As the U.S. Covid-19 death toll was all but certain to hit 200,000 on Monday with the virus still taking the lives of nearly 1,000 Americans each day, President Donald Trump told Fox News that he would give himself a perfect grade for his handling of a pandemic that has infected more than 6.8 million people across the country, permanently eliminated millions of jobs, and destroyed countless livelihoods.


Kyle Herrig, president of watchdog group Accountable.US, said in a statement marking the 200,000-death milestone that it was obvious from the beginning that “the Trump administration was mismanaging the nation’s pandemic response.”

“After President Trump’s admission that he purposefully downplayed the virus to the public, it’s clear that we have much more to learn about exactly how the government failed to protect the American people throughout this crisis,” said Herrig.

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