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by tomp 2055 days ago
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.

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> or downplayed it. That isn’t true.

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