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8/3/2020

CORONAVIRUS/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TWITTER: “It’s hard to believe this has to be said, but if I’m elected president, I’ll spend my Monday mornings working with our nation’s top experts to control this virus — not insulting them on Twitter.”

-Joe Biden, Twitter.com, Aug. 3, 2020 2:16 pm

[Note: Joe Biden’s tweet quoted a tweet from Donald Trump that said “So Crazy Nancy Pelosi said horrible things about Dr. Deborah Birx, going after her because she was too positive on the very good job we are doing on combatting the China Virus, including Vaccines & Therapeutics. In order to counter Nancy, Deborah took the bait & hit us. Pathetic!”]

8/3/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/MEDIA: “Well, I think we’re doing very well, and I think that we have done as well as any nation… And I notice that in the news, in the evening news, I never read about that. In any of the news, I don’t read about the other countries. You’re starting to see that other countries are having very big flare-ups [of coronavirus], countries that thought they were over it.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in Press Briefing | August 3, 2020,” whitehouse.gov, Aug. 3, 2020

8/3/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/VACCINES: “We’re balancing speed and safety, and we’re on pace to have a [coronavirus] vaccine available this year, maybe far in advance of the end of the year. And we’re mass producing the most promising candidates in advance so that we’re ready immediately upon approval. We have our military lined up. It’s logistics; it’s all about logistics. They deliver a lot of things, including soldiers. But now they’ll be doing vaccine.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in Press Briefing | August 3, 2020,” whitehouse.gov, Aug. 3, 2020

8/3/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19: “As we’re seeing in foreign countries around the world where cases are once again surging — you have many places where we thought they were under control and doing a great job, and they are doing a great job, but this is a very tough, invisible enemy — lockdowns do not prevent infection in the future. They just don’t. It comes back. Many times, it comes back.

The purpose of a lockdown is to buy time to build capacity, especially as it respects to — with respect to hospitals; learn more about the disease [coronavirus]; and develop effective treatments, as we did in the United States. We’re doing very well with the vaccines and the therapeutics.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in Press Briefing | August 3, 2020,” whitehouse.gov, Aug. 3, 2020

8/3/2020

CORONAVIRUS: “It’s important for all Americans to recognize that a permanent [coronavirus] lockdown is not a viable path toward producing the result that you want, or certainly not a viable path forward, and would ultimately inflict more harm than it would prevent.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in Press Briefing | August 3, 2020,” whitehouse.gov, Aug. 3, 2020

8/3/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19: “[L]et me provide an update on the path forward for our country as we continue our war to defeat the China virus [coronavirus]. We’re beginning to see evidence of significant progress. Nationwide, the number of positive cases has declined by nearly 6 percent from the week before, and the positive test rate has also dropped from 8.7 to 8 percent over that same period of time, an encouraging sign — very encouraging, I have to add — that the virus is receding.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in Press Briefing | August 3, 2020,” whitehouse.gov, Aug. 3, 2020

8/3/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/NANCY PELOSI/VACCINES: “So Crazy Nancy Pelosi said horrible things about Dr. Deborah Birx, going after her because she was too positive on the very good job we are doing on combatting the China Virus, including Vaccines & Therapeutics. In order to counter Nancy, Deborah took the bait & hit us. Pathetic!“

––Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 3, 2020 3:44 am

8/3/2020

CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/FAKE NEWS/NEW YORK: “With the exception of New York & a few other locations, we’ve done MUCH better than most other Countries in dealing with the China Virus. Many of these countries are now having a major second wave. The Fake News is working overtime to make the USA (& me) look as bad as possible!“

––Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 3, 2020 1:46 am

8/3/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/GOP/NEVADA/USPS/VOTE BY MAIL/VOTER FRAUD/VOTING: “In an illegal late night coup, Nevada’s clubhouse Governor made it impossible for Republicans to win the state. Post Office could never handle the Traffic of Mail-In Votes without preparation. Using Covid to steal the state. See you in Court!“

––Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 3, 2020 1:37 am

8/2/2020

BORDER/CORONAVIRUS/MEXICO/WALL: “We now have 275 miles of wall completed and we’ll have almost everything completed 500 miles by the end of the year or shortly thereafter. It’s had a tremendous impact on people coming into our country illegally. We have record, record stoppage right now, which is really good. Who would have known?

It was also good because Mexico has a tremendous problem with the coronavirus or the China virus, call it whatever you want..

The press doesn’t talk about the wall anymore. They used to talk about nothing but the wall when they thought it would be impossible to get built. But I got it built and it’s now going to be finished very soon.”

-Donald Trump as quoted by Factbase, “Remarks: Donald Trump Holds a Virtual Pennsylvania Tele-Rally – August 2, 2020,” factba.se, Aug. 2, 2020

8/2/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/RACISM: “This [coronavirus] pandemic has put a bright light on the disparities that have plagued our nation for too long. We’ve got to make sure these communities get the help they need now — and root out the systemic racism that created these inequalities in the first place.”

-Joe Biden, Twitter.com, Aug. 2, 2020 10:35 am

8/2/2020

CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/FAKE NEWS: “Big China Virus breakouts all over the World, including nations which were thought to have done a great job. The Fake News doesn’t report this. USA will be stronger than ever before, and soon!“

––Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 2, 2020 1:35 am

8/1/2020

CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/ECONOMY: “We created the greatest economy in the history of the world – far better than China. China was going down. We were going up. And then we got hit with the China plague or the China virus [coronavirus], and now we’re on the way back. And we’re gonna build it up. I think next year is gonna be actually better than the previous year.”

-Donald Trump as quoted by Holly Gregory, “Exclusive: President Trump Talks COVID-19, the Economy, Hurricane Isaias and More,” spectrumnews1.com, Aug. 1, 2020

8/1/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/FLORIDA: [Holly Gregory: “We are on our fourth day of record deaths here in this state… What should Floridians be doing to get a handle on this?”]

“Well, the good news is I spoke to your governor. It’s [coronavirus deaths] heading down. It’s going to be heading down… But, you’re on their way down. The curve is topped, and it looks like Florida is on the way down.”

-Donald Trump as quoted by Holly Gregory, “Exclusive: President Trump Talks COVID-19, the Economy, Hurricane Isaias and More,” spectrumnews1.com, Aug. 1, 2020

8/1/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Enhanced unemployment benefits expired for millions overnight.

We don’t have an effective [coronavirus] nationwide testing program or a plan to control the virus.

Our health care workers still don’t have enough PPE.

Enough with the weekend golf trips, Mr. President. Do your job.”

-Joe Biden, Twitter.com, Aug. 1, 2020 7:59 pm

8/1/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/EU/FAKE NEWS: “Big flare ups in Europe. Fake News USA doesn’t like talking about this! RT @bopinion

Last week’s 750 billion-euro ($877 billion) Covid-19 rescue fund marked a high point in the EU’s economic plan. But a new flare-up in infections on the continent is a grim reminder of the more immediate epidemiological threat: a potential second wave“

––Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 1, 2020 3:16 pm

8/1/2020

ANTHONY FAUCI/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/ECONOMY/FRANCE/ITALY/SPAIN: “Wrong! We have more cases because we have tested far more than any other country, 60,000,000. If we tested less, there would be less cases. How did Italy, France & Spain do? Now Europe sadly has flare ups. Most of our governors worked hard & smart. We will come back STRONG! RT @CBSNews

Dr. Fauci explains why the U.S. has continued to see a surge in cases while European countries have seen a sharp decrease. He says most European countries shut their economy by 95%, while functionally the U.S. only shut its economy down by 50%.“

––Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 1, 2020 8:45 am

7/31/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “As scientists and pharmaceutical companies work at breakneck speed to develop a vaccine for the novel coronavirus, public health officials and senior U.S. lawmakers are sounding alarms about the Trump administration’s lack of planning for its nationwide distribution…

Right now, it is unclear who in Washington is in charge of oversight, much less any critical details, some state health officials and members of Congress told Reuters.”

-Richard Cowan, “Trump planning for U.S. rollout of coronavirus vaccine falling short, officials warn,” reuters.com, July 31, 2020

7/31/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19: “I have to say that there’s been a big surge of the China virus in other countries — very big. Countries that we thought we — they were doing a good job. And they were; they were doing a great job in some cases… So, countries that we thought were doing great, turned out to have difficulty — big difficulty. I won’t name the countries, but you know them. There are a lot of them actually.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in a COVID-19 Response and Storm Preparedness Roundtable | Belleair, FL,” whitehouse.gov, July 31, 2020

7/31/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/SENIORS: “The single best way to defeat the disease [coronavirus] is personal responsibility. You’ve heard me say it. You’ve heard a lot of people say it, actually. I urge all Americans to protect the elderly. The fact is you have to do the social distancing thing. It’s very important. Socially distance. Wear a mask when you cannot avoid crowded places or socially distance. And wash your hands as often as possible.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in a COVID-19 Response and Storm Preparedness Roundtable | Belleair, FL,” whitehouse.gov, July 31, 2020

7/31/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/FLORIDA: “The rate of positive [coronavirus] cases in Florida has now declined. It’s declining. And hospitalizations are declining in most places, and pretty steadily. And we think there’s going to be a big decline starting very soon.

There is currently over 21 percent inpatient hospital bed capacity available. So there’s plenty of bed capacity. And over 16 percent ICU capacity available, and some of that’s going to be emptying out as people get better. They do get better and they get better pretty fast.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in a COVID-19 Response and Storm Preparedness Roundtable | Belleair, FL,” whitehouse.gov, July 31, 2020

7/31/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19: “We do tremendous [coronavirus] testing. We have the best testing in the world.”

-Donald Trump, “President Donald J. Trump and His Administration Have Created The Best Covid-19 Testing System In The World,” whitehouse.gov, July 31, 2020

7/31/2020

2020 ELECTION/CORONAVIRUS/VOTE BY MAIL/VOTING: “Absentee ballots are secure, and they’re very good. But universal mail-in are a disaster. You’re going to see an election that — and we’re going to do very well in the election. Nobody wants that date more than me. I wish we would move it up. Okay? Move it up. But you’re not prepared for what they’re doing.

And they’re using COVID. You know, they’re using the China virus. China must be very happy about it, because they hit us with a virus, and now they screw up an election like you — you will never see. You watch what happens. I don’t think you’ll ever give me any statement, ‘I guess Trump was right.’ But the people know I’m right. Watch what happens.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in a Meeting with the National Association of Police Organizations Leadership,” whitehouse.gov, July 31, 2020

7/31/2020

CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19: “And what I want is I want our people to be able to live and live well, because it wasn’t their fault that China brought in this [coronavirus] pandemic, that China brought in this plague. It’s China’s fault. You want to know the truth? China should be paying for it, and maybe they will. Maybe they will. You’ll watch. You’ll watch.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in a Meeting with the National Association of Police Organizations Leadership,” whitehouse.gov, July 31, 2020

7/31/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/DEMS/FAKE NEWS: “Somebody please tell Congressman Clyburn, who doesn’t have a clue, that the chart he put up indicating more CASES for the U.S. than Europe, is because we do MUCH MORE testing than any other country in the World. If we had no testing, or bad testing, we would show very few CASES..

…..Our massive testing capability, rather than being praised, is used by the Lamestream Media and their partner, the Do Nothing Radical Left Democrats, as a point of scorn. This testing, and what we have so quickly done, is used as a Fake News weapon. Sad!“

––Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 31, 2020 4:08 am

7/30/2020

CHILDREN/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19: “Children are at the lowest risk of any age group from the virus. Indefinite school closures will inflict lasting harm to our nation’s children. We must follow the science and get students safely back to school, while protecting children, teachers, staff, and family. We have to remember that there’s another side to this: Keeping them out of school and keeping work closed is causing death also. Economic harm, but it’s causing death for different reasons. But death — probably more death.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in Press Briefing | July 30, 2020,” whitehouse.gov, July 30, 2020

7/30/2020

CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19: “We can never, ever forget the people that have been lost, and we never will. We’ll never forget them; never forget what happened. This [coronavirus] could have been stopped in China. They should have stopped it, and they didn’t.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in Press Briefing | July 30, 2020,” whitehouse.gov, July 30, 2020

7/30/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19: “The primary purpose of a shutdown was to flatten the curve, ensure sufficient hospital capacity, and develop effective [coronavirus] treatments and therapies to reduce mortality. And we’ve done that. But it can come rearing back when you least suspect it.

We did the right thing initially. We saved millions of lives, what we did. We did the right thing. But a permanent shutdown would no longer be the answer at all. A small shutdown of certain areas — but we don’t want to do that — small shutdowns can be very helpful, but not for long periods of time.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in Press Briefing | July 30, 2020,” whitehouse.gov, July 30, 2020

7/30/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19: “All over the world, they’re having tremendous problems. A resurgence has taken place in many countries that people thought were doing well. Despite a wide range of approaches to the [coronavirus] pandemic between countries, this resurgence in cases is occurring throughout large portions of our planet…

The virus was said to be under control, but new cases have risen very significantly once again. So when you think somebody is doing well, sometimes you have to hold your decision on that; you have to hold your statement.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in Press Briefing | July 30, 2020,” whitehouse.gov, July 30, 2020

7/30/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19: “And I have to say, America grieves for all of the 150,000 Americans who had their lives taken by this horrible, invisible enemy. We mourn their loss, as a nation; we mourn their loss, as people — as people that love one another. And we’re working very hard to not only contain this horrible event, this horrible plague — it’s what it is, is a plague — but also to come up with therapeutics and vaccines. And we’re making a lot of strides.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in Press Briefing | July 30, 2020,” whitehouse.gov, July 30, 2020

7/30/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Let me begin by expressing our sadness at the passing of a wonderful man and a dear friend of mine, Herman Cain. He was a very special person. I got to know him very well. And unfortunately, he passed away from the thing called the China virus.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in Press Briefing | July 30, 2020,” whitehouse.gov, July 30, 2020

7/30/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “We’re months and months into this pandemic, and still President Trump has failed to step up and mobilize an all-out response to COVID-19 or to drive a safe and effective recovery. It’s unacceptable. We need to extend meaningful and substantial relief for workers now and ensure our states and local governments are not starved into laying off teachers, first responders, and health workers.”

-Joe Biden, “My Statement on Q2 Economic GDP and UI Filings,” medium.com, July 30, 2020

7/30/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/RALLY/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Trump paid tribute to Herman Cain, who died Thursday of coronavirus complications at 74… Cain spent nearly a month in the hospital with coronavirus before he succumbed to the disease. As co-chair of Black Voices for Trump, he attended President Trump’s controversial, indoor and largely maskless rally in Tulsa, Okla., in late June without wearing a face covering, shortly before his diagnosis.”

-Morgan Phillips, “Trump mourns Herman Cain: ‘He was a very special man, an American Patriot, and great friend’,” foxnews.com, July 30, 2020

7/30/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19: “I’m once again urging all Americans to protect the elderly, socially distance, wear a mask when you cannot avoid the crowded places. And if you can, you have to avoid crowded places. It just seems like so many things are taking place in crowded places. We don’t want that. And always wash your hands — wash your hands as often as you can. Together, we’ll defeat the virus, we’ll defeat the invisible enemy.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in a Roundtable on Donating Plasma,” whitehouse.gov, July 30, 2020

7/30/2020

CHILDREN/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/EDUCATION: “Young people are almost immune to this [coronavirus] disease. The younger, the better, I guess. They’re stronger. They’re stronger. They have a stronger immune system. It’s an incredible thing. Nobody has ever seen this before. Various types of flu will hurt young people more than older people.

But young people are almost immune. If you look at the percentage, it’s a tiny percent of 1 percent. It’s a tiny percent of 1 percent. So we have to have our schools open. We have to protect our teachers. We have to protect our elderly. But we do have to have our schools open.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in Press Briefing | July 30, 2020,” whitehouse.gov, July 30, 2020

7/30/2020

2020 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/VOTE BY MAIL/VOTING: “The President is just raising a question about the chaos Democrats have created with their insistence on all mail-in voting.

They are using coronavirus as their means to try to institute universal mail-in voting, which means sending every registered voter a ballot whether they asked for one or not. Voter rolls are notoriously full of bad addresses for people who have moved, are non-citizens, or are even deceased. Universal mail-in voting invites chaos and severe delays in results, as proven by the New York Congressional primary where we still don’t know who won after more than a month.”

-Hogan Gidley, Trump campaign spokesperson, as quoted by Ted Johnson, “Donald Trump Suggests Delaying The November Election, A Decision That Is Up To Congress,” deadline.com, July 30, 2020

7/30/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19: “My Administration has been focused on finding treatments for Coronavirus. If you’ve recovered from Coronavirus, donate your plasma today to help SAVE LIVES! Together, we will beat the Virus!

Coronavirus.gov“

––Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 30, 2020 12:45 pm

7/30/2020

2020 ELECTION/CORONAVIRUS/DOJ/MIKE  POMPEO: “Mike Pompeo erroneously asserted that the Department of Justice will decide whether the presidential election is held on Nov. 3.

[T]he secretary of state was asked to address President Trump’s Thursday tweet suggesting that the presidential election should be moved because of voter fraud related to the enormous amount of mail-in votes that will be issued because of concerns surrounding the coronavirus…

‘In the end, the Department of Justice and others will make that legal determination,’ [Pompeo stated]…

Virtually no legal scholar believes the president has the authority to move Election Day, which is set by federal law.”

-Joseph Simonson, “Pompeo: Justice Department will determine when elections are held,” washingtonexaminer.com, July 30, 2020

7/30/2020

CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/FAKE NEWS/MEDIA: “Major China Virus flare ups in many of the countries that the Fake News was touting as doing so well. Some of these countries are now a disaster. Lamestream Media doesn’t want to report this. Also, highly inaccurate numbers being reported by many other countries!!! @WSJ“

––Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 30, 2020 2:33 am

7/29/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/MILITARY/VACCINES: “President Donald Trump says the U.S. military has an elaborate plan to distribute a coronavirus vaccine across the country at rapid speed. But defense and administration officials say otherwise…

Two defense officials told McClatchy on the condition they not be identified that the military commands most likely to have a stake in establishing a delivery strategy — including U.S. Northern Command, which is responsible for homeland defense, or the U.S. National Guard — had not been asked to plan or prepare for distribution.”

-Michael Wilner and Tara Copp, “Officials dispute Trump’s claim that military is preparing COVID vaccine distribution,” cclatchydc.com, July 29, 2020

7/29/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “We need an effective, coordinated nationwide [coronavirus] testing and tracing program. We need more PPE for health care workers. We need a comprehensive plan to get this virus under control.

We need this president to do his job.”

-Joe Biden, Twitter.com, July 29, 2020 12:17 pm

7/29/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19: “And with hydroxy [hydroxychloroquine], all I want to do is save lives. I don’t care if it’s hydroxy or anything else. All I want to do is save lives. If we can save lives, that’s great.

Now, one thing: We’re doing very well on vaccines and very well on therapeutics. So that’s very important. But I happen to be a believer in hydroxy. I used it. I had no problem. I happen to be a believer. Many, many people agree with me. A great test just came out from the Ford clinic in Michigan — very respected. We’ll see how it is.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump Before Marine One Departure,” whitehouse.gov, July 29, 2020

7/29/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/FBI/GOP: “Let’s build a new FBI building — either a renovation of the existing, or even better would be a new building. So we have that in the [coronavirus stimulus] bill. It should stay.”

[Reporter: “But Republicans don’t want it in the bill.”]

“Then Republicans should go back to school and learn. They need a new building. It’s a bad building. It’s a dangerous building. You have slabs falling off. It’s not a good building from the inside, and it’s a very expensive building. They need a new building, and we can do it very easily… So the FBI building is not new; this is something they’ve been talking about for many, many years, for decades.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump Before Marine One Departure,” whitehouse.gov, July 29, 2020

7/29/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TWITTER: “Donald Trump doubled down on his decision to retweet a video of Houston doctor Stella Immanuel in which Ms Immanuel touts the effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine in treating patients of Covid-19 and dismisses masks as unnecessary in stopping its spread.

In the past, Ms Immanuel has made several dubious medical claims, including the harmful effects of having sexual relations with demons and witches while dreaming, the alleged use of alien DNA in various medicines, and the production of a vaccine to inoculate people against being religious…

Health experts have warned against the potentially severe side effects of taking the drug[ hydroxychloroquine], which Mr Trump has nevertheless continued to promote to treat the novel coronavirus, claiming to have taken it himself as a precautionary step.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) revoked emergency authorisation of its use earlier this month.”

-Griffin Connolly, “Trump defends doctor who claimed medicine is made from alien DNA and walks out of briefing mid question,” independent.co.uk, July 29, 2020

7/28/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VACCINES: “[W]hat percent is American people saying if the [coronavirus] vaccine were there tomorrow, they wouldn’t take it? And it’s not the usual anti-vaccine crowd it’s beyond that because people are losing faith in what the president says. Think about it.

The words of a president matter significantly. They can, as I said before, take us to war. They can bring peace. They can rise up and cause the market to rise, they can do good things, but people listen to what a president says. And if a president repeatedly says things to you that are not true and then comes the time when they say I have something that I think can cure you, but it could really hurt you. You’re not going to listen to the guy who’s been lying you along the way.”

-Joe Biden as quoted by Rev, “Joe Biden Racial Equity Plan Speech Transcript July 28,” rev.com, July 28, 2020

7/28/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I called a long time ago, meaning several months, that we should be putting together right now, and we should be providing about $25 billion to do it, to make sure that we have a detailed plan once a [coronavirus] vaccine is in fact found, God willing sooner than later, to be able to be distributed to all America and anything beyond that. And it’s really a difficult logistical thing to do. Where is the planning to do that? We said the same thing about testing and tracing. We still don’t have enough tests. We still don’t have the capacity to trace.”

-Joe Biden as quoted by Rev, “Joe Biden Racial Equity Plan Speech Transcript July 28,” rev.com, July 28, 2020

7/28/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Look, from the beginning of my view, the President has given us a false choice. He said that we have to get back to work and also deal with COVID. You can’t get this country going again unless you get COVID under control. And so he has been really late in the game to getting around himself wearing a mask, for example…

The point is that there’s no clear message. There’s a federal responsibility to lay out really clear guidelines.”

-Joe Biden as quoted by Rev, “Joe Biden Racial Equity Plan Speech Transcript July 28,” rev.com, July 28, 2020

7/28/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/DACA/IMMIGRATION/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “It’s unconscionable that the Trump Administration has continued its attacks on DACA recipients, especially while our country is battling COVID-19 and many of these young people are risking their lives to keep us safe and healthy. Nearly a third of all current DACA recipients are essential workers helping our communities respond to the pandemic. Close to 30,000 of them are front-line health care workers.”

-Joe Biden, “My Statement on Donald Trump’s Shameless Repeal of DACA,” medium.com, July 28, 2020

7/28/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19: “When I took over, we didn’t even have a [coronavirus] test.”

[Jonathan Swan: “Why would you have a test?”]

“There was no test for this—”

[Jonathan Swan: “The virus didn’t exist.”]

“There was no test for this. We didn’t have a test because there was no test… And in a very short order, we got one test, we got another test, we got another.”

-Donald Trump in a July 28, 2020 interview with Jonathan Swan, “AXIOS on HBO: President Trump Exclusive Interview (Full Episode) | HBO,” YouTube.com, Aug. 3, 2020

7/28/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19: “We have tested more people than anybody ever thought of. India has 1.4 billion people. They’ve done 11 [coronavirus] million tests. We’ve done 55, it’ll be close to 60 million tests. And there are those that say, you can test too much.”

[Jonathan Swan: “Who says that?”]

“Oh, just read the manuals, read the books.”

[Jonathan Swan: “Manuals?”]

“Read the books. Read the books.”

-Donald Trump in a July 28, 2020 interview with Jonathan Swan, “AXIOS on HBO: President Trump Exclusive Interview (Full Episode) | HBO,” YouTube.com, Aug. 3, 2020

7/28/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19: “Under the circumstances right now, I think it’s [coronavirus] under control.

[Jonathan Swan: “How? 1,000 Americans are dying a day.”]

“They are dying. That’s true. And it is what it is. But that doesn’t mean we aren’t doing everything we can. It’s under control as much as you can control it. This is a horrible plague that beset us.”

-Donald Trump in a July 28, 2020 interview with Jonathan Swan, “AXIOS on HBO: President Trump Exclusive Interview (Full Episode) | HBO,” YouTube.com, Aug. 3, 2020

7/28/2020

CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19: “Nobody knew the extent. Nobody knew how contagious it was. You know what? Maybe China knew.”

-Donald Trump in a July 28, 2020 interview with Jonathan Swan, “AXIOS on HBO: President Trump Exclusive Interview (Full Episode) | HBO,” YouTube.com, Aug. 3, 2020

7/28/2020

CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19: “Nobody knew what this thing was all about. This has never happened before. 1917, but it was a totally different, it was a flu in that case. Okay? But other than 1917, there’s never been anything like this… This was sent to us by China, one way or the other, and we’re never going to forget it. Believe me, we’re never going to forget it.

And we were beating China at every single point. We were beating them on trade, we were making progress like nobody’s ever made progress.”

-Donald Trump in a July 28, 2020 interview with Jonathan Swan, “AXIOS on HBO: President Trump Exclusive Interview (Full Episode) | HBO,” YouTube.com, Aug. 3, 2020

7/28/2020

CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19: “I think we’ve done an incredible job, between the ventilators and stopping very infected people from China coming in, meaning putting the ban on China, which frankly nobody wanted me to do, practically nobody because it was very early in January. Then putting the ban on Europe, not an easy thing to do. When you put a ban on Europe, that’s a big thing. We would have probably lost hundreds of thousands of lives more had I not done that.

And all of the experts, every one of them, not one of them wanted to do it. They thought it was too severe. Three months later, they’re all saying, ‘I’m glad you did it.’”

-Donald Trump in a July 28, 2020 interview with Jonathan Swan, “AXIOS on HBO: President Trump Exclusive Interview (Full Episode) | HBO,” YouTube.com, Aug. 3, 2020

7/28/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN: “Don’t listen to anybody who tells you not to wear a mask. It matters. We’re going to overcome this. Listen to what the scientists say, not the politicians. And I’m a politician, I know, but I’m listening to the scientists.

Wear a mask. Socially distance. Make sure that you take care of yourself.”

-Joe Biden, Twitter.com, July 28, 2020 8:55 pm

7/28/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19: [Reporter: “Mr. President, the woman that you said is a great doctor in that video that you retweeted last night said masks don’t work and there is a cure for COVID-19, both of which health experts say is not true. She’s also made videos saying that doctors make medicine using DNA from aliens, and that they’re trying to create a vaccine to make you immune from becoming religious.”]

“Well, maybe it’s a saying, maybe it’s not… But I can — I can tell you this: She was on air, along with many other doctors. They were big fans of hydroxychloroquine, and I thought she was very impressive in the sense that, from where she came — I don’t know which country she comes from, but she said that she’s had tremendous success with hundreds of different patients. And I thought her voice was an important voice, but I know nothing about her.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in Press Briefing | July 28, 2020,” whitehouse.gov, July 28, 2020

7/28/2020

ANTHONY FAUCI/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I have a very good relationship with Dr. Fauci… And he’s got this high approval rating, so why don’t I have a high approval rating with respect — and the administration, with respect to the virus?…

So it sort of is curious: A man works for us — with us, very closely, Dr. Fauci, and Dr. Birx also highly thought of. And yet, they’re highly thought of, but nobody likes me. It can only be my personality. That’s all.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in Press Briefing | July 28, 2020,” whitehouse.gov, July 28, 2020

7/28/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TWITTER: “I happen to think, based on what I’ve read — I’ve read a lot about hydroxy [hydroxychloroquine]. I happen to think that it has an impact, especially at the early years. There were some very good tests at Ford, and the doctor from Yale came up with a very, very strong testament to it. There was a group of doctors yesterday, a large group that were put on the Internet, and for some reason, the Internet wanted to take them down and took them off. I guess Twitter took them off and I think Facebook took them off. I don’t know why. I think they’re very respected doctors.

There was a — a woman who was spectacular in her statements about it, that she’s had tremendous success with it. And they took her voice off. I don’t know why they took her off, but they took her off. Maybe they had a good reason, maybe they didn’t. I don’t know.

I can only say that, from my standpoint, and based on a lot of reading and a lot of knowledge about it, I think it could have a very positive impact in the early stages. And I don’t think you lose anything by doing it other than, politically, it doesn’t seem to be too popular. You know why? Because I recommend it. When I recommend something, they like to say, ‘Don’t use it.'”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in Press Briefing | July 28, 2020,” whitehouse.gov, July 28, 2020

7/28/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TWITTER: [Reporter: “can you clarify your position on the efficacy of hydroxychloroquine after you retweeted a video making claims that it is effective?”] “I wasn’t making claims. It’s recommendations of many other peoples and — people, including doctors. Many doctors think it is extremely successful — the hydroxychloroquine — coupled with the zinc and perhaps the azithromycin. But many doctors think it’s extremely good, and some people don’t…

I happen to believe in it. I would take it. As you know, I took it for a 14-day period, and I’m here. Right? I’m here. I happen to think it’s — it works in the early stages. I think frontline medical people believe that too — some, many. And so we’ll take a look at it.

But the one thing we know: It’s been out for a long time, that particular formula, and that’s what — essentially, what it is, the pill. And it’s been for malaria, lupus, and other things.

It — it’s safe. It doesn’t cause problems. I had no problem. I had absolutely no problem, felt no different. Didn’t feel good, bad, or indifferent. I — and I tested, as you know. It didn’t — it didn’t get me, and it’s not going to hopefully hurt anybody.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in Press Briefing | July 28, 2020,” whitehouse.gov, July 28, 2020

7/28/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19: “I ask all Americans, regardless of background or age, to practice social distancing — which people have gotten very used to, but we have to keep doing it; remain vigilant about hygiene; avoid indoor gatherings and large gatherings, but especially indoor, especially where you have crowded bars; and that you wear a mask whenever appropriate.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in Press Briefing | July 28, 2020,” whitehouse.gov, July 28, 2020

7/28/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/NATIVE AMERICANS: “We’re also working aggressively to combat the virus and Native American and Alaska Native communities. Under the CARES Act, we provided $8 billion to address the coronavirus in tribal communities, and we’ve worked very hard with tribal communities. They’re very vulnerable to this horrible plague. It’s the largest investment in Indian Country in U.S. history. There’s never been an investment that big in Indian Country.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in Press Briefing | July 28, 2020,” whitehouse.gov, July 28, 2020

7/28/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/VACCINES: “We’ve dramatically ramped up production of materials needed for a [coronavirus] vaccine and are on track to rapidly produce 100 million doses as soon as a vaccine is approved, which could be very, very soon, and 500 million doses shortly thereafter. So we’ll have 500 million doses. And, logistically, we’re using our military, our great military — a group of people; their whole life is based around logistics and bringing things to and from locations — and they’ll be able to take care of this locationally and bringing it where it has to go very, very quickly. They’re all mobilized. It’s been fully set up.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in Press Briefing | July 28, 2020,” whitehouse.gov, July 28, 2020

7/28/2020

CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/DRUGS: “Today my administration has taken a momentous step toward achieving American pharmaceutical independence — a very, very big, big step — a focus of our campaign to bring America’s critical supply chains and medical manufacturing back to the USA. We’ve been working on this for a long time.

This is a core of our strategy to protect our people from the horrible China virus. It should have never happened. It should have never been here. They should have stopped it.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in Press Briefing | July 28, 2020,” whitehouse.gov, July 28, 2020

7/28/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/ECONOMY/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Right now, we’re in the midst of one of the greatest threats to small businesses our country has ever seen.

What does Donald Trump do?

Give big banks the green light to make millions of dollars in fees by favoring their most well-off and well-connected clients while shutting the door on smaller Black and Brown businesses without those connections.

Billions of dollars in the Covid-relief program for small businesses benefited ones who had the lawyers and accountants to help better connected businesses jump the line.”

-Joe Biden as quoted by Rev, “Joe Biden Racial Equity Plan Speech Transcript July 28,” rev.com, July 28, 2020

7/28/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A change of ‘tone’ over a few days does not change the facts of the last four years.

Donald Trump fails the basic threshold test of being president — the duty to care about the entire country, not just himself. He has shown that he can’t beat the [coronavirus] pandemic to keep you safe. He can’t turn the economy around to get Americans back to work.

And he is — horrifyingly, but not surprisingly — intentionally stoking the flames of division in this country.”

-Joe Biden, “My Remarks on Racial Economic Equity,” medium.com, July 28, 2020

7/28/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN: “Nearly 150,000 Americans are now dead from Covid-19, and counting. More than 4 million Americans have tested positive, and counting. Black and Latino people have been three times as likely to be infected — and two times as likely to die from the virus as white people. More than 30 Million people are collecting unemployment checks.

Black unemployment is at 15%, Latino unemployment is at 14.5%. Over 40% of black-owned businesses — 440,000 in total — reportedly had to shut down.”

-Joe Biden, “My Remarks on Racial Economic Equity,” medium.com, July 28, 2020

7/27/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/DEMS/ECONOMY/FAKE NEWS/JOE BIDEN/MEDIA/POLICE/PROTESTS: “The Fake News Media is trying to portray the Portland and Seattle ‘protesters’ as wonderful, sweet and innocent people just out for a little stroll. Actually, they are sick and deranged Anarchists & Agitators who our great men & women of Law Enforcement easily control, but who…

….would destroy our American cities, and worse, if Sleepy Joe Biden, the puppet of the Left, ever won. Markets would crash and cities would burn. Our Country would suffer like never before. We will beat the Virus, soon, and go on to the Golden Age – better than ever before!“

––Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 27, 2020 4:58 pm

7/27/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN: “Tonight, Jill and I are thinking about the 150,000 families left emptier by this virus.

To anyone who’s struggling, sick, or wondering how they’ll get through the day: know that I will not abandon you.

We’ll fight through this crisis together, and emerge stronger than ever.”

-Joe Biden, Twitter.com, July 27, 2020 8:30 pm

7/27/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VACCINES: “The White House should not weigh in on these matters or push the FDA to provide emergency authorizations prematurely, as they did for hydroxychloroquine. The President should not ‘hype’ [coronavirus] treatments or vaccines, overstate their results, or undermine confidence in scientific findings.”

-Joe Biden, “My Statement on Vaccines,” medium.com, July 27, 2020

7/27/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VACCINES: “The American people’s health depends on confidence in the safety of any vaccine… Today, I am calling on President Trump to commit to the three principles of integrity in the development of a [coronavirus] vaccine…

First, scientists and public health experts decide on safety and efficacy…

Second, clinical data for any vaccine the FDA approves should be made available to the public for independent expert review…

Third, there must be full transparency on recommendations by career staff.”

-Joe Biden, “My Statement on Vaccines,” medium.com, July 27, 2020

7/27/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/ECONOMY: “So with all that we’ve done, we made and brought this country to the greatest point in its history. We never had an economy like we had prior to the China plague or China virus coming in. We never had numbers like it. We are going to have them again. And everyone knows I’m going to rebuild it. I had to close it up. We saved millions of lives by closing it.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in Press Briefing on COVID-19,” whitehouse.gov, July 27, 2020

7/27/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/VACCINES: [Reporter: “When is the soonest you expect a vaccine to be ready for Americans to take?”] “Well, I heard very positive things, but by the end of the year, we think we’re in very good shape to be doing that. By the end of this year, we’re going to — in terms of the [coronavirus] vaccine.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in Press Briefing on COVID-19,” whitehouse.gov, July 27, 2020

7/27/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19: “We report our [coronavirus] cases; most of the world doesn’t. They either don’t do testing, therefore they have very few cases, even though people are sick, or they just don’t report it.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in Press Briefing on COVID-19,” whitehouse.gov, July 27, 2020

7/27/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/VACCINES: “We’re mass producing all of the most promising [coronavirus] vaccine candidates in advance so that on the day one that it’s approved, it’ll be available to the American people immediately. And we’ll probably have a lot for a lot of other people throughout the world. The world is suffering from this China virus.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in Press Briefing on COVID-19,” whitehouse.gov, July 27, 2020

7/27/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/VACCINES: “A groundbreaking agreement with Pfizer includes a guarantee to deliver 100 million doses shortly after the [coronavirus] vaccine’s approval — almost immediately — with the option to purchase an additional 500 million thereafter. Not only is Operation Warp Speed accelerating the development of a vaccine, we’re also directing a colossal industrial mobilization to ensure its rapid delivery. Nothing has happened like this since the end of World War Two.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in Press Briefing on COVID-19,” whitehouse.gov, July 27, 2020

7/27/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/VACCINES: “We will achieve a victory over the virus by unleashing America’s scientific genius, which is what it is.

I’m therefore proud to announce that this morning, the Moderna vaccine has officially entered phase three already. And that’s phase three clinical trials: the final stage before approval. There’s never been anything like this, in terms of speed — nothing even close.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in Press Briefing on COVID-19,” whitehouse.gov, July 27, 2020

7/26/2020

2020 ELECTION/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/FAKE NEWS/JOE BIDEN/MEDIA: “We do more testing than any country in the World, by far, over 55 million tests. Fake News @CNN says we should do more testing. But even if we did 100 times more, they would then say it is still not enough. They are totally discredited, just want Sleepy Joe to win in November!“

––Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 26, 2020 1:54 pm

7/26/2020

CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/ECONOMY/SPORTS/VACCINES: “Because of my strong focus on the China Virus, including scheduled meetings on Vaccines, our economy and much else, I won’t be able to be in New York to throw out the opening pitch for the @Yankees on August 15th. We will make it later in the season!“

––Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 26, 2020 9:44 am

7/26/2020

CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/NANCY PELOSI: “Crazy Nancy Pelosi said I made a mistake when I banned people from infected China from entering the U.S. in January. Tens of thousands of lives were saved, as she danced in the Streets of Chinatown (SF) in late February. Biden agreed with her, but soon admitted that I was right!“

––Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 26, 2020 2:57 am

7/25/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump ordered his administration to slow down coronavirus testing, he tried to block CDC funding, and he has ignored the experts from day one. His actions defy both logic and humanity.

What kind of president actively undercuts efforts that will save lives?”

-Joe Biden, Twitter.com, July 25, 2020 1:00 pm

7/24/2020

ANTHONY FAUCI/CORONAVIRUS: “Back then [in March 2020], the critical issue was to save the masks for the people who really needed them, because it was felt that there was a shortage of masks. Also, we didn’t realize at all the extent of asymptotic spread [of coronavirus]… because 20-40 percent of the people who are infected don’t even know that they’re infected.

But what happened is that as the weeks and months came by, two things became clear. One, that there wasn’t a shortage of masks, we had plenty of masks and covering that you could put on that’s plain cloth covering so that took care of that problem.

Secondly, we fully realized that there are a lot of people who are asymptomatic who are spreading infection. So it became clear that we absolutely should be wearing masks consistently.”

-Anthony Fauci, “Washington Post Live: Fauci on how his thinking has evolved on masks, asymptomatic transmission,” washingtonpost.com, July 24, 2020

7/24/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/POLLS: “The polls are starting to really shape up. Dave, we were doing great. We were sailing. George Washington would have had a hard time beating us. And then when the China virus came in, all of a sudden, it’s a dampener, it really is.”

-Donald Trump, “Dave “Walter Cronkite” Portnoy Interviews Donald Trump at the White House,” barstoolsports.com, July 24, 2020

7/24/2020

CHILDREN/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/EDUCATION: “You’ve got to open the schools. They have a stronger immune system even than you have, or I have, the kids… It’s amazing. You look at the percentage, it’s a tiny percentage of 1%. And in that one case, I mean, I looked at a couple of [coronavirus] cases, if you have diabetes, if you have problems with something, but the kids are in great shape. So we want to open the schools and we’re opening the country…

We have a lot of people that would like to see their states closed. I have a feeling on November 4th, they’ll open them up. I think they want to do it for political reasons, but we’re doing well.”

-Donald Trump, “Dave “Walter Cronkite” Portnoy Interviews Donald Trump at the White House,” barstoolsports.com, July 24, 2020

7/24/2020

CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19: “Everybody was making a lot of money. Everybody was doing good, and it was coming together, and then China sent us this horrible, bad present, a real bad present. They could have stopped it. They should’ve stopped it. We made a trade deal with China, and it was a great deal, but it means much less to me now than it did then, because I’m not happy with what they’ve done to the world. They stopped it going into China from Wuhan, but they didn’t stop it going into Europe, the United States and the rest of the world.”

-Donald Trump, “Dave “Walter Cronkite” Portnoy Interviews Donald Trump at the White House,” barstoolsports.com, July 24, 2020

7/24/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/PRESS SECRETARY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: [Reporter: “Kayleigh, the President’s tone on the virus this week seems to have changed. He’s advocated a few different times for Americans to wear masks.”] “There has been no change [in tone]. The President said, on March 31st, before there was even a recommended but not required guidance given by the CDC on mask wearing — the President already said, if you want to wear a mask, wear a mask. It doesn’t harm anyone. And that was before — that was when our scientists even were — some of them were saying don’t wear masks.

So the President has been consistent on this. He wore a mask back at the Ford facility. He carries it around in his pocket.”

-Kayleigh McEnany, “Press Briefing by Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany,” whitehorse.gov, July 24, 2020

7/24/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19: “[W]e’re working very hard on therapeutics and a vaccine for the China virus, which remains our top priority and which are coming along at record speed…

Additionally, my administration has secured 90 percent of the world’s supply of the drug remdesivir, which is having great impact for the United States.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump at Signing of Executive Orders on Lowering Drug Prices,” whitehouse.gov, July 24, 2020

7/23/2020

CHILDREN/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/EDUCATION: “Fortunately, the data shows that children are lower risk from the China virus, very substantially. When children do contact the virus, they often have only very mild symptoms or none at all, and medical complications are exceedingly rare. Those that do face complications often have underlying medical conditions. Ninety-nine percent of all China virus hospitalizations are adults. And 99.96 percent of all fatalities are adults. That means that children are a tiny percentage — less than 1 percent, and even a small percentage of 1 percent.”

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

7/23/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/DHS/PROTESTS: “I said, ‘There’s nothing more important in our country than keeping our people safe, whether that’s from the China virus or the radical-left mob that you see in Portland’ — where I want to thank Homeland Security and others in law enforcement for doing a fantastic job over the last few days. They went in, and people were out of control for 51 days — a long time. And Homeland Security and other law enforcement with us went in, and they’ve done a great job protecting our property — the federal courthouse and other property — and, most importantly, protecting our people.”

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

7/23/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/FLORIDA/GOP: “This afternoon, my political team came to me and laid out our plans for the convention in Jacksonville, Florida. It’s a place I love. I love that state. The drawings look absolutely beautiful… But I looked at my team, and I said, ‘The timing for this event is not right. It’s just not right with what’s happened recently — the [coronavirus] flare up in Florida — to have a big convention. It’s not the right time.’

It’s really something that, for me — I have to protect the American people. That’s what I’ve always done. That’s what I always will do. That’s what I’m about.”

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

7/23/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19: “We’ve had a tremendous week uniting the country in our fight against the China virus.  I have reminded people of the importance of masks when you can’t socially distance, in particular.  A strong message has been sent out to young people to stop going to crowded bars and other crowded places.”

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

7/23/2020

CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19: “We have to get rid of this horrible plague that hit us and it hit us hard. But it didn’t just hit us. It hit the whole world, Sean. The whole world was hit. China allowed it to escape to Europe and to the whole world, including us. And they are suffering.”

-Donald Trump as quoted by Factbase, “Interview: Sean Hannity Interviews Donald Trump Live Via Telephone – July 23, 2020,” fact.se, July 23, 2020

7/23/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19: “Well, you know, at the beginning, many people, many very respected people, I won’t mention names, but many respected people were saying don’t wear a mask, that they’re bad. You touch your face too much, and you get your hands near your eyes and your nose and they are bad. And then all of a sudden, it was a big thing to get masks because I’m all for it. Look, whatever is going to help, if it was a five percent chance, a two percent chance, wear it. And I will wear it.”

-Donald Trump as quoted by Factbase, “Interview: Sean Hannity Interviews Donald Trump Live Via Telephone – July 23, 2020,” fact.se, July 23, 2020

7/23/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “COVID-19 infections are going up.

The number of deaths is going up.

This morning it was announced that, once again, the number of unemployment claims is going up.

Donald Trump is moving us backwards. The American people are paying the price.”

-Joe Biden, Twitter.com, July 23, 2020 2:42 pm

7/23/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/PUTIN/SAUDI ARABIA: “This morning, I spoke with President Putin of Russia, and they’re going through a very hard time with this [coronavirus]— in Moscow, in particular. I spoke to the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia. They’re doing well, but they’re going through a lot. Everybody is going through a lot.

Yesterday, I spoke to the heads of four different countries. All four are going through a lot. They’re going through a hard time.

This could have been stopped. It could have been stopped quickly and easily. But for some reason, it wasn’t, and we’ll figure out what that reason was.”

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

7/23/2020

CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19: “[W]e ask all Americans to exercise vigilance, practice social distancing, wear a mask, do whatever is necessary so we get rid of this horrible situation — this horrible [coronavirus] disease that was sent to us by China.

It should not have been sent. They should have stopped it. They could have stopped it. They didn’t. And the entire world has gotten infected, and a lot of countries are going through a lot right now.”

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