Former President Donald Trump said he received a COVID-19 vaccine booster shot.
Trump said he got the booster in comments during an onstage interview Sunday with former Fox News anchor Bill O’Reilly on their speaking tour.
“Both the president and I are vaxed and, uh, did you get the booster?” O’Reilly asked him. “Yes,” Trump said.
“I got it, too,” O’Reilly replied, which appeared to prompt some in the audience to boo.
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“Oh, don’t, don’t, don’t,” Trump said, waving his hand toward the crowd in Dallas. “Look, we did something that was historic. We saved tens of millions of lives world-wide — we, together, all of us, not me — we,” Trump said of his administration’s push to quickly develop COVID-19 vaccines.
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“This was going to ravage the country far beyond what it is right now,” he said. “Take credit for it. … It’s great. What we’ve done is historic,” he said.
An expanded version of this report appears at WSJ.com.
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