During the second part of Bret Baier‘s Fox News interview, Donald Trump praised his own response to Covid-19 under the guise of humility, saying, “There are people that say I saved 100 million lives — I don’t even talk about it.”
Trump backed into the claim by telling a story about “a Democrat friend who is very smart.”
“He said, ‘I don’t understand one thing about you. I watch your rallies, they’re incredible. You talk about defeating ISIS, you talk about taxes, you talk about regulation, you talk about everything. You never said — I’ve never heard you talk about the incredible job did you with the vaccines.’ Because, as you know, I got them done in nine months and it was suppose to take anywhere from five to 12 years.
I broke their ass, ok? And do you know who doesn’t like me too much? The FDA because they were very bureaucratic and I got it done. And he said, ‘You may have saved in the world, throughout the world, a hundred million people and you never talk about it.’ I said, I really don’t want to talk about it because, as a Republican it’s not a great thing to talk about because, for some reason, it’s just not.”
Baier pushed back on Trump and asked, “For some reason?”
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After discussing presidential primary rival Gov. Ron DeSantis loving “radical masker” Anthony Fauci, Trump returned to the issue of politics.
“So, the mandates are horrible. And I was always against the mandates. But really on the vaccines, I let the governors make their decisions. But you have a lot of people that love the vaccines. I mean, you do. They happen to be more Democrat than they are Republican.”
Watch the clip above via Fox News.