“Yeah, well I didn’t downplay it. I actually, in many ways I up-played it in terms of action. My action was very strong.”
-The Idiot in Chief
Trump, speaking at an ABC News town hall event with voters in Philadelphia, said his moves early on in the Covid-19 crisis saved lives and demonstrated “action, not with the mouth but in actual fact.”
The president’s assertion that “in many ways I up-played it in terms of action” came less than a week after the release of audio from an interview with veteran journalist Bob Woodward, in which Trump said of the coronavirus: “I wanted to always play it down … I still like playing it down, because I don’t want to create a panic.”
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