Chris Wallace Confronts Trump Campaign Adviser: Trump 'Plays the Panic Card All the Time'
Fox News anchor Chris Wallace on Sunday repeatedly confronted Trump senior campaign adviser Steve Cortes over President Donald Trumps assertion that he intentionally downplayed coronavirus because he didnt want to panic the public, noting that the president plays the panic card all the time on a handful of other issues.
At the top of their interview on Fox News Sunday, Cortes insisted that corporate media had pushed out a myth that the president had mishandled the pandemic, which has currently resulted in nearly 200,000 American deaths.
When I look at these revelations from [Bob] Woodward, if you look at them in the context of the totality of the actions taken by this president, it actually reveals an exemplary record of crisis management, Cortes said, adding that Trump acted decisively during the fog of biological war.
After Cortes pointed to the presidents partial travel restriction on China as proof of Trumps superb management of the crisisa favorite talking point of Team TrumpWallace brought up Trump admitting to Woodward that the virus was deadly and airborne in early February.
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