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On Sunday, Trump’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows, told CNN that the administration’s focus had shifted to mitigation, not eradicating the virus.
FILE: US President Donald Trump gestures during a rally at the Southern Wisconsin Regional Airport in Janesville, Wisconsin, on October 17, 2020. Image: AFP
ALLENTOWN – US President Donald Trump denied on Monday that he is giving up on fighting the spread of the coronavirus, insisting, despite a new surge in infections, that the pandemic is in recession.
“I am not,” Trump said when asked about his opponent Joe Biden’s accusation that he is abandoning attempts to control the pandemic.
“We are just around the corner,” he told reporters in Pennsylvania, where he was holding three demonstrations.
On Sunday, Trump’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows, told CNN that the administration’s focus had shifted to mitigation, not eradicating the virus.
“We are not going to control the pandemic. We are going to control the fact that we receive vaccines, therapies and other mitigations,” Meadows said, comparing the deadliest COVID-19 to seasonal flu.
Then Biden accused Trump of surrendering in the crisis, which has killed more than 225,000 Americans, and the cases are now increasing rapidly.
“It was a heartfelt recognition of what President Trump’s strategy has clearly been since the beginning of this crisis – to wave the white flag of defeat and hope that by ignoring it, the virus will simply disappear,” Biden said in a statement.
Trump responded Monday by calling Biden a “pathetic candidate.”
“He has ever flown the white flag. He doesn’t come out of his basement,” he said.
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