President Trump in an interview on “Fox
“I’m not doing it for political reasons, I need the vaccine quickly,” Trump said of the crusade for a vaccine called “Operation Warp Speed. “You wouldn’t have a vaccine for years . . . I accelerated the procedure with the FDA . . . We will have a vaccine in a few weeks, it may only take 4 weeks, it may only be 8 weeks . . . we have a lot of big companies. “
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The commentary on the vaccine comes when several Democrats have questioned the protection of a possible vaccine because of the accelerated process: Democratic candidate Joe Biden and his vice presidential candidate, Senator Kamala Harris, a Democrat for California, have expressed considerations about possible political pressure. , they said it could lead to approval of a vaccine too soon.
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“I’m not going to take [Trump’s word],” Harris told CNN when asked if he would take an approved vaccine until November 3. “I’d like to see what the scientists said, ” replied Biden. A consultation on a vaccine. North Carolina Senate Democratic nominee Cal Cunningham also said Sunday in a debate opposed to Sen. Thom Tillis, North Carolina, that he would be reluctant to take an approved vaccine until the end of the year.
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Republicans have accused them of irresponsible rhetoric.
On the coronavirus pandemic, Trump also asked about his interviews with Woodward, adding the recently published e-book about Trump’s detailed conversations in which Trump said it minimizes the risk of the virus.
“I don’t need to panic,” Trump said in response. “I don’t need to build it. “
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He added that the United States is now better placed for the pandemic than before this year.
“We’re closing the pandemic,” Trump said. ” Texas is falling, Florida is doing very well. “
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, has continually stated that a vaccine may be approved and effective until late 2020 or early 2021. However, the challenge after that is mass-producing the vaccine and distributing it to millions of Americans.
Trump also promoted the recent peace agreements between Israel and several Arab countries that his administration helped negotiate before a rite of signature at the White House on Tuesday night.
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“They told me it was one thing,” Trump said of Middle East peace agreements. “Instead of dealing with the Palestinians, we took their cashArray . . . We started dealing with other peopleArray . . . We have many more that will come a brief era of time . . . You can have peace in the middle in the east without being stupid and shoot all Array . . . and have blood in the sand. “
On a plot recently reported that Iran is an assassination attempt opposed to Lana Marks, America’s ambassador to South Africa, Trump said, “They’ll pay a thousand times if they do anything to anyone. “
He also said Iran can be allowed to have a nuclear weapon “because they are crazy” and criticized Obama-Biden’s leadership for its nuclear deal with Iran.
Trump also said he had the option of assassinating Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, but then-Defense Secretary James Mattis opposed a reference most likely reported in previous discussions about retaliation for a chemical attack in 2017.
Trump also referred to the presidential election, which are less than two months away and reiterated his considerations on mail ballots, specifically in Nevada, where he held an indoor rally this weekend after Trump said Nevada’s Democratic Governor Steve Sisolak had prevented his crusade from accessing several outdoor sites planned in the past.
“The governor of the state tried to prevent us from performing a rally,” Trump said of Sisolak, whom he called “piracy. “
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Trump added: “This kind of Array . . . and its other people were doing everything they could to block the outdoor sites] Array. . . This is the same guy who’s going to be the one who’s going to judge the ballots. . . I need this state without problems, however, the only thing you can’t beat is that if you cheat the ballots . . . The governor is in charge. “
Nevada passed a law before this summer that made it a universal electoral status of order by mail, meaning it will send ballots to each and every voter. The law also gave the governor more powers to order Republican Secretary of State Barbara Cegavske, who opposed the legislation, to make some electoral changes.
Sisolak condemned Trump for organizing his busy weekend rally in Nevada.
“Despite reports from his own White House, even though local officials in southern and northern Nevada reiterated existing restrictions on state emergency directives tonight, the president knowingly packed thousands of them in a covered location for a political rally,” Sisolak said in Twitter.
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He added: “The president turns out to have forgotten that this country is still in the midst of a global pandemic. “
Trump criticized Biden more for allegedly teleprompers in remote interviews. Biden’s crusade refused to say if he uses them.
“You look at Biden and he reads notes and reads teleprompters all the time,” Trump said. “Then when they ask their boy about it and he makes a fool of himself . . . they shoot the kid, let’s face it, we can’t I don’t have a guy who gets shot. “
Trump also unfoundedly accused Biden of taking performance-enhancing measures and asked the former vice president for a drug test.
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Trump’s comments came less than two months before the presidential election. Polls show biden leads nationally and in several key states, but Trump has approached in some polls.
The election takes a position in the context of the coronavirus pandemic that has killed more than 190,000 Americans and amid race riots in many cities.
Edmund DeMarche of Fox News contributed to this report.
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