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Almost 200,000 dead in the US and Trump says: “It affects practically no one”
Trump downplays the danger of the corona virus, as announced. Image: keystone
The President of the United States, Donald Trump, is currently on an election tour. On Monday night, he gave a speech to his followers at an airport in the US state of Ohio. Ohio is known as the “swing state” and is a crucial state for the November elections. In the 2016 presidential election, Trump won it just before his Democratic rival Clinton. Even now Trump hopes to win Ohio.
The speech on the Toledo airport grounds was consequently controversial and was reminiscent of Trump’s appearances in 2016. Despite the corona pandemic and the continuing number of infections, thousands of fans rallied to support the president. AND Trump again seized the opportunity to downplay the coronavirus.
Trump again downplays the coronavirus
He said, “Now we know. That [das Coronavirus] affects the elderly. Older people with heart problems and other problems. These people are really affected, nothing more ». In some states, thousands are affected, but no youth, Trump says. Nobody under 18 is affected. “They have a strong immune system,” Trump explains, adding: “It hardly affects anyone.”
“Virtually no one” – given the nearly 200,000 coronavirus deaths in the United States, that’s a very bold statement. And Trump’s statement that only older people with prior illnesses are affected has long been disproved.
More recently, recordings of interviews emerged from March in which Trump told well-known investigative journalist Bob Woodward that he had downplayed the corona virus. He literally said:
However, in a subsequent public talk, Trump claimed that he had not downplayed it. “I actually promoted it in a lot of ways when it came to trading,” he replied when asked why he wasn’t taking the virus seriously.
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