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Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., safeguarded President Trump on Thursday as “The View” co-host Pleasure Behar challenged him to call three things the president “did best” throughout the coronavirus pandemic.
” The first thing he did,” Graham stated, “was– [on], I think January 31 st– stop travel from China. The Chinese are the bad man here if you’re looking for a bad man.”
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Graham included that the China travel constraint ” probably saved us a great deal of distress,” stating that move, along with subsequent constraints on European travel and stating a national emergency situation, ” flattened the curve.”
Graham confessed that the U.S. was “struggling” with testing, but said that he “can’t really blame the president” for that.
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Behar likewise asked Graham about Trump’s choice to halt financing to the World Health Organization (WHO).
Graham, a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, stated he wished to see a change in leadership as he had lost self-confidence in the global health agency.
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” I think they conspired with China to downplay the nature of the infection, that they reported all through January there was no evidence of human-to-human transmission,” he stated. “… The cash that’s being suspended will go to other individuals throughout the world to handle health problems.”