This week, Trump was asked whether lives could have been saved if the country had shut down 2 or 3 weeks earlier.

“Nobody really thought to do that,” he said.

Actually, someone did. Trump threatened to fire her, and he opposed the idea for 3 fatal weeks. https://t.co/gDY3xG8hfW

— Will Saletan (wsaletan on Threads) (@saletan) September 26, 2020