The presser live. He was answering a different question when the reporter tossed out his “gotcha” question, so when the reporter asks if Trump thought it was a hoax, he immediately said “yes” but was referring to the previous topic of the CNN et al coverage which has been trying to hurt the economy with hysteria to in turn hurt Trump in the election.
I knew the second that Trump said it that you guys would intentionally latch on because the media can isolate that short segment without the rest, and since so few of you actually bother to listen to the whole thing, you will accept it as fact.
Do you think Trump would have closed all flights to China a month before it was seen by the media to be a crisis (and be attacked for it by you guys at the time for being racist) if he thought the virus was a hoax?!
This is a waste of time trying to convince you of the truth because you want to believe another narrative. But I give this to the more intellectually open people so that they can know the truth.