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发帖数: 29576 | 1 Focused on his purge and his reelection, Trump mostly told himself a happy
story about the virus, cherry-picking the most optimistic projections. He
assured friends at Mar-a-Lago that Chinese president Xi Jinping promised him
the outbreak would die out in warmer weather. “He said Xi told him it
would all be over in April,” a Republican who spoke with Trump told me.
At a rally in New Hampshire on February 10, Trump declared: “We only have
11 cases and they are all getting better.” They weren’t. On February 23,
the CDC documented the first case of person-to-person transmission in
California. “Once you had community spread, we realized all bets are off,”
Fauci later told me. Trump tweeted on February 24: “The Coronavirus is
very much under control in the USA….Stock Market starting to look very good
to me!” The market plunged nearly 900 points the next day. Trump called
Azar and screamed that the CDC was alarming people. “It’s a little bit
like the flu,” Trump assured reporters at the White House.
http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/04/donald-trump-jared-kushners-two-months-of-magical-thinking |
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