On Sunday, Trump Crusade officials advocated the intentional public minimization of COVID-19 president before this year, than journalist Bob Woodward in his next book.
Woodward, who spoke to Trump 18 times from December to July for his book, wrote that the president had privately expressed concern about COVID-19 after being warned through national security officials last January that COVID-19 would be the worst pandemic in a century.
Following reports on Woodward’s eBook and his reports on Trump’s COVID-19 considerations, in stark contrast to his public minimization of the new coronavirus, the president admitted that he deliberately minimized the severity of COVID-19 this year because he is “an animator. “for this country.
On Sunday, White House industrial adviser Peter Navarro confronted CNN’s Jake Tapper when asked why Trump had deceived the public about COVID-19, and mentioned a February 7 interview the president had with Woodward when he expressed his considerations on COVID-19.
After Tapper called Navarro for evading his question, white house industry adviser insisted that Trump was “simple” before accusing Tapper of “cherry picking. “
Navarro also told Tapper in the same interview as the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, the country was in the “fog of war” and that there were “divergent opinions” about “whether it’s just the flu or if it’s too serious. “”at the time, despite Woodward’s recordings of the president’s comments on the gravity of COVID-19.
But it wasn’t just the White House that came here in defense of the president on Sunday: Trump crusade officials also got on the train, that’s how they defended public minimization through COVID-19 president after Woodward’s book revelations:
While accusing the “corporate media” of “spreading the myth that the president misunderstood the virus” in an interview on Fox News Sunday, Cortés echoed Navarro’s feeling that Trump is beyond comments that the new coronavirus and seasonal flu were like being in. “the fog of war. “
After Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace refuted the characterization by referring to how national security officials like Robert O’Brien and Matthew Pottinger had warned that COVID-19 would be a fatal pandemic, Cortes blamed Dr. Anthony Fauci for his comments last February. and said that “opinions, perspectives and analysis are becoming particularly among scientists. Arrange among politicians all this time, while we check to be more informed about the virus. “
In an interview on ABC News, Miller praised Trump for “saying exactly that Americans are starting to reopen safely and accountably across the country,” before proceeding to claim that Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden “that everyone stays locked in his basement forever. “
When asked what evidence he had for this claim, Miller pointed to Biden on ABC News last month that, if elected, the former vice president would be willing to close the country again if there was a momentary wave of the new coronavirus and scientists would move forward. to decrease its spread.
“What we want is to move forward safely and accountably and the progression of this vaccine is surely essential,” Miller said, while deioning Biden’s crusade to “dismiss doubts” about a half-cooked Trumpian vaccine opposed to COVID-19.
When asked in an interview at MSNBC Meet the Press whether Trump downplayed COVID-19 for political reasons, McDaniel said he disagreed with the perception and argued that the president ” has made political calculations in a global pandemic like never before. not just our country, but countries around the world.
“The president was calm, stable, and methodical,” McDaniel said, mentioning how Trump established the White House Coronavirus Working Group and limited himself to China this year.
McDaniel then echoed Trump’s admission of downplaying the seriousness of COVID-19 in aiming that he is “an cheerleader for this country. “
“Think about what would have happened if he had gone out and said, “It’s horrible. We’re all afraid. ” We don’t have a plan. ” It would have been a race on the coast,” McDaniel said. “It would have been a race opposed to hospitals. It would have been a grocery shopping career. In fact, it was already complicated to get some of the things we needed in supermarkets.
McDaniel reiterated that Trump was “calm and solid at a time of turmoil and uncertainty” and said she thought “history will and how she treated this pandemic. “