Woodward: Restricting travel from China wasn't Trump's idea [View all]
Source: The Hill
Journalist Bob Woodward said early Monday that restricting travel from China in response to the coronavirus pandemic was not President Trump’s idea.
Host Savannah Guthrie noted on NBC's "Today" show that Woodward’s book “Rage” claims that Trump implemented the restrictions on the advice of his administration’s health experts, including Anthony Fauci, after a Jan. 28 meeting.
“It's not that President Trump banned travel, people coming from China to the United States. He restricted it. and as we now know, there were some problems and lots of people from China instead of coming to the United States went to Europe. and then came into John F. Kennedy airport in New York,” Woodward replied. “And that's why there was such a firestorm of a virus in New York City at that time.”
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“He had an opportunity -- he's saying well we're doing everything possible,” Woodward said. “At that moment if, like, Franklin Roosevelt after Pearl Harbor had told the American people the truth, a lot more could have been done.”
Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/516284-woodward-restricting-travel-from-china-wasnt-trumps-idea
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