Trump Defends Coronavirus Record
As
US Cases Near 600,000
New York has been this state hardest hit by covert 19 and it was also battered on Monday by bad weather health care workers had to contend with heavy rain and high winds at this emergency tent facility in Central Park and they were not the only ones weathering a storm in Washington US President Donald Trump faced criticism over his handling of the crisis at his Daily Press briefing.
The president surprised journalists with what some are calling a propaganda video defending his response then he went on the offensive remember this everything we did I was criticized because I was too early if I waited longer it would have been you would have incurred if I went way early if I went three months earlier I would have been criticized you know criticized for being way too early.
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I think I've educated a lot of people as to the press and I would love to be able to say that we have a very honest press Trump said his administration was finalizing a plan to reopen the US economy when questioned on who would decide on relaxing lockdown rules Trump said he would be calling the shots it's a decision for the President of the United States now with that being said we're gonna work with the states because it's very important several state governors on the east and west coasts are discussing the best way to open their economies and ease stay at home orders New York Governor Andrew Cuomo seemed to suggest he thought it should be largely up to individual states not the president he left it to the states to close down and that was a state-by-state decision without any guidance.
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Really he took the position that it was a States decision and then the states were responsible for purchasing supplies etc with infection numbers in New York beginning to Plateau the calls to loosen the lockdown are getting louder but the road back to normalcy will be a long one to tell us more I'm joined by DW correspondent Oliver zealot in Washington DC Oliver as we saw Trump defended his response to the coronavirus reaction what did you make of what he said well this is one of those press conference clear to be remembered a highly unusual press conference with a very very angry president Trump lashing out against his critics against the media.
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He also insulted journalists in the room you just heard his sound buy it there so really strongly trying to defend himself and I was a very special moment in that press conference when the White House showed a campaign style video where they actually defended the handling president Trump's handling of that pandemic and this is one of those videos that you would actually see on a campaign rally but not on a government press conference of course so it really shows that President Trump got under pressure u.s. networks later called that video a propaganda video and that happened after Anthony Fauci.
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President Trump's leading expert in infectious diseases indirectly criticized President Trump saying that many lives could have been saved if the government had acted earlier that's right there's been some controversy surrounding a Trump's response a to director excuse me to dr. Anthony Fauci can you tell us a little bit more about that right and that controversy began after those Falchi remarks that I just mentioned and today President Trump retweeted a tweet where someone called for firing Antoni Falchi .
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Then there were additional media reports that Trump was actually planning to do exactly that firing his coronavirus export expert excuse me which he then later rejected as fake news so big controversy here leading up to that press conference Lilly later Anthony Falchi was trying to put that into perspective in that press conference he said he had a bad choice of words he also said that Trump acted when he told him to with regards to the shutdown of course but with regards to the import assessment that he made that lives could have been saved had the government acted earlier he stayed on message and it is a very serious situation for Trump you can see that in his response as well the election here in the United States is coming up and President Trump really got on the defensive so as we've seen that back and forth between Falchi.
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Trump can you tell us how the situation in the United States has been developing all right so there's another debate right now going on and that is about when to reopen and who's in charge of reopening the economy is that the governor's is that the president's so total of nine US states is now trying to organize themselves trying to lift those stay-at-home orders New York is one of them they have seen a dip in hospitalizations over the last days but Andrew Cuomo New York's governor is stressing that the situation is still very bad that there are 2,000 new cases every day and that you have to be very careful when reopening the economy warning about backlash correspondent.
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