CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “But [China’s coronavirus] numbers seem to be a little bit on the light side. And I’m being nice when I say that, relative to what we witnessed and what was reported… As to whether or not their numbers are accurate, I’m not an accountant from China…
Nobody has ever seen anything like this, where large groups of people, all of a sudden, just by being in the presence of somebody, have it. The flu has never been like that. And there is — flu is contagious but nothing like we’ve ever seen here.
Also, the violence of it. If it hits the right person — and you know what those stats are — if it hits the right person, that person is in deep trouble.”
-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump, Vice President Pence, and Members of the Coronavirus Task Force in Press Briefing,” whitehouse.gov, Apr. 1, 2020