Trump administration and campaign officials defended the president’s response to the coronavirus pandemic after the revelation that he told Bob Woodward he was deliberately downplaying the threat of the virus in March.
White House trade adviser Peter Navarro defended the administration in a heated interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper
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“Why wasn’t the president straightforward with the American people?” Tapper asked Navarro, prompting Navarro to accuse Tapper of “cherry-picking.” Navarro defended the president and pivoted toward the notion that “CNN is not honest with the American people.”
Trump said last week that “perhaps” he misled Americans to prevent panic about the virus.
Trump campaign senior adviser Jason Miller also defended Trump’s response to the virus, saying the campaign is not currently downplaying its severity.
“I think the president is accurately saying that Americans are starting to safely and responsibly reopen all around the country,” Miller said on ABC’s “This Week.”
Miller went on to accuse Democratic nominee Joe Biden
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ABC’s George Stephanopoulos
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“What we need is to safely and responsibly move forward and developing this vaccine is absolutely critical,” Miller said, accusing the Biden campaign of “casting doubt over a vaccine when … it’s going to be driven by the experts.”
Stephanopoulos noted that Biden has said he will accept a vaccine that experts deem safe.
On NBC's "Meet the Press," Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel
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“I think 20/20 vision in hindsight is always perfect, but as a new pandemic hit our shores we were all being told by Dr. [Anthony] Fauci, the scientists, that we shouldn’t wear masks,” McDaniel said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “It’s a new virus … to say that he should have known then what we know now isn’t really fair.”
Trump campaign adviser Steve Cortes, meanwhile, blamed the “corporate media” for “pushing out a myth that the president mishandled the virus” on “Fox News Sunday.”
Cortes said the president's remarks comparing the virus to the seasonal flu was similar to “the fog of war.”
Fox News’ Chris Wallace
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“[T]here was no fog of war there. If the word he was getting from his top intelligence and national security people was that this was a deadly pandemic. There was no fog here,” Wallace added.
“Your explanation is somewhat different from the president, because you’re saying, well, the president didn't really know, it was the fog of war,” Wallace responded. “But when he has described it, he said he didn't want to panic the country, he didn't want to jump up and down and panic the country.”
Cortes countered that Anthony Fauci
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