The Left Gets Schooled

Peter Navarro George Stephanopoulos

During an appearance on ABC's "This Week" on Sunday, White House trade adviser Peter Navarro took it to ABC chief anchor George Stephanopoulos on the Trump administration's response to the Chinese coronavirus.

After Navarro called out China for its handling of the virus, Stephanopoulos bashed President Trump for "praising" China in February:  "It was President Trump who was praising China all through the month of February and, you know, there's a lot of evidence that those lost weeks made a difference."

"There's no lost weeks," Navarro clapped back. "This starting gun for the China pandemic started on January 30th when President Trump had the courage to pull down the flights from China. That was an enormously courageous decision. He took a lot of heat from that."

He continued:

And the work we did throughout February has borne beautiful fruit here in the spring. Because what we saw on Friday in the Rose Garden, was the announcement of a 14-company race to a vaccine, with the goal of December, what we have seen is therapeutics like Remdesivir already going into hospitals right now to save American lives, and we had company like Honeywell building two factories in five weeks, George, instead of nine months – Five weeks, that's Trump time, to produce 20 million N95 masks a month.
So, don't tell me we lost February. Because I was there, I'm right here, and this President was directing us to move as quickly as possible, even as publicly we were trying to figure out in the fog of war just how serious this pandemic would be.

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