Washington (WBAP/KLIF) – Before two U.S. deaths linked to coronavirus on Friday and over the weekend, the younger Trump accused Democrats of politicizing the issue, telling Fox & Friends, of Democrats, “For them to try to take a pandemic and seemingly hope that it comes here, and kills millions of people so that they could end Donald Trump’s streak of winning, is a new level of sickness.”
WATCH @DonaldJTrumpJr: For Democrats to hope #Coronavirus comes to the U.S. to end President @realDonaldTrump’s Winning Streak is a ‘New Level of Sickness' pic.twitter.com/DXpuCSr8W0
— Team Trump (Text TRUMP to 88022) (@TeamTrump) February 28, 2020
Reaction, from California Congressman John Garamendi whose district has seen community spread of the illness, who told MSNBC that Don Jr better not be near him when he said something like that, “There will be a serious altercation.”
I joined @HallieJackson on @MSNBC this morning to discuss a briefing I received from the administration this morning on the Coronavirus. You can watch our discussion below: pic.twitter.com/qoc22zUvjc
— John Garamendi (@RepGaramendi) February 28, 2020
Garamendi told the network that there is not a Democrat or Republican in Congress that wants anybody to be sick.
Meantime, two people have died in Washington state of coronavirus. Officials are trying to find the source of the infection, and in San Antonio, officials in San Antonio are blasting the Centers for Disease Control and prevention after its admitted missteps with a possible coronavirus patient.
The patient was mistakenly released from a health care facility before a pending lab test came back positive. The woman reportedly had contact with others before being returned to isolation.
San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenburg said in part, “The fact that the CDC allowed the public to be exposed to a patient with a positive covid-19 reading is unacceptable.”
Officials are trying to determine who the woman may have interacted with … she was among several Americans evacuated from Wuhan, China last month.
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