In the identical chunk, Trump argued that “everyone knew it was airborne” in early February, on the time of his interview with Woodward. All people didn’t know, however in keeping with Trump, they need to have … await it … as a result of China instructed them.
“China mentioned it was airborne sooner than the statements I made,” Trump admitted, whereas concurrently arguing that the loss of life and destruction attributable to the virus was all China’s fault.
Wow, right here I assumed China was accountable however come to search out out China was truly much more sincere and forthcoming than Trump. Revelatory.
Trump additionally defined why he didn’t inform People the reality concerning the deadly nature of the pandemic. “There needs to be a calmness—you don’t need me leaping up and down, screaming there’s going to be nice loss of life … and actually inflicting some very very critical issues for the nation.”
Okay, I take that to imply 190,000 deaths and counting isn’t a “very very significant issue” in Trump’s view.
Watch it.