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Kayleigh McEnany, September 9, 2020 "I wanted to always play it down. I still like playing it down because I don't want to create a panic." —Trump, recorded privately on March 19, 2020 (Bob Woodward released recording in Sept.) On March 6, Trump over-promised on the availability of COVID-19 testing in the United States, claiming that "anybody that wants a test can get a test." Firstly, there ...
On March 16, President Trump admitted for the first time that COVID-19 was not "under control", and the situation was "bad" with months of impending disruption to daily lives, and a recession possible. [ 66] On March 17, Trump argued that he "felt it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic." [ 67]
As the U.S. daily new case count increased from about 20,000 on June 9 to over 50,000 by July 7, Trump repeatedly insisted the increase was a function of increased COVID-19 testing. [383] Trump's claims were contradicted by the fact states having increased case counts, as well as those having decreased case counts, had increased testing, that ...
Bell adheres closely to former President Donald Trump’s lies that the 2020 presidential election was stolen for ... Henry has signed a pledge demanding for COVID-19 vaccines to be made ...
President Donald Trump's release from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center and return to the White House make one thing blindingly clear: He is eager to get his battle with COVID-19 behind ...
Misinformation on the subject of COVID-19 has been used by politicians, interest groups, and state actors in many countries for political purposes: to avoid responsibility, scapegoat other countries, and avoid criticism of their earlier decisions. Sometimes there is a financial motive as well.
L. Lin Wood, an attorney who promoted conspiracy theories about the 2020 presidential election, claiming that Trump had won the election with 70% of the vote, and that a secret cabal of international communists, Chinese intelligence, and Republican officials had contrived to steal the election from Trump.
As of late July, Trump was still promoting the use of hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19, despite the position of the NIH that the drug was "very unlikely to be beneficial to hospitalized patients with COVID-19". [50] In August, Trump pushed to get speedy approval of convalescent plasma as a COVID-19 treatment, because he wanted to be able to ...