AhlulBayt News Agency (ABNA): According to Press TV, in a tweet on Friday, Trump, who has been under fire about the US government’s response to the COVID-19 outbreak, said the "Do Nothing Democrats" were placing blame on him and countered that the virus was spreading "very slowly in the U.S. because President Trump closed our border, and ended flights, VERY EARLY."
"The Do Nothing Democrats were busy wasting time on the Immigration Hoax, & anything else they could do to make the Republican Party look bad, while I was busy calling early BORDER & FLIGHT closings, putting us way ahead in our battle with Coronavirus. Dems called it VERY wrong!" he added in a follow-up tweet.
Meanwhile, acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney accused the American press of peddling a false narrative about the Trump administration “scrambling” to contain the virus.
US Democratic presidential candidates attacked Trump’s handling of the coronavirus outbreak on Thursday.
“We need a president who does not play politics with our health and national security,” said Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, the national Democratic frontrunner.
The Trump administration “must stop releasing misleading, unscientific, and false information” about coronavirus, Sanders said in a statement.
Sanders said that Pence was “completely unqualified” and called Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and White House economist Larry Kudlow “political cronies,” who should be replaced by experts.
Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg said that Trump was “burying his head in the sand” over coronavirus.
“His failure to prepare is crippling our ability to respond,” Bloomberg said.
Meanwhile, a World Health Organization (WHO) official said that he found Trump's remarks during a news conference on Wednesday on his administration's response to the coronavirus outbreak a "little incoherent."
Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, special adviser to the director general of the WHO, said that Trump's comments indicated how little the president knew about public health.
He also pointed out that health officials still do not know vital information about the deadly virus, which has also affected at least 60 people in the United States.
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