Trump said he meant keeping a message quiet to avoid widespread panic when he told Woodward, “I tried to minimize that. “
Trump refused to tell reporter Bob Woodward that he deliberately minimized the risk of the coronavirus pandemic as “just a political success. “
Woodward’s new e-book says Trump told him in February that the virus was a fatal threat, greater than the flu, even though he was telling the public that the danger of coronavirus and flu was comparable. In March, he told the report that “it was always sought to minimize,” referring to the coronavirus.
Trump denied that this meant a lie to U. S. citizens and instead said he was looking to sign the calm.
“We had to be calm,” he said at a press conference at the White House. “The last thing we can show is panic, emotion, worry or anything else. We had to take care of the stage we were given.
Biden said Trump “lied to the American people” following revelations through journalist Bob Woodward that the president understood that the danger posed by the coronavirus intentionally minimized it to the American people.
“I knew it was passing through the air. He knew how fatal it was, that it was much more fatal than the flu,” Biden said at the beginning of his crusade in Michigan, which he intended to focus on keeping jobs in America.
“He knew that and intentionally minimized it. Worse, he lied to the American people,” Biden said. “He knowingly and voluntarily lied about the risk this posed to the country for months. I had the information. I knew how harmful it was. And although this deadly disease has destroyed our country, it has done its job on purpose.
The former vice president is a “betrayal of the American people for life or death. “
The U. S. military announced Wednesday that its presence in Iraq would move from 5,200 to 3,000 troops this month, formalizing a long-awaited move.
The United States and Iraq affirmed in June their commitment to reduce U. S. troops in the country in the coming months, with no plans for Washington to have permanent bases or a permanent military presence.
Trump, who had campaigned with a policy to end America’s involvement in “endless wars,” is expected to face withdrawal on Wednesday.
“No matter how Trump acts at home and what he says at press conferences, he surely has a chance of winning the Nobel Peace Prize,” Tybring-Gjedde told the Associated Press news agency.
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Michael Cohen, a former Trump repairman who has fought with the president, said Trump “doesn’t joke” about his preference to stay in the workplace for more than two terms.
Trump has talked about staying in place beyond the next 4 years, encouraging chants of “12 more years” at his events.
“He needs to be an autocrat. He needs to be the president of this country for life,” Cohen told RACHEL Maddow of MSNBC on a press tour to publicize his recently published book.
Facebook executive leader Mark Zuckerberg, in an interview, said it was “simply wrong” to see the social networking site as a right-wing resonance camera, despite conservatives’ commitment to the platform.
“It is true that partisan content has a higher percentage of other people . . . who are dedicated to him, they comment, they love him,” Zuckerberg told Axios on HBO. “But I think it’s vital to distinguish the difference from what other people see. “, read and learn about our service. “
On Thursday, Facebook launched a series of radical policy adjustments aimed at combating incorrect information and restricting politicians’ influence on the platform, amid developing considerations about their excessive spending on U. S. elections.
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Hello and welcome to the continuation of the US election of Al Jazeera. It’s Joseph Stepansky.
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