The president told reporters that he did not even know about memos from his top trade adviser warning of the COVID-19 pandemic's impact until he read media accounts of them.
President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he never read or considered reading a memorandum in which his top trade adviser warned of the need to implement an"aggressive containment" strategy to prevent a massive loss of life and economic damage from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Navarro, a maverick Havard-educated economist who has long advocated a tougher stance against Chinese trade practices, pressed for"an immediate travel ban on China" as part of an"aggressive containment" strategy to mitigate what a Council of Economic Advisers study predicted could be a $3.8 trillion loss in terms of economic act as a result of a pandemic.
President Donald Trump speaks to reporters following a meeting of the coronavirus task force in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on April 7. The president today removed the independent chairman of a committee tasked with overseeing the roll out of the $2 trillion coronavirus bailout package.Pressed further on when he became aware of the memorandum's existence, Trump said he asked Navarro about the documents"just a little while ago" after reading about them.
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