Trump: More People Died Under Biden Than Died In The Trump Administration From COVID

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Well, I watched the whole thing today, but more importantly, I was a part of the whole Fauci. I inherited Fauci. He was here from the 1980s, so I had him for a period of time, and I disagreed with him on a lot.

I would have had to close down the whole country if I listened to him. I went the Federalist way, which is basically to let the governors decide. And generally speaking, the Republican governors did very well, the Democrat governors did not very well.

But Fauci wanted to have nobody wearing masks, if you remember, and then everybody had to wear five masks, as many masks as you could get. I mean, he made a lot of mistakes. And he wasn't a big factor for me, he was a very big factor for Biden.

And if you remember, even though we were sort of primetime in terms of that whole disaster of COVID, far people died fewer in the Trump administration than in the Biden administration. We ran it well, Operation Warp Speed was talked about as being one of the great success stories anywhere in the world, actually. And we did a good job.

But many more people died under Biden than died in the Trump administration from COVID. COVID was a disaster, but Fauci did not help.

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