Jared Kushner defends Trump administration’s pandemic response – By Holly Ellyatt (CNBC) / Aug 17 2020
- White House senior advisor Jared Kushner defended the Trump administration’s approach to the coronavirus pandemic in an exclusive interview with CNBC.
- The United States is the worst-hit nation and has reported over 5.4 million confirmed cases of the virus and more than 170,000 deaths.
- Kushner led a coronavirus response task force aimed at maintaining supply chains and devising a national testing plan.
White House senior advisor and the U.S. president’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, has defended the Trump administration’s strategy to combat the coronavirus pandemic, saying others have tried to use the crisis to “play politics” — but not President Donald Trump.
“Some people have chosen to play politics with the pandemic, President Trump has opted not to politicize it and he’s done everything possible to try to figure how to help people get whatever care they need,” Kushner told CNBC in an exclusive interview on Friday.
“This is a global pandemic, it came from China into our country. It’s ravaged many countries throughout the world and I think President Trump has dealt with it in a very responsible way,” he added.
In February, when there were just three cases of Covid-19 in the U.S., Trump accused the Democrats of politicizing the virus and using it as a “new hoax” to damage his reputation.
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