CORONAVIRUS/VACCINES: [George Stephanopoulos: “You were saying it [coronavirus] was going to disappear.”]
“It is going to disappear. It’s going to disappear, I still say it.”
[George Stephanopoulos: “But not if we don’t take action, correct?”]
“No, I still say it. It’s going to disappear, George… It would go away without the vaccine, George, but it’s going to go away a lot faster with it.”
[George Stephanopoulos: “It would go away without the vaccine?”]
“Sure, over a period of time. Sure, with time it goes away.”
[George Stephanopoulos: “And many deaths.”]
“And you’ll develop — you’ll develop herd — like a herd mentality. It’s going to be — it’s going to be herd-developed, and that’s going to happen. That will all happen.”
-Donald Trump, “Trump’s ABC News town hall: Full transcript,” abcnews.go.com, Sep. 15, 2020