[amykyta]

Your own reference proves it’s anything but fake news. That link states right off the bat that banning travel was virtually useless. He’s on record with Bob Woodward talking about how he knew the virus is serious but he wanted to avoid ‘panic’. If Trump spent a fraction of the energy he’s devoting to without any proof undermining our voting he would have been re-elected free and clear.

[tomp]

The often-repeated claim was that he didn’t do anything, that he ignored or downplayed it. That isn’t true.

Its true that the problem was virtually unsolvable regardless of policy for pretty much every Western country (except a few small / sparsely populated islands), the virus started spreading way before it was detected, but that’s hindsight.

[hn_throwaway_99]

> or downplayed it. That isn’t true.

Donald Trump is literally on tape with Bob Woodward saying he deliberately downplayed it.