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8/26/2020

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

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

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

8/26/2020

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

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

8/26/2020

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

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

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

8/27/2020

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

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

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

8/27/2020

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

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

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

8/27/2020

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

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

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

8/27/2020

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

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

8/27/2020

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

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

8/27/2020

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

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

8/27/2020

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

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

8/27/2020

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

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

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

8/27/2020

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

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

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

8/28/2020

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

8/28/2020

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

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

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

8/28/2020

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

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

8/28/2020

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

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

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

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

8/28/2020

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

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

When will you take the presidency seriously?”

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

8/31/2020

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

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

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

8/29/2020

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

8/31/2020

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

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

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

8/31/2020

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

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

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

8/31/2020

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

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

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

8/31/2020

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

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

9/1/2020

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

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

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

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

9/1/2020

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

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

9/1/2020

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

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

9/2/2020

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

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

9/2/2020

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

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

9/2/2020

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

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

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

9/2/2020

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

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

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

9/2/2020

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

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

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

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

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

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

9/3/2020

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

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

9/3/2020

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

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

9/3/2020

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

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

9/3/2020

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

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

9/3/2020

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

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

9/3/2020

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

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

9/4/2020

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

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

9/4/2020

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

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

9/4/2020

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

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

9/4/2020

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

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

9/4/2020

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

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

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

9/4/2020

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

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

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

9/4/2020

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

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

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

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

9/4/2020

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

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

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

9/4/2020

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

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

9/5/2020

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

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

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

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

9/7/2020

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

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

9/7/2020

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

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

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

9/7/2020

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

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

9/7/2020

CORONAVIRUS/JOE BIDEN: “Biden’s plan for the China virus is to shut down the entire U.S. economy. He’s going to totally rely on somebody to walk up, ‘Yes, sir, it’s time to shut it down.’ He’d be laying off tens of millions of workers and causing countless deaths from suicide, substance abuse, depression, heart disease, and other very serious illnesses.”

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

9/7/2020

CHINA/CORONAVIRUS: “Well, I want to thank you all, and I just want to wish you a very happy Labor Day. And we’re having tremendous success, whether it’s on the [coronavirus] vaccines, whether it’s on the pandemic — the plague that came in from China, that China should have never let happen because I will never feel the same about China. And I just want to again wish you a happy Labor Day.”

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

9/7/2020

CORONAVIRUS/INFRASTRUCTURE/JOE BIDEN: “I have a plan to rebuild this nation. Not only rebuild it, but rebuild it back better. It starts with getting this virus under control. Then we’ll have a transformational investment in roads, bridges, broadband, ports, airports, big projects. We’ll put people to work right away, as well as make sure our country is ready to compete with any country in the future. We’re going to make sure we pay people what they’re worth. It’s not enough to praise our essential workers. It’s about time we start paying you…

If I have the honor of becoming your president, I’m going to be the strongest labor president you have ever had.”

-Joe Biden, “Live: Joe Biden Joins AFL-CIO Virtual Event | NBC News,” YouTube.com, Sep. 7, 2020

9/8/2020

2016 ELECTION/2020 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/FAKE NEWS/MEDIA/POLLS: “My Campaign spent a lot of money up front in order to compensate for the false reporting and Fake News concerning our handling of the China Virus. Now they see the GREAT job we have done, and we have 3 times more than we had 4 years ago – & are up in polls. Lots of $’s & ENERGY!“

––Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 8, 2020 3:21 am

9/8/2020

2016 ELECTION/2020 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/FAKE NEWS: “Because of the China Virus, my Campaign, which has raised a lot of money, was forced to spend in order to counter the Fake News reporting about the way we handled it (China Ban, etc.). We did, and are doing, a GREAT job, and have a lot of money left over, much more than 2016….

….Like I did in the 2016 Primaries, if more money is needed, which I doubt it will be, I will put it up!“

––Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 8, 2020 6:24 am

9/8/2020

CORONAVIRUS/ECONOMY/TRAVEL BAN: “We created the greatest economy in the history of our country. And then we had to close it up when the China plague [coronavirus] came in. We closed it up. We saved millions of lives. We banned highly-infected China from coming in. It was highly infected. The people were highly infected — Wuhan province. We banned them. Nobody said, ‘Do it.’ Everybody said I shouldn’t do it. Biden said, ‘Don’t do it.’ Three months later, he admitted I was right.

But we banned people; we would have lost hundreds of thousands more. But we would have lost millions if we didn’t close it up. And now we open it up, and we’re setting records at every single level.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump on Environmental Accomplishments for the People of Florida | Jupiter, FL,” whitehouse.gov, Sep. 8, 2020

9/7/2020

CORONAVIRUS/VACCINES: “And what’s happening is, all of a sudden, you’ll have this incredible [coronavirus] vaccine, and because of that fake rhetoric — it’s a politic rhetoric; that’s all it is. Just for politics. Because now they see we’ve done an incredible job, and in speed like nobody has ever seen before. This could’ve taken two or three years, and instead it’s going to be — it’s going to be done in a very short of period of time. Could even have it during the month of October.

So, contrary to all of the lies, the vaccine that they’re — they politicalize. They’ll say anything. And it’s so dangerous for our country, what they say. But the vaccine will be very safe and very effective, and it will be delivered very soon. You could — you could have a very big surprise coming up. I’m sure you’ll be very happy. But the people will be happy. The people of the world will be happy.”

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

9/8/2020

CORONAVIRUS/TRUMP BUSINESS/TRUMP NET WORTH: “It has been a tough year for President Trump. On top of impeachment and the pandemic, his net worth has dropped an estimated $600 million since last September, to $2.5 billion. That puts him at No. 339 on The Forbes 400, down 64 spots from a year ago.

Blame the coronavirus, which has battered not only the president’s poll numbers but also the very industries in which he holds his biggest assets. Values for office buildings have plummeted. Same with hotels, particularly ones in big cities. Trump has significant debt against his properties in D.C. and Chicago, both of which appear to be underwater these days. Doral, his golf resort in Miami, is worth an estimated $28 million, after accounting for its mortgages, down 80% in a year.”

-Dan Alexander, “Trump’s Net Worth Drops $600 Million In A Year To $2.5 Billion,” forbes.com, Sep. 8, 2020

9/8/2020

CORONAVIRUS/VACCINES: “Under Operation Warp Speed, we’re producing a [coronavirus] vaccine in record time. This is a vaccine that we’re going to have very soon, very, very soon, by the end of the year, but much sooner than that, perhaps. And this is something that’s incredible. This would have taken two or three years by the last administration, and in all fairness, by most other administrations. We have upped it to a level that nobody even believes is possible, and totally safe.”

-Donald Trump via PBS NewsHour, “WATCH LIVE: Trump speaks at campaign event in Winston-Salem, North Carolina,” YouTube.com, Sep. 8, 2020

9/8/2020

CORONAVIRUS/VACCINES: “I deal with the biggest companies, most prestigious companies, the best companies in the world, and they’re doing [coronavirus] vaccines right now. They’re very close to having the answer and I think they’ll be very safe and very effective. And I think we can do it by November 1st, sometime during October, uh, and it will be a great thing– Or, or shortly thereafter.

It will be done before the end of the year. And also therapeutics, which is also very important, and in some ways, I like it just as much or more because therapeutics, you go into the hospital, you give somebody a shot or a transfusion and they walk out two days later and they’re well. So we’re doing very well therapeutically and we’re doing very, very well with the vaccines.”

-Donald Trump as quoted by Jay O’Brien, “Exclusive: One-on-one interview with President Trump in Jupiter,” cbs12.com, Sep. 8, 2020

9/8/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/VACCINES: “We’ve done a great job with COVID. We’ve done a great job with the China virus — a great job. Whether it’s ventilators or whether it’s vaccines, which you’ll be seeing very soon, or therapeutics, we’ve done a great job.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump Before Air Force One Departure | Joint Base Andrews, MD,” whitehouse.gov, Sep. 8, 2020

9/9/2020

ANTHONY FAUCI/CAMPAIGN/RALLY: “Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious diseases expert, said Wednesday that the lack of masks at President Trump’s campaign rallies is frustrating.

‘Is that frustrating to you?’ host Gayle King asked Fauci on ‘CBS This Morning,’ noting the lack of masks among some attendees at Trump’s rallies amid the coronavirus pandemic.

‘Well, yes it is, and I’ve said that often,’ Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, responded. ‘That situation is we want to set an example.’

Fauci noted that public health experts ‘know’ that measures like wearing masks, social distancing, avoiding crowds and planning most activities outdoors instead of indoors can help alleviate the spread of COVID-19.

‘Those are the kinds of things that turn around surges and also prevent us from getting surges,’ he said. ‘So I certainly would like to see universal wearing of masks.'”

-Justine Coleman, “Fauci: Lack of masks at Trump rallies frustrating,” thehill.com, Sep. 9, 2020

9/9/2020

CORONAVIRUS/JOE BIDEN: [Jake Tapper: “What’s your response to this news about what he was telling Bob Woodward on February 7th?”]

“It’s disgusting. We learn this on the day that — we turned 190,000 Americans dead [from coronavirus] and he knew this? My understanding, he [Donald Trump] had just gotten off the phone when he did the first interview with Woodward, he had just gotten off the phone with Xi Jinping where he’s praising Xi Jinping about transparency, this is nothing to worry about, and this is going to go away like a miracle.

What in god’s name would a man like — I mean, I don’t get it. I truly don’t get it. It’s like the way he talks about our veterans. It’s astounding to me.”

-Joe Biden, “CNN Tonight,” cnn.com, Sep. 9, 2020

9/9/2020

CORONAVIRUS/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I mean, look, you saw what Columbia Medical School pointed out in March. Had he [Donald Trump] acted one week earlier [on the coronavirus], there’d be over 31,000 more people alive, two weeks earlier, would have been 50,000-some still alive. This caused people to die. What did he do the whole time? He acknowledged that you breathe it, it’s in the air, and he won’t put on a mask. He’s talking about it’s ridiculous to put on a mask. What do you need social distancing for? Why have any of these rules?

It was all about making sure the stock market didn’t come down, that his wealthy friends didn’t lose any money, and that he could say that, in fact, anything that happened had nothing to do with him. He waved a white flag. He walked away. He didn’t do a damn thing. Think about it. Think about what he did not do. And it’s almost criminal.”

-Joe Biden, “CNN Tonight,” cnn.com, Sep. 9, 2020

9/9/2020

CORONAVIRUS/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “And the virus is not his [Donald Trump’s] fault, but the deaths are his fault because he could have done something about it… He actually went so far as to suggest that it was a violation of American freedom to maintain you had to wear a mask. And look what’s happened. Again, 190,000 dead and climbing, and what’s he doing now? He still has not moved.”

-Joe Biden, “CNN Tonight,” cnn.com, Sep. 9, 2020

9/9/2020

CHINA/CORONAVIRUS: “We have to have leadership. We have to show leadership. And the last thing you want to do is create a panic in the country. This [coronavirus] was a horrible thing. It was sent to us by China. It should not have happened — should never have happened. This is a disgusting, terrible situation that was foisted upon us.

And we have to show — we just don’t want to use — the best word is ‘panic.’ We don’t want to have to show panic. We’re not going to show panic. And that’s exactly what I did. And I was very open — whether it’s to Woodward or anybody else. It’s just another political hit job. But whether it was Woodward or anybody else, you cannot show a sense of panic or you’re going to have bigger problems than you ever had before.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump on Judicial Appointments,” whitehouse.gov, Sep. 9, 2020

[Note: Donald Trump is referring to quotes he gave to Bob Woodward in February and March 2020 interviews that were made public on Sep. 9, 2020.]

9/9/2020

CHINA/CORONAVIRUS: “So, I think if we didn’t do what we did, we would have had millions of people die [from coronavirus]. We closed up our country. We closed it up very, very quickly, very effectively. We did a job. We learned about this horrible disease, along with the rest of the world, which had to learn about it. And then we opened it up. And now we know the vulnerable; we know who it attacks, who it’s so vicious against. And I think we’ve done, from every standpoint, a — a incredible job.

We shouldn’t have lost anybody. Nobody should have lost — China released something that they shouldn’t have been allowed to re- — they should not have released. It came out of China. It went to Europe. It went all over the world. It should have never happened. They could have stopped it. They stopped it from going into the remainder of China. It started in Wuhan, and they stopped it. But they didn’t stop it from coming to our country.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump on Judicial Appointments,” whitehouse.gov, Sep. 9, 2020

9/9/2020

CORONAVIRUS: [Reporter: “Mr. President, you mentioned that you were trying to avoid price gouging. But you mentioned to Bob Woodward that you recognized, as this virus spread through the air, in — on February 7th — you didn’t begin Project Air Bridge until March; you didn’t use the Defense Production Act until March; you didn’t start ramping up ventilator production until March.”]

“Well, I mean, you didn’t — you didn’t really think it [coronavirus] was going to be to the point where it was. All of a sudden, the world was infected. The entire world was infected. Everyone was scrambling around, looking where to buy facemasks and all of the other things.

We’ve opened up factories. We’ve had tremendous success with facemasks and with shields and with the ventilators. We’re now supplying the rest of the world. We have all the ventilators we can use.

And remember this: The ventilators were very important. Not one person that needed a ventilator didn’t get it. And these are very complex, expensive machines to make. We opened up something like hadn’t been done since the Second World War. We — honestly, we’ve done a — an incredible job.

But we don’t want to run around, screaming, shouting, “Oh, look at this. Look at this.” We have to show leadership. And leadership is all about confidence. And confidence is confidence in our country.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump on Judicial Appointments,” whitehouse.gov, Sep. 9, 2020

9/9/2020

CORONAVIRUS/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Donald Trump knew.

He lied to us for months.

And while a deadly [coronavirus] disease ripped through our nation, he failed to do his job — on purpose.

It was a life or death betrayal of the American people.”

-Joe Biden, Twitter.com, Sep. 9, 2020 2:07 pm

9/9/2020

CORONAVIRUS/JOE BIDEN: “I promise you that if I’m elected, I’ll always tell you the truth.

I’ll listen to the experts and do everything I can to contain this virus.

And I’ll always put your health and safety first — no matter the political cost.”

-Joe Biden, Twitter.com, Sep. 9, 2020 4:18 pm

9/9/2020

CORONAVIRUS/JOE BIDEN: “If Donald Trump had acted just two weeks earlier, 54,000 lives could have been spared [from coronavirus] in March and April alone.

Instead, he downplayed the [coronavirus] threat and refused to take action — costing lives and sending our economy into a tailspin.

It’s an unjustifiable dereliction of duty.”

-Joe Biden, Twitter.com, Sep. 9, 2020 6:45 pm

9/9/2020

CORONAVIRUS: “Nobody had any idea it [coronavirus] would be as violent as it turned out to be. And we studied it. We understand it. Now we’re opening up. But we could have lost two million, 2.5 million, maybe even more than that, if we did it a different way.

And we have done a really good job. But, if you look at our numbers, our fatality numbers compared to other countries, we’re in — we’re in really — I mean, it’s amazing, what we have done. We have been able to do something that a country, especially with the kind of size we’re dealing with — we have done an incredible job.”

-Donald Trump, “Hannity: The latest political smear against President Trump,” foxnews.com, Sep. 9, 2020

9/9/2020

CORONAVIRUS: “And if you look at — we have had flu years where we lost 70,000, 80,000, and 90,000 people. People don’t realize that. But if you look that, and multiply that times five, it’s actually more than we lost. Now, we could have lost two million, 2.5 million [to coronavirus], as Matt said, if we did it a different way.

But what I want to show is, I want to show a calmness. I’m the leader of the country, I can’t be jumping up and down and scaring people. I don’t want to scare people. I want people not to panic.”

-Donald Trump, “Hannity: The latest political smear against President Trump,” foxnews.com, Sep. 9, 2020

9/9/2020

CORONAVIRUS: “President Trump’s head popped up during his top-secret intelligence briefing in the Oval Office on Jan. 28 when the discussion turned to the novel coronavirus outbreak in China.

‘This will be the biggest national security threat you face in your presidency,’ national security adviser Robert O’Brien told Trump, according to a new book by Washington Post associate editor Bob Woodward…

Ten days later, Trump called Woodward and revealed that he thought the situation was far more dire than what he had been saying publicly… At that time, Trump was telling the nation that the virus was no worse than a seasonal flu, predicting it would soon disappear, and insisting that the U.S. government had it totally under control…

In their final interview, on July 21, Trump vented to Woodward, ‘The virus has nothing to do with me. It’s not my fault.’”

-Robert Costa and Philip Rucker, “Woodward book: Trump says he knew coronavirus was ‘deadly’ and worse than the flu while intentionally misleading Americans,” washingtonpost.com, Sep. 9, 2020

[Note: Read quotes about coronavirus made by Donald Trump in interviews with Bob Woodward on Feb. 7, 2020 and Mar. 19, 2020.]

9/9/2020

OBAMA/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Aside from exploring Trump’s handling of the pandemic, Woodward’s new book, ‘Rage,’ covers race relations, diplomacy with North Korea and a range of other issues that have arisen during the past two years…

The book is based in part on 18 on-the-record interviews Woodward conducted with the president between December and July…

‘I don’t think Obama’s smart,’ Trump told Woodward. ‘I think he’s highly overrated. And I don’t think he’s a great speaker.’…

The book documents private grumblings, periods of exasperation and wrestling about whether to quit among the so-called adults of the Trump orbit: Mattis, Coats and former secretary of state Rex Tillerson.”

-Robert Costa and Philip Rucker, “Woodward book: Trump says he knew coronavirus was ‘deadly’ and worse than the flu while intentionally misleading Americans,” washingtonpost.com, Sep. 9, 2020

9/9/2020

CORONAVIRUS: [Reporter: “Mr. President, can you address the concerns from the Woodward book in regards to whether — did you mislead the public by saying that you downplayed the coronavirus and that you repeatedly did that in order to reduce panic?”]

“Well, I think if you said ‘in order to reduce panic,’ perhaps that’s so. The fact is, I’m a cheerleader for this country, I love our country, and I don’t want people to be frightened. I don’t want to create panic, as you say. And certainly, I’m not going to drive this country or the world into a frenzy.

We want to show confidence. We want to show strength. We want to show strength as a nation. And that’s what I’ve done. And we’ve done very well. We’ve done well from any standard. You look at our numbers, compared to other countries, other parts of the world. It’s been an amazing job that we’ve done…

All over the world, we started buying masks and gowns and everything else. And we don’t want to cause pricing to go up to a level that becomes almost unaffordable… so, in that sense, I agree with it.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump on Judicial Appointments,” whitehouse.gov, Sep. 9, 2020

[Note: The reporter is referring to quotes from Donald Trump in February and March interviews for Bob Woodward’s forthcoming book.]

9/9/2020

CORONAVIRUS/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Experts say that if he [Donald Trump] had acted just one week sooner, 36,000 people would have been saved [from coronavirus]. If he acted two weeks sooner, back in March, 54,000 lives would have been spared in March and April alone. His failure has not only costs lives. He sent our economy in a tailspin. It costs millions more in American livelihoods. This is a recession created by Donald Trump’s negligence. And he is unfit for this job as a consequence of it. How many schools aren’t open right now? How many kids are starting a new school year the same way they ended the last one at home?”

-Joe Biden on CNBC, “Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden shares his Made in America plan — 9/9/2020,” YouTube.com, Sep. 9, 2020

9/10/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/NEW YORK/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “One of the WORST governors in the USA [Andrew Cuomo, of New York]. Caused 11,000 deaths in nursing homes alone due to his bad moves and incompetence. At least he said I ‘did a phenomenal job’. But he didn’t!!!”

––Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 10, 2020 2:39 am

9/10/2020

CORONAVIRUS/INTELLIGENCE/JOE BIDEN: “I think Trump has just stunned everyone around him at just how corrupt his thinking is.

I mean, think about this. You remember he said under oath — not under oath. I shouldn’t say that — said to the American public that he didn’t get that briefing on how dangerous coronavirus was, he didn’t get that from the intelligence community, he never read the reports, he didn’t have anything to do with that.

He saw the reports. He knew them in detail. At least we know he can read.

Why in God’s name didn’t he move quicker on the Defense Production Act to provide PPE, you know, the protective equipment for doctors and first responders? Why didn’t he do that?

He — OK, he says he didn’t want to panic people. Well, at least make sure everybody has the equipment they need, just say, this is just excess of caution.

He didn’t even do that…

And the virus is not his fault, but the deaths are his fault, because he could have done something about it.”

-Joe Biden, “The Lead with Jake Tapper,” cnn.com, Sep. 10, 2020

9/10/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Bob Woodward had my quotes for many months. If he thought they were so bad or dangerous, why didn’t he immediately report them in an effort to save lives? Didn’t he have an obligation to do so? No, because he knew they were good and proper answers. Calm, no panic!“

––Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 10, 2020 3:02 am

9/10/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Donald Trump said he didn’t want to tell the truth and create a panic. So he did nothing and created a disaster.“

––Joe Biden, Twitter.com, September 10, 2020 5:54 am

9/10/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN: “Do your part. Wear a mask.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1304158957687263235″
––Joe Biden, Twitter.com, September 10, 2020 10:45 am

9/10/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/MICHIGAN/NATIONAL GUARD/RALLY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Donald Trump is holding a rally in Michigan today—while also refusing to fully fund their National Guard. These are frontline workers against COVID-19, responsible for testing and distributing food and medical supplies. Michiganders need a pandemic response—not a pep rally.“

––Joe Biden, Twitter.com, September 10, 2020 11:33 am

9/10/2020

CHINA/CORONAVIRUS: “[W]e have the China plague. Thank you China very much. Should have never let that happen. They should have never, ever let it happen. They stopped it from going into China, but they didn’t stop it from coming out here and coming into the US, in Europe and the rest of the world, 188 countries. But it is what it is and we’re not happy about it and we’re going to remember it.”

-Donald Trump, “Live: Trump Holds Campaign Rally In Michigan | NBC News,” YouTube.com, Sep. 10, 2020

9/10/2020

CORONAVIRUS/VACCINE: “Before the end of the year, we will have a safe and effective vaccine and we will defeat the China virus. I have a feeling … By the way, I think the vaccine is going to come very soon, going to come very soon. With it or without it, we’re rounding the turn. You see what’s happening. You see the numbers are plunging. You see how good we’re doing relative to other countries and other parts of the world, but the fake news doesn’t like saying that. They don’t like telling you that.”

-Donald Trump, “Live: Trump Holds Campaign Rally In Michigan | NBC News,” YouTube.com, Sep. 10, 2020

9/10/2020

CORONAVIRUS: “America will prevail over the China virus, as Franklin Delano Roosevelt said, ‘The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.’ That’s it. We’re doing very well. As the British government advised the British people in the face of World War II, ‘Keep calm and carry on.’ That’s what I did. This whack job [Bob Woodward] that wrote the book, he said, ‘Well, Trump knew a little bit.’ They wanted me to come out and scream, ‘People are dying, we’re dying.’ No, no, we did it just the right way. We have to be calm. We don’t want to be crazed lunatics. We have to lead.”

-Donald Trump, “Live: Trump Holds Campaign Rally In Michigan | NBC News,” YouTube.com, Sep. 10, 2020

9/10/2020

CORONAVIRUS: “I think we’ve probably done the best job of any country, certainly of any major country anywhere in the world, on the pandemic.”

-Donald Trump, “Live: Trump Holds Campaign Rally In Michigan | NBC News,” YouTube.com, Sep. 10, 2020

9/10/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Donald Trump said he wanted to be a cheerleader for the country. We didn’t need a cheerleader. We needed a president.“

––Joe Biden, Twitter.com, September 10, 2020 2:45 pm

9/10/2020

CORONAVIRUS/EU: “We continue to make progress in our fight against the China virus… This is in contrast to nations in the European Union, which have recently experienced a sharp increase in cases. They’re having a very big spike over there. We’re hopefully beyond our spike, and we’ll see, but we’re doing very well all over our country.”

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

9/10/2020

CORONAVIRUS/VACCINES: “I really do believe we’re rounding the corner [on coronavirus].

And the vaccines are right there, but even — not even discussing vaccines and not discussing therapeutics, we’re rounding the corner. We already have therapeutics out there, by the way, which are having obviously a very big impact because you look at that, you look at the — the way people are recovering, it’s so much better than in the past before we knew about the disease and had anything to fight the disease.”

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

9/10/2020

2020 ELECTION/CORONAVIRUS: “This was an election that was going to be very easy, very quick, and then the China virus came in and I had to go back to work politically, unfortunately. I had to devote more time politically than to the other things we do, which are very important for our country. But I had to go back to work. And it looks like — it looks like we’re going up very rapidly. More rapidly than the media wants to admit.”

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

9/10/2020

CORONAVIRUS/DEMS: “The approach to the virus is a very unscientific blanket lockdown by the Democrats — that’s what they’re talking about — which takes all of these incredible statistics, records, and it throws them out the window. Now, they did say it would be based on the recommendation of the experts, but, you know, whether expert or not, we’re not doing any more shutdowns. We did the shutdown and now we’re doing the opening, and there won’t be any more shutdowns.”

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

9/10/2020

CORONAVIRUS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: [Reporter: “Why did you lie to the American people? And why should we trust what you have to say now?”]

“Such a terrible question and the phraseology. I didn’t lie. What I said is: We have to be calm; we can’t be panicked…

And your question — the way you phrased that is such a disgrace…

We’re going to get through this [coronavirus]. And we’re, right now, I hope — really think we’re going to — we’re rounding the final turn. And a lot of good things are happening with vaccines and with therapeutics, but there’s no lying. And the way you ask that question is very disgraceful.”

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

[Note: The reporter is referring to quotes about coronavirus made by Donald Trump in interviews with Bob Woodward on Feb. 7, 2020 and Mar. 19, 2020.]

9/10/2020

CHINA/CORONAVIRUS: [Reporter: “But you told Bob Woodward this is — this is worse than the most deadly — ‘deadlier than the most strenuous flu.’”]

“Okay.”

[Reporter: “And then you went out and said, ‘It’s just like the flu.’”]

“What I went out and said is very simple —”

[Reporter: “And that it was ‘going to go away.’”]

“Listen, what I went out and said is very simple: I want to show a level of confidence and I want a show strength as a leader, and I want to show that our country is going to be fine, one way or the other. Whether we lose one person — we shouldn’t lose any, because this shouldn’t have happened. This is China’s fault. This is nobody’s fault but China. China should not have allowed it to happen…

So, obviously, outwardly I said it’s a very serious problem. And it’s always a serious problem. That doesn’t mean I’m going to jump up and down in the air and start saying, ‘People are going to die! People are going to die!’ No. No. I’m not going to do that.”

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