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9/22/2020

CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/UN/WHO: “In the earliest days of the virus, China locked down travel domestically while allowing flights to leave China and infect the world. China condemned my travel ban on their country, even as they cancelled domestic flights and locked citizens in their homes.

The Chinese government and the World Health Organization — which is virtually controlled by China — falsely declared that there was no evidence of human-to-human transmission. Later, they falsely said people without symptoms would not spread the disease.

The United Nations must hold China accountable for their actions.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump to the 75th Session of the United Nations General Assembly,” whitehouse.gov, Sep. 22, 2020

9/22/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/RALLY: [Joe Donlon: “Are you worried at all about your supporters being exposed to COVID [at campaign rallies]?”]

“No. Because my supporters are very smart and they do, a lot of them wear masks and some don’t, that’s their choice. But they’re, you know, when you’re outside, you have a lot of room, and everything that I’ve read and everything that I’ve seen is outside is better in terms of COVID or as I call it the China Virus.

Right? But COVID. And, uh, no, I, I think we have a very safe environment.”

-Donald Trump, “President Trump’s full interview with NewsNation’s Joe Donlon,” yourerie.com, Sep. 22, 2020

9/22/2020

CHINA/CORONAVIRUS: “Well, let me start off by saying, we have done an incredible job on the pandemic, as you call it. We have done an incredible job and China should have never allowed it to happen. They should’ve kept it, they could’ve kept it confined as they did for the rest of China.

But they let it escape to the world, and it’s a terrible thing that they did. But what I would do would be not much different than what we’ve been doing. We closed up our country. We closed it up strong. We banned China. We banned Europe. We did a lot of things that we did them early.”

-Donald Trump, “President Trump’s full interview with NewsNation’s Joe Donlon,” yourerie.com, Sep. 22, 2020

9/22/2020

CORONAVIRUS: “But coronavirus, doesn’t it sound like Italy? A beautiful villa. Corona. No, it’s a China virus. They should have stopped it. To fight the China virus we launched the largest national mobilization since World War II. We did an A+ job, except we did a D job in terms of public relations, explaining it because we were too busy doing it.”

-Donald Trump, “LIVE: President Trump in Moon Township, PA #Pennsylvania,” YouTube.com, Sep. 22, 2020

9/22/2020

CORONAVIRUS: “And you look at our numbers, we’ve done a tremendous job [on coronavirus]. The only thing we’ve done a bad job in is public relations because we haven’t been able to convince people, what, which is basically the fake news, what a great job we’ve done. Other countries come to see me. The presidents and prime ministers, they say, ‘You have done an incredible job.’ This is a big country, very big. And we report everything. Other countries, they don’t report. They don’t report their numbers, obviously. You know, you talk about China and various other countries. But we have done an incredible job, and we’re doing an incredible job.”

-Donald Trump, “Trump discusses expected female Supreme Court nominee, civil unrest in exclusive FOX TV Stations interview,” fox2detroit.com, Sep. 22, 2020

9/22/2020

CORONAVIRUS: “I think people should wear a mask if they can, if they feel they, they should [for coronavirus]. But I don’t think it should be a mandatory policy. Actually, that would be really up to the Governors more so than the President. But I’m fine with masks. I’ve worn masks when I go into hospitals. When I go into certain areas, I wear a mask.”

-Donald Trump, “Trump discusses expected female Supreme Court nominee, civil unrest in exclusive FOX TV Stations interview,” fox2detroit.com, Sep. 22, 2020

9/23/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/FDA/VACCINES: “Big news. Numerous great companies are seeing fantastic results. @FDA must move quickly! RT @nytimes

Johnson & Johnson has begun the final stage of clinical trials for its coronavirus vaccine. Unlike some of its competitors, the vaccine does not need to be frozen and may require just one shot instead of two.“

––Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 23, 2020 2:08 am

9/23/2020

AFRICAN AMERICANS/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN: “Over 200,000 Americans have passed away [from coronavirus]. Over 200,000, and the number is still rising. The impact on communities is bad across the board, but particularly bad for African-American communities. Almost four times as likely, three times as likely to catch the disease, COVID, and when it’s caught, twice as likely to die as white Americans. It’s sort of emblematic of the inequality that exists and the circumstances that exist.”

-Joe Biden, “Joe Biden and Chris Paul LIVE discussion at the Black Economic Summit,” YouTube.com, Sep. 23, 2020

9/23/2020

BUSINESS/CORONAVIRUS/JOE BIDEN: “Now there’s no national standards as to how to open [after coronavirus quarantine]. How do you open safely? President says, ‘Just put up a sign, Come on in.’ Well, you know your employee. Beyond your employees, your customers are going to go, “I don’t know. I mean, does everybody have to have the mask? Do they have dividers in the restaurant? Tell me how the sanitary conditions are working.” Well, you need money to pay for all that stuff. That’s why we proposed to have a multi-billion dollar program where businesses are able to get the money, not borrow the money, get the money to be able to open in the middle of this pandemic, including fixing the testing fiasco.

You should be in a situation where your employees can, in 24 hours, get a test to determine whether or not they’re positive or negative. You need to do that for your own protection, and the public likes to know that is protection that there are protection against anything that happens within your restaurant. The bottom line is the money is already there. The president is just not releasing it.”

-Joe Biden, “Joe Biden and Chris Paul LIVE discussion at the Black Economic Summit,” YouTube.com, Sep. 23, 2020

9/23/2020

CORONAVIRUS/EDUCATION/JOE BIDEN: “Right now, we’re in a situation where if you take a look, there is no national standard for how to open schools [during coronavirus], how to open them safely, because the president says, ‘I have no responsibility. That’s not my response.’ I mean, literally, that’s his phrase. ‘It’s not my responsibility. I’m not the blame for any of this. Let the governors or the mayors take care of it,’ and then without the financial help that’s needed to be able to take care of it.

I’ve laid out in detail, back in July, what we’d have to do to open safely, and it includes providing the protective PPE, the mask, and other things that are needed, gloves, et cetera, for the schools, the school teachers, and for the children coming to school.”

-Joe Biden, “Joe Biden and Chris Paul LIVE discussion at the Black Economic Summit,” YouTube.com, Sep. 23, 2020

9/23/2020

CORONAVIRUS/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The president was in Ohio, I guess a couple of days ago at a rally. I don’t want to misquote him. And he said at the rally, and I wrote this down, he said that ‘We virtually turned the corner. Nobody is really dying.’ He said, ‘You know, yeah, elderly people are dying and they’re dying because they have heart conditions or other,’ but quote, ‘virtually, they’re virtually nobodies. They’re the only ones dying.’

So you go home and your mom is gone, your dad’s gone. He’s a virtual nobody? The idea, the way we’re talking about people, and this is all within our power to do something. The virus wasn’t his fault, but the way he’s handled it has been close to criminal.”

-Joe Biden, “Joe Biden and Chris Paul LIVE discussion at the Black Economic Summit,” YouTube.com, Sep. 23, 2020

9/23/2020

CORONAVIRUS/VACCINES: “Earlier this year, Johnson & Johnson anticipated that they would reach phase one trials by September. But due to our support under Operation Warp Speed, and to some of the incredible scientists involved, they’ve reached phase three trials by September — far ahead of schedule. We encourage Americans to enroll in the [coronavirus] vaccine trial. It’s not only interesting; it’ll be a terrific thing for our country. We encourage everybody to enroll, as many people as we can.”

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

9/23/2020

CORONAVIRUS/VACCINES: “Months ago, we increased our nation’s procurement of the flu vaccine by 66 percent, and we ask Americans to go get their annual flu shot as early as possible. It’s possible, I would imagine, Scott, that the flu can get mixed up with the virus, and people can think it’s the virus when actually it’s another flu season coming on. I don’t know, it’s — I hope they can keep them separate. Can they keep them separate?”

[Dr. Scott Atlas, White House adviser: “We hope so.”]

“Huh? I doubt they will. It’s going to be a very interesting time.

But we have a flu season coming up. We’ve had some flu seasons, which are really massive over the years — over many years. And we have some that are much less so. But it’s still significant, so I hope they can separate them, because it’s — it’s pretty close.”

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

9/23/2020

CORONAVIRUS/JOE BIDEN: “Our approach is pro-science. Biden’s approach is anti-science. If you look, it’s — I don’t think they know what their approach is, although a lot of it’s copied from what we’ve done…

Our plan will crush the virus. And actually, Biden’s plan will crush America, if you think about it. You can’t lock down. Again, we’re growing at levels that nobody has ever seen before. Our plan is unleashing a rapid recovery. Our opponent’s plan would hurt America very badly. It would send us into a depression.”

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

9/23/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The 200,000 people we’ve lost to COVID-19 weren’t nobodies, Mr. President.

They were our parents and grandparents, sons and daughters, friends and co-workers.

They were Americans.”

––Joe Biden, Twitter.com, September 23, 2020 4:40 pm

9/23/2020

CORONAVIRUS/EDUCATION: “The president has to take control [of the coronavirus response], has to take responsibility, set national standards, get this ridiculous failure to get testing under control so we can provide for testing, 24-hour testing, available to everybody…

You need to help these schools open. You need to be in a position where we provide the kind of funding so we can have more teachers and smaller classes. You have to have sanitary conditions and a whole range of things. Set out national standards and make a case why it’s important to be done.”

-Joe Biden in a Sep. 23,2020 interview with Alex Giles, “Joe Biden speaks to WBTV about pandemic, election in one-on-one interview,” wbtv.com, Sep. 24, 2020

9/23/2020

CORONAVIRUS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The worst part of all of this: he knew exactly how bad this [coronavirus] was. He was made aware of this back in February according to him on tape with Bob Woodward, and he did nothing. He said he was worried people would panic. Americans don’t panic. The president panicked, and he left us uncovered.”

-Joe Biden in a Sep. 23,2020 interview with Alex Giles, “Joe Biden speaks to WBTV about pandemic, election in one-on-one interview,” wbtv.com, Sep. 24, 2020

9/23/2020

ANTHONY FAUCI/CORONAVIRUS/VACCINES: “I will trust a [coronavirus] vaccine based on who backs it up. If Dr. Fauci says it’s safe to take, if other leaders in the world say it’s safe to take, then yes, but not based on President Trump’s assertions.”

-Joe Biden in a Sep. 23,2020 interview with Alex Giles, “Joe Biden speaks to WBTV about pandemic, election in one-on-one interview,” wbtv.com, Sep. 24, 2020

9/24/2020

CORONAVIRUS/VACCINES: “Under Operation Warp Speed, my administration is developing a [coronavirus] vaccine in record time. It will be distributed before the end of the year, and maybe quite a bit sooner than that. Four vaccines are now in the final stage of clinical trials. They’re just about at the end. A lot of things are looking very good. It is the most ambitious vaccine program in U.S. history, probably in any history. The vaccines are being mass-produced in advance so they can be delivered within 24 hours of approval. The vaccine will be safe and it will be effective. It will defeat the virus and it will end the pandemic.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump on the America First Healthcare Plan,” whitehouse.gov, Sep. 24, 2020

9/24/2020

2020 ELECTION/CORONAVIRUS: “Pennsylvania — you take a look at what’s going on in Pennsylvania with the [coronavirus] shutdown. We just won a big court case, where a judge — a great federal judge — ruled it unconstitutional what they were doing. They’re hurting people. There’s damage on the side of a shutdown. People don’t realize, with suicides, and drug use, and all of the — alcohol. It’s a terrible thing that happens. And Michigan is another state — the shutdown is very severe.

By the way, on November 4th [the day after the 2020 election], I’m sure everything will be open. They’ll announce on the evening of November 3rd that we’re opening up. Unless these unsolicited ballots don’t come in for weeks and weeks and weeks, you know? They want them to come in over a long period of time. It’s going to be a very interesting day: November 3rd. It’s going to be a very interesting day.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump on the America First Healthcare Plan,” whitehouse.gov, Sep. 24, 2020

9/24/2020

CORONAVIRUS: “Florida is down, low down with the China virus, it’s China virus. Some people call it coronavirus. That sounds like a beautiful place in Italy, right? No, it didn’t come from Italy. It came from China.”

-Donald Trump via Fox News, “Trump hosts a ‘Great American Comeback’ event in Florida,” YouTube.com, Sep. 24, 2020

9/24/2020

CORONAVIRUS: “My plan will crush the virus and we’re doing it, we’re rounding the turn. We’re rounding the turn. Under my leadership, prosperity will surge. Normal life, oh I love normal life. We want to get back to normal life. We’ll fully resume. The Florida tourism and hospitality industries will reach record highs. That’s what’s going to happen, you see it. And next year will be one of the greatest years.

We are going to have– I’m telling you, mark it down and if I’m wrong, you’ll say I was wrong. I’ll say, ‘Sorry about that.’ But we’re going to have a great year. We’re going to have a great everything.”

-Donald Trump via Fox News, “Trump hosts a ‘Great American Comeback’ event in Florida,” YouTube.com, Sep. 24, 2020

9/24/2020

CORONAVIRUS/FLORIDA/OBAMACARE (ACA): “Since President Trump’s last visit to Florida just two weeks ago, over 40,000 more Floridians have tested positive for coronavirus and the state marked 13,000 COVID-related deaths…

President Trump’s focus is not on ending this crisis, though; he’s instead fighting to get the U.S. Supreme Court to tear down the entire Affordable Care Act, including its protections for as many as 7.8 million Floridians with pre-existing conditions. If he succeeds, insurers could deny coverage for Floridians with lasting COVID-19 complications.”

-Joe Biden, “Statement By Vice President Joe Biden On President Trump’s Visit To Jacksonville,” joebiden.com, Sep. 24, 2020

9/25/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/HEALTHCARE/JOE BIDEN/OBAMACARE(ACA)/PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS/SUPREME COURT/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In the middle of a global pandemic, President Trump is trying to get the U.S. Supreme Court to eliminate Obamacare and rip health care protections away from 100 million Americans with pre-existing conditions.

Don’t forget that.“

––Joe Biden, Twitter.com, September 25, 2020 7:08 am

9/25/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/FDA/NEW YORK/SENIORS/VACCINES: “Governor Andrew Cuomo of New York wants to put New York at the END of the Vaccine List in that he doesn’t trust the @FDA or Federal Government, even though the Vaccines are being developed by the finest Labs in the World. Wish he trusted us on Nursing Homes!“

––Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 25, 2020 11:58 am

9/25/2020

CENSUS/TRUMP ADMIN: “A federal judge barred the Trump administration on Friday from ending the 2020 census a month early, the latest twist in years of political and legal warfare over perhaps the most contested population count in a century…

The ruling came after evidence filed this week showed that top Census Bureau officials believed ending the head count early would seriously endanger its accuracy…

The Trump administration had argued that it needed to end census-taking early to begin processing state-by-state population data or it would miss a statutory Dec. 31 deadline for sending population figures to President Trump…

Mr. Trump had formally asked Congress this spring to extend the December deadline to April 2021, citing delays in the census caused by the coronavirus pandemic. The Democratic-controlled House registered its approval, but the Republican-controlled Senate has not acted on the request, leaving the administration leeway to order the shorter count.”

-Michael Wines, “Federal Judge Bars Trump Administration From Ending Census Early,” nytimes.com, Sep. 25, 2020

9/25/2020

CORONAVIRUS: “When the plague arrived from China, we launched the largest national mobilization since World War II. We pioneered lifesaving therapies, reducing the fatality rate 85% since April. You know, the question was asked to me, how well did we do on the pandemic? And I said I give us an A to an A-plus. You look at the ventilators, you look at all we’ve done. We did a great job.”

-Donald Trump, “LIVE: President Donald Trump in Newport News, VA #Virginia,” YouTube.com, Sep. 25, 2020

9/26/2020

2020 ELECTION/ANTHONY FAUCI/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN: “If I’m elected, I won’t wait to take action on COVID-19.

Minutes after the race is called, I’ll call Dr. Fauci and ask him to stay on.

During my transition, I’ll bring together experts and leaders from both parties to chart a path forward.

We will overcome this, together.”

––Joe Biden, Twitter.com, September 26, 2020 4:57 am

9/26/2020

CLIMATE CHANGE/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN: “At this moment, we’re facing both the worst public health crisis of our lifetime and the existential threat of climate change.

We need a president who believes in science.“

––Joe Biden, Twitter.com, September 26, 2020 7:30 am

9/26/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “When Ebola hit, President Obama and I took swift action and successfully contained the virus.

After COVID-19 hit, President Trump lied to the American people and said it would miraculously ‘disappear.’

Now, over 200,000 lives have been cut short.

It’s a national tragedy.“

––Joe Biden, Twitter.com, September 26, 2020 10:15 am

9/26/2020

COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “This week, because of President Trump’s refusal to take strong, swift action to combat the coronavirus pandemic, the 200,000th American and the 8,000th Pennsylvanian died of COVID-19. To make matters worse, President Trump is actively trying to strip away health care for Pennsylvanians when they need it most and putting at risk protections for the 5 million Pennsylvanians with preexisting conditions, including Pennsylvanians experiencing long-term side effects from COVID-19.

This crisis didn’t have to be this bad.”

-Joe Biden, “President Trump’s Visit To Harrisburg – Statement By Vice President Joe Biden,” joebiden.com, Sep. 26, 2020

9/26/2020

CORONAVIRUS: “To fight the China virus, we launched the largest national mobilization since World War II. They said, ‘How did you do it?’ I say we get an A plus, but I get a D in public relations because we were so busy working. When you give it to the fake news, they report it incorrectly. So I figured what’s the use of even dealing with it? We did a job, including ventilators that nobody had. We took over. The cupboards were bare when we took over.”

-Donald Trump via The Hill, “President Trump holds a Make America Great Again rally in Middletown, PA | FULL, 9/26/2020,” YouTube.com, Sep. 26, 2020

9/26/2020

CORONAVIRUS/JOE BIDEN: “We’re dealing with four historic crises all at once. A once in a century [coronavirus] pandemic that has claimed over 200,000 American lives, a devastating economic recession, a long overdue reckoning on racial justice and a change in climate that’s ravaging communities all across the country…

If I get elected president, I’m not going to be the Democratic president, I’m going to be an American president. Whether you voted for me or against me, whether your city is red or blue, I’m going to be there. I promise you.”

-Joe Biden via NowThis News, “Former Vice President Joe Biden Addresses Mayors’ Conference | LIVE | NowThis,” YouTube.com, Sep. 26, 2020

9/26/2020

CORONAVIRUS/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The only problems that matter to this president seem to be problems that affect him personally. He defines everything in a red and blue, blue states, red states, Democratic cities, Republican cities.

I think that’s explains why one day before we hit 200,000 [coronavirus] deaths, the president held a campaign rally and insisted that the virus was, ‘Affects virtually nobody.’ Then he went on to say, ‘except elderly people with heart conditions and problems.’

Ask the folks in their communities how they feel about that. Their parents that are being referred to by the president as nobodies. Ask their families of that empty seat at kitchen table this morning, if that’s true they’re nobodies. Kids who lost their teachers. Parents, and grandparents, friends or coworkers, sisters or brothers, never going to see again.”

-Joe Biden via NowThis News, “Former Vice President Joe Biden Addresses Mayors’ Conference | LIVE | NowThis,” YouTube.com, Sep. 26, 2020

9/27/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/ECONOMY/JOE BIDEN/KAMALA HARRIS: “The truth is the economy wasn’t working for folks long before these crises hit. It’s why @KamalaHarris and I won’t just build back to the way things were — we’ll build back better. We won’t be satisfied until the economy starts working for everyone.“

––Joe Biden, Twitter.com, September 27, 2020 10:20 am

9/28/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/ECONOMY/EDUCATION/JOE BIDEN: “Here’s the deal: Until we deal with COVID-19, we’ll never get our economy fully back on track, get our kids safely back to school, or get our lives back.

It’s why as president, I won’t waste a day getting this virus under control.“

––Joe Biden, Twitter.com, September 28, 2020 7:07 am

9/28/2020

CORONAVIRUS: “And thank you for joining us as we announce a massive and groundbreaking expansion in our testing capability for the China virus. And as you know, it’s already setting records, records like nobody’s ever seen before. Last week, we crossed a historic milestone when the United States conducted our 100 millionth test, far more than any other country and not even close actually.”

-Donald Trump, “Trump Gives Update On Coronavirus Testing Strategy | NBC News,” YouTube.com, Sep. 28, 2020

9/28/2020

CORONAVIRUS: “Today I’m pleased to report that we’re announcing our plan to distribute 150 million Abbott rapid point-of-care [coronavirus] tests in the coming weeks, very, very soon. This will be more than double the number of tests already performed and here’s our plan.

50 million tests will go to protect the most vulnerable communities, which we’ve always promised to do, including 18 million for nursing homes, 15 million for assisted living facilities, 10 million for home health and hospice care, hospice care agencies, and nearly one million for Historically Black Colleges and Universities, and also tribal nation colleges.

100 million rapid point-of-care tests will be given to states and territories to support efforts to reopen their economies and schools immediately and fast as they can.”

-Donald Trump, “Trump Gives Update On Coronavirus Testing Strategy | NBC News,” YouTube.com, Sep. 28, 2020

9/28/2020

CORONAVIRUS: “When the pandemic struck, there were zero tests for the China virus, but we’ve marshaled all of America’s resources to achieve these unparalleled capabilities.”

-Donald Trump, “Trump Gives Update On Coronavirus Testing Strategy | NBC News,” YouTube.com, Sep. 28, 2020

9/28/2020

CORONAVIRUS: “And it’s important to remember that as younger and healthier people return to work, and as we massively increased [coronavirus] testing capacity, we will identify more cases and asymptomatic individuals in low-risk populations. This should not cause undue alarm, the total number of cases is not the full metric of success.

Hospitalization capacity and mortality rates are far more instructive metrics. As we do more tests, you’re going to have automatically more cases.”

-Donald Trump, “Trump Gives Update On Coronavirus Testing Strategy | NBC News,” YouTube.com, Sep. 28, 2020

9/28/2020

CORONAVIRUS/VACCINES: “The day the [coronavirus] vaccine is approved by the F.D.A., we’ll begin distributing it within 24 hours with hundreds of millions of doses to follow very quickly. We’re all set to go. We’re all ready and logistically we have the military lined up and some incredible people are just waiting to have it.”

-Donald Trump, “Trump Gives Update On Coronavirus Testing Strategy | NBC News,” YouTube.com, Sep. 28, 2020

9/29/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “200,000 dead [from coronavirus]. As you said, over seven million infected in the United States. We, in fact, have 4% of the world’s population, 20% of the deaths. 40,000 people a day are contracting COVID. In addition to that, about between 750 and 1000 people a day are dying.

When he [Donald Trump] was presented with that number, he said, ‘It is what it is.’ Well, it is what it is because you are who you are. That’s why it is.

The President has no plan. He hasn’t laid out anything. He knew all the way back in February how serious this crisis was. He knew it was a deadly disease. What did he do? He’s on tape as acknowledging he knew it. He said he didn’t tell us or give people a warning of it because he didn’t want to panic the American people. You don’t panic. He panicked.”

-Joe Biden via CNBC Television, “President Trump and former VP Biden face off in first presidential debate — 9/29/2020,” YouTube.com, Sep. 29, 2020

9/29/2020

CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/JOE BIDEN: “If we would’ve listened to you [Joe Biden], the country would have been left wide open, millions of people would have died [from coronavirus], not 200,000. And one person is too much. It’s China’s fault. It should have never happened. They stopped it from going in, but it was China’s fault.

And, by the way, when you talk about numbers, you don’t know how many people died in China. You don’t know how many people died in Russia. You don’t know how many people died in India. They don’t exactly give you a straight count, just so you understand.”

-Donald Trump via CNBC Television, “President Trump and former VP Biden face off in first presidential debate — 9/29/2020,” YouTube.com, Sep. 29, 2020

9/29/2020

CORONAVIRUS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Many of your Democrat Governors said, ‘President Trump did a phenomenal job [on coronavirus].’…

We got the gowns. We got the masks. We made the ventilators. You wouldn’t have made ventilators. And now we’re weeks away from a vaccine. We’re doing therapeutics already. Fewer people are dying when they get sick. Far fewer people are dying. We’ve done a great job.

The only thing I haven’t done a good job, and that’s because of the fake news, no matter what you say to them, they give you a bad press on it. It’s just fake news. They give you good press, they give me bad press because that’s the way it is, unfortunately. But let me just say something. I don’t care. I’ve gotten used to it. But I’ll tell you, Joe [Biden], you could never have done the job that we did. You don’t have it in your blood. You could’ve never done that, Joe.”

-Donald Trump via CNBC Television, “President Trump and former VP Biden face off in first presidential debate — 9/29/2020,” YouTube.com, Sep. 29, 2020

9/29/2020

CORONAVIRUS/VACCINES: Donald Trump: “Well, we’re going to deliver it [coronavirus vaccine] right away. We have the military all set up. Logistically, they’re all set up. We have our military that delivers soldiers and they can do 200,000 a day. They’re going to be delivering—”

Joe Biden: “This is the same man who told you—”

Trump: “It’s all set up.”

Biden: “—by Easter, this would be gone away. By the warm weather, it’d be gone. Miraculous, like a miracle. And by the way, maybe you could inject some bleach in your arm, and that would take care of it. This is the same man.”

Trump: “That was said sarcastically, and you know that. That was said sarcastically.”

-Joe Biden and Donald Trump via CNBC Television, “President Trump and former VP Biden face off in first presidential debate — 9/29/2020,” YouTube.com, Sep. 29, 2020

9/29/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/VACCINES: “So here’s the deal. This man [Donald Trump] is talking about a [coronavirus] vaccine. Every serious company is talking about maybe having a vaccine done by the end of the year, but the distribution of that vaccine will not occur until sometime beginning of the middle of next year to get it out, if we get the vaccine. And pray God we will. Pray God we will…

Do you believe for a moment what he’s telling you in light of all the lies he’s told you about the whole issue relating to COVID? He still hasn’t even acknowledged that he knew this was happening, knew how dangerous it was going to be back in February, and he didn’t even tell you. He’s on record as saying it. He panicked or he just looked at the stock market. One of the two. Because guess what? A lot of people died and a lot more are going to die unless he gets a lot smarter, a lot quicker.”

-Joe Biden via CNBC Television, “President Trump and former VP Biden face off in first presidential debate — 9/29/2020,” YouTube.com, Sep. 29, 2020

9/29/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN: “When I hear 200,000 deaths, I think of the empty chairs at dining room tables all across the country, which just months ago were filled by loved ones.

It didn’t have to be this bad.“

––Joe Biden, Twitter.com, September 29, 2020 3:36 pm

9/29/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/QUOTE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “On average, roughly 750 to 1,000 Americans are dying from COVID every day.

When Donald Trump was presented with that number, he said, ‘It is what it is.’

It is what it is because Donald Trump is who he is.“

––Joe Biden, Twitter.com, September 29, 2020 4:02 pm

9/29/2020

CORONAVIRUS: [Chris Wallace: “President Trump, you have begun to increasingly question the effectiveness of masks as a [coronavirus] disease preventer. And in fact, recently you have cited the issue of waiters touching their masks and touching plates. Are you questioning the efficacy of masks?”]

“No, I think masks are okay. You have to understand, if you look… I mean, I have a mask right here. I put a mask on when I think I need it. Tonight, as an example, everybody’s had a test and you’ve had social distancing and all of the things that you have to, but I wear masks when needed.

I don’t wear a mask like him [Joe Biden]. Every time you see him, he’s got a mask. He could be speaking 200 feet away from him and he shows up with the biggest mask I’ve ever seen.”

-Donald Trump via CNBC Television, “President Trump and former VP Biden face off in first presidential debate — 9/29/2020,” YouTube.com, Sep. 29, 2020

9/29/2020

2020 ELECTION/CORONAVIRUS: “A lot of people, between drugs and alcohol and depression, when you start shutting it down [due to coronavirus], you take a look at what’s happening at some of your Democrat-run states where they have these tough shutdowns. And I’m telling you it’s because they don’t want to open it. One of them came out last week, you saw that, ‘Oh, we’re going to open up on November 9th.’

Why November 9th? Because it’s after the election. They think they’re hurting us by keeping them closed. They’re hurting people. People know what to do. They can social distance. They can wash their hands, they can wear masks. They can do whatever they want, but they got to open these states up…

It’s not fair. You’re talking about almost it’s like being in prison. And you look at what’s going on with divorce, look at what’s going on with alcoholism and drugs. It’s a very, very sad thing.”

-Donald Trump via CNBC Television, “President Trump and former VP Biden face off in first presidential debate — 9/29/2020,” YouTube.com, Sep. 29, 2020

9/29/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/ECONOMY: “[T]he people who have lost their jobs are those people who have been on the front lines. Those people who have been saving our lives, those people who have been out there dying [from coronavirus]. People who’ve been putting themselves in the way to make sure that we could all try to make it.

And the idea that he [Donald Trump] is insisting that we go forward and open when you have almost half the states in America with a significant increase in COVID deaths and COVID cases in the United States of America, and he wants to open it up more. Why is he want to open it up?…

You can’t fix the economy until you fix the COVID crisis. And he has no intention of doing anything about making it better for you all at home in terms of your health and your safety.”

-Joe Biden via CNBC Television, “President Trump and former VP Biden face off in first presidential debate — 9/29/2020,” YouTube.com, Sep. 29, 2020

9/30/2020

CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/SHUTDOWN: “Many more people would have died from the China Virus if Sleepy Joe were your President. He didn’t even want me to close our Country to Infected China until TWO MONTHS later, when he said I was right. Now he likes to say I didn’t close up ‘fast enough’. Just another politician!“

––Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 30, 2020 8:01 am

9/30/2020

CORONAVIRUS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Of the flood of misinformation, conspiracy theories and falsehoods seeding the internet on the coronavirus, one common thread stands out: President Trump.

That is the conclusion of researchers at Cornell University who analyzed 38 million articles about the pandemic in English-language media around the world. Mentions of Mr. Trump made up nearly 38 percent of the overall ‘misinformation conversation,’ making the president the largest driver of the ‘infodemic’ — falsehoods involving the pandemic…

But by far the most prevalent topic of misinformation was ‘miracle cures,’ including Mr. Trump’s promotion of anti-malarial drugs and disinfectants as potential treatments for Covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus. That accounted for more misinformation than the other 10 topics combined, the researchers reported.”

-Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Noah Weiland, “Study Finds ‘Single Largest Driver’ of Coronavirus Misinformation: Trump,” nytimes.com, Sep. 30, 2020

9/30/2020

CORONAVIRUS/DEBATES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I saw last night [Sep. 29, 2020] on that debate stage, a self-entitled, self-serving president who thinks everything is about him. He thinks that, if he just yells louder and louder, throws out lie after lie after lie, he’ll get his way.

He thinks you’ll forget. Well, he picked the wrong guy. I don’t forget. I don’t forget that in February, he’s on tape acknowledging he knew how serious this [coronavirus] pandemic was. He knew how quickly it would spread, that thousands of people would be killed, but he forgot to say a single thing. He kept it secret. He was more worried about the stock market collapsing than about the over 205,000 people who’ve died. He didn’t say a word.

What did he tell us? He said it’d be gone by Easter. It will go away in the warm weather. He told us it will just go away like a miracle, and then maybe if we injected bleach in our arm, we may be okay.”

-Joe Biden, “Joe Biden Speaks at the Last Stop in Johnstown, PA LIVE | Whistle-Stop Tour,” YouTube.com, Sep. 30, 2020

9/30/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN: “It’s safe to say I’ve gotten to know the hardworking men and women of @Amtrak over the years — I’m proud to stand with them as they face furloughs due to funding cuts.

These essential workers have kept us moving during this pandemic –– now it’s time we have their backs.“

––Joe Biden, Twitter.com, September 30, 2020 4:00 pm

9/30/2020

CORONAVIRUS: “He [Donald Trump] hasn’t pulled Congress together to provide real relief for working people, moms, and dads, and business owners. The fact is Congress has passed a significant [coronavirus] recovery bill, but he’s too busy being in a bunker, or in his golf course to call them into the White House to work out an agreement. He told FEMA to cut off funding for school PPE, masks, and protective gear, because it’s not a national emergency.”

-Joe Biden, “Joe Biden Kicks Off His Whistle-Stop Tour LIVE | Joe Biden For President 2020,” YouTube.com, Sep. 30, 2020

10/1/2020

CORONAVIRUS/MILITARY/TRUMP PEOPLE: “So, she [Hope Hicks] did test positive [for coronavirus]. I just heard about this. She tested positive. She’s a hard worker. A lot of masks. So, she wears masks a lot. But she tested positive. And I just went out with a test. I’ll see what — because we spend a lot of time. And the first lady just went out with a test also. So, whether we quarantine, or whether we have it, I don’t know.

You know, it’s very hard. When you’re with soldiers, when you’re with airmen, when you’re with Marines, and I’m with — and the police officers. I’m with them so much. And when they come over here, it’s very hard to say, stay back, stay back. It’s a tough kind of a situation. It’s a terrible thing. So, I just went for a test, and we will see what happens.

I mean, who knows? But you know her very well. She’s fantastic. And she’s done a great job. But it’s very, very hard when you are with people from the military or for law enforcement. And they come over to you, and they want to hug you, and they want to kiss you, because we really have done a good job for them. And you get close, and things happen.”

-Donald Trump as quoted by Factbase, “Interview: Sean Hannity Interviews Donald Trump Live Via Telephone – October 1, 2020,” factba.se, Oct. 1, 2020

10/1/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Donald Trump will do everything he can to distract from the fact that because of his failed COVID-19 response:

– Over 200,000 Americans have died

– 26 million are on unemployment

– 1 in 6 small businesses risk permanent closure

We can’t let him.“

––Joe Biden, Twitter.com, October 1, 2020 2:40 pm

10/1/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/MELANIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Hope Hicks, who has been working so hard without even taking a small break, has just tested positive for Covid 19. Terrible! The First Lady [Melania] and I are waiting for our test results. In the meantime, we will begin our quarantine process!“

––Donald Trump, Twitter.com, October 1, 2020 4:44 pm

10/1/2020

CORONAVIRUS/VACCINES: “We have five companies that are in great shape and they have, we think, great [coronavirus] vaccines. We’ll crush the virus. Our opponent will crush America. I’m thriving and we are thriving as a nation. We are thriving like practically no nation, nobody’s done the comeback like we’ve done, and so we’ve made America great again.”

-Donald Trump as quoted by Factbase, “Remarks: Donald Trump Holds a Virtual Iowa Tele-Rally – October 1, 2020,” factba.se, Oct. 1, 2020

10/1/2020

CORONAVIRUS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP’S HEALTH: “This evening I received confirmation that both President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump have tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 virus.

The President and First Lady are both well at this time, and they plan to remain at home within the White House during their convalescence.

The White House medical team and I will maintain a vigilant watch, and I appreciate the support provided by some of our country’s greatest medical professionals and institutions. Rest assured I expect the President to continue carrying out his duties without disruption while recovering.”

-Sean P. Conley, Physician to the President, Memorandum to Kayleigh McEnany, whitehosue.gov, Oct. 1, 2020

10/2/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/MELANIA/TRUMP’S HEALTH: “Jill and I send our thoughts to President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump for a swift recovery. We will continue to pray for the health and safety of the president and his family.“

––Joe Biden, Twitter.com, October 2, 2020 2:45 am

10/2/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/MELANIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump announced early Friday [Oct. 2, 2020] that both he and the First Lady Melania Trump tested positive for COVID-19 early and will quarantine at the White House…

The president and first lady’s positive coronavirus tests came just hours after news surfaced that senior White House adviser Hope Hicks tested positive for COVID-19.”

– Brooke Singman, “President Trump, first lady test positive for coronavirus, set to quarantine at White House,” foxnews.com, Oct. 2, 2020

10/2/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN: “I’m happy to report that Jill and I have tested negative for COVID. Thank you to everyone for your messages of concern. I hope this serves as a reminder: wear a mask, keep social distance, and wash your hands.“

––Joe Biden, Twitter.com, October 2, 2020 6:22 am

10/2/2020

CORONAVIRUS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “President Donald Trump went to a New Jersey fundraiser for his reelection campaign on Thursday, mingling with crowds and posing for photographs mere hours before he tweeted that he’d tested positive for the coronavirus.

Trump appeared at his Bedminster golf club despite learning that one of his closest aides and advisers, Hope Hicks, had tested positive for COVID-19 earlier in the day.

Hicks has been in close quarters with Trump and many other senior-level White House officials, having traveled with them Tuesday for the first presidential debate.”

-Jenna Amatulli, “Trump Held Fundraiser, Mingled With Crowd Hours Before Revealing COVID-19 Diagnosis,” huffpost.com, Oct. 2, 2020

10/2/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP PEOPLE/TRUMP’S HEALTH: “As all of you know, the president and the first lady tested positive for COVID-19. They remained in good spirits. The president does have mild symptoms and as we look to try to make sure that not only his health and safety and welfare is good, we continue to look at that for all of the American people. He continues to be not only in good spirits but very energetic.”

-Mark Meadows, White House chief of staff, via ABC News, “The president has ‘mild symptoms’ of COVID-19: Mark Meadows,” YouTube.com, Oct. 2, 2020

10/2/2020

CORONAVIRUS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Even as President Donald Trump privately admitted to journalist Bob Woodward earlier this year that the coronavirus was highly contagious and dangerous, Trump claimed he wasn’t worried about contracting the virus himself.

CNN on Friday obtained a new audio recording from Woodward’s April 13 interview with Trump that sheds new light on the President’s mindset…

‘You’re risking getting it, of course,’ said Woodward. ‘The way you move around and have those briefings and deal with people. Are you worried about that?’

‘No, I’m not. I don’t know why I’m not. I’m not,’ the President responded.

‘Why?’ Woodward asked.

‘I don’t know,’ Trump said. ‘I’m just not.'”

-Jamie Gangel, Elizabeth Stuart and Michael Warren, “‘I’m just not’: Trump told Woodward he wasn’t concerned about catching Covid in newly released audio,” cnn.com, Oct. 2, 2020

10/2/2020

2020 ELECTION/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/ECONOMY/JOE BIDEN/MICHIGAN/RALLY: “Thank you, Grand Rapids, for a great afternoon. From the virus to the economy, we face immense challenges as a nation. But if we come together and act as one America, we can and will overcome them.“

––Joe Biden, Twitter.com, October 2, 2020 3:42 pm

10/2/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP’S HEALTH: “President Donald Trump was headed to the hospital Friday after he and first lady Melania Trump tested positive for COVID-19, raising fresh questions about the president’s health.

Trump, 74, was going to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, in what aides said was a precautionary move. Officials said they expected him to be there for a few days.

White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany said the president ‘remains in good spirits, has mild symptoms, and has been working throughout the day.'”

-Courtney Subramanian and David Jackson, “President Trump heading to Walter Reed hospital hours after COVID-19 diagnosis,” usatoday.com, Oct. 2, 2020

10/2/2020

CORONAVIRUS: “It’s not about wearing the mask to protect yourself [from coronavirus], it’s wearing the mask to protect other people, people around you. It’s a patriotic thing to do… There should be a mask mandate.”

-Joe Biden via 7 Action News, “Exclusive: 1-on-1 interview with Joe Biden,” wxyz.com, Oct. 2, 2020

10/2/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP’S HEALTH: “Look, I’d like to start by acknowledging — which I’m sure all of you do as well — sending my prayers for the health and safety of the First Lady and President of the United States after they tested positive for COVID-19. My wife, Jill, and I pray that they’ll make a quick and full recovery.

This is not a matter of politics. It’s a bracing reminder to all of us that we have to take this virus seriously. It’s not going away automatically. We have to do our part to be responsible. It means following the science, listening to the experts, washing our hands, social distancing. It means wearing a mask in public and means encouraging others to do so as well. It means having masking mandates nationwide.”

-Joe Biden, “Joe Biden Speech LIVE from Grand Rapids, Michigan | Joe Biden For President 2020,” YouTube.com, Oct. 2, 2020

10/2/2020

CORONAVIRUS: “Leading scientists from the University of Washington tell us that we can save more than 100,000 American lives [from dying of coronavirus] in the next 100 days alone if everyone wore a mask in public. So let me repeat that because it’s so important. We can save 100,000 lives in the next 100 days, according to the head of the CDC, if everyone wears a mask in public.

So be patriotic. It’s not about being a tough guy. It’s about doing your part. Wearing a mask is not only going to protect you, but it also protects those around you. Your mom, your dad, your brother, your sister, husband, wife, neighbor, coworker. Don’t just do it for yourself, do it for the people you love, the people you work with. The seriousness of this virus also underscores that we need regular testing with results turned around rapidly and that’s available to everyone.”

-Joe Biden, “Joe Biden Speech LIVE from Grand Rapids, Michigan | Joe Biden For President 2020,” YouTube.com, Oct. 2, 2020

10/2/2020

CORONAVIRUS: “It’s not just the folks in the White House or who travel with me that deserved regular [coronavirus] testing, it’s folks in the meatpacking and food processing plants, grocery store workers. Every single American deserves safety and peace of mind. And it means we need transparency.

Those who test positive need to participate in contact tracing so that everyone who they may have exposed can get tested themselves. That’s how you stop transmission for any epidemic. It’s basic. We need to take the science of fighting this disease seriously if we’re going to save lives. And above all, the news is a reminder that we, as a nation, need to do better in dealing with this pandemic. Taking these steps is how we’ll protect ourselves.”

-Joe Biden, “Joe Biden Speech LIVE from Grand Rapids, Michigan | Joe Biden For President 2020,” YouTube.com, Oct. 2, 2020

10/3/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN: “Be a patriot. Do your part.

Wearing a mask will protect you. But it will also protect those around you — your mom, your dad, your son, your daughter, your neighbor, your co-worker.

Don’t just do it for yourself. Do it for the people you love.“

––Joe Biden, Twitter.com, October 3, 2020 3:47 am

10/3/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Doctors, Nurses and ALL at the GREAT Walter Reed Medical Center, and others from likewise incredible institutions who have joined them, are AMAZING!!!Tremendous progress has been made over the last 6 months in fighting this PLAGUE. With their help, I am feeling well!“

––Donald Trump, Twitter.com, October 3, 2020 7:19 am

10/3/2020

CHRIS CHRISTIE/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) has tested positive for COVID-19, he announced Saturday [Oct. 3, 2020], making him the latest official in President Trump’s orbit to contract the virus…

Christie was at the White House last Saturday for Trump’s announcement that he was nominating Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. The ex-governor was spotted interacting closely with others in the Rose Garden without a mask.

In the week since, Trump, first lady Melania Trump, Sens. Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), and former White House counselor Kellyanne Conway have all tested positive for the coronavirus that causes COVID-19.”

-Brett Samuels, “Christie tests positive for COVID-19 after helping Trump with debate preparation,” thehill.com, Oct. 3, 2020

10/3/2020

CORONAVIRUS/TRUMP’S HEALTH: “I want to begin by thanking all of the incredible medical professionals, the doctors, the nurses, everybody, at Walter Reed Medical Center… I came here, wasn’t feeling so well, I feel much better now. We’re working hard to get me all the way back.

I have to be back, because we still have to Make America Great Again. We’ve done an awfully good job of that, but we still have steps to go, and we have to finish that job. And I’ll back, I think I’ll be back soon.”

-Donald Trump via Daniel Politi, “Trump Says He Is ‘Starting to Feel Good’ in Video From Walter Reed,” slate.com, Oct. 3, 2020

[Note: Donald Trump was being treated for coronavirus as a patient at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center when he released this statement on video.]

10/3/2020

CORONAVIRUS/TRUMP’S HEALTH: “But this [getting coronavirus] was something that happened, and it’s happened to millions of people all over the world. And I’m fighting for them, not just in the U.S., I’m fighting for them all over the world. We’re going to beat this coronavirus, or whatever you want to call it, and we’re going to beat it soundly. So many things have happened…

But I had no choice, because I just didn’t want to stay in the White House. I was given that alternative, ‘Stay in the White House, lock yourself in, don’t ever leave, don’t even go to the Oval Office. Just stay upstairs and enjoy it. Don’t see people, don’t talk to people, and just be done with it.’ And I can’t do that, I had to be out front.”

-Donald Trump via Daniel Politi, “Trump Says He Is ‘Starting to Feel Good’ in Video From Walter Reed,” slate.com, Oct. 3, 2020

[Note: Donald Trump was being treated for coronavirus as a patient at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center when he released this statement on video.]

10/3/2020

CORONAVIRUS/TRUMP’S HEALTH: “If you look at the [coronavirus] therapeutics, which I’m taking right now, some of them, and others are coming out soon that are looking like– Frankly, they’re miracles, if you want to know the truth, they’re miracles. People criticize me when I say that, but we have things happening that look like they’re miracles, coming down from God.”

-Donald Trump via Daniel Politi, “Trump Says He Is ‘Starting to Feel Good’ in Video From Walter Reed,” slate.com, Oct. 3, 2020

[Note: Donald Trump was being treated for coronavirus as a patient at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center when he released this statement on video.]

10/3/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN: “And as we’ve all seen too clearly this week, COVID-19 is still a threat to our health, as well as our economic security. We have to do so much more to step up to get this virus under control. We need to take science, the science of fighting this disease seriously if we’re going to save lives.”

-Joe Biden via The Hill, “Joe Biden says he doesn’t want to attack President Trump following COVID-19 diagnosis,” YouTube.com, Oct. 3, 2020

10/3/2020

COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP’S HEALTH: “I’m in a little bit of a spot here because I don’t want to be attacking the President and the First Lady now because they now have contracted Coronavirus, and Jill and I pray for their quick and full recovery… This isn’t about politics. More than 200,000 Americans have died from COVID. 7.3 million have been infected. 30 million have lost paychecks, hours, or their jobs entirely.”

-Joe Biden via The Hill, “Joe Biden says he doesn’t want to attack President Trump following COVID-19 diagnosis,” YouTube.com, Oct. 3, 2020

10/3/2020

CORONAVIRUS: “It’s about patriotism. You wear a mask to protect the person next to you [from coronavirus]. You wear a mask to protect the bus driver. You wear a mask to protect the person you’re sitting next to on the bus. And to reject the chance to do the easiest thing possible to save lives, I find it appalling.”

-Joe Biden via The Hill, “Joe Biden says he doesn’t want to attack President Trump following COVID-19 diagnosis,” YouTube.com, Oct. 3, 2020

10/4/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I really appreciate all of the fans and supporters outside of the hospital. The fact is, they really love our Country and are seeing how we are MAKING IT GREATER THAN EVER BEFORE!“

––Donald Trump, Twitter.com, October 4, 2020 9:51 am

10/4/2020

CORONAVIRUS/SECRET SERVICE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Trump briefly left Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda to wave to supporters from a motorcade, after releasing a video on Twitter thanking people who had gathered outside the facility…

Trump told advisers on Sunday [Oct. 4, 2020] that he was getting bored being in the hospital and was tiring of watching coverage of his hospitalization. The ride past supporters was so impromptu that officials in charge of assembling the White House press pool were not even told.

The decision by Trump, who announced on Friday that he’d tested positive for the coronavirus, to defy public health guidelines and leave quarantine to greet his supporters confounded medical experts. Several agents from the Secret Service, which has already suffered from coronavirus outbreaks in recent weeks while protecting Trump, were also in the SUV with the president.”

-Toluse Olorunnipa, Josh Dawsey and Amy Goldstein, “Infectious Trump briefly leaves hospital to greet fans as confusion continues over his health,” washingtonpost.com, Oct. 4, 2020

10/4/2020

CORONAVIRUS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “We’re getting great reports from the doctors. This is an incredible hospital, Walter Reed. The work they do is just absolutely amazing, and I want to thank them all — the nurses, the doctors, everybody here.

I’ve also gotten to meet some of the soldiers and the first responders and — what a group. I also think we’re gonna pay a little surprise to some of the great patriots that we have out on the street, and they’ve been out there for a long time, and they’ve got Trump flags, and they love our country…

But I just when I look at the enthusiasm — and we have enthusiasm like probably nobody’s ever had — our people that love the job we’re doing. We have more enthusiasm than maybe anybody.”

-Donald Trump via David Jackson and Courtney Subramanian, “‘Interesting journey’: Donald Trump drives by supporters outside Walter Reed, claims progress in another video,” usatoday.com, Oct. 4, 2020

[Note: Donald Trump was being treated for coronavirus as a patient at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center when he released this statement on video.]

10/4/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19: “So, it’s been a very interesting journey. I learned a lot about COVID. I learned it by really going to school. This is the real school. This isn’t the ‘let’s read the book’ school, and I get it and I understand it, and it’s a very interesting things, and I’m going to be letting you know about it. In the meantime, we love the USA and we love what’s happening.”

-Donald Trump via David Jackson and Courtney Subramanian, “‘Interesting journey’: Donald Trump drives by supporters outside Walter Reed, claims progress in another video,” usatoday.com, Oct. 4, 2020

[Note: Donald Trump was being treated for coronavirus as a patient at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center when he released this statement on video.]

10/5/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “It is reported that the Media is upset because I got into a secure vehicle to say thank you to the many fans and supporters who were standing outside of the hospital for many hours, and even days, to pay their respect to their President. If I didn’t do it, Media would say RUDE!!!“

––Donald Trump, Twitter.com, October 5, 2020 8:26 am

10/5/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/DRUGS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I will be leaving the great Walter Reed Medical Center today at 6:30 P.M. Feeling really good! Don’t be afraid of Covid. Don’t let it dominate your life. We have developed, under the Trump Administration, some really great drugs & knowledge. I feel better than I did 20 years ago!“

––Donald Trump, Twitter.com, October 5, 2020 8:37 am

10/5/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/PRESS SECRETARY/TRUMP PEOPLE: “White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany announced Monday she tested positive for Covid-19, the latest in a string of staffers to contract the disease that has hobbled the Trump operation less than a month before Election Day…

McEnany said she received the positive test result Monday morning and that she is not currently displaying symptoms.

She also claimed to have no knowledge that senior Trump aide Hope Hicks tested positive for Covid-19 prior to holding a press briefing without a mask last Thursday, a decision that has come under fire for potentially exposing those present.”

-Nick Niedzwiadek, “Trump’s press secretary tests positive for coronavirus,” politico.com, Oct. 5, 2020

10/5/2020

2020 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/DEMS/FLORIDA/GOP/PENNSYLVANIA/QUOTE: “‘You see it in enthusiasm for the President outside Walter Reed Hospital. You see it in Registrations, from Florida to Pennsylvania & West Virginia, where Republicans are outstripping Democrats by 2 to 1. If the President bounces back onto the campaign trail, he will be an….

….invincible hero, who not only survived every dirty trick the Democrats threw at him, but the Chinese virus as well. He will show America we no longer have to be afraid.’ @MirandaDevine @NYPost  Thank you Miranda. Was over until the Plague came in from China. Will win anyway!“

––Donald Trump, Twitter.com, October 5, 2020 1:56 pm