First of all the interviewer was being a bit dishonest about other nations covid numbers...but more importantly....asking a question of why we in America have such a high count of covid is a silly and misleading question...
We are a huge nation with individual states that are governed separately....we are not like other populated nations that are ruled by one authority...some states opened too early and sloppily....
Other states didn't have the outbreak of other states so they dropped their guard...to ask Trump this question was designed to put him in a defensive position....all for the cameras....**** CNN.....
Trump needs to stay away from CNN they are interested in one thing only....replacing Trump.....
Not CNN.
But to the rest of your complaint, the interviewer asked him a tough question. That’s what it’s like to do an interview with someone who isn’t a devotee like Hannity.
He asked him a trick question and Trump did have trouble answering it as the question was designed to do....but the answer is just what I posted...the American president has only so much authority over states unlike other nations with a single authority...
The interviewer knows this and Trump will be ready for this question the next time....
Maybe Trump should have ordered Marshall law and locked down the nation like SK and China did.....then if we had this second wave the case could be made that it was Trumps fault....but not with 50 governors making their own rules....
Plus the numbers the interviewer was siting were weeks old...there are second waves happening all over the world....but then once again the media blames Trump for this virus and lets China off the hook completely.....their big daddy bucks China....