[ad_1]
At a news conference Thursday, Trump defended the way he made the corona virus public in March. – A terrible question, he answered a journalist.
– We have had flu seasons in which we have lost 100,000 people. Flu is also a major problem for our country, President Donald Trump said Thursday during a round of questions.
In the last ten years, the number of deaths has not come close to what the president of the United States claims. Statistics from the US health authorities. shows that the number of deaths from influenza in the last ten years has varied between 12,000 and 61,000 per season.
In a phone conversation with author Bob Woodward, Trump acknowledged in March how deadly and contagious the coronavirus was. From the rostrum, at the same time he downplayed the coronavirus to the people of the United States.
Bob Woodward is one of the journalists behind the 1974 Watergate revelations.
also read
BACKGROUND: Book Bomb: Trump Said He Knew How Deadly Coronavirus Was
– Why did you lie to the American people ?, Asks a journalist from ABC News.
– What a terrible question and wording. “I respect Bob Woodward after hearing his name for many years, not knowing much about him or his work,” the US president responded.
– I want to show a level of self-confidence, leadership strength and that our country will manage whatever happens, it also defended itself.
Woodward has previously written the book “Fear” about the current president of the United States and is now publishing the book “Rage.” Trump is said to have conducted 18 interviews with Woodward at work on the new book.
Also Wednesday, Trump was questioned about the book’s statements:
The president spent much of Thursday’s press conference attacking opponent Joe Biden, who is nominated as a Democratic presidential candidate.
– When he was vice president, Biden’s handling of swine flu was catastrophic, Trump said, noting that it was a much less deadly disease.
– Now he continues to use the pandemic for political gain.
