Trump defends coronavirus response in Fox News
interview
Donald
Trump took his defense of his actions onto the airwaves last night, with a
phone-in interview on Sean Hannity’s show on Fox News. Some of the key points
that the president made were:
He told
Hannity that he spoke to Bob Woodward because he thought he’d “give it a shot”
since Woodward does “constant hit jobs”, citing books he had written on Barack
Obama and George W. Bush.
He repeated
his claim that the country could have lost 2 million or 2.5 million people if
he hadn’t taken the actions he has.
He said
even one death is no good, and placed the blame firmly with China. “It was
China’s fault. They sent this to us.”
He claimed
that Dr. Fauci and Joe Biden were both against the China travel ban when he
implemented it.
He said
“nobody had any idea [coronavirus] would be as violent as it turned out to be.”
Of the
national response he said “It’s amazing what we’ve done, we’ve been able to do
something especially with the kind of size [of country] we’re dealing with.
We’ve done an incredible job.”
He reiterated
that he had wanted to appear calm to the American people, saying “I’m the
leader of the country. I can’t be jumping up and down and scaring people. I
don’t want to scare people. I want people not to panic.”
He wanted
the economy to now be re-opening faster.
He was
critical of three states specifically for re-opening their economies too
slowly: North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Michigan
And a final
word on the book? Trump said he didn’t know if it would be good or bad, but
that he almost definitely won’t read it.
Worth
noting perhaps that the three states he singled out are all considered to be
crucial battleground states for the election. And of the figures that the
administration has achieved, the US has the largest number of coronavirus cases
in the world, and this morning the total death toll topped 190,000, again more
than any other country.
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