8/4/2020

CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/ECONOMY: “So we had the greatest economy in the history of the world, not only in our country, in every country. We were beating China, beating everybody. They were having the worst economy they’ve had in over 67 years. So we were doing with the tariffs and all the things that I was doing. And then we had to close it up. [Coronavirus] came from China. They should have stopped it. They could have stopped it, but they didn’t. They stopped it from going into their country, but they didn’t stop it from here, Europe, or the rest of the world. And we had to close it up and we did that.”

-Donald Trump in an Aug. 4, 2020 interview as quoted by Catholic News Agency, “Transcript of EWTN News Nightly Interview with President Donald Trump,” thecatholictelegraph.com, Aug. 5, 2020