9/15/2020

CORONAVIRUS: [George Stephanopoulos: “But we’re still – are dealing with 195,000 deaths [from coronavirus] in the United States right now… Does it make you think, is there anything I could have done differently?”]

“I think we could have had two million deaths if we didn’t close out the country…”

[George Stephanopoulos: “So you regret nothing?”]

“We did close it — no, I think we did a great job. If we didn’t close the country…look, we created…I created, we all created together…you helped everybody. The fact is, we created the greatest economy in the history of the world, best employment numbers for African-American, Asian-American, Hispanic-America, women, everything…

And then somebody comes in and then somebody else, doctors, and they start talking about the pandemic and about closing, they want to close up our country…

But, we had the greatest economy ever, and we have to close it. If I didn’t close it, I think you’d have two million deaths instead of having the 185,000 – 190,000. It’s a terrible number – one is too many.”

-Donald Trump, “Trump’s ABC News town hall: Full transcript,” abcnews.go.com, Sep. 15, 2020