CHINA/CORONAVIRUS: [Paul Tubiana, audience member: “I thought you were doing a good job with the pandemic response until about May 1st. Then you took your foot off the gas pedal. Why did you throw vulnerable people like me under the bus?”]
“Well, we really didn’t, Paul. We’ve worked very hard on the pandemic. We’ve worked very hard. It came off from China. They should have never let it happen…
But we really — we’re starting to get very good marks. If you look at what we’ve done compared to other countries, with the excess mortality, the excess mortality rate, we’ve done very, very well…
So I feel that we’ve done a tremendous job actually, and it’s something that, I don’t think it’s been recognized like it should… But we’re very proud of the job we’ve done, and we’ve saved a lot of lives, a tremendous number of lives.”
-Donald Trump, “Trump’s ABC News town hall: Full transcript,” abcnews.go.com, Sep. 15, 2020