Many of President Donald Trump's supporters have been "misled" by early information coming from the White House about the coronavirus, former Vice President Al Gore told CNN's Don Lemon on Monday, adding he is happy the president has changed his tone.
"I don't agree with his policies," Gore told "CNN Tonight," "but those who follow him, I'm afraid many of them have been misled," explaining some of Trump's earlier statements "using the word 'hoax,' and he used it in a specialized way, but saying it was going to disappear, those kinds of things, I feel badly for those who believe that stuff and have not been protecting themselves."
Gore said many states, too have not adopted the kind of policies suggested by Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and a member of Trump's coronavirus task force, "partly because they've made it kind of a political partisan kind of issue."
Still, Gore gave Trump credit for "moving away from that," adding, "I think he's learned that you can't gaslight a virus. You've really got to pay attention to what the scientific facts are."
Gore said he did not want to get into political potshots with Trump.
"I want to encourage him to continue the kind of change we've seen in the last 24 hours," Gore said.
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