CORONAVIRUS: [Joni Powell, audience member: “My question is, if you believe it’s the president’s responsibility to protect America, why would you downplay a [coronavirus] pandemic that is known to disproportionately harm low-income families and minority communities?”]
“Yeah. Well, I didn’t downplay it. I actually — in many ways I up-played it in terms of action. My action was very strong… Yes, because what I did was, with China – I put a ban on with Europe, I put a ban on. And we would have lost thousands of more people, had I not put the ban on.
So that was called action, not with the mouth, but an actual fact. We did a very, very good job when we put that ban on. Whether you call it talent or luck, it was very important.“
-Donald Trump, “Trump’s ABC News town hall: Full transcript,” abcnews.go.com, Sep. 15, 2020