Yeah, and when he “played down the virus” we didn’t have ONE DEATH in the US. Not one. And Nancy Pelosi was waltzing around Chinatown telling everybody not to be afraid.
And not to mention that when he knew when to take the virus seriously (travel restrictions, etc), Pelosi, Cuomo, De Blasio, and others of the Democrat talking class said it was reactionary and racist.
The quote in the article puts perspective to Trump’s decision to shut off travel from China at the end of January. After he was briefed that the virus was going to be bad, he thought about it for a couple of days, then shut down flights from China.
The Democrats then went nuts trying to criticize his decision. It’s not like Biden can say “See? I told Trump to do X, but he did Y. And X was the right thing.” Trump wasn’t flawless, but Biden was demonstrably wrong on everything he ever uttered about COVID-19.
My thinking is this. Trump might go down in history as a leader who literally had to walk alone on his path of leadership during a world-changing event. Even Churchill, at the depths of WWII, wasn’t alone like Trump is. The Democrats were nipping at Trump’s heels, and most Republicans were willing to stand WAY back from Trump as he navigated those early days. Fauci and his science buddies were still saying everything was fine as late as middle of March. Trump did everything possible to forestall the panic, but once that British report came out claiming 2M Americans were going to die (later revealed as BS), he had no choice but to shut everything down.
Maybe this release was set up by Trump. It makes people revisit the timeline and remember the sequence events correctly...