6/17/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “On coronavirus, I acted very quickly, and I acted early. And they can’t get over it. Number one. Number two. If I didn’t act, we would have had 3 million deaths. And instead we’re at 110,000. And we could be heading to a number that’s, you know, higher than 150,000 to 200,000, it could be ending all now depending on how it goes. We’re doing very well on vaccine. We’re doing very well on therapeutic. But if I didn’t do what we did, we would have anywhere from 1.5 million to 3 million deaths. That would be 20 times more than we’ll end up having, you know? 10 to 30 times more.”

-Donald Trump in a June 17, 2020 interview as quoted by WSJ Staff, “Transcript of President Trump’s Interview With The Wall Street Journal,” wsj.com, June 18, 2020