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8/6/2020

CORONAVIRUS/JOE BIDEN/VACCINES: “The fact is that the way he [President Trump] talks about the [coronavirus] vaccine is not particularly rational. He’s talking it being ready. He’s going to talk about moving it quicker than the scientists think it should be moved. It matters to let the people know that it is all transparent, exactly what the facts are. Let the medical community writ large speak to it so that there’s transparency.”

-Joe Biden, “NABJ-NAHJ Newsmaker Plenary: Presidential Forum,” newsyahoo.com, Aug. 6, 2020

8/7/2020

CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/CORRUPTION/COVID_19/DEMS/FAKE NEWS/MEDIA: “I called the politicization of the China Virus by the Radical Left Democrats a Hoax, not the China Virus itself. Everybody knows this except for the Fake and very Corrupt Media!“

8/7/2020

CHINA/CHUCK SCHUMER/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/DEMS/NANCY PELOSI: “Pelosi and Schumer only interested in Bailout Money for poorly run Democrat cities and states. Nothing to do with China Virus! Want one trillion dollars. No interest. We are going a different way!“

8/7/2020

CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/ECONOMY/LEBANON/NEW JERSEY: “I will be doing a news conference on the ChinaVirus, the just announced very good economic numbers, and the improving economy, at 7pm from Bedminster, New Jersey. Also, the subject of the Beirut, Lebanon catastrophe will be discussed.“

8/7/2020

ARIZONA/CORONAVIRUS/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump called Arizona ‘a model for applying a science-based approach to the decreasing [coronavirus] cases and hospitalizations without implementing a punishing lockdown.’ […]

Gov. Ducey is rushing reopening without adequate testing and contact tracing…

He’s refusing to implement a mask mandate and turning his back on older Americans and those at greater risk…

The truth is that President Trump could have acted months ago to curb this pandemic—it’s obvious he still hasn’t learned his lesson. He continues to ignore the warnings of health experts and we’re all paying the price.”

-Joe Biden, Twitter.com, Aug. 7, 2020 7:01 am

8/7/2020

NANCY PELOSI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “This president is the biggest failure in our history. I can’t think of anybody worse.”

-Nancy Pelosi on Aug. 7, 2020 as quoted by Emily Cochrane and Nicholas Fandos, “Pelosi Is Playing Hardball on Coronavirus Relief. She Thinks She’ll Win.,” nytimes.com, Aug. 8, 2020

8/8/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/DEMS: “My administration has been working around the clock in good faith to reach an agreement with Democrats on additional China virus relief…

But what the Democrats primarily want is bailout money. It has nothing to do with the China virus [coronavirus]. It has nothing to do with anything that we’ve been talking about over the last period of time. They want to bailout states that have been badly managed by Democrats, badly run by Democrats for many years — and, in fact, in all cases, many decades.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in Press Briefing,” whitehouse.gov, Aug. 8, 2020

8/8/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19: “And you see the devastating results of [coronavirus] lockdowns, too. You know, you have depression and suicide and drugs and alcohol and bad marriages. Marriages that were very good turned out to be very bad.

It’s an amazing thing, and it’s — who would think it? But people get along for 20 years; I guess they didn’t know each other very well, and now they’re not getting along.

And you had the opposite, also. You’ve had people to get along better. They like each other more than they thought. That’s okay, too.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in Press Briefing,” whitehouse.gov, Aug. 8, 2020

8/8/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/ECONOMY: “Economic health is vital to public health. That’s why our strategy to kill the China virus [coronavirus] has focused on protecting those at greatest risk while allowing younger and healthy Americans to safely return to work and safely return to school. Very important.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in Press Briefing | Bedminster, NJ,” whitehouse.gov, Aug. 8, 2020

8/8/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19: “Nearly every nation on Earth continues to combat the virus. A number of countries are seeing a surge in new [coronavirus] cases… In the United States, more than 80 percent of jurisdictions report decline in cases. We’re doing very well. You don’t hear that too often from the media, but we’re doing very well. We have a very large country — a very complex country, in a sense.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in Press Briefing | Bedminster, NJ,” whitehouse.gov, Aug. 8, 2020

8/8/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/ECONOMY/JOE BIDEN: “Between the coronavirus and the economic crisis, this is a tough time for our country, I know. But I firmly believe that our best days still lie ahead. Together, we will climb out of these crises and emerge stronger than before.”

-Joe Biden, Twitter.com, Aug. 8, 2020 5:15 pm

8/10/2020

CORONAVIRUS/VOTE BY MAIL: “Our system is not equipped for it [mail-in voting]. The Post Office is not equipped for it. And people should vote, like they did in World War One and World War Two. And your numbers will be — in 90 days or less, your numbers will be very good, I think — much better — on the coronavirus or the China virus. But it’s something you have to look about — look at and say, ‘This is just crazy.'”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in Press Briefing | August 10, 2020,” whitehouse.gov, Aug. 10, 2020

8/10/2020

CORONAVIRUS: “We want to discuss, if we might, the China virus. And the world continues its fight against this horrible plague. Countries in every continent are seeing increases in cases. We have a rapid increase only in cases where — it’s very interesting: Because we’re so far ahead of [coronavirus] testing, we have more cases. If we had much smaller testing, we’d have fewer, but we feel that having testing is a very important thing.

It’s a great — it’s a great record to have. In many ways, we — we’ve tested, I guess, close to 65 million people right now, and nobody is even close to that number.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in Press Briefing | August 10, 2020,” whitehouse.gov, Aug. 10, 2020

8/10/2020

CORONAVIRUS: “We must stop politicizing the virus and instead be united in our condemnation of how this virus came to America, how this virus came to the world. And we’re going to figure it out, and we’re going to find out, and we’re very angry about it.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in Press Briefing | August 10, 2020,” whitehouse.gov, Aug. 10, 2020

8/10/2020

CHILDREN/CORONAVIRUS: [Reporter: “97,000 children tested positive for coronavirus in the last two weeks in July, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics. Does that give you any pause about schools reopening for —”]

“No.”

[Reporter: ” — in-person learning?”]

“No, because they may have, as you would call it, ‘a case.’ It may be a case, but it’s also a case where there’s a tiny — it’s a tiny fraction of death — a tiny fraction — and they get better very quickly.

Yeah, they have — they may have it for a short period of time, but, as you know, the — the seriousness of it, in terms of what it leads to, is — is extraordinarily small. Very, very much less than 1 percent.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in Press Briefing | August 10, 2020,” whitehouse.gov, Aug. 10, 2020

8/11/2020

CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/FAKE NEWS: “More Testing, which is a good thing (we have the most in the world), equals more Cases, which is Fake News Gold. They use Cases to demean the incredible job being done by the great men & women of the U.S. fighting the China Plague!“

8/11/2020

CORONAVIRUS/SPORTS: “We want to get football in colleges. These are young, strong people. They won’t have a big problem with the China virus. So we want to see college football start, and, hopefully, a lot of great people are going to be out there. They’re going to be out there, playing football, and they’ll be able to fight it off. And hopefully, it won’t bother them one bit. Most of them will never get it, statistically. But we know we’ll see more cases at some point, and we will eventually develop sufficient immunity, in addition to everything else that we’re doing.

So, college football, get out there and play football. People want to see it. And stand for your American flag, stand for your national anthem because people are not happy when that doesn’t happen.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in Press Briefing | August 11, 2020,” whitehouse.gov, Aug. 11, 2020

8/11/2020

CORONAVIRUS/FAKE NEWS: “We are doing more [coronavirus] testing than any country in the world by far. And because of that, we will have more cases. We are testing people, we have more cases. If you don’t test, you don’t have cases.

And that’s called fake news gold, because they say, cases. That’s all they say, is talk about cases. But what we’re doing is the greatest testing anywhere in the world, the most and the best, best quality. And we are doing very well with it.”

-Donald Trump as quoted by Fox News, “Trump on Kamala Harris: I’m not sure Americans want someone so liberal,” foxnews.com, Aug. 11, 2020

8/11/2020

ANTHONY FAUCI/CORONAVIRUS/JOE BIDEN: “I promise you if I’m elected, I won’t waste any time getting this virus under control.

I’ll call Dr. Fauci and ask him to stay on. I’ll bring together top experts and leaders from both parties to chart a path forward.

We’ll get it done, together.”

-Joe Biden, Twitter.com, Aug. 11, 2020 9:20 am

8/11/2020

CORONAVIRUS/SENIORS: “[P]eople don’t realize it’s a tiny percentage of people that get sick [from coronavirus] and they’re old, it just attacks old people, especially old people with bad heart, diabetes, or some kind of a physical problem, a weight problem. Isn’t it wonderful that I’m a perfect, perfect physical specimen. It’s so great… Wouldn’t that be nice, but no, but so this attacks older people, very viciously, by the way, it can be if it’s the wrong person.”

-Donald Trump as quoted by Outkick, “President Donald Trump joins Clay Travis: Return of Pro Sports, NBA-China, Biden VP pick, and CFB,” YouTube.com, Aug. 11, 2020

8/11/2020

CORONAVIRUS/DRUGS: “This hydroxychloroquine, a lot of doctors swear by it. By my saying, it’s good, I took it for two weeks, you know, there was a little [coronavirus] outbreak around Washington. And I said, let me have something. And I took it for two weeks and it was fine. You know, it was great… 

But as soon as I came out with it, they said, Oh, it doesn’t work. And they went crazy. They still are, on Twitter. It’s number one all the time, which is phony. It’s number one all the time and trending, hydroxy, you know, negative hydroxy stuff. If I would have said, I don’t believe in hydroxychloroquine… if I would have said, I don’t believe in it, it doesn’t work, it would be the hottest thing going right now.”

-Donald Trump as quoted by Outkick, “President Donald Trump joins Clay Travis: Return of Pro Sports, NBA-China, Biden VP pick, and CFB,” YouTube.com, Aug. 11, 2020

8/11/2020

CHINA/CORONAVIRUS: “I had a very good relationship with President Xi. But once it turned to, once we got hit with the virus that they didn’t get hit, you know, they contained it in China. Now they’ve had outbreaks like everyone else, but they contained it essentially in China. But they didn’t contain it from the U.S. and Europe and the rest of the world. 188 countries, Hugh, 188 countries. And it’s frustrating.”

-Donald Trump as quoted by Hugh Hewitt, “President Trump On A SCOTUS Vacancy, China, College Football, Joe Biden’s VP And More,” hughhewitt.com, Aug. 11, 2020

8/11/2020

CORONAVIRUS/VACCINES: “We’re doing very well in everything including Corona, as you call it. But let me just tell you, we’re getting to an end. We’re getting to, and the [coronavirus] vaccines are ready to rock. We’re going to be very close to a vaccine. We’re ready to distribute, and we’re there for the therapeutics, which to me is even more important, frankly. It makes you better. It’s more important than the vaccine.”

-Donald Trump as quoted by Hugh Hewitt, “President Trump On A SCOTUS Vacancy, China, College Football, Joe Biden’s VP And More,” hughhewitt.com, Aug. 11, 2020

8/12/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “While he’s [Donald Trump] in court trying to do away with health care, with more than five million reported infections, 165,000 people dead and climbing as a consequence of COVID-19 and still, months later, no real leadership or plan from the President of the United States how to get this pandemic under control… Instead, he’s issuing executive orders and making promises that in the end will defund the Social Security system while insisting that this virus will disappear.”

-Joe Biden as quoted by Rev, “Joe Biden and Kamala Harris Speech Transcript August 12: First Campaign Event as Running Mates,” rev.com, Aug. 12, 2020

8/12/2020

CORONAVIRUS/KAMALA HARRIS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “When other countries are following the science, Trump pushed miracle [coronavirus] cures he saw on Fox News. While other countries were flattening the curve, he said the virus would just poof, go away, quote, like a miracle. So when other countries opened back up for business, what did we do? We had to shut down again. This virus has impacted almost every country, but there’s a reason it has hit America worse than any other advanced nation. It’s because of Trump’s failure to take it seriously from the start, his refusal to get testing up and running, his flip flopping on social distancing and wearing masks, his delusional belief that he knows better than the experts.”

-Kamala Harris as quoted by Rev, “Joe Biden and Kamala Harris Speech Transcript August 12: First Campaign Event as Running Mates,” rev.com, Aug. 12, 2020

8/12/2020

CORONAVIRUS/DEMS/USPS/VOTE BY MAIL: “So, they [Democrats]want $25 billion for the Post Office… And the bill is not going to happen because they don’t even want to talk about it because we can’t give them the kind of ridiculous things that they want that have nothing to do with the China virus. It has nothing at all to do with China virus, much of what they’re asking for. So, therefore, they don’t have the money to do the universal mail-in voting. So, therefore, they can’t do it, I guess. Right?…

But, therefore, they don’t have it. They don’t have the money to do the universal mail-in votes. It’ll be the greatest rigged election in history. It’ll be the greatest fraud ever perpetrated, other than perhaps what they did to my campaign, where they spied on my campaign — President Obama, Biden, and everybody else. And they got caught. Let’s see what happens. This will be one of the greatest frauds in history.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in Press Briefing [held on Aug. 12],” whitehouse.gov, Aug. 13, 2020

8/12/2020

CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/DEMS/HOUSING: “I want to make it unmistakably clear that I’m protecting people from evictions. They didn’t want to do that. The Democrats didn’t want to do a protection from evictions — people getting evicted because of the coronavirus or the ‘China virus,’ whatever you want to call it. We have 20 — now we’re up to 21 different names. All we know is it came out of China, and it shouldn’t have. They should have stopped it.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in Press Briefing [held on Aug. 12],” whitehouse.gov, Aug. 13, 2020

8/12/2020

CHILDREN/CORONAVIRUS/EDUCATION: “Children often have only mild symptoms, and medical complications are incredibly rare — very, very, very rare. Those that do face complications often have underlying medical conditions. In each of the last five years, the flu resulted in more deaths of those under 18 in the United States than have been lost thus far to coronavirus, by far. The flu — the flu does kill young people.

Given these considerations, we believe many school districts can now reopen safely, provided they implement mitigation measures and health protocols to protect families, protect teachers, and protect students. All families should be empowered to make the decision that is right for their own circumstances.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in Press Briefing [held on Aug. 12],” whitehouse.gov, Aug. 13, 2020

8/12/2020

CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/INDIA: “We’ve done more [coronavirus] testing than any country in the world, by far. That includes India, which has 1.5 billion people. That includes China. That includes every country in the world. We’ve done more testing. We have better testing than any country in the world. They call; they want to know, ‘Where do we get it? How do we get it?’ We have better testing than any country in the world.

When you do as much testing as us, however, as you understand, you develop more cases. If you tested instead of 65 million people, which is what we’ve done — when you test that many people, you’re going to find cases that normally you wouldn’t see.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in Press Briefing [held on Aug. 12],” whitehouse.gov, Aug. 13, 2020

8/12/2020

CHINA/CORONAVIRUS: “I’m very angry at China because they let this horrible disease — they let this horrible plague [coronavirus] come into our country and come into the world. And they should have been able to stop it. They stopped it from going into China. They should have been able to stop it. So I’m very angry at China.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in Press Briefing [held on Aug. 12],” whitehouse.gov, Aug. 13, 2020

8/13/2020

CORONAVIRUS/STOCK MARKET: “And frankly, you know, we’ve had a tremendous — a tremendous market, you and I have talked about that, the stock market. Think of it, we’re almost back to where we were and we’re still in the [coronavirus] pandemic, which will be going away, as I say, it will be going away. And they scream, how you can you say that? I said, because it’s going to be going away. But, you know, we’re in the middle of a pandemic and yet we’re going to be hitting records.”

-Donald Trump in an interview with Maria Bartiromo, “Mornings with Maria,” video.foxbusiness.com, Aug. 13, 2020

8/13/2020

CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/ECONOMY: “Look, we got hit by the China plague [coronavirus] and we’re not going to forget it. We got hit by the China plague. I built the greatest economy in history, greatest job numbers, greatest stock market numbers, greatest economic numbers.

Nobody’s ever seen it. I was cruising to election. They weren’t even going to be a factor. George Washington would’ve had a hard time winning, you know that.”

-Donald Trump in an interview with Maria Bartiromo, “Mornings with Maria,” video.foxbusiness.com, Aug. 13, 2020

8/13/2020

CORONAVIRUS/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Today, we saw Joe Biden continue to politicize a pandemic and to show his appalling lack of respect for the American people. That’s what it is. At every turn, Biden has been wrong about the virus, ignoring the scientific evidence and putting left-wing politics before facts and evidence.

Sleepy Joe opposed both the China and the Europe travel bans. You know that. He opposed the China travel ban that I instituted very early and the Europe travel ban that I instituted quite early.

If he had followed — if we went after — I listened to his advice, hundreds of thousands more people would have died. This is according to many people. I believe that Dr. Fauci agreed with that. He said that President Trump made a great decision when he put the ban on China.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in Press Briefing | August 13, 2020,” whitehouse.gov, Aug. 13, 2020

8/13/2020

CHINA/CORONAVIRUS: “[M]y mindset has changed on China since they allowed the [coronavirus] plague to come in and have such a devastating effect on the world – us and the world, which is terrible. But no I view China differently than I did. It’s before plague and after plague. Right now, I view China differently than I did before plague.”

-Donald Trump in an interview with Maria Bartiromo, “Mornings with Maria,” video.foxbusiness.com, Aug. 13, 2020

8/13/2020

BORDER/CORONAVIRUS/JOE BIDEN: “Joe Biden wants to fling open American borders, allowing the [coronavirus] pandemic to infiltrate every U.S. community based on his policies. He wants to have ridiculous open borders. I’ve been saying from the first day I started campaigning for this great office that if you have open borders, you don’t have a country. You don’t have a country, with open borders. So he wants open borders. The Democrats want open borders.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in Press Briefing | August 13, 2020,” whitehouse.gov, Aug. 13, 2020

8/13/2020

CORONAVIRUS/JOE BIDEN: “But while Joe Biden would allow rioters and looters and criminals and millions of illegal aliens to roam free in our country, he wants the federal government to issue a sweeping new mandate to law-abiding citizens.

He wants the President of the United States, with the mere stroke of a pen, to order over 300 million American citizens to wear a mask for a minimum of three straight months — I guess this just happened; he thinks it’s good politics, I guess — no matter where they live and no matter their surroundings. Because different states are much different, both in terms of the atmosphere itself and also in terms of the corona [coronavirus] problem.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in Press Briefing | August 13, 2020,” whitehouse.gov, Aug. 13, 2020

8/13/2020

CORONAVIRUS: “We have urged Americans to wear masks [due to coronavirus]. And I emphasized this is a patriotic thing to do. Maybe they’re great and maybe they’re just good. Maybe they’re not so good. But frankly, what do you have to lose? You have nothing to lose. So we do, and we’ve been saying wear them when it’s appropriate, especially in terms of social distancing, if you can’t distance enough. And what do you have to lose?”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in Press Briefing | August 13, 2020,” whitehouse.gov, Aug. 13, 2020

8/13/2020

CORONAVIRUS/JOE BIDEN: “Sleepy Joe rejects the scientific approach in favor of locking all Americans in their basements for months on end…

So we’ll defeat the virus, but not by hiding in our basements. He’s got to come out of his basement. We’ll defeat this virus through a commonsense mitigation effort, shielding those at highest risk, and unleashing America’s medical and scientific genius, which is what it is. And we’ve already been doing it, and we’re very close to having something that’s going to be very, very special in the form of therapeutics and vaccines.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in Press Briefing | August 13, 2020,” whitehouse.gov, Aug. 13, 2020

8/13/2020

CORONAVIRUS/JOE BIDEN: “[T]oday I want to talk about one thing. Very straightforward. Doesn’t have anything to do with Democrats, Republicans or independents. It has to do with a single simple proposition: every single American should be wearing a mask when they’re outside for the next three months at a minimum. Every governor should mandate. Every governor should mandate mandatory mask wearing. The estimates by the experts are it will save over 40,000 lives [from coronavirus] in the next three months. 40,000 lives if people act responsibly.

And it’s not about your rights, it’s about your responsibilities as an American.”

-Joe Biden as quoted by PBS NewsHour, “WATCH LIVE: Biden speaks about COVID-19 pandemic in Wilmington, Delaware,” YouTube.com, Aug. 13, 2020

8/13/2020

CORONAVIRUS/JOE BIDEN: “Wearing a mask is less about you contracting the virus, although it does help depending on the mask, but it’s about preventing other people from getting sick. Wearing a mask will give the life of a clerk or your local store or your letter carrier, your child’s teacher, it will increase their prospects of not contracting the virus. Even though it’s uncomfortable, we’re not used to it, wearing a mask is going to get our kids back to school sooner and safer. Wearing a mask, every American wearing a mask outdoors, is going to get our businesses back and the full strength long-term, and we’re going to get our country back on track.”

-Joe Biden as quoted by PBS NewsHour, “WATCH LIVE: Biden speaks about COVID-19 pandemic in Wilmington, Delaware,” YouTube.com, Aug. 13, 2020

8/13/2020

CORONAVIRUS/JOE BIDEN: “A lot of people are dying [from coronavirus]. We’re up over 160,000 people dead so far. And I’ll end by saying that it goes back to the study some months ago by Columbia University saying that we didn’t have to be this way.

If the president had acted sooner, just one week earlier, it would have saved 30-some-thousand lives. Two weeks earlier, I think it was 51,000 or 57,000 lives. I hope we’ve learned a lesson. Hope the president has learned a lesson, but again, this is not about Democrat, Republican or independent. It’s about saving America’s lives, so let’s Institute a mass mandate nationwide starting immediately, and we will save lives. The estimates are we’ll save over 40,000 lives in the next three months if that is done.”

-Joe Biden as quoted by PBS NewsHour, “WATCH LIVE: Biden speaks about COVID-19 pandemic in Wilmington, Delaware,” YouTube.com, Aug. 13, 2020

8/14/2020

CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/DEMS: “I am ready to send Rental Assistance payments to hardworking Americans that have been hurt by the ChinaVirus. DEMOCRATS ARE HOLDING THIS UP!“

8/14/2020

CONGRESS/CORONAVIRUS/JOE BIDEN: “People are losing their homes. Millions have already lost their paychecks. Our country is in crisis.

The virus isn’t taking a break — Republicans shouldn’t either. The House did their job. President Trump, bring the Senate back and pass a relief bill. Now.”

-Joe Biden, Twitter.com, Aug. 14, 2020 3:08 pm

8/14/2020

CORONAVIRUS/JOE BIDEN/SOCIAL SECURITY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “To slash Social Security in the midst of a deadly [coronavirus] pandemic — a crisis made exponentially worse by his own negligence — is an unconscionable betrayal of American seniors, who paid into the Social Security system throughout their lives expecting it would be there for them in their golden years. It isn’t a surprise that Donald Trump is promising to gut Social Security at a time when families need help the most — after all, he’s also in court right now trying to slash Medicare benefits for some of the most vulnerable Americans. The only surprise is how open and brazen he is about his intentions to destroy a cherished program that is ingrained in the moral bedrock of life in America.”

-Joe Biden, “My Statement on the 85th Anniversary of Social Security,” medium.com, Aug. 14, 2020

8/14/2020

CORONAVIRUS/VACCINES: [Reporter: “Once the [coronavirus] vaccine is ready, who should get it first?”]

“I will rely on the doctors to tell me that. I would say probably the elderly, I would say nursing homes. A lot of people said would you take it? I’ll say I’ll go first or last. I’ll do whatever they want me to do.”

-Donald Trump as quoted by The White House, “President Trump Holds a News Conference,” YouTube.com, Aug. 14, 2020

8/14/2020

CORONAVIRUS/DEMS: [Reporter: “Why not just sit down with Democrats personally and cut a deal [on the coronavirus stimulus bill]?”]

“Because they want $1 trillion to go to their friends doing a bad job running certain cities and states that are doing very badly. You know, most of our country is running very well. Even in terms of crime, most of our country is setting records in terms of low. But when you look at Chicago, when you look at what’s going on in Illinois and New York and other places, both economically and in other ways, it’s horrible. It’s horrible.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in Press Briefing | August 14, 2020,” whitehouse.gov, Aug. 14, 2020

8/15/2020

ARIZONA/CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/IOWA/JOBS: “Great work by the Governors of AZ, IA, LA, and NM (@DougDucey @IAGovernor @LouisianaGov & @GovMLG) who responded to my Executive Action and promptly submitted applications, that we APPROVED QUICKLY, to support Americans out of work because of the ChinaVirus. More states to come!“

8/15/2020

CORONAVIRUS: “Let me provide a brief update on the China virus… Nearly 85 percent of jurisdictions all across our country are reporting a very steep decline in cases, and that’s despite the fact that we have the number one testing program anywhere in the world.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in Press Briefing | August 15, 2020,” whitehouse.gov, Aug. 16, 2020

8/15/2020

2020 ELECTION/CORONAVIRUS/ECONOMY: “If I win [the 2020 election], which I hope to win — how can you not when you see numbers like this, both on the virus and on the economy? I mean, we should win. We should all be — keep this incredible thing going.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in Press Briefing | August 15, 2020,” whitehouse.gov, Aug. 16, 2020

8/17/2020

CORONAVIRUS/FDA: [Reporter: “Oleandrin — have you heard of that as a possible therapy for coronavirus?”]

“I’ve heard of it, yes.”

[Reporter: “Have you pressed the FDA to approve it?”]

“No, I haven’t. I haven’t… Is it something that people are talking about very strongly? We’ll look at it. We’ll look it. We’re looking at a lot of different things.

I will say, the FDA has been great. They are very close — we’re very close to a vaccine, very close to a therapeutic. I’ve heard that name mentioned.”

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

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

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

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

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

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/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/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/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/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/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

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/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

8/18/2020

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

8/18/2020

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/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

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: “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

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

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/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

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

8/19/2020

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

8/19/2020

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/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

8/20/2020

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

8/20/2020

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

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

8/21/2020

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

8/22/2020

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“

8/22/2020

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

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/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

8/23/2020

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!“

[Editor’s Note: Twitter blocked this tweet with the following message: “This Tweet violated the Twitter Rules about civic and election integrity. However, Twitter has determined that it may be in the public’s interest for the Tweet to remain accessible.”]

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/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

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/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

8/24/2020

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

8/24/2020

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

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: “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

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

8/25/2020

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