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US President Donald Trump denies lying to Americans about the danger posed by the coronavirus. He called a journalist’s question an embarrassment.
“I said we have to stay calm, we must not panic”: US President Donald Trump comments on the interviews with investigative journalist Bob Woodward, which were published on Wednesday.
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In interviews in March, Trump said he had downplayed the risk posed by the virus.
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The remarks put Trump in danger shortly before the November presidential election.
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“I didn’t lie,” Trump said Thursday at the White House when asked by a reporter about it. “I said we have to stay calm, we must not panic.” The question is “a shame”. In interviews with investigative journalist Bob Woodward in March, he said he had downplayed the risk posed by the virus. The corresponding passages were published in the US media on Wednesday. The remarks put Trump in danger shortly before the November presidential election.
The president of the United States drew a parallel between his tranquility in the crown pandemic and the behavior of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill during World War II. “When Hitler bombed London, Churchill, a great leader, would often stand on a roof in London and talk,” Trump said Thursday night (local time) at an election rally in Freeland, Michigan. And he always spoke calmly. He said we must be calm. No, we did well and did a job like no one else. “
Trump referred to the advice given by the London government to the British in World War II: “Keep calm and carry on” (more or less: keep calm and carry on). “That ‘s what I did.” Churchill is said to have observed the Nazi bombings in London from a rooftop, but did not deliver a speech. In June 1945, after the end of the war, he spoke during the election campaign in a canopy, as captured in the photos.
More than 190,000 dead
Trump argued Thursday that if Woodward thought his statements were problematic, he should have made them public immediately rather than waiting months. Trump avoided critical questions about the trivialization of danger by addressing what he believed to be his administration’s successful crisis management. “We did a phenomenal job,” he said. Soon there will be a vaccine.
Trump presented the situation in the United States as better than in Europe. “If you look at the European Union right now, they have outbreaks like I’ve never seen them before and, frankly, their numbers are at much worse levels than the numbers here,” he said. He cited Italy, France and Spain as examples. Although the number of infections has risen again there, they are still at a high level in the US.
However, Trump was confident that the United States would soon overcome the crisis. He ruled out another closure. He accused his rival in the November 3 election, Joe Biden, of using the pandemic for political ends.
According to statistics from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, more than 191,000 people in the United States have died after being infected with the coronavirus since the start of the corona pandemic. The number of new infections each day was more than 34,000 on Wednesday. In absolute numbers, the United States has the highest number of deaths per corona in the world, but not in relation to the number of inhabitants. The United States ranks seventh in this category. In the EU, only Spain has more deaths per 100,000 inhabitants.
