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Trump didn't push the vaccine conspiracy. He cemented "Covid is a Chinese/liberal hoax they're trying to take away your freedoms" as the official MAGA position pretty much right out of the gate before trying in vain to walk that back a bit when it became apparent it was making a colossal mess of things, and said a lot more things that undermined the response (like "I'm not going to wear a mask, but you all should if you're scared," which had exactly the effect you'd expect on the insecure people glomping onto his every word) or were outright stupid (like injecting bleach), but he was generally pretty pro-vaccine. By that point, though, his cultists treated his pro-vaccine statements as evidence that he was being forced to say such things by those behind the vaccine conspiracy, so it didn't help much.