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On Sunday, the House Speaker Nancy Pelosi appeared on CNN’s State of the Union. She was asked about the Trump administration’s response to the novel virus. Pelosi said President Trump’s inaction during the coronavirus pandemic was deadly and cost American lives and he was inadequate from the beginning. Pelosi said, “The president, his denial at the beginning, was deadly. His delaying of getting equipment to where it continued, his continued delay in getting equipment to where it’s needed is deadly. Now the best thing to do would be to prevent more loss of life rather than open things up, because we just don’t know. We have to have testing, testing, testing”.

CNN’s Jake Tapper asked if the speaker was insinuating the president downplaying Covid-19. She said, “Yes I am. I’m saying that it will cost Americans lives”. Pelosi was concerned with how much Trump knew before any regulations or restrictions were put in place by the federal government. She said, “I don’t know what the scientists said to him, when did this president know about this, and what did he know? What did he know and when did he know it? That’s for an after-action review. But as the president fiddles, people are dying. And we just have to take every precaution”.

Don’t try to rewrite history @SpeakerPelosi. When POTUS went on offense to combat coronavirus & banned travel from China, not only did you & your friends in Congress + media attack him for doing so, you were literally focusing all of your energy on a phony impeachment! https://t.co/7LYffah3SF

— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) March 29, 2020

Trump played down the virus early into the epidemic, and how it could impact people living in the United States. He said at one point, the 15 confirmed cases would soon get close to zero. It is noteworthy that confirmed cases across the US have since increased to more than 125,200 people infected with the novel virus and 2,210 deaths. Point to be noted that the president has yet to respond to Pelosi’s attack through Twitter. But his son Donald Trump Jr. tweeted against Pelosi for her attack and said, “Don’t try to rewrite history @SpeakerPelosi. When POTUS went on offense to combat coronavirus & banned travel from China, not only did you & your friends in Congress + media attack him for doing so, you were literally focusing all of your energy on a phony impeachment”.