CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19: “I think we’ve done an incredible job, between the ventilators and stopping very infected people from China coming in, meaning putting the ban on China, which frankly nobody wanted me to do, practically nobody because it was very early in January. Then putting the ban on Europe, not an easy thing to do. When you put a ban on Europe, that’s a big thing. We would have probably lost hundreds of thousands of lives more had I not done that.
And all of the experts, every one of them, not one of them wanted to do it. They thought it was too severe. Three months later, they’re all saying, ‘I’m glad you did it.’”
-Donald Trump in a July 28, 2020 interview with Jonathan Swan, “AXIOS on HBO: President Trump Exclusive Interview (Full Episode) | HBO,” YouTube.com, Aug. 3, 2020