During the presidential debate Donald Trump mocked Joe Biden for wearing a mask and downplayed their effectiveness - now he’s got the virus.
wore masks unnecessarily when people were “200 feet away from him and he shows up with the biggest mask I’ve ever seen”.
“No, I think masks are okay,” Mr Trump replied. “You have to understand, if you look … I mean, I have a mask right here. I put a mask on when I think I need it. Mr Trump insisted there had been ‘no problem whatsoever’ after holding large rallies with no masks. Picture: (Photos by Jim Watson and Saul Loeb/ AFP“I want to ask you, we’ve got a little more than a minute left in this segment …” Wallace said, again trying to move away from a discussion about masks.
“I’m doing my job as a president, and I’ll have 25, 35,000 people show up at airports. We use airports and hangers and we have a lot of people.” “By the way, did you see one of the last big rallies he had,” Mr Biden said. “A reporter came up to him to ask him a question, he said, ‘No, no, no. Stand back, put on your mask, put on a mask. Have you been tested? I’m way far away from those other people’.
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