8 Lies Democrats Making About Trump's Coronavirus Record
A great article calling out all the lies and misrepresentations democrats and the lamestream media have dumped upon our President as he bravely leads us in this war against the Wuhan virus. Trump is doing a good job and the public is seeing that despite what the Dems and mainstream media want us to believe.
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In this election year, President Trump's detractors are politicizing the coronavirus pandemic rather than coming together as Americans to combat the growing threat.
The White House has been working furiously to address the outbreak and minimize its effects on everyone living within U.S. borders, while Trump's detractors have undermined those efforts and even mischaracterized them and spread lies about them.
Differences of opinion are understandable; outright lies are not. Here are some examples.
Lie 1: "President Trump called the coronavirus a hoax."
This claim was spread not just by both politicians and media figures.
NBC "Sunday Today" host Willie Geist asserted on March 1 that "President Trump, meanwhile, held a rare Saturday news conference to give another update on coronavirus. He was pressed about his comments at a rally Friday night where he called coronavirus a Democratic hoax against his presidency."
Trump actually called the Democratic Party's politicization of the outbreak a hoax.
Meg Kelly, a fact-checker for The Washington Post, actually awarded former Vice President Joe Biden four Pinocchios — its highest rating — for not only repeating the same lie, but for editing video footage of the president as "proof."
Incredibly, over the weekend The Washington Post's Amber Phillips tweeted the same lie that her newspaper denounced. She later deleted it and apologized.
Lie 2: "President Trump cut CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) funding."
This claim was made at the February 25 Democratic debate by Biden, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and it continues to this day.
Actually the House of Representatives, not the White House, has the power of the purse, and CDC funding has increased every year since Trump's been in office. That includes funding for agency's primary program to help state and local governments during emergencies like the coronavirus outbreak.
Lie 3: "State and local officials are critical of the Trump administration's coronavirus response."
Although some state and local Democrats have tried to score political points at the president's expense, other Democratic governors have praised the Trump administration's response. California Gov. Gavin Newsom, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, and most surprising, Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, all praised Trump' s handling of the crisis.
Lie 4: "President Trump has done nothing to stabilize the economy."
Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin has been making this claim since at least late last year, when she wrote that " Trump is even losing on the economy ."
This was discounted by Trump's predecessor, former President Barack Obama, who's been trying to take credit for the economy since the current administration turned it around.
As the economy pertains to the current crisis, the administration is providing economic relief to workers and employers impacted by the outbreak.
The White House has also directed the Small Business Administration to issue $50 billion in low interest loans to affected small businesses, while the Treasury Department is allowing affected businesses to defer tax payments.
Lie 5: Biden claimed that Trump "hasn't allowed his [medical] scientists to speak" about the outbreak.
The former vice president made that claim during an interview on ABC's "This Week."
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert, nipped that claim in the bud during an interview with former MSNBC host Chris Matthews.
"I'm not being muzzled," he said . "Everybody who gets on shows like this, you have a normal clearance. I was cleared here, and I'm talking to you, and I'll give you the whole truth the way I always have."
Lie 6: "Donald Trump is fiddling while the coronavirus burns."
That claim was made by USA Today columnist Jason Sattler, who suggested using the outbreak to oust the president.
"This crisis must burn into our souls the moral obligation we have to defeat this man. And based on the results of Tuesday night's primaries, which overwhelmingly swung for former Vice President Joe Biden, the path we will have to take to do this is becoming increasingly clear," he wrote.
In truth, the administration has been working tirelessly on this outbreak, and has continuously kept the people informed with multiple press briefings each day.
Lie 7: Calling it "Chinese virus" is racist.
MERS stands for Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, and the Obama administration repeatedly used that term without comment. There's also the German measles, Japanese smallpox, and the Spanish Flu
Lie 8: "Trump is practicing medicine without a license."
NBC/MSNBC legal contributor Katie Phang tweeted this Saturday in response to a Trump statement that "HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE & AZITHROMYCIN, taken together, have a real chance to be one of the biggest game changers in the history of medicine."
The president was merely relaying information that experts had given him. If I say "penicillin was a game-changer to treat infections," that's not practicing medicine — it's stating a fact.
As the late Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, D-N.Y., once famously said, "Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts."
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Not eight lies. Eight truths.
Well, in the Middle East they call MERS, camel virus, and rightfully so.
Bat bites camel.
Camel gets fever and bites man ( or spits in his face )
Man dies, but not before spreading it throughout the hospital.
35% fatality rate...
And the Spanish flu?
Funny that you brought up MERS (proper name -Middle East Respiratory Syndrome) - It hit South Korea hard and it is the reason South Korea had so many test kits stockpiled and ready for the China virus!
The Spanish flu started in Kansas.
Wrong!
The CDC notes that there is no universal consensus about where the pandemic, which was caused by the H1N1 virus, emerged. Some theories, however, link the start of the outbreak to the massive British World War I military base at Etaples in northern France and the base at Aldershot in southern England.
Only in the US........................
So you are suggesting that the Camel Flu hit South Korea hard? Really?
Between 2015 & 2018 they had 184 cases (with 38 deaths) in a country of 50 million people.
And you are suggesting that they had so many 6 year old MERS test kits available to use on a similar but different virus that they were better prepared?
One would suppose there would have been no shortage of COVID19 test kits or reagents if the older MERS tests worked...
Since COVID19 is considered to be a novel virus, it needed a completely new test kit, which the Koreans recognized in January.
I trust you will find Reuters an acceptable source of information...
Yea, but Trump is right on top of this new Virus,
he just accepted as being "not' contained LAST WEEK
Met a camel once. Damn near drew and shot it for its lack of manners.
should of grabbed it by the toe
Trump does
some hoof it on outta there in a hurry
relatives only count if you're religious
In South Korea, it was Middle East Respiratory Syndrome , which was first identified in Saudi Arabia in 2012 and has been mostly restricted to that country, but made a frightening outbreak in Korean hospitals in 2015.
The 2015 Korea outbreak was the largest outbreak outside of the Middle East. Researchers had a unique opportunity to compare the nature of MERS-CoV infection with the Middle East experience. The outbreak unveiled the weak points of infrastructure in our medical system, especially of preparedness for emerging global infectious diseases. Nosocomial transmission was one of the core features of MERS-CoV infection. The introspection for loose medical referral systems, overcrowding at the ER, a lack of expert resources and infection control infrastructure, and lack of organized preparedness for medical crises prompted the government to reform the healthcare system , and healthcare sectors to invest further in infectious diseases and infection control. Although the improvement is still ongoing, the speed and content are still currently insufficient. International cooperation to prepare for and defeat emerging infectious diseases should also be emphasized.
Yes Vic, a South Korean went to Bahrain and brought home a deadly present.
Yes it was the largest "outbreak" of MERS outside of the ME.
No Vic, 186 cases in a country of 50 million is as statistically insignificant as one can get except for the 38 deaths out of 50 million.
186 / 50M = .00000372%
38 / 50M = .00000076%
So the risk of contracting MERS was safer than being stung by a wasp in SK, between 2010 and 2014 there were 780,600 injuries and 49 deaths due to wasp stings. (6.27%)
Nothing to say about those non existent stock piles of virus tests for a virus that had not been identified yet?
more good factual reading...
The point is that a deadly pandemic is to Asia what terrorism is to the west. South Korea thinks about it!
Tonight our government is trying to tell you that they have tested more people that the tiny nation of South Korea.
We have already witnessed certain people's problem with comparing mathematical data.
So far South Korea has tested (drum roll ) an abysmal 0.006% of their population for the virus.
Dr. Birx, much to her professional embarrassment is trying to convince us Americans that the
USA testing of an equivalent number of tests
is not 0.00085% of the population of the USA.
AMAZING...
Yes I am sure south Korea is trying to wrap their heads around our "logic"./s
You don't have to think the president is amazing. You don't have to like him. You might even have some ideas for how he could do things better. IF you do, by all means, let's hear them.
But stop lying about what he's doing and saying. You are hurting the country, not helping it.
The problem being that it is the president who is lying about everything. He has always been a liar and a rapist. His folks sent him to military school (which he flunked out of) due to him being a bully and a rapist.
This...
Trump loves this country. In the video below, maybe you'll understand how the economy was and is today and why. Maybe you'll see Trump is in this with us and has chosen to try and save lives because American lives are important to him. I think it is a little too much in the cure, but we don't even know at this point how bad the disease could be. Trump has sacrificed financially throughout his 3 years in office and is sacrificing even more today because he cares more about the American Citizens than he does about himself. His accomplishments have taken a backseat. He may not be a great speaker, have a large vocabulary, but he does have a big heart for this country, mistakes and all.
Pretty sure that any doctored video you agree with, I won't.
He doesn't give a shit about this country, or anything but himself. [Deleted]
Yeah, he did a real good job IGNORING the virus until it was too late and then he says he ALWAYS knew it was a pandemic before anyone called it a pandemic...he has shit for brains and spews forth his shit daily
There are LIARS, damnable LIARS and then there is tRump [Deleted]
IMO, calling it a Chinese virus is inciting scared people to attack some Asian Americans, blaming them for this. It is one reason gun sales have increased within Asian communities. It is true some diseases do have certain nationalities in their names, but when is the last time people went after any Germans (German Measles) or any people of Spanish heritage (Spanish Flu)?
if only we could find 8 Trump TRUTHS
Most of the worst pandemics have rather lame names, like
The Third Cholera Pandemic
or The Sixth Cholera Pandemic.
The Bubonic Plague has 2 great names, The Black Death 1346 - 1353 and the Plague of Justinian 541-542
So, shouldn't we being calling this Trumpovirus?
It's interfering with the trade talks....
Well no shit, Sherlock Holmes.
So no more Wuhan, China, or Chinese virus from the "war president"...
Someone from China is your handler now?
This guy's a two year old.
After many weeks of the country of China and the province of Wuhan being attacked by foreigners and their leaders, like President Trump, for a common mutation of an existing virus, the President of the United States has decided it's time to stop the sophomoric blame game if, in fact, he expects further diplomacy from the US major trading partners in dealing with China.
It is clearly a sign, that inch by inch, or perhaps brain cell by brain cell, Trump is learning his actual job.
or,
he sees more danger to 'HIS' economy ,
if he doesn't change his racial undertones.
We are in full control of our own words and behaviors, not the Chinese.