Jared Kushner, senior consultant to President Trump, listens to the president throughout a listening session with cybersecurity professionals in the Roosevelt Room the White House in Washington on Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2017.
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White House senior consultant and the U.S. president’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, has actually protected the Trump administration’s technique to fight the coronavirus pandemic, stating others have actually attempted to utilize the crisis to “play politics” — however not President Donald Trump.
“Some people have chosen to play politics with the pandemic, President Trump has opted not to politicize it and he’s done everything possible to try to figure how to help people get whatever care they need,” Kushner informed CNBC in a special interview on Friday.
“This is a global pandemic, it came from China into our country. It’s ravaged many countries throughout the world and I think President Trump has dealt with it in a very responsible way,” he included.
In February, when there were simply 3 cases of Covid-19 in the U.S., Trump implicated the Democrats of politicizing the infection and utilizing it as a “new hoax” to harm his track record.
Since then, the coronavirus has actually contaminated more than 21.5 million individuals around the world and eliminated a minimum of 773,000 individuals, according to information put together by Johns Hopkins University. The U.S. is the worst-hit country and represent about 25% of the worldwide cases reported up until now.
Asked by CNBC’s Hadley Gamble whether it had actually been an error for the U.S. not to have a nationwide program to eliminate the infection, Kushner stated the federal government managed the procurement, production and circulation of resources required throughout the pandemic, such as masks and ventilators.
“With regards to a national strategy, the job of the federal government was to get the resources that the country needed,” he stated.
“You heard all these hysterical reports about doctors on the front lines not being able to get masks, not having enough ventilators, you had governors requesting a lot more ventilators than they needed, and again, every patient in America that needed a ventilator got a ventilator, President Trump distributed them properly,” Kushner informed CNBC’s Hadley Gamble.
The U.S. federal government has actually been slammed over its handling of the coronavirus epidemic, where over 5.4 million validated cases of the infection have actually now been taped and where there have actually been over 170,000 deaths, according to Hopkins’ information on Sunday.
Kushner led a coronavirus reaction job force targeted at protecting protective equipment for medical employees and developing a nationwide screening strategy. His job force, which parallels the federal government’s main job force led by Vice President Mike Pence, was implicated of lack of experience and an absence of openness over its negotiations.
It was extensively reported that a nationwide technique over screening was dropped in favor of a state-by-state reaction to make the Democratic guvs in a few of the hardest-hit states look bad. The White House rejected those accusations.
Kushner firmly insisted that the Trump administration had actually made sure an appropriate supply of resources to states, however that it did not wish to take control of their decision-making.
“The federal government has done a lot to stimulate the supply (of resources). Every governor that has needed resources, we’ve dealt with them and we’ve done it. Governors run the states … President Trump from Washington is not going to tell them how to run their states.”
Asked if there were any remorses about the White House’s technique, Kushner stated “there’s constantly things you might do in a different way. He did not elaborate even more.
“But once again, this is an extraordinary obstacle and I believe he’s (Trump’s) made a great deal of right choices … we have 50 states, which implies you have 50 CEOs, and his task is to deal with all of them,” he included.
