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9/7/2020

CORONAVIRUS/JOE BIDEN/KAMALA HARRIS/VACCINES: “The United States has experienced among the lowest [coronavirus] case fatality rates of any major country in the world. And we are an absolute leader in every way. Under my leadership, we’ll produce a vaccine in record time. Biden and his very liberal running mate [Kamala Harris] — the most liberal person in Congress, by the way, who’s not a competent person, in my opinion; would destroy this country and would destroy this economy — should immediately apologize for the reckless anti-vaccine rhetoric that they are talking right now, talking about endangering lives. And it undermines science.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in Press Conference | September 7, 2020,” whitehouse.gov, Sep. 7, 2020

9/7/2020

CORONAVIRUS/ECONOMY/JOBS: “The United States experienced the smallest contraction of any major Western nation. You probably know that. You look around and see how we’re doing compared to every other nation, and our rise is spectacular. And we’re rebounding much more quickly from the [coronavirus] pandemic.

The U.S. economy added 1.4 million jobs last month, and we’ve have added a record-setting 10.6 million jobs since May. 10.6 million jobs since May. That’s a record that is not even close. Second place is a long ways away.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in Press Conference | September 7, 2020,” whitehouse.gov, Sep. 7, 2020

9/7/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VACCINES: “Starting to get VERY high marks in our handling of the Coronavirus (China Virus), especially when compared to other countries and areas of the world. Now the Vaccines (Plus) are coming, and fast!“

––Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 7, 2020 3:26 am

9/5/2020

CORONAVIRUS/JOE BIDEN: “As president, I will:

– Call for nationwide mask mandates
– Implement widespread testing
– Accelerate the development of treatments and vaccines

I’m ready to work on day one to contain the spread of this virus and get our country back on track.”

-Joe Biden, Twitter.com, Sep. 5, 2020 3:18 pm

9/4/2020

CORONAVIRUS/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “We all know it didn’t have to be this bad. It didn’t have to be this bad to begin with if the president just did his job, if he just took the virus [coronavirus] seriously early on in January and February as it spread around the globe, if he just took the steps we needed back in March and April, institute widespread testing and tracing to control the virus, if he provided clear national scientific-based guidance to state and local authorities, if he just set a good example like social distancing and wearing a mask. It’s not too much to ask. It’s almost like he doesn’t care. It doesn’t affect him because it doesn’t affect him or his class of friends.”

-Joe Biden, “Joe Biden Remarks on the August 2020 Jobs Report,” c-span.org, Sep. 4, 2020

9/4/2020

CORONAVIRUS/VACCINES: “We’re rounding the curve. We’re coming up with [coronavirus] vaccines. I think the vaccines are going to be announced very soon, and I think you’re going to see great companies announcing these vaccines…

And also, to me, maybe even better I think, when it comes to therapeutics, you’re going to have some, Peter — some incredible news coming out very soon. I say ‘therapeutics’ because that’s — you walk into the hospital, and whether it’s a transfusion or a shot, people get better. That’s something that I think, right now, is really incredible.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump, President Vučić of Serbia, and Prime Minister Hoti of Kosovo in a Trilateral Meeting,” whitehouse.gov, Sep. 4, 2020

9/4/2020

CHINA/CORONAVIRUS: “Now, a lot of countries don’t report their [coronavirus] deaths. Obviously, China is not reporting because they had far more than we did. China had far more deaths than we did, in my opinion. It’s just my opinion. But they don’t report their deaths or they don’t report them accurately. And I could — I don’t want to embarrass other countries, but I can tell you, there are other countries where the death toll is far higher than the United States, but they don’t report to us. We report it to a level that nobody reports it…

But if we had much less testing, no testing, we would have — you wouldn’t be reporting cases…

But you take a look at things happening with respect to the reporting of deaths in other countries, and I say, ‘Give me a break.'”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in Press Briefing | September 4, 2020,” whitehouse.gov, Sep. 4, 2020

9/4/2020

CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/RUSSIA: “I don’t mind you mentioning Russia, but I think probably China, at this point, is a nation that you should be talking about much more so than Russia because the things that China is doing are far worse, if you take a look at what’s happening with the world.

Look at what happened with the China virus. Look at what they did by not keeping that within the confines of China. They should have kept it in the confines of China. Look what they’ve done to 188 countries all over the world. But you never ask about China; you’re always asking about Russia.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in Press Briefing | September 4, 2020,” whitehouse.gov, Sep. 4, 2020

9/4/2020

CORONAVIRUS/VACCINES: “And the [coronavirus] vaccines are coming. The therapeutics have already come, but they continue to come. The convalescent plasma has had a tremendous impact already; you see what’s happening there. And remdesivir has been incredible… But the vaccines will be great over the long term; the therapeutics over the short term.

And also knowing you have the therapeutics, I think, is great from the standpoint of mind — from the standpoint of the mind. That’s great.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in Press Briefing | September 4, 2020,” whitehouse.gov, Sep. 4, 2020

9/4/2020

CORONAVIRUS/VACCINES: “We remain on track to deliver a [coronavirus] vaccine before the end of the year and maybe even before November 1st. We think we can probably have it sometime during the month of October.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in Press Briefing | September 4, 2020,” whitehouse.gov, Sep. 4, 2020

9/4/2020

CORONAVIRUS: “So, on the China virus front, the nations of Europe have experienced a 38 percent greater excess mortality than the United States — 38 percent more greater excess mortality than the United States. A lot of you don’t want to report that. And if we took New York out of the equation, there’s nobody even close. The job we’ve done is incredible. And we don’t get any credit for it, but we’ve done an incredible job.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in Press Briefing | September 4, 2020,” whitehouse.gov, Sep. 4, 2020

9/4/2020

CORONAVIRUS/JOE BIDEN: “And, by the way, we’re rounding the corner. We’re rounding the corner on the virus. Joe Biden’s blanket shutdown would collapse our economy. It would cause countless deaths from suicide, drug, alcohol abuse, heart disease, and more. You know, shutdowns cause a lot of problems — a lot of very serious problems — more so than the virus itself. Biden’s plan is not a solution; it’s a virtual surrender.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in Press Briefing | September 4, 2020,” whitehouse.gov, Sep. 4, 2020

9/4/2020

CORONAVIRUS/MIKE PENCE: “And we’ve done a fantastic job on this China virus, the invisible enemy. I get no credit for it, our people, the vice president, Mike Pence… and the task force and all of that, the things that we’ve done. We’ve done a great job and you’ll hear it because when the virus arrived, we launched the largest national mobilization since World War II.”

-Donald Trump as quoted by Factbase, “Remarks: Donald Trump Holds a Virtual North Carolina Tele-Rally – September 4, 2020,” factba.se, Sep. 4, 2020

9/3/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRAVEL BAN: “When I banned travel from China [due to coronavirus], Biden called it hysterical and xenophobic. If we had listened to Sleepy Joe hundreds of thousands of more Americans would have died. You know that. You know he always gets up– today, ‘COVID-19, COVID-19.’ I say, Joe, look. We got a country, and I agree with that and we’ve done a hell of a job. We’ve done a hell of a job.”

-Donald Trump, “WATCH LIVE: Trump holds rally in Latrobe, Pennsylvania,” YouTube.com, Sep. 3, 2020

9/3/2020

CORONAVIRUS/VACCINES: “In the hopefully rounding the turn on the [coronavirus] pandemic, we’re rounding that turn, and vaccines are coming along great. The job that they’ve done, the doctors, everybody else, we’re years ahead of schedule. Anybody else is President, you wouldn’t be talking about vaccines for two or three years from now. I’ll tell you right now. That I can tell you.”

-Donald Trump, “WATCH LIVE: Trump holds rally in Latrobe, Pennsylvania,” YouTube.com, Sep. 3, 2020

9/3/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Joe Hiden’ gets off his airplane, grabs and shakes a rather stunned man’s hand (like in the old days), then touches his (Joe’s) face and mask with the same hand. No crowd, no enthusiasm for Joe today. Law & Order!“

––Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 3, 2020 11:47 am

9/3/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/NANCY PELOSI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Crazy Nancy Pelosi said she was ‘set up’ by the beauty parlor owner when she improperly had the salon opened (and didn’t wear a MASK!). Does anyone want a Speaker of the House who can be so easily SET UP?“

––Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 3, 2020 7:20 am

9/3/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/INVESTIGATIONS/NEW YORK/SCANDAL: “.@NYGovCuomo should get his puppet New York prosecutors, who have been illegally after me and my family for years, to investigate his incompetent handling of the China Virus, and all of the deaths caused by this incompetence. It is at minimum a Nursing Home Scandal – 11,000 DEAD!“

––Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 3, 2020 3:46 am

9/3/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/OBAMA ADMIN: “Sleepy Joe Hiden’ was acknowledged by his own people to have done a terrible job on a much easier situation, H1N1 Swine Flu. The OBiden Administration failed badly on this, & now he sits back in his basement and criticizes every move we make on the China Virus. DOING GREAT JOB!”

––Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 3, 2020 3:35 am

9/2/2020

CORONAVIRUS/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump still does not have a real plan for how to open our schools safely. No real plan for how to help parents feel secure for their children.

He’s offered us nothing but failure and delusions from start to finish and American families and our children are paying the price.

Failure to take this virus seriously early on in January and February as it spread around the globe.

Failure to take the steps we needed back in March and April to get this pandemic under control, to institute widespread testing and tracing to control the spread…

Failure to model even basic responsibilities like social distancing and mask wearing.”

-Joe Biden, “Remarks As Prepared For Delivery By Vice President Joe Biden On School Reopening In Wilmington, DE,” joebiden.com, Sep. 2, 2020

9/2/2020

CORONAVIRUS/JOE BIDEN: “I’ve been doing this a long time, but I’ve never seen a president lack as much leadership, unwilling, an inability to make a deal…

Look at other countries. They’re doing one hell of a lot better. Yet, we still have over, what’s it up to, 186,000 people dead [from coronavirus].”

-Joe Biden as quoted by Rev, “Joe Biden Reopening Schools Press Conference Transcript September 2,” rev.com, Sep. 2, 2020

9/2/2020

BUSINESS/CORONAVIRUS/JOE BIDEN: “[L]ook at the money that was passed under the CARES [Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security] Act, for businesses, small businesses be able to stay open. You have tens of thousands of going out of business, many of them permanently. Why? Because, the money didn’t get to small businesses. They’re not open. We should be dealing with those businesses that have been burned out and those and damaged. We should be finding federal help for those businesses to get back on their feet.

But this administration seems to think it’s all of a sudden going to go away, like angel dust is going to be sprayed around. Everything’s going to be okay. I just don’t get it. They have to know better.”

-Joe Biden as quoted by Rev, “Joe Biden Reopening Schools Press Conference Transcript September 2,” rev.com, Sep. 2, 2020

9/2/2020

2020 ELECTION/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/HOUSE OF REPS/NANCY PELOSI: “Crazy Nancy Pelosi is being decimated for having a beauty parlor opened, when all others are closed, and for not wearing a Mask – despite constantly lecturing everyone else. We will almost certainly take back the House, and send Nancy packing!“

––Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 2, 2020 3:12 am

9/2/2020

2020 ELECTION/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN: “Seriously, is this what our great USA wants as its leader? RT @TrumpWarRoom

Joe Biden: ‘Covid has taken this year, just since the outbreak, has taken more than 100 year, look, here’s, the lives, it’s just, when you think about it.’“
––Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 2, 2020 2:40 am

9/1/2020

CHINA/CORONAVIRUS: “I think that they are hurt much worse than people think. They are having a very hard time in China. China is going very bad inside, the real [coronavirus] numbers… China is doing very poorly. And they lost tens of thousands of people. They lost more than any other country. They just don’t report it. We report everything.”

-Donald Trump, “Donald Trump Jr. says Joe Biden only addressed rioting in America when CNN pointed out it was affecting polls,” foxnews.com, Sep. 1, 2020

9/1/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/SPORTS: “It shows you the lie of the Democrats. I’m the one that says play football. I said they are young, strong people. They are not going to have a problem with COVID or the China virus or whatever you want to call it. I’m the one. And they didn’t like my narrative, so they made up a narrative, because if you look, Michigan is closed. All the states that are closed. North Carolina is closed. These states that are closed are run by Democrats. And the reason they are closed is because we have an election on November 3rd, and they don’t want the opening of the states and they don’t want the income. They want to keep it nice and close.”

-Donald Trump, “Donald Trump Jr. says Joe Biden only addressed rioting in America when CNN pointed out it was affecting polls,” foxnews.com, Sep. 1, 2020

9/1/2020

CORONAVIRUS/HOUSING/TRUMP ADMIN: “The Trump Administration announced Tuesday that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will use its authority to temporarily ban residential evictions for certain renters through the end of the year…

Renters seeking protection under the new program must certify that they are unable to pay their rent because of the coronavirus crisis, that they are likely to become homeless if they are forced to leave their homes, and that they undertook their best effort to obtain other government assistance to make their rental payments…

When the moratorium expires at the end of the year, renters who received protection will still need to make up missed payments to their landlords.”

-Sarah Hansen, “Trump Administration Announces New Eviction Moratorium, Effective Immediately,” forbes.com, Sep. 1, 2020

8/31/2020

CORONAVIRUS/JOE BIDEN/MIKE PENCE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The simple truth is Donald Trump failed to protect America. So now he’s trying to scare America. Since Donald Trump and Mike Pence can’t run on their record that has seen more American death to a virus, this virus [coronavirus], than the nation suffered in every war since Korea combined, since they can’t run on their economy that has seen more people lose their jobs than any time since the Great Depression, since they can’t run on a simple proposition of sending our children safely back to school, since they have no agenda or vision for a second term, Trump and Pence are running on this.”

-Joe Biden as quoted by Rev, “Joe Biden Pittsburgh Speech Transcript August 31,” rev.com, Aug. 31, 2020

8/31/2020

CORONAVIRUS/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I look at this violence and I see lives and communities and the dreams of small businesses being destroyed and the opportunity for real progress on issues of race and police reform and justice being put to the test. Donald Trump looks at this violence and he sees a political lifeline. Having failed to protect this nation from the [coronavirus] that has killed more than 180,000 Americans so far, Trump posts an all caps tweet, screaming, ‘Law and order,’ to save his campaign.

This is a sitting president of the United States of America. He’s supposed to be protecting this country, but instead he’s rooting for chaos and violence.”

-Joe Biden as quoted by Rev, “Joe Biden Pittsburgh Speech Transcript August 31,” rev.com, Aug. 31, 2020

8/31/2020

CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/NANCY PELOSI: “I’ll tell you, I can tell you what is happening. Nancy Pelosi doesn’t want to give any stimulus. We should have it. It wasn’t the people’s fault that China give us the virus. China gave us the virus, whether it was through incompetence or on purpose…

I always tell her to go back to San Francisco, take care of your homeless problem, take care of your problem in California, because there’s nothing like what I’m witnessing out there. Right outside, right where she lives, right in her district is so bad, needles all over the place.”

-Donald Trump, “President Trump joins Laura Ingraham to discuss violence in Democrat-run cities, planned visit to Kenosha,” foxnews.com, Aug. 31, 2020

8/31/2020

CORONAVIRUS/TRUMP ADMIN: “One of President Trump’s top medical advisers is urging the White House to embrace a controversial ‘herd immunity’ strategy to combat the pandemic, which would entail allowing the coronavirus to spread through most of the population to quickly build resistance to the virus, while taking steps to protect those in nursing homes and other vulnerable populations, according to five people familiar with the discussions.

The administration has already begun to implement some policies along these lines, according to current and former officials as well as experts, particularly with regard to testing.”

-Yasmeen Abutaleb and Josh Dawsey, “New Trump pandemic adviser pushes controversial ‘herd immunity’ strategy, worrying public health officials,” washingtonpost.com, Aug. 31, 2020

8/29/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/NEW YORK: “Everything a Governor asked the Federal Government for with respect to the Pandemic, they got. They all said, on tape, the Federal government did a great job. Governor Cuomo used the word ‘phenomenal.’ The Task Force worked well with the States. Feds bailed out many States!“

8/31/2020

CORONAVIRUS/ECONOMY: “We got hit with the China virus it — it slowed things down, to put it mildly. We had the greatest economy in history, the greatest in the history of our country, and then we got hit with the China virus and we went to a different stance.

We went to a very protective stance, we’re now opening up our country and we’re setting records and doing it, especially with, if you look at the retail sales, it was a record. Employment was a record, a record for the quarter. Numbers like we haven’t seen before. We’re opening up very fast, it’s a V-shape.”

-Donald Trump as quoted by Factbase, “Remarks: Donald Trump Holds a Virtual Nevada Tele-Rally – August 31, 2020,” factba.se, Aug. 31, 2020

8/28/2020

CORONAVIRUS/JOE BIDEN: “Mr. President, Americans are canceling weddings and holding funerals without family. They’re sacrificing so more Americans don’t have to die [from coronavirus].

But instead of leading by example, you hosted a super spreader event on the South Lawn.

When will you take the presidency seriously?”

-Joe Biden, Twitter.com, Aug. 28, 2020 2:14 pm

8/28/2020

CORONAVIRUS/EDUCATION: [Adam Sexton: “In New Hampshire, Mr. President, you have a lot of parents who are anxious about sending their kids back to school in this pandemic. Certainly you as the father of a school age young man could sympathize. Are their fears legitimate?”]

“Well, New Hampshire, number one is doing very, very well in terms of the, as I call it, the China virus. You have a great governor. He’s doing an incredible job. Your numbers are very, very low and young children just don’t have very much of a problem. I mean, it’s a tiny percentage of 1%. and you have to open up your state.

You have to open up your country and that’s what we’re doing and we’re doing it to record numbers. So, no, I think you absolutely have to open up your schools, have football and all of those things.”

-Donald Trump in an Aug. 28, 2020 interview with Adam Sexton, “CloseUp: One-on-one with President Trump,” wmur.com, Aug. 30, 2020

8/28/2020

CORONAVIRUS/SPORTS: “And by the way, another big Democrat hoax. Another big hoax. I want football back. I’m the one that’s been saying. Is that a correct statement? I want football back. These are young, strong guys. They’re not going to be affected by the virus. If you look at it, it’s generally older people. Older people that have heart conditions, that have diabetes, that have problems. These are big strong guys. They’ll be just fine. But I want football back. I’ve been calling for football to be back, including Big 10. Big 10, get with it. Open up your season, Big 10.”

-Donald Trump as quoted by Rev, “Donald Trump New Hampshire Rally Speech Transcript August 28,” rev.com, Aug. 28, 2020

8/28/2020

CORONAVIRUS/GOP/JOBS: “Before the China virus came in, before that China virus came in, we had the best job numbers ever recorded the history of our country. We had almost 160 million Americans working. We had never had numbers like that. The Republican party is the party of Abraham Lincoln. Remember that.

We stand for so much, including Martin Luther King’s dream of a nation where our children are judged not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. You know that. The radical left’s effort to divide everyone by race tears us apart.”

-Donald Trump as quoted by Rev, “Donald Trump New Hampshire Rally Speech Transcript August 28,” rev.com, Aug. 28, 2020

8/28/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/DEMS/GOP/SHUTDOWN/SPORTS: “No, I want Big Ten, and all other football, back – NOW. The Dems don’t want football back, for political reasons, but are trying to blame me and the Republicans. Another LIE, but this is what we are up against! They should also open up all of their Shutdown States.“

8/27/2020

CORONAVIRUS/EDUCATION/JOE BIDEN: “Joe Biden wants to inflict a painful shutdown on the entire country… Joe Biden’s plan is not a solution to the virus, but rather it’s a surrender to the virus.

My administration has a very different approach. To save as many lives as possible we are focusing on the science, the facts and the data. We are aggressively sheltering those at highest risk, especially the elderly, allowing lower-risk Americans to safely return to work and to school, and we want to see so many of those great states be opened by Democrats. We want them to be open. They have to be open. They have to get back to work. They have to get back to work, and they have to get back to school.”

-Donald Trump in an Aug. 27, 2020 speech, “Full Transcript: President Trump’s Republican National Convention Speech,” nytimes.com, Aug. 28, 2020

8/27/2020

CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/JOE BIDEN: “China supports Joe Biden and it desperately wants him to win. I can tell you that upon very good information.

China would own our country if Joe Biden got elected. Unlike Biden, I will hold them fully accountable for the tragedy that they caused all over the world — they caused. In recent months, our nation and the world has been hit by the once-in-a-century pandemic that China allowed to spread around the globe. They could have stopped it [coronavirus], but they allowed it to come out.”

-Donald Trump in an Aug. 27, 2020 speech, “Full Transcript: President Trump’s Republican National Convention Speech,” nytimes.com, Aug. 28, 2020

8/27/2020

CORONAVIRUS/VACCINES: “In recent months, our nation and the entire planet has been struck by a new and powerful invisible enemy. Like those brave Americans before us, we are meeting this challenge. We are delivering lifesaving therapies and will produce a [coronavirus] vaccine before the end of the year, or maybe even sooner. We will defeat the virus and the pandemic and emerge stronger than ever before.”

-Donald Trump in an Aug. 27, 2020 speech, “Full Transcript: President Trump’s Republican National Convention Speech,” nytimes.com, Aug. 28, 2020

8/27/2020

CORONAVIRUS/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I’d love to have a [coronavirus] vaccine tomorrow. But look at all the confidence people are losing in anything he [Donald Trump] has to say, going from ‘inject bleach’ all the way to ‘we don’t need this testing, we don’t have to test people.’ It’s just absolutely bizarre. He needs to be responsible.”

-Joe Biden in an interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper, “Joe Biden says Trump and allies are ‘rooting for violence,'” YouTube.com, Aug. 27, 2020

8/27/2020

CORNAVIRUS/JOE BIDEN/VACCINES: “Let’s assume we finally do get a [coronavirus] vaccine that works, and how much credibility are we going to have telling people to take it after going through all this stuff they misrepresented so far? Who believes them? Who is willing to take their word for it?… Do we have a plan on how we’re going to administer the vaccine? How we’re going to get it to over 300 million people? These guys don’t know how to plan.”

-Joe Biden, “Andrew Mitchell Report,” MSNBC, Aug. 27, 2020

8/27/2020

CORONAVIRUS/JOE BIDEN/VACCINE: “I pray to God we have a [coronavirus] vaccine tomorrow… But we have to make sure we have to make sure you have some credibility that when we do get a vaccine, that people are willing to take it. After hearing all the malarkey you hear from this president about what is good, what is bad, what to use, what not use… This guy doesn’t believe in science. Or at least, if he heard it, he just doesn’t understand it. He just seems to be incompetent.”

-Joe Biden, “Andrew Mitchell Report,” MSNBC, Aug. 27, 2020

8/27/2020

CORONAVIRUS/JOE BIDN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Donald Trump calls himself a wartime president. But now, instead of leading the charge to defeat this virus, he’s waved the white flag.

He abandoned the American people when we needed him most.”

-Joe Biden, Twitter.com, Aug. 27, 2020 10:32 pm

8/27/2020

CORONAVIRUS/DOJ: “President Donald Trump’s top civil rights official at the Department of Justice announced this week that he was considering launching investigations into how state-owned nursing homes responded to the coronavirus. The four states he targeted all have Democratic governors. This highly unusual public announcement of potential investigations raised alarm bells among Civil Rights Division alumni and Democrats that DOJ’s move was motivated by partisan politics.

Eric Dreiband, the assistant attorney general running the Civil Rights Division, sent letters to Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday, requesting documents and information under the Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA) about how public nursing homes in their states responded to the COVID-19 pandemic.”

-Ryan J. Reilly, “Trump DOJ Targets Democratic Governors For COVID-19 Outbreaks In Veterans Homes,” HuffPost.com, Aug. 27, 2020

8/27/2020

CORONAVIRUS/ECONOMY: “The country’s doing very well economically… We’re coming back, and that’s despite the fact that great places like North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Michigan, are shut down unnecessarily [for coronavirus] at this point. It’s crazy what they’re doing, but they’re doing it I think for political reasons, because I’d like the number to be as low as possible…

But I have to say, they should open up their states. Let them open, let them open safely and carefully. Open up their schools, let them play football. It’s got to open up… We have to get on with it. It’s very sad. It’s very dangerous what they’re doing, actually.”

-Donald Trump as quoted by Rev, “President Trump & FEMA Briefing Transcript August 27: Hurricane Laura,” rev.com, Aug. 27, 2020

8/26/2020

CDC/COVID-19/TRUMP ADMIN: “Trump administration officials on Wednesday [Aug. 26, 2020] defended a new recommendation that people without Covid-19 symptoms abstain from testing, even as scientists warned that the policy could hobble an already weak federal response as schools reopen and a potential autumn wave looms.

The day after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued the revised guidance, there were conflicting reports on who was responsible. Two federal health officials said the shift came as a directive to the Atlanta-based C.D.C. from higher-ups in Washington at the White House and the Department of Health and Human Services.”

-Sheryl Gay Stolberg, “Top U.S. Officials Told C.D.C. to Soften Coronavirus Testing Guidelines,” nytimes.com, Aug. 26, 2020

8/26/2020

CORONAVIRUS/JOE BIDEN: “I know how to lead this nation through a crisis because I’ve done it before. I won’t waste any time getting this virus under control and building our country back better.”

Joe Biden, Twitter.com, Aug. 26, 2020 12:15 pm

8/26/2020

CORONAVIRUS/FDA/HHS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar pushed back Wednesday against claims that President Trump pressured the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to authorize the use of convalescent plasma to treat coronavirus patients, but he did credit Trump for removing ‘unnecessary bureaucratic red tape that stands in the way of saving lives.’…

The announcement authorizing the use of convalescent plasma came a day after Trump accused the ‘deep state’ of making it hard for drug companies to test coronavirus treatments — and suggested the agency is acting on political motivations and trying to delay them until after Election Day.”

-Yael Halon, “Azar rejects claims Trump pressured FDA to approve convalescent plasma coronavirus treatment,” foxnews.com, Aug. 26, 2020

8/25/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/FDA: “FDA Commissioner Dr. Stephen Hahn is walking back comments on the benefits of convalescent plasma, saying he could have done a better job of explaining the data on its effectiveness against the coronavirus after authorizing it for emergency use over the weekend…

The FDA’s decision to authorize emergency use came a day after President Donald Trump accused the agency of delaying enrollment in clinical trials for Covid-19 vaccines or therapeutics. The criticism from Trump and action from the FDA led some scientists to believe the emergency use was politically motivated…

Last week, Trump touted the benefits of the treatment, saying he heard ‘great things about it’ and then he questioned whether its emergency use approval was being slow-walked by bureaucratic opponents until after the Nov. 3 elections.”

-Berkeley Lovelace Jr. and Will Feuer, “FDA chief walks back comments on effectiveness of coronavirus plasma treatment,” cnbc.com, Aug. 25, 2020

8/24/2020

CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/ECONOMY: “It’s going to be a year of tremendous success. We’re fighting off this horrible thing [coronavirus] that was delivered by China. And it was by China and we’re never going to forget it and I let them know. We’re never going to forget what they did because you know what? We’re going to do great economics… we’re going to do better economically than we did last year.

But we can never forget the 175,000 people [who died from coronavirus], which will go up. Remember this though, we saved millions because if we didn’t move and if I didn’t put the ban on highly heavily infected people coming to our nation from China, that everybody told me not to do. Months later, they were saying we shouldn’t… and then they all either apologized or admitted it was right. And Europe. I did Europe too, very early. If we didn’t do that, our numbers would be at a level like you wouldn’t believe.”

-Donald Trump, “12:36 pm President Trump makes surprise appearance during RNC roll,” c-span.org, Aug. 24, 2020

8/24/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19: “These are my friends, these are the incredible workers that helped us so much with the COVID. We can call it many different things from China virus, I don’t want to go through all the names because some people may get insulted, but that’s the way it is. These are great, great people, doctors, nurses, firemen, policemen. We want to thank you all.”

-Donald Trump as quoted by Factbase, “Remarks: Donald Trump Thanks Frontline Workers at the White House – August 24, 2020,” fact.se, Aug. 24, 2020

8/24/2020

CORONAVIRUS/FDA: [Tim Boyum: “Over the weekend, you criticized, sort of, the FDA, for potentially delaying whether it’s a [coronavirus] vaccine or therapeutic. Do we have evidence of that or is that a gut feeling that you have?”]

“Well, I think there’s some evidence and I think it’s a big gut feeling, and in the meantime, we got what we wanted last night with the convalescent plasma, and that was approved and that has a tremendous impact on people, positive impact on people. And we have Remdesivir and I think we’re going to have vaccines very, very soon.”

-Donald Trump as quoted by Tim Boyum and Charles Duncan, “Exclusive: President Trump Doubles Down on Mail-In Voting Ahead of RNC,” spectrumlocalnews.com, Aug. 24, 2020

8/24/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/ECONOMY/JOBS/JOE BIDEN/STOCK MARKET: “Joe Biden has said he would lock down the Country again. That’s crazy! We’re having record job growth and a booming stock market, but Joe would end it all and close it all down. Ridiculous!“

8/24/2020

CHINA/CORONAVIRUS: “In our fight against the China virus, we’ve launched the greatest industrial mobilization. This is the greatest industrial mobilization. All of the things that we’ve done to take on this horrible, horrible scourge that has come in. To take on this horrible, terrible ‘plague,’ I call it sometimes. And we didn’t deserve this. We didn’t deserve this. And they could have stopped it…

In our fight against the virus, we’ve launched this mobilization, and it’s the biggest since World War Two. Biggest and most successful, too.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump on the Farmers to Families Food Box Program Distribution | Mills River, NC,” whitehouse.gov, Aug. 24, 2020

8/23/2020

CORONAVIRUS/ECONOMY: “I’ll tell you, the truth is we were doing so good. We had never – we had the greatest economy ever in the world, not just here. This was our greatest economy prior to the China virus coming in. We had the greatest economy, Steve, as you know better than anybody, because I watch your show all the time and you talk about it.

And then it took a turn, whether it was me or anybody else – the whole world – 188 countries got infected and we did great and we get zero credit, you know, what we’re trying to do is make it all – we did — We did great… We were far better than Europe. I mean far better. We were far better than most other places, and if you take out New York, which was a disaster and one or two other locations.”

-Donald Trump, “The Next Revolution w/ Steve Hilton – Sunday, August 23,” foxnews.com, Aug. 23, 2020

8/23/2020

CORONAVIRUS/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “As president, the first step I will take will be to get control of the virus that’s ruined so many lives.

Because I understand something this president doesn’t.

We will never get our economy back on track until we deal with this virus.”

-Joe Biden, Twitter.com, Aug. 23, 2020 6:50 pm

8/23/2020

CORONAVIRUS/FDA: “On the therapeutics front, this is what I’ve been looking to do for a long time. This is a great thing. Today, I’m pleased to make a truly historic announcement in our battle against the China virus that will save countless lives. The FDA has issued an emergency use authorization — and that’s such a powerful term: emergency use authorization — for a treatment known as convalescent plasma. This is a powerful therapy that transfuses very, very strong antibodies from the blood of recovered patients to help treat patients battling a current infection. It’s had an incredible rate of success.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in Press Briefing | August 23, 2020,” whitehouse.gov, Aug. 23, 2020

8/23/2020

CHINA/CHUCK SCHUMER/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/MEDIA: “Chris Wallace ‘forgot’ to ask a very weak and pathetic Schumer puppet, Senator Chrisie Coons, why Biden fought me when I put an extremely early BAN on people coming into our Country from heavily infected China. Biden later admitted I was right! But why no question?“

8/23/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/DEMS/GOP/USPS/VOTER FRAUD/VOTING: “So now the Democrats are using Mail Drop Boxes, which are a voter security disaster. Among other things, they make it possible for a person to vote multiple times. Also, who controls them, are they placed in Republican or Democrat areas? They are not Covid sanitized. A big fraud!“

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8/22/2020

CORONAVIRUS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “[W]e have 50 states and I let the 50 governors run their states. They weren’t equipped, most of them weren’t equipped. They had empty cupboards cause nobody ever… I don’t even blame them necessarily, because nobody thought a thing like this [coronavirus] could happen.

And it almost seemed like ancient times, it would happen in ancient times. Who thought something like this could happen? 1917 was the big one, and that was, they think, close to 100 million people. From 50 to 100, at least. And that was terrible. That was the plague. That was the big flu of… It was so bad, it ended the first World War, they say, because all the soldiers were sick. They were so sick they couldn’t fight.

But now we have something that what we’ve done is incredible. Frankly, putting the ban on, that was something we did that nobody wanted me to do… That was a big move. We made a lot of good moves, and if you look at what’s happening now, the numbers are way down.”

-Donald Trump in an Aug. 22, 2020 interview with Mike Huckabee, “UNCUT EXCLUSIVE Interview With President Trump | Huckabee,” YouTube.com, Aug. 23, 2020

8/22/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/ECONOMY/JOBS/JOE BIDEN: “Despite biggest ever job gains and a V shaped recovery, Joe Biden said, ‘I would shut it down’, referring to our Country. He has no clue!“

8/22/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/FDA: “Many doctors and studies disagree with this! RT @TwitterMoments

The FDA is revoking its emergency use authorization of hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine for treating COVID-19 amid growing evidence that the drugs are ‘unlikely to be effective’ in treating the coronavirus.“

8/22/2020

2020 ELECTION/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/FDA/PHARMA/VACCINES: “The deep state, or whoever, over at the FDA is making it very difficult for drug companies to get people in order to test the vaccines and therapeutics. Obviously, they are hoping to delay the answer until after November 3rd. Must focus on speed, and saving lives! @SteveFDA“

8/21/2020

CORONAVIRUS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The [coronavirus] pandemic is — if you look at Florida, if you look at Arizona, you look at California, those numbers are going down very rapidly. Many, many states have very little problem. You know, you look at a map now, it’s — it’s largely, really, in good shape… we’ve done a great job. We have not been recognized for what we’ve done. We’ve done a great job.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump at the 2020 Council for National Policy Meeting,” whitehouse.gov, Aug. 21, 2020

8/20/2020

CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/TRAVEL BAN: “I put a ban on people coming in from China who were heavily infected [with coronavirus]… And Dr. Fauci actually said that I saved hundreds of thousands of lives… But we also saved millions of lives by closing up. We had the greatest economy in history of any country. Blowing away China, blowing away everybody. And I had to make a decision. And we closed it. We saved millions of lives, Sean.

When you see the number of 170 [thousand] as opposed to, let’s say, 2 million or 2.5 million lives, can you imagine if it would be that? But it would be 10, 15, or 20 times more if we didn’t close it. So, we closed it. We learned about it. We learned that the elderly we have to protect, especially the elderly that have problems with heart or diabetes or anything. And we’ve saved ultimately millions of lives by making that decision. And now we want to open up and the Democrats have to open up their states and cities and they have to open up the schools and let’s play football.”

-Donald Trump in an interview with Sean Hannity, “Mark Levin breaks down the Bernie Sanders-Joe Biden ‘manifesto,'” foxnews.com, Aug. 20, 2020

8/20/2020

CORONAVIRUS/NEW ZEALAND: “Before the China virus invaded our shores, we built the greatest economy in history, nothing even close… You notice how they, anytime there’s a good country, they like to compare [coronavirus impact], because we’ve done an incredible job. You look at our mortality rates, you look at all the things. But they like to compare us to others. So they were talking about New Zealand. New Zealand, it’s over, it’s over for Zealand. Everything’s gone. They’re beautiful. They had a massive breakout yesterday. South Korea, it’s over, it’s over. Big breakout yesterday. It’s a tough deal.

We’ve done a great job. We’re a big, big country. And maybe this is popular to say, maybe it’s not, I don’t care.”

-Donald Trump as quoted by Rev, “Donald Trump Speech Transcript August 20: In Joe Biden’s Hometown,” rev.com, Aug. 20, 2020

8/20/2020

CORONAVIRUS/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The tragedy of where we are today is it didn’t have to be this bad. Just look around.

It’s [coronavirus] not this bad in Canada. Or Europe. Or Japan. Or almost anywhere else in the world. The President keeps telling us the virus is going to disappear. He keeps waiting for a miracle. Well, I have news for him, no miracle is coming. We lead the world in confirmed cases. We lead the world in deaths. Our economy is in tatters, with Black, Latino, Asian American, and Native American communities bearing the brunt of it. 

And after all this time, the president still does not have a plan.”

-Joe Biden, “Read the full speech: Joe Biden’s remarks to the 2020 Democratic National Convention,” nbcnews.com, Aug. 20, 2020

8/19/2020

CORONAVIRUS/EDUCATION: “Instead of saving lives, the decision to close universities could cost lives. It is significantly safer for students to live with other young people than to go home and spread the virus to older Americans. Makes sense.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in Press Briefing | August 19, 2020,” whitehouse.gov, Aug. 19, 2020

8/19/2020

CHINA/CORONAVIRUS: “We continue to combat the China virus very successfully. It’s a tough one. It’s the invisible enemy. Should have never happened. They should have never let it come in, came in here, came in Europe, came all over the world, 188 countries. They should have never let it happen. They stopped it from going into China. We won’t forget.”

-Donald Trump as quoted by Factbase, “Remarks: Donald Trump Holds a Virtual Florida Tele-Rally – August 19, 2020,” fact.se, Aug. 19, 2020

8/19/2020

CORONAVIRUS/NEW ZEALAND: “We’re also using the full power of the federal government to defeat, as you know, the China virus. New cases have declined in 80 percent of the jurisdictions in the past week. Eighty percent. New Zealand, by the way, had a big outbreak. And other countries that were held up to try and make us look not as good as we should look — because we’ve done an incredible job — but they’re having a lot of outbreaks, but they’ll be able to put them out and we put them out.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in Press Briefing | August 19, 2020,” whitehouse.gov, Aug. 19, 2020

8/18/2020

CORONAVIRUS/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Donald Trump still doesn’t have a plan to get this virus under control. His failure to lead is costing American lives.”

-Joe Biden, Twitter.com, Aug. 18, 2020 12:30 pm

8/18/2020

CORONAVIRUS/JOE BIDEN/PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS/SENIORS: “To fix the economy, we have to get control over the virus… We need to increase federal support for testing, doubling the number of drive-thru testing sites. We absolutely need a clear message from the very top of our federal government that everyone needs to wear a mask in public. Every single frontline worker should have the personal protective equipment that they need to be safe. Wee need to support schools and child care programs…

And finally, we need to protect the populations most at risk: our seniors, vulnerable populations with pre-existing conditions. We need real plans, real guidelines, with uniform nationwide standards.”

-Joe Biden, Twitter.com, Aug. 18, 2020 12:30 pm

8/18/2020

CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/JOE BIDEN/TRAVEL BAN: “In January after the China virus, after the outbreak, after the outbreak, the China virus outbreak, it came from Wuhan, right? I swiftly implemented a travel ban on China and I was criticized. Biden, opposed the ban. He said, ‘I oppose the ban.’ He had no idea what the hell he was doing. Why do you oppose it, Joe? I don’t know. They told me to say that. If we had listened to Sleepy Joe Biden, hundreds of thousands of additional American lives would have been lost. We did a good thing.”

-Donald Trump as quoted by Rev, “Donald Trump Immigration Speech Transcript August 18: Yuma, Arizona,” rev.com, Aug. 18, 2020

8/18/2020

CORONAVIRUS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “They talk about me as being a divider. I’m not a divider. I bring people together. We were bringing people together. We were bringing people together, like never before. Success was bringing everyone together, and then we got hit with the China virus, but we were bringing people together.”

-Donald Trump as quoted by Rev, “Donald Trump Immigration Speech Transcript August 18: Yuma, Arizona,” rev.com, Aug. 18, 2020

8/18/2020

CORONAVIRUS: “Look, when you shut down [for coronavirus], you have other problems. You have depression, you have alcohol, you have drugs, you have a family squabbles, to put it nicely. You have a lot of bad things happen. So it’s not like, oh, let’s do a shutdown. Shutdowns cause, I think probably, or possibly, much bigger problems than even the virus itself. Especially at this stage.”

-Donald Trump in an Aug. 18, 2020 interview with Kaley O’Kelley, “FULL INTERVIEW: ABC15’s exclusive interview with President Donald Trump,” abc15.com, Aug. 20, 2020

8/18/2020

CHINA/CORONAVIRUS: “I postponed talks with China. You know why? I don’t want to deal with them now. I don’t want to deal with them now. With what they did to this country and to the world [with coronavirus], I don’t want to talk to China right now. Okay?

We’ll see. We’ll see what happens. Look, let me tell you, what China did to the world was not even thinkable. They could have stopped it. They stopped it from going into China, and they should have stopped it. So that’s correct: I cancelled talks with China.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump During Border Wall Construction and Operational Update | Yuma, AZ,” whitehouse.gov, Aug. 18, 2020

8/18/2020

CORONAVIRUS/JOBS/WOMEN: “Before the China virus set in and struck our nation, women had gained 4.3 million jobs — a record. The women’s unemployment rate had plummeted to the lowest level in more than 65 years.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in a Signing of a Proclamation on the 100th Anniversary of the Ratification of the 19th Amendment,” whitehouse.gov, Aug. 18, 2020

8/18/2020

BORDER/CORONAVIRUS/WALL: “We’re up to almost 300 miles [of border wall]. Can you believe that? Three hundred miles. And it’s moving along rapidly, and we’re very proud of it.

It’s had a tremendous impact on people coming into our country illegally, especially with the pandemic. Because Mexico has got some very big problems on the [coronavirus] pandemic — very heavily infected. And we’ve stopped them. It’s the strongest we’ve been on the border in many, many years. Probably decades. So it’s been very good.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump During Iowa Disaster Recovery Briefing,” whitehouse.gov, Aug. 18, 2020

8/18/2020

CORONAVIRUS/NEW ZEALAND: “While the novel coronavirus continues to surge through the United States, President Trump noted on Monday that other countries have also seen recent rises. Case in point, he told supporters at a Minnesota airport: New Zealand…

New Zealand has seen the virus return this month — but on Monday, it recorded just nine new cases. On Tuesday, 13 more were reported. The United States, where at least 167,000 have now died, has recently averaged around 50,000 new cases each day.

Politicians in New Zealand reacted with anger to Trump’s attempt at contrasting their widely hailed pandemic strategy with the U.S., which has had more than 5.4 million confirmed cases to date.”

-Tim Elfrink, “Trump warns of a ‘big surge’ of coronavirus in New Zealand, which had just recorded nine new cases,” washingtonpost.com, Aug. 18, 2020

8/17/2020

CORONAVIRUS/ECONOMY: “Before the China virus invaded our shores, we built the greatest economy in history. There was nothing like it… We achieved record low unemployment for African American, Hispanic American, Asian American, young people, people with diplomas, people without diplomas, college students, crummy students, great students, horrible students, dumb people, liberal people, conservative people.”

-Donald Trump as quoted by Rev, “Donald Trump Speech Transcript Minnesota August 17,” rev.com, Aug. 17, 2020

8/17/2020

CHINA/CORONAVIRUS: “We have the pandemic should have never been allowed to happen by China. Should’ve never been allowed to happen. They released it. They didn’t release it in China, but it came to the United States and Europe. 188 all over the world. 188 countries all over the world. We’re not going to forget it. We’re not going to forget it, but we’re doing great coming back.”

-Donald Trump as quoted by Factbase, “Speech: Donald Trump Delivers a Campaign Speech on the Economy in Wisconsin – August 17, 2020,” factba.se, Aug. 17, 2020

8/17/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/MEDIA: “Now AP estimates that the real [New York Governor Andrew] Cuomo number of people killed because of his total incompetence is 11,000, not the 6000 that was originally thought!“

8/17/2020

CORONAVIRUS/REFUGEES/WALL: “Under my administration, we’ve dramatically reduced refugee resettlement and we’ve suspended refugee resettlement during the [coronavirus] pandemic, you know that we’ve totally suspended it, nobody comes in. Lucky we have the wall, we’re up to 300 miles almost. If we didn’t have that wall, we would be inundated with people and unfortunately, and we’re helping them, we sent them a lot of ventilators and other equipment, but Mexico is being overrun with the pandemic and we would really have a problem.”

-Donald Trump as quoted by Rev, “Donald Trump Speech Transcript Minnesota August 17,” rev.com, Aug. 17, 2020

8/17/2020

CORONAVIRUS/IMMIGRATION: “To protect our families and workers during the China pandemic [coronavirus], I sealed our border against illegal immigration, and suspended the entry of foreign workers who threatened American jobs. And yet, if you’re a farmer, a factory owner and you had people coming in from years, we made it easier for those people to keep coming in. I can’t shut them off, you’d have to close up your businesses.”

-Donald Trump as quoted by Rev, “Donald Trump Speech Transcript Minnesota August 17,” rev.com, Aug. 17, 2020

8/17/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/MEDIA: “Cuomo, just like his brother Fredo, has not got a very good memory! RT @TrumpWarRoom

Democrat Andrew Cuomo praised the Trump Administration’s coronavirus response as ‘extraordinary efforts and acts of mobilization,’ and called it a ‘tremendous accomplishment.’ “

8/17/2020

CORONAVIRUS/JOE BIDEN/NEW ZEALAND: “Now Biden wants to lock all Americans in their basement for months on end which would inflict permanent irreversible harm on our nation’s children, families, health and economy…

Now all of a sudden a lot of the places that they were using to hold up, they’re having a big [coronavirus] surge, and I don’t want that, I don’t want that, but they were holding up names of countries and now they’re saying, ‘Whoops.’

In fact, even New Zealand, you see what’s going on in New Zealand? They beat it, they beat it. It was like front page, they beat it because they wanted to show me something. The problem is, big surge in New Zealand. So you know, it’s terrible. We don’t want that but this is an invisible enemy that should have never been let to come to this country, to Europe or the rest of the world by China. Just remember it. Just remember it.”

-Donald Trump as quoted by Rev, “Donald Trump Speech Transcript Minnesota August 17,” rev.com, Aug. 17, 2020

8/17/2020

CORONAVIRUS/JOE BIDEN/TRAVEL BAN: “Unlike Sleepy Joe Biden our approach to the pandemic is based on science, not left-wing ideology. Slow Joe opposed the travel ban on China that I instituted. Remember he came out, ‘Oh it’s xenophobic.’ I said, ‘What does that mean Joe? Tell me Joe. Can you describe?’ Remember he came out and he called me all sorts of things, a racist and everything and then he said I was right. I was early, way, way early. We would have lost hundreds of thousands of additional lives and that’s pretty much agreed by everybody.”

-Donald Trump as quoted by Rev, “Donald Trump Speech Transcript Minnesota August 17,” rev.com, Aug. 17, 2020

8/17/2020

CORONAVIRUS/DEMS/USPS: “To fight the China virus, we’ve enacted the largest financial relief package in American history, through the Paycheck Protection Program we saved one million Minnesota jobs. We’ve also delivered nearly five billion dollars in economic relief straight to Minnesota families, you know that, we’ve kept it all going, and we’d like to do it again, except the Democrats, all they want is one trillion dollars, one trillion. They’re not interested in the people, they’re not interested in the Post Office. It’s all a ruse, it’s all a con. They’re only interested in getting a trillion dollars, you guys know that, getting a trillion dollars for states that are badly run blue states.”

-Donald Trump as quoted by Rev, “Donald Trump Speech Transcript Minnesota August 17,” rev.com, Aug. 17, 2020

8/17/2020

CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/JOE BIDEN: “China did a terrible thing to us. They could have stopped it. They stopped this disease. I call it the China virus. They stopped it and stopped it cold from going into China, but they decided not to stop it from going into the U.S. and the rest of the world.

And I did something that Biden totally fought me on. He fought me. He didn’t know what he was talking about. He just took a guess at it. But I put a ban on people on people coming in from China, and Dr. Fauci said Trump saved hundreds of thousands of lives because even he didn’t want it.”

-Donald Trump as quoted by Factbase, “Interview: Donald Trump Calls In to Fox and Friends for an Interview – August 17, 2020,” factba.se, Aug. 17, 2020

8/17/2020

CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/TRADE DEALS: “But I have to tell you, four days ago, the corn order was the largest corn order in the history of ordering corn. It was the biggest China ordered… The biggest order in the history of corn. Then they did, if you look at soybeans, it was the largest soybean order in history, in history, and also beef cattle, et cetera.

So it just shows you how smart China is. We sign a deal and the [coronavirus] plague comes in. It might’ve been a mistake. It might’ve been on purpose. Who knows what happened? We’ll figure it out. But whatever it was, it was no good. They could have stopped it. But they know my attitude, I don’t like it. I don’t like it.”

-Donald Trump as quoted by Factbase, “Speech: Donald Trump Delivers a Campaign Speech on the Economy in Wisconsin – August 17, 2020,” factba.se, Aug. 17, 2020

8/17/2020

CORONAVIRUS/VACCINES: “More than 270 [coronavirus] therapies are in clinical trials. Can you believe it? 270. And you’re going to be hearing some very good news very, very soon. Now, we’re dealing with the deep state. So I’m watching it very closely. I don’t need to have them announce on November 4th, ‘Ladies and gentlemen, we’ve found the vaccine, it’s perfect.’ I don’t need that. And hopefully everyone’s looking to do the right thing.”

-Donald Trump as quoted by Factbase, “Speech: Donald Trump Delivers a Campaign Speech on the Economy in Wisconsin – August 17, 2020,” factba.se, Aug. 17, 2020

8/17/2020

CHUCK SCHUMER/CORONAVIRUS/NANCY PELOSI: [Reporter: “Any updates, sir, on stimulus for the coronavirus?”]

“I think that Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer should get back into Washington, and they should approve stimulus for the people… [W]e will work with them, but we want money to go to the people that need it, and they don’t want to do that. They just want to take care of the bailout money. They want bailout money to go to their friends that are doing a bad job running Democrat states.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump Before Marine One Departure,” whitehouse.gov, Aug. 17, 2020