chump busy was praising Xi and denying the virus. "based on all signs..the problem goes away in April"
source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/04/20/what-trump-did-about-coronavirus-february/
[COLOR=var(--color-ui-gray-darkest)]Feb. 13. Fox News’s Geraldo Rivera interviewed Trump for a radio program.
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[COLOR=var(--color-ui-gray-darkest)]“Mr. President, are you worried that the stock market and the big economic boom are in peril because of this coronavirus spreading epidemic,” Rivera asked, pointing to the lockdown then underway in China.
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[COLOR=var(--color-ui-gray-darkest)]“Well, we’re working on it very closely. I spoke to President Xi two days ago. They’re working on it very professionally. It’s a problem, we think and we hope, based on all signs that the problem goes away in April because — which is not too far down the road, because he kills this virus,” Trump said. He added that the United States was “sending a lot of people and CDC has been great, but it is — it’s a problem in China. Has not been spreading very much. In our country, we only have, basically, 12 cases, and most of those people are recovering and some cases fully recovered. So it’s actually less.”
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[COLOR=var(--color-ui-gray-darkest)]A bit later, he again praised Xi.
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[COLOR=var(--color-ui-gray-darkest)]“I think they’ve handled it professionally, and I think they’re extremely capable, and I think President Xi is extremely capable, and I hope that it’s going to be resolved,” Trump said. “Again, the April date is very important. But you know this is a big thing. The April date is very, very important because if that’s the case, if he does, in fact, kill that’s when it starts getting hot and this virus reacts very poorly to heat and dies. So we’ll see what happens.”
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[COLOR=var(--color-ui-gray-darkest)]Trump visited his campaign headquarters in Virginia. Later that afternoon, he spoke by phone with New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo (D). The conversation centered on the administration’s efforts to pressure New York to change its immigration laws by blocking New Yorkers from a federal travel program.
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source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/04/20/what-trump-did-about-coronavirus-february/
[COLOR=var(--color-ui-gray-darkest)]Feb. 13. Fox News’s Geraldo Rivera interviewed Trump for a radio program.
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[COLOR=var(--color-ui-gray-darkest)]“Mr. President, are you worried that the stock market and the big economic boom are in peril because of this coronavirus spreading epidemic,” Rivera asked, pointing to the lockdown then underway in China.
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[COLOR=var(--color-ui-gray-darkest)]“Well, we’re working on it very closely. I spoke to President Xi two days ago. They’re working on it very professionally. It’s a problem, we think and we hope, based on all signs that the problem goes away in April because — which is not too far down the road, because he kills this virus,” Trump said. He added that the United States was “sending a lot of people and CDC has been great, but it is — it’s a problem in China. Has not been spreading very much. In our country, we only have, basically, 12 cases, and most of those people are recovering and some cases fully recovered. So it’s actually less.”
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[COLOR=var(--color-ui-gray-darkest)]A bit later, he again praised Xi.
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[COLOR=var(--color-ui-gray-darkest)]“I think they’ve handled it professionally, and I think they’re extremely capable, and I think President Xi is extremely capable, and I hope that it’s going to be resolved,” Trump said. “Again, the April date is very important. But you know this is a big thing. The April date is very, very important because if that’s the case, if he does, in fact, kill that’s when it starts getting hot and this virus reacts very poorly to heat and dies. So we’ll see what happens.”
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[COLOR=var(--color-ui-gray-darkest)]Trump visited his campaign headquarters in Virginia. Later that afternoon, he spoke by phone with New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo (D). The conversation centered on the administration’s efforts to pressure New York to change its immigration laws by blocking New Yorkers from a federal travel program.
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