Trump News Live: Latest Updates As President’s Rally Labels Fox News ‘Traitors’ For Election Call

The 76-year-old has spent the last few weeks traveling the country seeking to reverse the election result.

President Donald Trump will reportedly be much shorter than the “several hundred million” doses of Covid-19 vaccines that he suggested would be made available to the American public before the New Year from the White House.

At a seemingly premature celebration event at the Rose Garden in May, the administration touted its Operation Warp Speed, created in response to the pandemic as part of an effort to increase vaccine production and build a path to immediate national distribution.

At that event, the leader of the initiative, the pharmaceutical executive Moncef Slaoui, spoke with the president and said that “very recently I had seen the first data from a clinical trial with a coronavirus vaccine, and these data made me feel even more We are sure that we will be able to deliver a few hundred million doses of vaccine by the end of 2020. “

Trump asked the pharmaceutical giants to back his demands for 300 million vaccines by the end of the year, then invited his vaccine czar to speak from the White House podium about how those calls were supposedly being fulfilled in record time.

President Donald Trump’s coronavirus vaccine czar has praised President-elect Joe Biden’s plans to urge Americans across the country to wear face masks during the first 100 days of his presidency in an effort to fight the pandemic. of Covid-19.

Moncef Slaoui, pharmaceutical executive and head of Operation Warp Speed, an initiative launched by the Trump administration to produce and distribute a Covid-19 vaccine in record time, said the incoming president’s intention was “a good idea” in an interview on Sunday. .

Speaking to CNN, Slaoui said: “I think it’s a good idea, it’s never too late. This pandemic is ravaging the country. We must all take our precautions, wear our masks, wash our hands, keep our distance, be aware that this virus is a killer ”.

He added: “We have a vaccine, there is light at the end of the tunnel, but not all of us will have the vaccine in our arms before May or June, so we must be very cautious and vigilant.”

Slaoui’s latest comments come after reports indicated that only 40 million doses of the initial vaccines for Covid-19 would be available to Americans nationwide before the New Year, and since the vaccines require two injections, only 20 million Americans would have access to the full treatment required to develop an immune response to the new virus.

He previously suggested that there could be “several hundred million” vaccines distributed nationwide in 2020 during a May event in the White House Rose Garden, but those predictions have dropped significantly in recent weeks. Still, news of an effective vaccine for the new culprit, already responsible for nearly 270,000 deaths in the US this year alone, has come at historic speed.

President Donald Trump’s White House press secretary criticized the Republican governor of Georgia during an interview with Fox News Sunday morning after he failed to help the administration overturn the 2020 election results.

Kayleigh McEnany appeared to pressure the governor on live television to “call a special legislative session” before next month’s state Senate elections, in which Republican incumbents David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler faced challenges against Democratic nominees Raphael. Wornock and Jon Ossoff.

“If we lose these two seats in the Senate, guess who has the decisive vote in this country for our government?” said the White House press secretary. “It will be Kamala Harris.”

His comments followed explosive reports released over the weekend that revealed how the president called the governor of Georgia for help in overturning President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in the trusty red state.

Trump reportedly urged Governor Brian Kemp to convince the state legislature to overturn Biden’s victory and asked him to order an audit of absentee voter signatures.

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Donald Trump will reportedly be much shorter than the “several hundred million” doses of Covid-19 vaccines that he suggested would be made available to the American public before the New Year from the White House.

At a seemingly premature celebration event at the Rose Garden in May, the administration touted its Operation Warp Speed, created in response to the pandemic as part of an effort to increase vaccine production and build a path to immediate national distribution.

At that event, the leader of the initiative, the pharmaceutical executive Moncef Slaoui, spoke with the president and said that “very recently I had seen the first data from a clinical trial with a coronavirus vaccine, and these data made me feel even more We are sure that we will be able to deliver a few hundred million doses of vaccine by the end of 2020. “

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