RNC chairwoman Ronna McDaniel defends President Trump's handling of the coronavirus, after book excerpts released last week showed that the president publicly downplayed the threat in the pandemic's early months.
WASHINGTON — Republican National Committee chairwoman Ronna McDaniel on Sunday defended President Donald Trump's handling of the coronavirus, after book excerpts released last week showed that the president publicly downplayed the threat in the pandemic's early months.
In an interview with “Meet the Press,” McDaniel maintained that"20/20 vision is, in hindsight, perfect,” and insisted that Trump acted “calm and steady and methodical” as he handled the pandemic, pointing to early steps he took like cancelling travel from China and creating the coronavirus task force.
“The president was calm and steady in a time of unrest and uncertainty. And I think history will look back on him well as to how he handled this pandemic,” she said., Trump told journalist Bob Woodward about the coronavirus: “I wanted to always play it down. I still like playing it down because I don’t want to create a panic.”
The book also shows that while Trump was dismissing concerns about the virus in public, telling Americans that the virus is “like a flu” and that “hopefully, everything’s going to be great,” he told Woodward the virus was “deadly stuff,” and worse than a serious flu.. Democratic presidential nominee and former Vice President Joe Biden called it proof of a “life-and-death betrayal of the American people.
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