USA: President Donald Trump gjorde en "Tegnellare" - blåljög för befolkningen
Joe Biden: Ett "förräderi" mot amerikanska folket
Massmördaren Tegnells ljugarbänk-polare Donald Trump blåljög för amerikanska befolkningen om coronavirusets farlighet. Trots att Trump visste om virusets farlighet valde han att göra en "Tegnellare" - blåljuga för befolkningen.
Joe Biden anser att Trumps "Tegnellare" är ett förräderi mot amerikanska befolkningen.
Trump 'deliberately played down virus to avoid panic'
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President Donald Trump knew Covid-19 was deadlier than the flu before it hit the country, but decided to "play it down" in his public comments because he didn't want to "create a panic", according to a new book and taped conversations with Bob Woodward. Woodward, who broke the Watergate scandal and is one of the nation's most respected journalists, interviewed Trump 18 times from December to July.
Trump is quoted Woodward's book Rage as telling him the virus was "deadly stuff", in early February, before the first US death was confirmed.
However, in the weeks that followed, Trump publicly implied the flu was more dangerous than Covid-19, and said: "Just stay calm. It will go away."
After details of the book emerged, Trump's Democratic rival, Joe Biden, described Trump's approach as a "dereliction of duty" and "a life-and-death betrayal of the American people”.'
On 7 February Trump told the journalist Bob Woodward in a phone call that coronavirus was “more deadly than even your strenuous flus”, but the message he gave to the public was very different.
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"It goes through the air,"
"That's always tougher than the touch. You don't have to touch things. Right? But the air, you just breathe the air and that's how it's passed.
"And so that's a very tricky one. That's a very delicate one. It's also more deadly than even your strenuous flus."
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Later that month, Mr Trump promised the virus was "very much under control", and that the case count would soon be close to zero. He also publicly implied the flu was more dangerous than Covid-19.
By 27 February he was telling the public:
"It’s going to disappear. One day – it’s like a miracle – it will disappear."
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Speaking on Capitol Hill on 10 March, Mr Trump said: "Just stay calm. It will go away."
Nine days later, days after the White House declared the pandemic a national emergency, the president told Woodward: "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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The Democratic presidential candidate, Joe Biden, reacted to the reports by saying:
"He knew how deadly it was. It was much more deadly than the flu. He knew and purposely played it down. Worse, he lied to the American people. He knowingly and willingly lied about the threat it posed to the country for months … he failed to do his job, on purpose. It was a life and death betrayal of the American people. Experts say that if he’d acted just one week sooner 36,000 people would have been saved."
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