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In a clip from the town hall set to air this evening, the president falsely told a voter he did not downplay the coronavirus pandemic, saying, “Actually, in many I ways, I up-played it, in terms of action.”
Fact check: The president repeatedly downplayed the seriousness of the virus, for months, and as it was recently revealed this week, explicitly admitted this to journalist Bob Woodward.
In a clip from tonight’s 9 PM ABC town hall, Trump tells a voter he didn’t downplay the pandemic (he did, for months, and explicitly told Woodward he did), but “actually in many ways, I up-played it, in terms of action.”
(He cited his “ban”s on China/Europe, which aren’t bans.)
Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law and White House adviser, refused to answer questions about Trump promoting falsehoods and a baseless conspiracy theory accusing Joe Biden of being a pedophile. Kushner responded that he hadn’t seen the tweet.
CNN’s Wolf Blitzer responded, “Please tell your father-in-law it’s really disgusting to retweet those kind of ugly disgusting tweets about his Democratic rival … I was pretty upset when I saw that.”
>> @WolfBlitzer asked Jared Kushner about Trump’s disgusting retweet accusing Joe Biden of being a pedophile. Kushner’s deflection: “I haven’t seen the tweet.” pic.twitter.com/zd9PSTDcCy
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