ACCORDING to a new book, United States President Donald Trump knowingly downplayed coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) risks. As other critics have argued, his administration’s decisions represent crimes against humanity.

Recently, Bob Woodward, associate editor at the Washington Post and one of the legendary Watergate journalists, published Rage, a new book on President Trump’s first term, which draws on 18 interviews that Woodward conducted with Trump between December 2019 and last July.