Romney slams Trump administration over U.S. coronavirus demise toll

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Romney slams Trump administration over U.S. coronavirus demise toll

Senator Mitt Romney, a Republican from Utah, listens throughout a Senate Small Enterprise Committee listening to on coronavirus reduction assist an


Senator Mitt Romney, a Republican from Utah, listens throughout a Senate Small Enterprise Committee listening to on coronavirus reduction assist and “Implementation of title I of the CARES Act.”, in Washington, U.S., June 10, 2020.

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Utah Sen. Mitt Romney criticized the Trump administration’s early response to the coronavirus outbreak on Friday, saying they dismissed the virus as a risk from the outset and did not take rapid motion.  

“Quick time period I believe it is truthful to say we (america) actually haven’t distinguished ourselves in a constructive means by how we responded to the disaster when it was upon us,” Romney stated throughout an interview with the Sutherland Institute. 

Romney, a Republican who has spoken out in opposition to Trump publicly on quite a few points, stated the “proof of the pudding” is obvious within the variety of reported Covid-19 deaths. 

“We’ve 5% of the world’s inhabitants however 25% of the world’s deaths attributable to Covid-19, and there is not any solution to spin that in a constructive gentle,” he stated.

The U.S. has reported at the very least 168,462 deaths associated to the coronavirus out of the world’s 766,488 fatalities to date, marking practically 22% of the entire globally, in response to Johns Hopkins College information. Nevertheless, a current Yale research means that the true tally of deaths from Covid-19 may very well be considerably increased than the variety of confirmed deaths. 

Whereas Romney applauded Congress and the administration for transferring shortly to offer monetary reduction within the Coronavirus Help, Aid, and Financial Safety Act, or CARES Act, he stated the administration did not instantly “ring all of the alarm bells.” They did not equitably distribute private protecting gear to each state and have been gradual to scale manufacturing of the important provides, he stated. 

“The well being affect of Covid-19 on our nation and our response to it was actually very, very disappointing,” Romney stated. 

President Donald Trump has at occasions dismissed the Covid-19 demise toll, telling Axios’ Jonathan Swan in an interview performed in late July that the variety of fatalities “is what it’s.” In the course of the interview, Trump stated his administration has finished and “unimaginable” job responding to the pandemic. 

“They’re dying. That is true, and — it’s what it’s,” Trump stated. “However that does not imply we aren’t doing the whole lot we will. It is underneath management as a lot as you’ll be able to management it,” Trump stated within the interview. 

The White Home couldn’t be instantly reached for remark. 

— CNBC’s Berkeley Lovelace Jr. and Kevin Breuninger contributed to this report. 



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