‘I Absolutely Do’: Biden Blames Trump for COVID-19 Deaths
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden is making it clear he holds President Donald Trump responsible for the fact that more than 195,000 Americans have died from COVID-19. On Wednesday, excerpts of a new book by…
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden is making it clear he holds President Donald Trump responsible for the fact that more than 195,000 Americans have died from COVID-19.
On Wednesday, excerpts of a new book by Washington Post associate editor Bob Woodward showed that Trump knew by early February that the virus was “more deadly than even your strenuous flu,” yet tried to downplay the severity of it.
In light of Trump’s comments recorded in the book, Biden was asked if he holds the president responsible for the deaths caused by the coronavirus, he responded, “Yes, I do. I absolutely do.”
He went to reference a study by the Columbia Medical School that claimed that if mitigation efforts were implemented one week earlier, there could have been 37,000 fewer deaths from the virus.
Biden also slammed Trump for previously saying that intelligence officials only briefed him on the virus in late-January and that even then, they addressed it in a “very non-threatening, or matter of fact, manner.”
Woodward writes