Trump admitted to misleading the American people about the threat of coronavirus, claiming he did not want to create panic. But in 2014, during the Ebola outbreak, Trump was a constant voice of pandemic panic.
Trump said he did not want to cause panic among Americans.
TRUMP: “I don’t want to scare people. I want people not to panic, and that’s exactly what I did.”
QUESTION: “Did you mislead the public?” TRUMP: “If you said ‘in order to reduce panic’, perhaps that’s so. The fact is I’m a cheerleader for this country, I love our country, and I don’t want people to be frightened, I don’t want to create panic, as you say, and certainly I’m not going to drive this country or the world into a frenzy.”
But during the 2014 Ebola outbreak, Trump was a constant voice of panic.
TRUMP: “Ebola is much easier to transmit than the CDC and government representatives are admitting. Spreading all over Africa-and fast. Stop flights”
TRUMP: “The Ebola patient who came into our country knew exactly what he was doing. Came into contact with over 100 people. Here we go-I told you so!”
TRUMP: “There is a good possibility that a person who treated patients in West Africa and who FLEW into New York has Ebola. Touched many, bedlam!”
TRUMP: “All the governors are already backing off of the Ebola quarantines. Bad decision that will lead to more mayhem.”
TRUMP: “A single Ebola carrier infects 2 others at a minimum. STOP THE FLIGHTS! NO VISAS FROM EBOLA STRICKEN COUNTRIES!”
TRUMP: “The United States must immediately institute strong travel restrictions or Ebola will be all over the United States-a plague like no other!”
TRUMP: “Now we have Ebola in U.S., AND IT WILL ONLY GET WORSE!
