President Trump on Thursday sparred with reporters as he defended his newly-reported comments in author Bob Woodward's forthcoming book that show him downplaying the threat of the novel coronavirus pandemic in its early stages. “I have to lead a country.”SHOULD YOU GET A CORONAVIRUS TEST BEFORE SEEING FRIENDS AND FAMILY? “You just breathe the air and that’s how it’s passed,” Trump told Woodward during a Feb. 7 call. “I wanted to always play it down,” the president told Woodward in a March conversation. Trump has hit back Biden for opposing the ban on travel from China in late January and for the former vice president’s own handling of the swine flu pandemic in 2009.

Source: Fox News September 10, 2020 20:48 UTC