{"id":63492,"date":"2020-09-10T00:12:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-09T21:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/trump-defends-decision-to-publicly-downplay-covid-19-to-avoid-panic\/"},"modified":"2020-09-10T00:12:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-09T21:12:00","slug":"trump-defends-decision-to-publicly-downplay-covid-19-to-avoid-panic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/trump-defends-decision-to-publicly-downplay-covid-19-to-avoid-panic\/","title":{"rendered":"#Trump defends decision to publicly downplay COVID-19 to avoid panic"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Trump defends decision to publicly downplay COVID-19 to avoid panic<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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September 9, 2020 |<\/span> 5:12pm <\/p>\n

\n President Trump on Wednesday defended his decision to downplay the severity of the coronavirus to the American people, saying that the ensuing panic would have only exacerbated the oncoming pandemic.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m a cheerleader for this country,\u201d he told reporters during an unrelated White House briefing. \u201cI don\u2019t want people to be frightened. I don\u2019t want to create panic.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to show confidence. We want to show strength. We want to show strength as a nation. And that\u2019s what I\u2019ve done.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump acknowledged to Washington Post editor Bob Woodward in an interview for his upcoming book that he \u201cwanted to always play it [the coronavirus] down\u201d publicly, even as he conceded a grave outlook behind the scenes, according to excerpts released Wednesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t want to jump up and down and start shouting that we have a problem that is a tremendous problem, scare everyone,\u201d Trump said in the briefing.<\/p>\n

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He also presented the public calm as a strategy to prevent price-gouging and ensure that America was able to stockpile masks, gowns and other needed supplies.<\/p>\n

Asked if he felt any sense of responsibility for the now nearly 190,000 American deaths attributed to the coronavirus, Trump said that the toll could have been much worse if not for steps taken by his administration.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think if we didn\u2019t do what we did, we would have had millions of people die,\u201d he said. \u201cWe closed up our country. We closed it up very, very quickly, very effectively.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump specifically cited the Jan. 31 order restricting travel<\/a> from \u201ca very heavily infected\u201d China, where the virus originated.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe last thing we can show is panic, or excitement, or fear, or anything else,\u201d Trump repeated. \u201cWe had to take care of the situation we were given.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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