The federal government should have acted with "more urgency and seriousness" in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., told Fox News Radio's “Guy Benson Show” Wednesday. Sasse was responding to newly released audio of interviews with President Trump conducted by journalist Bob Woodward earlier this year. In early February, Trump acknowledged that the coronavirus was "deadly stuff," even as he publicly compared it to the flu. A month later, Trump told Woodward that he "wanted to always play it [coronavirus] down." “Tens of thousands of Americans have died from the virus," Sasse went on.

Source: Fox News September 09, 2020 22:52 UTC