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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

8/15/2020

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

8/15/2020

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

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!“

8/14/2020

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

8/14/2020

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/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

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

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!“

8/13/2020

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

8/13/2020

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: “[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: “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: “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: “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

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

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

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/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/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

8/12/2020

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

8/12/2020

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

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/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

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

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/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

8/11/2020

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

8/11/2020

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/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

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

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/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

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

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!“

8/10/2020

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

8/10/2020

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

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/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

8/8/2020

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

8/8/2020

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: “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: “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/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

8/7/2020

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

8/7/2020

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

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

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/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!“

8/6/2020

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

8/6/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/EDUCATION/JOE BIDEN: “I’ve laid out a roadmap to reopen schools safely and effectively. First, get the [coronavirus] cases down in the communities through social distancing, masking, testing, tracing, and PPE. Second, give school districts uniform guidance without political interference on effectively and safely, the safety protocols, including ventilation, physical changes in classrooms. Third, give those districts the resources to implement the guidance. Studies show that we need $34 billion to make school safe nationwide…

President Trump should stop tweeting and start doing his work.”

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

8/6/2020

CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19: “So — so the message that I have is very simple: Nobody can do what I’ve done in terms of all of the things that we’re doing to combat this horrible disease [coronavirus] that never should have been sent to us, that was sent — it came from China; should never have been allowed to leave China. They could have easily done something. They stopped it from coming into China, but they didn’t stop it from coming into the U.S. and Europe and the rest of the world. And China should have done something about it. And, frankly, it’s a disgrace that they didn’t.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump Before Marine One Departure,” whitehouse.gov, Aug. 6, 2020

8/6/2020

CORONAVIRUS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I’ve done a great job for the country. We got hit by a virus [coronavirus] and we’ve done a great job on that, but we don’t get the credit with the ventilators and with everything. And you look at our statistics, we’re a bigger country. And you have to remember other countries don’t report real numbers. Do you think China’s reporting their numbers? Do you think India?”

-Donald Trump as quoted by Factbase, “Interview: Geraldo Rivera Interviews Donald Trump on Geraldo in Cleveland – August 6, 2020,” factba.se, Aug. 6, 2020

8/6/2020

CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/ECONOMY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Before I came in, China was eating our lunch, they were ripping us off like nobody’s ever ripped us off before. But I built the greatest economy in history, I did a tremendous for African-American, Asian-American, Hispanic-American, women, everybody was at the top. But we had the greatest economy in history and then we got hit by the China virus [coronavirus] and now, we’re… And we closed it up because we had to, we saved millions of lives and now we’re opening it up and it’s a V. Looks like it’s a V.”

-Donald Trump as quoted by Factbase, “Interview: Geraldo Rivera Interviews Donald Trump on Geraldo in Cleveland – August 6, 2020,” factba.se, Aug. 6, 2020

8/6/2020

FDA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VACCINES: “If you had another president other than me, you wouldn’t be talking [coronavirus] vaccines for two years, you know that. What I did with FDA has been amazing, according to everybody. Literally, it’s been amazing. And no, I’m pushing it very hard and I want to push it very hard, I will push it very hard.”

-Donald Trump as quoted by Factbase, “Interview: Geraldo Rivera Interviews Donald Trump on Geraldo in Cleveland – August 6, 2020,” factba.se, Aug. 6, 2020

8/6/2020

CHILDREN/CORONAVIRUS/SOCIAL MEDIA/TWITTER: “[W]hen you look at what’s happening with Facebook and with Twitter, it’s 100% possibly illegal.”

[Geraldo Rivera: “Does Twitter tick you up that they could take out some of your tweets and –“]

“The perfect statement. Yeah. You mean a statement about youth [being almost immune to coronavirus], right? The youth. They are just not targeted very much by this pandemic from China, it’s an amazing thing. And then they take you off of that statement. Every doctor is saying what I’m saying. Not every doctor, I guess, there’ll be some that won’t, but can you imagine they took that statement off?”

-Donald Trump as quoted by Factbase, “Interview: Geraldo Rivera Interviews Donald Trump on Geraldo in Cleveland – August 6, 2020,” factba.se, Aug. 6, 2020

8/6/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/IMMIGRATION/JOE BIDEN: “Every person in the country, whether they’re undocumented or documented, should have access to a [coronavirus] vaccine if and when it occurs, should have access to testing and treatment and hospitalization, if it relates to the virus. That should occur, period. It’s in the interest of everyone that everyone be taken care of, and everyone should be able to be eligible for that.”

[Lulu Garcia-Navarro: “Just to clarify, you are saying that if you are undocumented, you would be able to get a vaccine for free, subsidized?”]

“Yes. Yes.”

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

8/5/2020

CHILDREN/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/SOCIAL MEDIA/TWITTER: “Facebook Inc. and Twitter Inc. on Wednesday removed a video posted by President Trump in which he said children are ‘almost immune from this disease,’ a claim that the companies said ran afoul their rules against harmful misinformation about Covid-19…

The action marked the first time that Facebook removed Mr. Trump’s posts for violating its coronavirus misinformation rules…

While complications and deaths from Covid-19 are relatively rare among young people, children aren’t immune from the virus. Older students, largely teens, are believed to be at greater risk than younger children.”

-Deepa Seetharaman, “Facebook, Twitter Take Down Video of Trump Saying Children ‘Almost Immune’ From Covid-19,” wsj.com, Aug. 5, 2020

8/5/2020

ARIZONA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19: “It’s an honor to be with the governor of a fabulous state, Arizona. It’s Doug Ducey, and we know him well. And we’ve had a tremendous relationship. He had a tremendous, big, very big election victory. And he has done an incredible job on COVID, or COVID-19, or about 19 other names we can call it. It’s got probably more names than anything else you can think of. And he was hit very hard, and he’s — and he hit back even harder.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in a Meeting with Governor Ducey of Arizona,” whitehouse.gov, Aug. 5, 2020

8/5/2020

2020 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN: [Reporter: “You said earlier today that you are considering using the White House as the venue for your nomination speech. Senator John Thune questioned whether or not that’s actually legal given the Hatch Act.”]

“Well, it is legal. There is no Hatch Act because it doesn’t pertain to the president. If I use the White House, we save tremendous amounts of money for the government in terms of security, traveling. If we go to another state or some other location, the amount of money is very enormous. That’s something to consider also.

I think it would be a very convenient location that would be by far the least expensive location. There would be very little in terms of that tremendous traveling, security with airplanes and everybody flying all over the place. I think it would be a very convenient idea, it’s something that we threw out. It would be very cost conscious by comparison to any other location.”

-Donald Trump as quoted by Rev, “Donald Trump Coronavirus Press Conference Transcript August 5,” rev.com, Aug. 5, 2020

8/5/2020

CHILDREN/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19: [Reporter: “From an interview this morning, Mr. President, you were talking about opening the schools and you said children are virtually immune from COVID-19. But children have contracted this virus, and some have died from it.”]

“I’m talking about from getting very sick. If you look at children, I mean, they’re able to throw it [coronavirus] off very easily. It’s an amazing thing. Because some flus, they don’t. They get very sick, and they have problems with flus and they have problems with other things. But for whatever reason, the China virus, children handle it very well. And they may get it, but they get it and it doesn’t have much of an impact on them. If you look at the numbers, the numbers in terms of mortality fatality, the numbers for children under a certain age … meaning young, their immune systems are very, very strong. They’re very powerful. They seem to be able to handle it very well, and that’s according to every statistic.”

-Donald Trump as quoted by Rev, “Donald Trump Coronavirus Press Conference Transcript August 5,” rev.com, Aug. 5, 2020

8/5/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19: [Reporter: “Sir, you said in an interview this morning on the coronavirus, this thing’s going away.”]

“It’s going away. It’s going away now. It’ll go away. Things go away. Absolutely. No question in my mind. It will go away… Hopefully sooner rather than later.”

-Donald Trump as quoted by Rev, “Donald Trump Coronavirus Press Conference Transcript August 5,” rev.com, Aug. 5, 2020

8/5/2020

2020 ELECTION/VOTE BY MAIL/VOTING: “[A]bsentee ballots are different than mail-in ballots. What you call universal mail-in ballots. So much different. You have to apply for it. You have to do different things, and it’s a much better system, and it’s a system that can be reasonably accurate. But there’s no system like going to the poll and voting.”

-Donald Trump as quoted by Rev, “Donald Trump Coronavirus Press Conference Transcript August 5,” rev.com, Aug. 5, 2020

8/5/2020

2020 ELECTION/VOTE BY MAIL/VOTING: “They’ve had some just horrible stories on mail-in ballots… With all of the bundling that you’re going to have, with the harvesting you’re going to have, with people being sent ballots all over that have maybe nothing to do with the state anymore, it’s a terrible thing…

They send out millions of ballots. Millions of ballots. They’re totally unprepared to do it, and then they come back in the millions. It’s going to be a disaster. I’m doing our country a big favor by bringing it up. And from a common stance or even common sense standpoint, if you look at it just out of common sense and pure, basic, beautiful intelligence, you know it can’t work.”

-Donald Trump as quoted by Rev, “Donald Trump Coronavirus Press Conference Transcript August 5,” rev.com, Aug. 5, 2020

8/5/2020

ANTHONY FAUCI/CORONAVIRUS: “White House coronavirus advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci agreed on Wednesday that the United States has the worst coronavirus outbreak in the world, pointing to the nation’s high number of Covid-19 infections and deaths…

Fauci’s comments are at odds with President Donald Trump’s suggestion during a contentious interview with Axios’ Jonathan Swan that the nation is ‘lower than the world’ in ‘numerous categories.'”

-Noah Higgins-Dunn, “The U.S. has the worst coronavirus outbreak in the world: ‘The numbers don’t lie,’ Dr. Fauci says,” cnbc.com, Aug. 5, 2020

8/5/2020

CORONAVIRUS/TRUMP ADMIN/VACCINES: [Stacey Vanek Smith: “Having a vaccine before the end of the year, does that seem realistic?”]

“No, it doesn’t… What you don’t want to have happen is you don’t want the [Trump] administration to reach their hand into the Warp Speed bucket where there are tens of millions of doses, pull out one or more [coronavirus] vaccines and say, look; it’s been tested a in few thousand people. We know it induces an immune response without knowing whether or not it’s effective and then putting it out into the American public. That would be a mistake.”

-Paul Offit, chief of the division of infectious diseases at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, as quoted by Stacey Vanek Smith, “FDA Adviser: Not Realistic To Expect A COVID-19 Vaccine In 2020,” npr.org, Aug. 5, 2020

8/5/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19: “When you shut down [for coronavirus], you have many, many things that happen. From suicides, to depression, to drinking, alcohol problems, to drug problems, to problems with marriages. Problems with marriages. You have people confined to their house, their apartment for long periods of time, you cause a lot of problems with that also.”

-Donald Trump as quoted by Rev, “Donald Trump Coronavirus Press Conference Transcript August 5,” rev.com, Aug. 5, 2020

8/5/2020

COVID-19/DEMS: “We’ve been negotiating in good faith with Democrat leaders in the house to extend relief payments… The Democrats are primarily interested in a $1 trillion bailout of the poorly run states. We have some states in cities, you know them all. We don’t have to go through names. But they’ve been very poorly run over the years and we can’t go along with the bailout money. We’re not going to go along with that, especially since it’s not COVID related.”

-Donald Trump as quoted by Rev, “Donald Trump Coronavirus Press Conference Transcript August 5,” rev.com, Aug. 5, 2020

8/5/2020

CORONAVIRUS/HOUSING: “[M]y administration’s exploring executive actions to provide protections against eviction. Eviction is a big problem, very unfair to a lot of people. It wasn’t their fault that this virus came from a far away land. As well as additional relief to those who are unemployed as a result of the [coronavirus].”

-Donald Trump as quoted by Rev, “Donald Trump Coronavirus Press Conference Transcript August 5,” rev.com, Aug. 5, 2020

8/5/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19: “You look at a map and white means good. Most of the map is in the white color… Some states are going up a little bit, but they will very shortly — they’re under control, they’ll be coming down. This is a terrible thing [coronavirus] that China sent us, this is not easy. This is a terrible thing. And all you have to do is look at every other country in the world, 188 countries are suffering with this plague.”

-Donald Trump, “President Trump talks mail-in voting, 2020 race, COVID-19 response on ‘Fox & Friends’,” video.foxnews.com, Aug. 5, 2020

8/5/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19: “Nobody’s even close to us in testing, and you know, it’s just another talking point. And by the way, when you do a lot of [coronavirus] testing you have more cases, so they say we have more cases. Well that’s because we test, and we find people that need help, and we take care of them. This country has done a great job on the corona.”

-Donald Trump, “President Trump talks mail-in voting, 2020 race, COVID-19 response on ‘Fox & Friends’,” video.foxnews.com, Aug. 5, 2020

8/5/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/VACCINES: “Two [coronavirus] vaccine candidates are in the final phases of clinical trials, which is at a record. This could take years and we did it in a matter of months. We will have that vaccine. We expect to have the vaccine itself available before the end of the year, as I said, and maybe long before.”

-Donald Trump as quoted by Factbase, “Remarks: Donald Trump Holds a Virtual Georgia Tele-Rally – August 5, 2020,” factba.se, Aug. 5, 2020

8/5/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/ECONOMY: “When the China virus [coronavirus] invaded our country, we had no choice but to shut down our economy. We saved millions of lives by doing so. We had to shut it down. We had no choice. We had the greatest economy ever. We had to shut it down, but we did the right thing and we saved millions of lives.”

-Donald Trump as quoted by Factbase, “Remarks: Donald Trump Holds a Virtual Georgia Tele-Rally – August 5, 2020,” factba.se, Aug. 5, 2020

8/5/2020

2020 ELECTION/CORONAVIRUS/DEMS/JOE BIDEN: “Joe Biden will no longer accept the Democratic presidential nomination in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, officials said Wednesday [Aug. 5], in the latest and strongest sign that the Democratic National Convention will be almost entirely virtual due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

Biden will instead accept the Democratic nomination for president from his home state of Delaware, according to the Democratic National Convention Committee.”

-Jeff Zeleny, Dan Merica and Kate Sullivan, “Joe Biden will no longer travel to Milwaukee to accept Democratic nomination,” cnn.com, Aug. 5, 2020

8/5/2020

CHILDREN/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/EDUCATION: “My view is the schools should open. This thing is going away. It will go away like things go away, and my view is that schools should be open. If you look at children, children are almost — and I would almost say definitely — but almost immune from this disease… They have much stronger immune systems than we do, somehow, for this [coronavirus].”

-Donald Trump, “President Trump talks mail-in voting, 2020 race, COVID-19 response on ‘Fox & Friends’,” video.foxnews.com, Aug. 5, 2020

8/5/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19: “You could have a second wave [of coronavirus]. Other countries have had a second wave. You know, what nobody talks about is some of these countries that were being held up as the greatest examples, they’re having massive second waves now.

Look at what’s happening with Australia, and you look at what’s happening to France. Look at Spain, it’s in a big, big second wave. Italy has a wave going. A lot of countries are having a — but nobody ever talks about that. We have done an incredible job in this country, an incredible job. And our testing is the best ever.”

-Donald Trump, “President Trump talks mail-in voting, 2020 race, COVID-19 response on ‘Fox & Friends’,” video.foxnews.com, Aug. 5, 2020

8/5/2020

COVID-19/SOCIAL MEDIA: “Facebook removed a video post from President Donald Trump’s personal page on Wednesday that included a segment from a Fox News interview in which the president said children are ‘almost immune’ to COVID-19.

‘This video includes false claims that a group of people is immune from COVID-19 which is a violation of our policies around harmful COVID misinformation,’ Andy Stone, a Facebook policy spokesperson, said…

The action is the first time Facebook has removed a Trump post for COVID-19 misinformation and marks a rare instance in which it has been willing to censor the president.”

-Dylan Byers, “Facebook removes Trump post over coronavirus misinformation,” nbcnews.com, Aug. 5, 2020

8/5/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/FAKE NEWS/MEDIA: “.@CNN has no sources on the Task Force. Their ‘sources’ are made up, pure fiction! Jim Acosta is a Fake reporter!“

––Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 5, 2020 4:05 am

8/4/2020

CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19: “I think our attitude on China has changed greatly since the China virus [coronavirus] hit us. I think it changed greatly. It hit the world, and it shouldn’t have. They should have been able to stop it. So, we feel differently. I just don’t know.

When you lose so many thousands of people, and — you know, ultimately, it’ll be millions of people around the world. It’s a terrible thing that happened to the United States and Europe and the entire world. Really a terrible thing.”

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

8/4/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19: “Where [coronavirus] embers flare up, we must engage immediately, and that’s what we’re doing. This is the science-based approach, and it’s good with us. Working very hard on that. An extended lockdown would fail to target resources at the highest-risk populations, while inflicting massive economic pain, long-lasting damage on society and public health as a whole.

So there won’t be lockdowns, but we watch specific areas. We’re very careful and we’re putting out embers. We’re putting out flames… But Florida is going down very significantly. Texas and California are going down rather significantly.”

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

8/4/2020

CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19: “[W]e are continuing to monitor and monitor, in particular, [coronavirus] hotspots across the South, Southwest, and the West. And we’re seeing indications that our strong mitigation efforts are working very well, actually, especially to protect those who are most at risk, which has really been our primary focus for — ever since we’ve gotten to understand this horrible, horrible plague that’s been unleashed on our country by China.”

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

8/4/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/ECONOMY: “I now want to update you on the path forward, having to do with the China virus [coronavirus]…

Automobile sales… are a key factor in the resurgence of manufacturing since the March low of 8.8 million units with sales and all of the numbers that are going up, stunningly. It’s a 65 percent increase since then, to 14.5 million units, which is a — a massive number…

These are great numbers. Record-setting numbers.”

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

8/4/2020

CHILDREN/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/EDUCATION: “I want the schools open. First of all, children are unbelievably strong, right? Their immune system. Something’s going on… They have a strong, they have a very strong something, and they are not affected [by coronavirus]. And we have to open our schools. You know, there’s a big danger to keeping people locked in. And they’re also finding it’s wonderful to use computers, but it’s not a great way of learning. They now know that it’s much better to be with a teacher on campus or in a school, that’s much better than looking at a computer all day long. So we have to get our schools open. We have to get them open soon.”

-Donald Trump in an Aug. 4, 2020 interview as quoted by Catholic News Agency, “Transcript of EWTN News Nightly Interview with President Donald Trump,” thecatholictelegraph.com, Aug. 5, 2020

8/4/2020

CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/ECONOMY: “So we had the greatest economy in the history of the world, not only in our country, in every country. We were beating China, beating everybody. They were having the worst economy they’ve had in over 67 years. So we were doing with the tariffs and all the things that I was doing. And then we had to close it up. [Coronavirus] came from China. They should have stopped it. They could have stopped it, but they didn’t. They stopped it from going into their country, but they didn’t stop it from here, Europe, or the rest of the world. And we had to close it up and we did that.”

-Donald Trump in an Aug. 4, 2020 interview as quoted by Catholic News Agency, “Transcript of EWTN News Nightly Interview with President Donald Trump,” thecatholictelegraph.com, Aug. 5, 2020

8/4/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19: [Jacqueline Policastro: “You sound positive today. Some of the top doctors though have talked about the spread across the country and people are still getting sick.”]

“Well, I think you’re going to have it for a little while. We’re having [coronavirus] vaccines made at a record level. I think we’re going to be very successful with the vaccines. We’re going to be making an announcement sooner than people even think. I think long before the end of the year… And they’re doing very well therapeutically and very well with the vaccine. And again, large parts of our country are doing really well. And people don’t talk about them.”

-Donald Trump as quoted by Jacqueline Policastro, “Sidestepping Congress, Trump says he will act to deliver Americans another stimulus,” graydc.com, Aug. 4, 2020

8/4/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19: “This is a very, a very contagious, very difficult disease [coronavirus] that came from China. I will tell you that, it’s very difficult. But I think we’re doing very well. If I showed you a map, much of the map says, it’s gone. It’s gone from big areas of our country.”

-Donald Trump as quoted by Jacqueline Policastro, “Sidestepping Congress, Trump says he will act to deliver Americans another stimulus,” graydc.com, Aug. 4, 2020

8/4/2020

CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19: “Look, we have been — we have lost 160,000 people [to coronavirus]. We’re going to lose more. We would have lost millions had I just let it ride, as the expression goes. We could have lost millions at the same time. Can you imagine, with all of the death, and now you multiply that number times 10, 15 or even 20? It would have been unsustainable and unacceptable. But this was caused by China. And so it certainly has had a negative impact…

And it’s been such a horrible, horrible thing, when you see everyone walking around now with masks and you see all the death, and you see what’s happened to this country, but really to the world.”

-Donald Trump as quoted by Fox Business, “Trump goes one-on-one with Lou Dobbs | EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW,” YouTube.com, Aug. 4, 2020

8/4/2020

CHILDREN/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19: “There’s a lot of politics involved in some of these states that are closed. It’s, let’s say, Democrat governors… And, frankly, they want to keep it closed, I think, as long as possible, maybe for some good reasons, but maybe also for political reasons.

But we want it opened. We want the schools open, Lou. You know, young people, they have better immune systems than we do… And they are in very good shape, virtually, virtually immune from this disease [coronavirus]. They’re incredible, the strength of their — probably, you have to give the credit to their immune system. It’s called being young. And yet, with the flu and various other things, they don’t do so well. So, you know, somebody will explain that someday, perhaps.”

-Donald Trump as quoted by Fox Business, “Trump goes one-on-one with Lou Dobbs | EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW,” YouTube.com, Aug. 4, 2020

8/4/2020

CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19: “I call it the China plague, China virus [coronavirus]. Call it whatever you want. It’s got like 20 different names. And we got hit hard. And we did close up. We had to close it up. And we did the right thing.

We saved millions of lives, Lou. We would have had millions of lives. We have a number now which is unacceptable, but every number, anybody — anything more than one person is unacceptable, because they could have stopped it. They could have stopped it from coming in.”

-Donald Trump as quoted by Fox Business, “Trump goes one-on-one with Lou Dobbs | EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW,” YouTube.com, Aug. 4, 2020

8/4/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “On July 1st, Donald Trump predicted the coronavirus was going to ‘just disappear.’

He was wrong — and more than 25,000 Americans died due to the virus last month.

Mr. President, step up and do your job before even more American families feel the pain of losing a loved one.”

-Joe Biden, Twitter.com, Aug. 4, 2020 7:45 pm

8/3/2020

ANTHONY FAUCI/CORONAVIRUS: “I would like to see universal wearing of masks [for coronavirus]. And for those who want the extra kick to it, go ahead and either get a face shield or goggles.”

-Anthony Fauci via JAMA Network, “Coronavirus Q&A With Anthony Fauci,” YouTube.com, Aug. 3, 2020

8/3/2020

ANTHONY FAUCI/CORONAVIRUS: “There may be some situations where it’s appropriate and a good idea to mandate masks [to mitigate the spread of coronavirus]. But we just need to keep getting the message across that we are all in this together.

And it’s important because one of the purposes of the masks is that if you may be inadvertently not knowing that you are infected, to prevent others from getting infected, as well as a degree of protection yourself. We have to keep hammering home at that message.

I’m very pleased to see that the president is wearing a mask more now… We need more of that consistency.”

-Anthony Fauci via JAMA Network, “Coronavirus Q&A With Anthony Fauci,” YouTube.com, Aug. 3, 2020

8/3/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/NANCY PELOSI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday criticized a key White House coronavirus adviser after she told a national television audience that a new surge in infections was “extraordinarily widespread” in rural areas of the country and cities.

Trump, in a Twitter comment, claimed, “Much of our Country is doing very well. Open the Schools!”…

Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the leader of the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives, had told ABC on Sunday she had no confidence in Birx’s earlier assessments weeks ago that the virus was receding in the U.S. before the new surge that developed in mid-June.”

-Ken Bredemeier, “Trump Criticizes White House Coronavirus Adviser,” voanews.com, Aug. 3, 2020

8/3/2020

CHUCK SCHUMER/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/NANCY PELOSI: “Look, what Chuck Schumer wants more than anybody, and I would say Nancy Pelosi would be second, they want to bail out cities and states that have done a bad job over a long period of time. Nothing to do with coronavirus or China virus or whatever you want to call it.

They want to bail out cities and states. They want bailout money. They want a trillion dollars in bailout money. A lot of people don’t want to do that because we don’t think it’s right. The Democrats have run some very bad states and some very, very bad cities, and a lot of people don’t want to give them a trillion dollars to reward them for doing a bad job.”

-Donald Trump as quoted by Rev, “Donald Trump Talks TikTok, Dr. Fauci, COVID-19 Relief Transcript August 3,” rev.com, Aug. 3, 2020

8/3/2020

CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19: “If you look, countries all over the world are exploding right now… You have Italy back, you have Spain back, you have France back, you have Germany back…

It [coronavirus] was released by China. It should never have been allowed to release. There was the source where you could have stopped it, and they did stop it from going into China. Although now, they say that China is having a lot of problems. Moscow in Russia is having tremendous problems. What China unleashed was a very, very sad situation.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in a Meeting with U.S. Tech Workers and Signing of an Executive Order on Hiring American,” whitehouse.gov, Aug. 3, 2020