President Donald Trump was projecting calm when he spoke publicly in February about how the outbreak of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus could quickly come to an end even as he called it “deadly stuff” in private, Vice President Mike Pence said.
“His tone was one of projecting calm and confidence. But I heard him at that podium, I heard him in every setting. We gave the American people the facts,” Pence said Thursday during a virtual appearance on Fox News.
Pence praised Trump for suspending travel from China on Jan. 31, noting the “unprecedented step” was opposed at the time by Democrats, including Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, and the World Health Organization.“What I saw, firsthand from the day in January in the Oval Office when President Trump took the unprecedented step of suspending all travel from China, declaring a public health emergency, is that this president put the health of America first from day one,” he said.
