Jake Tapper Calls Out Trump’s Defense of Pandemic Comments: ‘He Tries to Invoke Panic All the Time… His Whole Argument is Panic!’

President *Donald Trump* has said for the past few days that his rationale for downplaying the seriousness of the coronavirus early on during the pandemic was that he didn't want to cause panic. CNN's *Jake Tapper* called out the president for hypocrisy in that statement.