Bob Woodward Quote
In another discussion with the president, Cohn unveiled a Commerce Department study showing the U.S. absolutely needed to trade with China. If you’re the Chinese and you want to really just destroy us, just stop sending us antibiotics. You know we don’t really produce antibiotics in the United States? The study also showed that nine major antibiotics were not produced in the United States, including penicillin. China sold 96.6 percent of all antibiotics used here. We don’t produce penicillin. Trump looked at Cohn strangely. Sir, so when mothers’ babies are dying of strep throat, what are you going to say to them? Cohn asked Trump if he would tell them, Trade deficits matter? We’ll buy it from another country, Trump proposed. So now the Chinese are going to sell it [antibiotics] to the Germans, and the Germans are going to mark it up and sell it to us. So our trade deficit will go down with the Chinese, up with the Germans. U.S. consumers would be paying a markup. Is that good for our economy? Navarro said they would buy it through some country other than Germany. Same problem, Cohn said. You’re just rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.
In another discussion with the president, Cohn unveiled a Commerce Department study showing the U.S. absolutely needed to trade with China. If you’re the Chinese and you want to really just destroy us, just stop sending us antibiotics. You know we don’t really produce antibiotics in the United States? The study also showed that nine major antibiotics were not produced in the United States, including penicillin. China sold 96.6 percent of all antibiotics used here. We don’t produce penicillin. Trump looked at Cohn strangely. Sir, so when mothers’ babies are dying of strep throat, what are you going to say to them? Cohn asked Trump if he would tell them, Trade deficits matter? We’ll buy it from another country, Trump proposed. So now the Chinese are going to sell it [antibiotics] to the Germans, and the Germans are going to mark it up and sell it to us. So our trade deficit will go down with the Chinese, up with the Germans. U.S. consumers would be paying a markup. Is that good for our economy? Navarro said they would buy it through some country other than Germany. Same problem, Cohn said. You’re just rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.
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About Bob Woodward
While a reporter for The Washington Post in 1972, Woodward teamed up with Carl Bernstein, and the two did much of the original news reporting on the Watergate scandal. These scandals led to numerous government investigations and the eventual resignation of President Richard Nixon. The work of Woodward and Bernstein was called "maybe the single greatest reporting effort of all time" by longtime journalism figure Gene Roberts.
Woodward continued to work for The Washington Post after his reporting on Watergate. He has written 21 books on American politics and current affairs, 14 of which have topped best-seller lists.