disagree with you.

There is almost nothing that could have been released that would have swayed Trump supporters from following his public pronouncements. There is nothing that will change 40% of the adults in the country from approving of everything he does and says. Nothing. They would have said and thought the tape was fabricated and not real. Trump certainly wouldn't have changed his tune. And there was plenty of info out there that it was spread through droplets and aerosol. I'll bet 30% of the adults in this country still believe it's all made up.

I disagree.  I think if Woodward had released it at the time, it would remove a level of plausible deniability, and would have gotten a lot more people off the dime.  Ideally, it would have armed Trump's democratic opponents so they would have modified their behavior.  I think it would have made an enormous difference from a highly plausible source, literally the opposite of Trump's implausibility crusade and would have exposed the lies that Trump tells in a much more substantive way.