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font-size: 17px;"><div class="article__content" itemprop="mainEntityOfPage" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><p data-uri="slate.com/_components/slate-paragraph/instances/ckdkrmjdq00251kkt4jqew76k@published" data-word-count="108" class="slate-paragraph--drop-cap slate-paragraph" style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 1.2em;">On July 17, President Donald Trump sat for a <a href="https://video.foxnews.com/v/6172629328001" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: inherit; transition: all 0.12s ease; -webkit-transition: all 0.12s ease; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-color: var(--theme-color, rgb(255, 14, 80)); text-decoration: none !important;" class="">Fox News interview</a> at the White House. At the time, <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/coronavirus-latest-updates-07-17-2020-11594976178" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: inherit; transition: all 0.12s ease; -webkit-transition: all 0.12s ease; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-color: var(--theme-color, rgb(255, 14, 80)); text-decoration: none !important;" class="">nearly 140,000 Americans were dead</a> from the novel coronavirus. The interviewer, Chris Wallace, showed Trump a video clip in which Robert Redfield, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, warned of a <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/news/cdc-director-warns-this-coming-fall-winter-may-be-one-of-the-most-difficult-times-weve-experienced-in-american-public-health/" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: inherit; transition: all 0.12s ease; -webkit-transition: all 0.12s ease; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-color: var(--theme-color, rgb(255, 14, 80)); text-decoration: none !important;" class="">difficult fall and winter</a>ahead. Trump dismissed the warning. He scoffed that experts had misjudged the virus all along. “<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/transcript-fox-news-sunday-interview-with-president-trump" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: inherit; transition: all 0.12s ease; -webkit-transition: all 0.12s ease; border-bottom-width: 2px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-color: var(--theme-color, rgb(255, 14, 80)); text-decoration: none !important;" class="">Everybody thought this summer it would go away</a>,” said Trump. “They used to say the heat, the heat was good for it and it really knocks it out, remember? So they got that one wrong.” more>>>>>>></p><div class=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 24px;" class=""><a href="https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/08/trump-coronavirus-deaths-timeline.html" class="">https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/08/trump-coronavirus-deaths-timeline.html</a></span></div></div></section></div></body></html>