That’s where Trump would like to think the country is: at the tail end of the pandemic. “If I didn’t act, we would have had 3 million deaths,” Trump claimed. The second is that Trump has again upgraded his estimate of how many Americans might die in the pandemic. AD“I would even say the spike ends, has already ended,” Trump said of the recent increase in cases in the state. Fauci’s broader point wasn’t that there’s been a new surge in coronavirus cases.

Source: Washington Post June 18, 2020 21:46 UTC