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6/20/2020

CAMPAIGN/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/POLICE/RALLY: “Americans have watched left wing radicals burn down buildings, loot businesses, destroy private property, injure hundreds of dedicated police offices. These police officers, they get injured, they don’t complain. They’re incredible. And injure thousands upon thousands of people only to hear the radical fake news say what a beautiful rally it was. And they never talk about COVID. They don’t talk about, when you see 25,000 people walking down Fifth Avenue or walking down a street of a Democrat run city, you never hear them saying, ‘they’re not wearing their mask.'”

-Donald Trump as quoted by Rev, “Donald Trump Tulsa, Oklahoma Rally Speech Transcript,” rev.com, June 21, 2020

6/20/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “We’re months into this pandemic and still don’t have proper testing, PPE, or clear nationwide guidance. Instead, Donald Trump:

– Pushes dangerous, disproven drugs
– Stands in the way of the CDC
– Refuses to wear a mask

He is failing even the most basic test of leadership.”

-Joe Biden, Twitter.com, June 20, 2020 11:24 am

6/20/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “By the way, it’s a disease without question, has more names than any disease in history. I can name, ‘Kung flu.’ I can name, 19 different versions of names. Many call it a virus, which it is.”

-Donald Trump as quoted by Rev, “Donald Trump Tulsa, Oklahoma Rally Speech Transcript,” rev.com, June 21, 2020

6/20/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “We’ve tested now 25 million people. It’s probably 20 million people more than anybody else. Germany’s done a lot. South Korea has done a lot…

Here’s the bad part. When you do testing to that extent, you’re going to find more people, you’re going to find more cases. So I said to my people slow the testing down, please. They test and they test. We had tests and people don’t know what’s going on. We got tests, we got another one over here. The young man’s 10-years-old. He’s got the sniffles. He’ll recover in about 15 minutes. That’s a case, add him to it.”

-Donald Trump as quoted by Rev, “Donald Trump Tulsa, Oklahoma Rally Speech Transcript,” rev.com, June 21, 2020

6/19/2020

TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VOTING/VOTE BY MAIL: “President Donald Trump called mail-in voting the biggest threat to his reelection and said his campaign’s multimillion-dollar legal effort to block expanded ballot access could determine whether he wins a second term…

The president’s assertion that mail-in voting will endanger his reelection comes as states across the country are rushing to accommodate remote voting in response to the coronavirus pandemic. Millions of voters could be disenfranchised if they decide to stay home on Election Day rather than risk contracting the virus at crowded polling stations.”

-Alex Isenstadt, “‘My biggest risk’: Trump says mail-in voting could cost him reelection,” politico.com, June 19, 2020

6/18/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/DACA/IMMIGRATION/JOE BIDEN: “For over eight years, DACA has given hundreds of thousands of young immigrants who came to this country as children the chance to contribute to the country they know as home. And with that opportunity, they have shown the incredible capacity of the immigrant spirit. Today, DACA recipients are engineers, doctors, and lawyers. They have succeeded at the highest levels of academia. Many have started their own small businesses, which pay taxes and provide jobs for U.S. citizens. Nearly a third of all current DACA recipients are essential workers helping our communities respond to the COVID19 pandemic. Nearly 30,000 of them are front-line health care workers.”

-Joe Biden, “My Statement On the Anniversary of DACA,” medium.com, June 15, 2020

6/18/2020

DONALD JR/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19: “And then one day, the Chinese plague came over. And I had to close the country, and we saved millions of lives by doing that. Don’t let anyone ever tell you different. We saved millions of lives. Potentially — I didn’t even want to tell you the numbers that I’ve heard, but at a minimum, it would be 1,000,000 to 1,500,000 as opposed to 150,000, 175,000 when it dies out.

And it is dying out. The numbers are starting to get very good.”

-Donald Trump, “WATCH: Triggered hosted by Donald Trump Jr and special guest President Donald Trump!,” YouTube.com, June 18, 2020

6/18/2020

BUSINESS/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “As a result of the virus, 22 percent of small businesses were forced to close earlier this year, including 41 percent of black-owned businesses. But under my administration’s strategy to vanquish the virus and restart our economy, small businesses across the nation are now safely reopening — all over the nation, they’re reopening at levels like nobody’s seen before.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump During a Roundtable with Governors on the Reopening of America’s Small Businesses,” whitehouse.gov, June 18, 2020

6/17/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Donald Trump wants to style himself a wartime president against an invisible enemy — but he has surrendered the fight.

Instead of leading the charge to defeat this virus, he has waved the white flag and retreated.”

-Joe Biden, Twitter.com, June 17, 2020 9:45 pm

6/17/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/MIKE PENCE: “Vice President Pence claimed success because COVID-19 deaths are ‘down to’ fewer than 750 a day.

That’s more than 20,000 a month — and they’re self-congratulating? Unbelievable.

It may be good enough for President Trump, but it will never be acceptable if I am President.”

-Joe Biden, Twitter.com, June 17, 2020 8:45 pm

6/16/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “This virus won’t just go away because you want it to, Mr. President. It’s time for you to step up and do your job.”

-Joe Biden, Twitter.com, June 16, 2020 11:17 am

6/17/2020

POLICE: “We have to have very strong police… we have unbelievable good people in the police force. And of course, like everything else, you’ll have some bad apples. They’re very few, but sometimes you find them and we have to find them before they act.”

-Donald Trump, “Trump talks police reform, coronavirus and the election in one-on-one interview,” mysuncoast.com, June 17, 2020

6/17/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19: “The plague as I call it, the — the virus is abating. We know how to handle it. We know where to go, and how to do it, and, again: should have never happened.

China should have stopped it. They could’ve stopped it easily. They should’ve stopped it and they didn’t do that, and we’ll have that out. That’ll be a point of discussion very soon, but we’re really starting to do well. I think we’re very close to a vaccine.”

-Donald Trump as quoted by Anna Wiernicki, “Nexstar one-on-one with President Trump,” binghamtonhomepage.com, June 17, 2020

6/17/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/HEALTHCARE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VETS: “We have dramatically expanded telehealth for our nation’s veterans. And, with COVID, it’s really become probably the hottest thing there is in medicine. Wouldn’t you say? I think so. It’s gone up, in terms of usage, by hundreds of times. It was not picking up until COVID came along, and now it’s one of the hottest things you have going in the medical world, allowing people to consult with doctors from the comfort of their homes and not having to go out and not having to make long trips. And they get tremendous advice, I hope.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump at Announcement of PREVENTS Task Force Roadmap,” whitehouse.gov, June 17, 2020

6/17/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Masks are a double-edge sword. People touch them. And they grab them and I see it all the time. They come in, they take the mask. Now they’re holding it now in their fingers. And they drop it on the desk and then they touch their eye and they touch their nose…

I see Biden. It’s like his whole face is covered. It’s like he put a knapsack over his face. He probably likes it that way. He feels good that way because he does. He seems to feel good in a mask, you know, feels better than he does without the mask, which is a strange situation.”

-Donald Trump in a June 17, 2020 interview as quoted by WSJ Staff, “Transcript of President Trump’s Interview With The Wall Street Journal,” wsj.com, June 18, 2020

6/17/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/RALLY: [Michael C. Bender: “So it’s okay if your supporters wear masks at the rally?”] “Absolutely. They can wear them or not. I want them to be happy. We’re gonna have a good time. Yeah, I want them to be happy.”

[Michael C. Bender: “What happens if your supporters get sick at one of these rallies?”]

“Well, people have to know that, yes, you do. But it’s tiny. You know, it’s a very small percentage.

We did the right thing. We closed it down. We closed it down. Expensive. But you can’t put a price on saving millions of lives. We saved millions of lives. You know, a lot of people say herd. Well how did herd work for Sweden? No good. How did herd work for Brazil? No good.”

-Donald Trump in a June 17, 2020 interview as quoted by WSJ Staff, “Transcript of President Trump’s Interview With The Wall Street Journal,” wsj.com, June 18, 2020

6/17/2020

CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/IRAN: “So they say the United States has more cases than anybody else. That’s because we do more testing. If we use the same testing that I used in China, or in Iran, or in some of these larger countries, it would blow us away… 

I personally think testing is overrated, even though I created the greatest testing machine in history. I’ve created the greatest testing machine in history. And I think testing is overrated… Look, if we didn’t test all the cases that we’re reporting, you wouldn’t know about any of those cases. In many ways, it makes us look bad.”

-Donald Trump in a June 17, 2020 interview as quoted by WSJ Staff, “Transcript of President Trump’s Interview With The Wall Street Journal,” wsj.com, June 18, 2020

6/17/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “On coronavirus, I acted very quickly, and I acted early. And they can’t get over it. Number one. Number two. If I didn’t act, we would have had 3 million deaths. And instead we’re at 110,000. And we could be heading to a number that’s, you know, higher than 150,000 to 200,000, it could be ending all now depending on how it goes. We’re doing very well on vaccine. We’re doing very well on therapeutic. But if I didn’t do what we did, we would have anywhere from 1.5 million to 3 million deaths. That would be 20 times more than we’ll end up having, you know? 10 to 30 times more.”

-Donald Trump in a June 17, 2020 interview as quoted by WSJ Staff, “Transcript of President Trump’s Interview With The Wall Street Journal,” wsj.com, June 18, 2020

6/17/2020

CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOHN BOLTON/MEDIA/TARIFFS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Bolton never told me to do tariffs on China. Bolton never thought you could get any tariffs done on China. Bolton has no economic sense. Bolton never thought you could get tariffs on China. They paid us billions of dollars. I gave our farmers $12 billion and $16 billion dollars out of tariffs I took in from China, which were much more than that. You understand? Because they were targeted… Nobody thought you could make a deal like that. Because we got the deal, and we got the tariffs. But since we got hit with the virus, I have a very different perspective on China. Very different perspective. And I view it very differently. But nobody has been tough on China like I am.”

-Donald Trump in a June 17, 2020 interview as quoted by WSJ Staff, “Transcript of President Trump’s Interview With The Wall Street Journal,” wsj.com, June 18, 2020

6/17/2020

CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/ECONOMY/MEDIA/TARIFFS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “China, last year, would have had the worst year they’ve ever had in many, many years and decades. And that was because I put a lot of tariffs on China that they never wanted. And I don’t want them to have bad years, but they happened to have a very bad year last year. And that’s before the virus. Now, of course they didn’t even report their numbers this year. You know, they refused to report their numbers, right? But last year was a bad year for China, one of one of the very bad years that they’ve had. And that’s largely because I put tariffs on. Nobody ever put tariffs on them. Nobody ever did anything to China. China walked away from Obama-Biden. No tariffs, no downside, no nothing. Whereas we took in billions of dollars of tariffs, and they were all put on by me. And they don’t follow the phase one deal—it’s a phase one deal—if they don’t follow it, I would substantially raise the tariffs, if that were necessary. So far, I think they’re…I haven’t had the final report but it looks like they are. They’re buying a lot.”

-Donald Trump in a June 17, 2020 interview as quoted by WSJ Staff, “Transcript of President Trump’s Interview With The Wall Street Journal,” wsj.com, June 18, 2020

6/17/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/ECONOMY/JOBS/MEDIA: “I think we can get tremendous numbers of jobs by November. I think by the end of the year, we’re going to have a vast number of jobs, largely…shortly thereafter, we should be almost where we were. And I think ultimately next year is going to be a fantastic year… You know, I was predicting the V, right? You know that. From the beginning. And now everybody’s saying I’m right. And we’ll see. We’ve got tremendous momentum. Now, it’ll be interesting to see where that momentum goes now. We were riding really straight through. Doing great. And then we got hit by the China virus. And frankly, we’re starting a little bit of a different campaign. Now it’s about jobs. Before it was about other things, but basically before it was about keeping it where it was. Now it’s about having it go up. And it will go up. I think you’ll see big GDP increases. I think you’ll see big jobs increases.”

-Donald Trump in a June 17, 2020 interview as quoted by WSJ Staff, “Transcript of President Trump’s Interview With The Wall Street Journal,” wsj.com, June 18, 2020

6/16/2020

CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/ECONOMY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A great jobs market and thriving economy is probably the best thing that we can do to help the black, Hispanic, Asian communities. We saw that just recently, prior to the virus that came in from China just a few months ago. What a horrible thing it was all over the world — 188 countries now.

And I just want to say we’ve done incredibly well. We’re doing well. Things are happening that nobody can even believe. Our country is opening up. And it’s opening up rapidly.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump at Signing of an Executive Order on Safe Policing for Safe Communities,” whitehouse.gov, June 16, 2020

6/16/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/MIKE PENCE/POLITICAL FIGURES/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Recently the media has taken to sounding the alarm over a ‘second wave’ of COVID-19 cases. Such panic is overblown. Thanks to President @realDonaldTrump’s leadership & the courage of the American people, we’re winning the fight against the invisible enemy.”

-Mike Pence, Twitter.com, June 16, 2020 2:29 pm

6/15/2020

CHILDREN/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19: “President Donald Trump may be giving parents a false sense of security when it comes to kids and COVID-19…

Although it’s true that children are less likely than adults to develop COVID-19, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has nevertheless counted more than 86,000 infections by the virus in Americans younger than 18.

Trump’s statements overlook severe COVID-19 illnesses and some deaths of children in the U.S., even though kids in general tend to get less sick from it than adults do. He also glosses over the fact that kids can spread disease without showing symptoms themselves.”

-Hope Yen, “AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s false security on kids and COVID-19,” apnews.com, June 15, 2020

6/15/2020

CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION: “The World Health Organization has been very disappointing. To the world, they’ve been disappointing. And we, as you know, paid $450 million and close to $500 million on some years. But for years and years, we paid far more than anybody else. And they’ve been a puppet of China.

And — so, no, I’m not reconsidering [withdrawing U.S. support], unless they get their act together, and I’m not sure they can at this point. But, maybe, certainly over the years, they might. But they have been a disaster. They were wrong on every call, including when I said we’re going to close up the United States to people coming in from China, where China was heavily infected [with COVID-19] at that time and possibly still is.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in Roundtable Discussion on Fighting for America’s Seniors,” whitehouse.gov, June 15, 2020

6/15/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Again, our testing is so far advanced. It’s so much bigger and better than any other country, that we’re going to have more cases. We’re always going to have more cases. And as I said this morning, that’s probably the downside of having good testing is you find a lot of cases that other countries, who don’t even test, don’t have. If you don’t test, you don’t have any cases. If we stopped testing right now, we’d have very few cases, if any.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in Roundtable Discussion on Fighting for America’s Seniors,” whitehouse.gov, June 15, 2020

6/15/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/HEALTHCARE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Over the past several months, the coronavirus has posed a significant health risk to all Americans. Unfortunately, men are less likely to visit or consult with a medical provider when faced with a medical issue or concern, increasing the chances of complications with any illness, including the coronavirus, that could be avoided with early detection and treatment. Accordingly, it is critical that men who show symptoms of the coronavirus, including shortness of breath, cough, fever, aches, or chills, immediately contact their doctor or healthcare provider. Doing so will ensure that they receive the care they need and help prevent the spread of this disease.”

-Donald Trump, “Presidential Message on Men’s Health Week, 2020,” whitehouse.gov, June 15, 2020

6/15/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Our testing is so much bigger and more advanced than any other country (we have done a great job on this!) that it shows more cases. Without testing, or weak testing, we would be showing almost no cases. Testing is a double edged sword – Makes us look bad, but good to have!!!”

-Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 15, 2020 7:14 am

6/15/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19: “Our testing is so much bigger and more advanced than any other country (we have done a great job on this!) that it shows more cases. Without testing, or weak testing, we would be showing almost no cases. Testing is a double edged sword – Makes us look bad, but good to have!!!“

–Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 15, 2020 4:14 am

6/15/2020

CIVIL UNREST/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/DEMS/FAKE NEWS/MEDIA/RALLY: “The Far Left Fake News Media, which had no Covid problem with the Rioters & Looters destroying Democrat run cities, is trying to Covid Shame us on our big Rallies. Won’t work!“

–Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 15, 2020 4:02 am

6/14/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “After reports of wealthy Trump donors getting millions in relief meant for small businesses, the administration is now refusing to disclose where the PPP money went. It’s unacceptable.

The American people deserve answers.”

-Joe Biden, Twitter.com, June 14, 2020 8:01 pm

6/14/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Over the past several months, the hardships of the coronavirus have lowered our country’s blood and platelet supply to critical levels, and the need to donate blood has never been more acute… Many of our Nation’s blood banks are operating with depleted stocks, and the majority of them rarely have on hand more than a single day’s supply of Type O blood, which is critical because it can be used to meet the blood needs of any patient. During this challenging time, let us commit to raising awareness of the lifesaving act of donating blood.”

-Donald Trump, “Presidential Message on World Blood Donor Day, 2020,” whitehouse.gov, June 14, 2020

6/14/2020

ARMY/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/NATIONAL GUARD/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “As our Nation continues to face the threat of the coronavirus pandemic, we acknowledge the important role the Army has played in the all-of-America response effort. The United States Army, Army National Guard, and Army Reserve Soldiers helped mount a nationwide response to this crisis that truly embodies their motto of ‘This We’ll Defend.’ In New York, the United States Army Corps of Engineers created and converted alternate care facilities, providing extra space for thousands of patients. In Washington State, Army healthcare professionals deployed to provide medical support against the emergent virus. And, in Maryland, researchers with the United States Army Medical Research and Development Command have worked tirelessly to develop coronavirus countermeasures.”

-Donald Trump, “Presidential Message on the 245th Birthday of the United States Army,” whitehouse.gov, June 14, 2020

6/13/2020

CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The depth and breadth of the U.S. Military’s contributions to our society are an everlasting inspiration to us all. I want to take this opportunity to thank all members of America’s Armed Forces in every branch — active duty, National Guard, and reserve — who stepped forward to help battle the invisible enemy — the new virus that came to our shores from a distant land called China. We will vanquish the virus. We will extinguish this plague.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump at the 2020 United States Military Academy at West Point Graduation Ceremony,” whitehouse.gov, June 13, 2020

6/12/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Donald Trump forgot about COVID-19, but COVID-19 didn’t forget about us.

The President couldn’t wish away the virus in April, he couldn’t tweet it away in May, and he can’t ignore it away in June.”

-Joe Biden, Twitter.com, June 12, 2020 11:30 am

6/12/2020

2020 ELECTION/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VOTE BY MAIL/VOTING: “Thirty-four states and Washington, D.C., offered absentee voting by mail to all registered voters without an excuse before the pandemic. To keep people from packing polls during a health crisis, some states sent mail-ballot applications to all voters. California will send mail ballots to all voters for the election in November, joining Oregon, Washington, Colorado, Utah and Hawaii, which conduct their elections entirely by mail.

In several of the 16 states where voters must provide an excuse to receive an absentee ballot – being over 65 years old, out of town during Election Day or in the military, for example – they can cite coronavirus as a reason. Most states made the change only for the upcoming primary election but could extend that to November.

Only five states, each in the South, have not taken legislative action to expand voting by mail, but legal challenges could force them to make changes… Biden said Trump is attempting to ‘undermine’ the election by making it more difficult for people to vote through his opposition to vote-by-mail.”

-Joey Garrison, “Biden and Trump each warn that other side may ‘steal’ the election as fight over mail voting rages,” usatoday.com, June 12, 2020

6/12/2020

2020 ELECTION/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VOTE BY MAIL/VOTING: “Five months before the election in November, the incumbent president and his Democratic challenger each tell Americans his opponent could ‘steal’ the election, perhaps setting the stage for a contentious fight even after the voting is over…

Both men’s rhetoric is largely aimed at the same issue – vote-by-mail, which Biden and Democrats support to allow citizens to vote safely amid the coronavirus pandemic and which Trump strongly opposes. Trump has long stoked fears of election-stealing.Wednesday, Biden ramped up his attacks on the president over voter access.”

-Joey Garrison, “Biden and Trump each warn that other side may ‘steal’ the election as fight over mail voting rages,” usatoday.com, June 12, 2020

6/12/2020

CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/OIL/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “[Y]ou had a couple of hours where if you bought a barrel of oil, you bought it for $37 — as if they gave you $37. Okay? There’s never been a thing like that ever. And now I see that it’s getting close to $40 a barrel and you’re back in business, and we got it done fast and we got Russia together with Saudi Arabia, and they cut production. And they got it back fast, and we’re very, very proud of it.

The supply changed rapidly with COVID-19, or whatever you want to call it. I had never heard so many names. You have about 30 names you can call this thing… I call it ‘the plague from China.’ ‘The plague.’ And it’s not good… it could have been stopped. It could have been stopped in China, but they decided not to do that. And we’ll have to figure that one out, won’t we?”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump During a Roundtable on Transition to Greatness: Restoring, Rebuilding, and Renewing | Dallas, TX,” whitehouse.gov, June 12, 2020

6/11/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/ECONOMY/FEDERAL RESERVE/VACCINES: “The Federal Reserve is wrong so often. I see the numbers also, and do MUCH better than they do. We will have a very good Third Quarter, a great Fourth Quarter, and one of our best ever years in 2021. We will also soon have a Vaccine & Therapeutics/Cure. That’s my opinion. WATCH!“

–Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 11, 2020 5:07 am

6/10/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “This pandemic isn’t just going to go away because you want it to, Mr. President. Step up and do your job before your negligence costs even more lives than it already has.”

-Joe Biden, Twitter.com, June 10, 2020 7:30 pm

6/10/2020

2020 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/RALLY: “We’re going to start our rallies back up now. We’ve had a tremendous run at rallies. I don’t think there’s been an empty seat in — since we came down in the escalator with the First Lady. That was with the future First Lady, at that point. It’s been an amazing thing to behold.

And we’re going to be starting our rallies. The first one, we believe, will be probably — we’re just starting to call up — will be in Oklahoma — in Tulsa, Oklahoma. A beautiful, new venue — brand-new. And we’re looking forward to it. They’ve done a great job with COVID, as you know, in the state of Oklahoma. We’re going to be coming into Florida — do a big one in Florida, a big one in Texas. They’re all going to be big. We’re going to Arizona.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in Roundtable Discussion,” whitehouse.gov, June 10, 2020

6/10/2020

CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The stock market is almost as high as it was prior to the plague floating in from China. It was a plague that floated in from China. Now they’re learning that it may have been much earlier, which bears out exactly what I’ve been saying.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in Roundtable Discussion,” whitehouse.gov, June 10, 2020

6/10/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/CALIFORNIA: “I am sending $219.9M to the San Diego area in CARES Act funding for @sdmts. These funds from @USDOT will be CRITICAL for economic recovery. We have to keep people moving safely and efficiently!“

–Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 10, 2020 11:22 am

6/9/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/ECONOMY: “Relief is on the way to Utah! I’m proud to send $187.18M in CARES Act funding to @RideUTA. This money will keep people moving and support a swift and smooth economic recovery for the GREAT people of Utah!”

–Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 9, 2020 7:44 am

6/9/2020

BEN CARSON/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/HOMELESSNESS: “I am allocating $2.96 BILLION in Emergency Solutions Grants to support homeless Americans and those at risk of becoming homeless because of job or wage loss, or illness due to COVID-19. We are taking care of our Nation’s most vulnerable citizens. Thanks @SecretaryCarson!”

–Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 9, 2020 7:43 am

6/8/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “At every turn, President Trump ignored the experts, downplayed the threat COVID-19 posed, and misled the American people — and we’re all paying the price every single day.”

-Joe Biden, Twitter.com, June 8, 2020 7:12 pm

6/6/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Donald Trump was warned, but he failed to act. Now more than 20 million Americans are out of a job and paying the price. It didn’t have to be this bad.”

-Joe Biden, Twitter.com, June 6, 2020 12:10 pm

6/6/2020

2020 ELECTION/JOE BIDEN/VOTE BY MAIL/VOTING: “After primaries and caucuses in 42 states and the District of Columbia, Joe Biden has won the last few delegates needed to clinch the Democratic nomination for president as states worked to tally a surge of mail ballots.

Indiana, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island were among the seven states, plus the district, holding elections Tuesday. But a huge increase in vote-by-mail ballots, driven in large part by the coronavirus pandemic, meant election officials were still counting ballots late in the week.”

-Associated Press, “Mail Ballots From Tuesday’s Elections Push Biden Over the Top,” voanews.com, June 6, 2020

6/5/2020

ANTHONY FAUCI/CORONAVIRUS: “One of the concerns that all of us, the health officials, scientists, and physicians are concerned about, is that when you have crowds of people together and you have the lack of wearing of masks, that increases the risk of there being transmissibility [of coronavirus]. There’s no doubt about that.

Which is the reason why the common denominator of many the guidelines for mitigation are physical distancing, as well as wearing of a mask. And when we see that not happening, there is a concern that that may actually propagate the further spread of infection.”

-Anthony Fauci on CNBC’s Halftime Report, “Dr. Anthony Fauci: Coronavirus pandemic has exposed inequities in America’s health-care system,” cnbc.com, June 5, 2020

6/5/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOBS/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Let’s be clear about something. The depth of this job crisis is not attributable to an act of God — but to the failure of a President. The truth is every country dealt with job losses due to the pandemic, but America was hit much harder out of the gate due to Trump’s complete mismanagement of the response.”

-Joe Bidem, “Remarks as Prepared for Delivery by Vice President Joe Biden on the Economy and Jobs Report in Dover, Delaware,” medium.com, June 5, 2020

6/5/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOBS/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I was disturbed, however, to see the President crowing this morning — basically hanging a ‘mission accomplished’ banner when there is so much work to be done — and so many Americans are still hurting…

The fact is, there are about 13 million less jobs today for American workers than the day that President Obama and I left office. So while it’s wonderful to see ten percent of the families who lost their jobs due to Trump’s disastrous pandemic response start to make their way back — the President’s behavior makes me deeply worried for the 90 percent who haven’t.”

-Joe Bidem, “Remarks as Prepared for Delivery by Vice President Joe Biden on the Economy and Jobs Report in Dover, Delaware,” medium.com, June 5, 2020

6/5/2020

AFRICAN AMERICANS/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/ECONOMY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Remember this: When you have more tests, you have more cases…

[W]e had the greatest economy in the history of our country… African American, Hispanic American, Asian American — the greatest employment and unemployment numbers we’ve ever had… But as the global pandemic has shown, once and for all, the United States must produce essential equipment, supplies, pharmaceuticals, and technologies for ourselves. And we cannot rely on China and all of these other countries that, in bad times, take advantage of us and rip us off. We don’t do that anymore. We’re moving things back into our country.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump at Puritan Medical Products,” whitehouse.gov, June 5, 2020

6/5/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/SENIORS: “We understand this disease [COVID-19] now. We didn’t understand it. Nobody has ever seen it before. It’s very tough, very contagious, very mean to certain people. We’ve learned a lot. We didn’t know. Nobody knew anything about it. But we learned a lot…

We knew it was highly contagious because it spread like fire. But we didn’t know that it hit certain groups of people. That helps us so much in testing and other things. So we’re going to protect our elderly. We’re going to protect, especially, our elderly with problems, whether it’s heart or diabetes or any problem. It’s like a magnet. I mean, you’re elderly and you have diabetes or you have a bad heart, it’s — it’s like a magnet. They say if you’re — if you’re heavy. So I say, ‘Thank goodness I’m in perfect shape. Thank goodness.’ But if you’re — if you’re heavy, it’s not good. It’s a — it’s a brutal, brutal thing.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump on the Jobs Numbers Report,” whitehouse.gov, June 8, 2020

6/5/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/FLORIDA/JOBS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Vaccines, by the way, I had a meeting yesterday on vaccines. We’re doing incredibly well with that. I think you’re going to have some very positive surprises. And therapeutics, likewise, we’re doing extremely well. Cures, we’re doing well. I think those two words really blend in with each other, but tremendous progress is being made on vaccines…

I hope that the lockdown — governors, I don’t know why they continue to lock down, because if you look at Georgia, if you look at Florida, if you look at South Carolina, if you look at so many different places that have opened up — I don’t want to name all of them, but the ones that are most energetic about opening, they are doing tremendous business. And that — this is what these [increased job] numbers are all about…

And, by the way, when you do more testing, you have more cases. We have more cases than anybody because we do more testing than anybody. It’s pretty simple.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump on the Jobs Numbers Report,” whitehouse.gov, June 8, 2020

6/5/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “All the states are being opened, they’re making a lot of money. That’s why we had the good numbers today. You have a governor [in the state of Maine] that doesn’t know what she’s doing, and she’s like a dictator, you know?… When is she opening the state, if ever?… And you don’t have a very big problem up here. So why is she doing this?… No, no, how does she do a thing like this? She’s going to destroy your state. All right, look, I’m not a fan.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in a Roundtable On Supporting America’s Commercial Fishermen,” whitehouse.gov, June 5, 2020

6/4/2020

COVID-19/TRUMP EXECUTIVE ORDERS: “The 2019 novel coronavirus known as SARS-CoV-2, the virus causing outbreaks of the disease COVID-19, has significantly disrupted the lives of Americans…

Agencies, including executive departments, should take all appropriate steps to use their lawful emergency authorities and other authorities to respond to the national emergency and to facilitate the Nation’s economic recovery.”

-Donald Trump, “EO on Accelerating the Nation’s Economic Recovery from the COVID-19 Emergency by Expediting Infrastructure Investments and Other Activities,” whitehouse.gov, June 4, 2020

[Note: Read the full Executive Order signed by Donald Trump.]

6/4/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Donald Trump’s failures have been on full display this week. But his failures extend far beyond the last few days — Trump’s slow response to Coronavirus made the crisis worse, and he has spent the last three years favoring the super wealthy and corporations over working families and communities of color.

Trump has failed to take seriously not just the scale of this problem, but also who is most impacted. His corrupt recovery is allowing minority business owners to get shut out of COVID-19 recovery funds. We cannot allow this crisis to disempower or inflict further economic pain on Black and Brown people in our society.”

-Joe Bidem, “Statement by Vice President Joe Biden on the Latest Unemployment Numbers,” medium.com, June 4, 2020

6/3/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “[T]he fake news makes everything look bad, no matter what you do. We did a great job on ventilators. We’re giving them now to countries all over the world, we’re making them. When I started, we had practically none. The cupboards were bare. The Obama administration left us practically nothing. You don’t hear those stories. They don’t write about that.

We tested number 16 million yesterday, much more than anybody else. You don’t hear that we’ve done well in testing. They always say, “Well, why not more?” and yet Germany is at 3 million. We’re 16 million. We have incredible testing now. We’ve done a great job, but we don’t get credit for it, but hopefully, the people understand.”

-Donald Trump as quoted by Rev, “Donald Trump Radio Interview Transcript: Admits Going to Bunker During Protests, But Was for an ‘Inspection’,” rev.com, June 3, 2020:

6/2/2020

2020 ELECTION/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/GOP: “Had long planned to have the Republican National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, a place I love. Now, @NC_Governor Roy Cooper and his representatives refuse to guarantee that we can have use of the Spectrum Arena – Spend millions of dollars, have everybody arrive, and…

…then tell them they will not be able to gain entry. Governor Cooper is still in Shelter-In-Place Mode, and not allowing us to occupy the arena as originally anticipated and promised. Would have showcased beautiful North Carolina to the World, and brought in hundreds of…
…millions of dollars, and jobs, for the State. Because of @NC_Governor, we are now forced to seek another State to host the 2020 Republican National Convention.”
–Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 2, 2020 3:06 pm

6/2/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/NEW YORK/PROTESTS: “NYC, CALL UP THE NATIONAL GUARD. The lowlifes and losers are ripping you apart. Act fast! Don’t make the same horrible and deadly mistake you made with the Nursing Homes!!!“

 

–Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 2, 2020 5:10 am

6/2/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/VACCINES: “Vaccines are coming along really well. Likewise therapeutics. Moving faster than anticipated. Good news ahead (in many ways)!“

–Donald Trump, Twitter.com, June 1, 2020 4:32 am

5/30/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN: “These last few days have laid bare that we are a nation furious at injustice. Every person of conscience can understand the rawness of the trauma people of color experience in this country, from the daily indignities to the extreme violence, like the horrific killing of George Floyd…

I know that there are people all across this country who are suffering tonight. Suffering the loss of a loved one to intolerable circumstances, like the Floyd family, or to the virus that is still gripping our nation. Suffering economic hardships, whether due to COVID-19 or entrenched inequalities in our system…

We are a nation in pain, but we must not allow this pain to destroy us.”

-Joe Biden, “We are a nation furious at injustice.,” medium.com, May 30, 2020

5/30/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION: “Trump’s Tantrum Diplomacy is eroding U.S. credibility on the international stage. Withdrawing from @WHO during a global pandemic is a recipe for disaster and increases the cost of the American response. We must instead rally the world to confront COVID-19.”

-Joe Biden, Twitter.com, May 30, 2020 7:30 pm

5/30/2020

CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “China’s pattern of misconduct is well known. For decades, they have ripped off the United States like no one has ever done before. Hundreds of billions of dollars a year were lost dealing with China, especially over the years during the prior administration. China raided our factories, offshored our jobs, gutted our industries, stole our intellectual property, and violated their commitments under the World Trade Organization…

The world is now suffering as a result of the malfeasance of the Chinese government. China’s cover-up of the Wuhan virus allowed the disease to spread all over the world, instigating a global pandemic that has cost more than 100,000 American lives and over a million lives worldwide…

The death and destruction caused by this is incalculable. We must have answers not only for us but for the rest of the world.

This pandemic has underscored the crucial importance of building up America’s economic independence, reshoring our critical supply chains and protecting America’s scientific and technological advances.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump on Actions Against China,” whitehouse.gov, May 30, 2020

5/30/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION: “Trump’s Tantrum Diplomacy is eroding U.S. credibility on the international stage. Withdrawing from @WHO during a global pandemic is a recipe for disaster and increases the cost of the American response. We must instead rally the world to confront COVID-19.”

-Joe Biden, Twitter.com, May 30, 2020 7:30 pm

5/30/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/NASA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “As you know, this spring, our nation has endured the pain and hardship of a global pandemic. As we usher in a new era of manned spacecraft, we are reminded that America is always in the process of transcending great challenges. Our Nation is blessed with limitless reserves of talent, tenacity, and resolve. The same spirit of American determination that sends our people into space, will conquer this disease on Earth. It should have never happened.”

-Donald Trump as quoted by Rev, “Donald Trump Speech Transcript at Kennedy Space Center After SpaceX NASA Launch,” rev.com, May 30, 2020

5/29/2020

CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION: “China’s cover-up of the Wuhan virus allowed the disease to spread all over the world, instigating a global pandemic that has cost more than 100,000 American lives and over a million lives worldwide.

Chinese officials ignored their reporting obligations to the World Health Organization and pressured the World Health Organization to mislead the world when the virus was first discovered by Chinese authorities…

The world needs answers from China on the virus. We must have transparency. Why is it that China shut off infected people from Wuhan to all other parts of China? It went nowhere else. It didn’t go to Beijing; it went nowhere else. But allowed them to freely travel throughout the world, including Europe and the United States.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump on Actions Against China,” whitehouse.gov, May 30, 2020

5/29/2020

AFRICAN AMERICANS/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN: “I think through this COVID crisis and the mishandling by the president in this, the phenomenal negative impact on the black community, how it has increased three times as many people have gotten COVID-19, the disease, the virus…

And so, I think that this is sort of, the band-aid’s been ripped off. We have to deal with this. This is an opportunity to take something horrible that’s happened and remind ourselves who we are and who we say we are. And the vast majority of the American people are decent, honorable and they want to change. Just as the majority of the police officers are not bad cops. But you have to deal with this systemic racism that continues to exist in this country.

And it’s overwhelmingly in everybody’s interest that it be done. No matter what your background. No matter what your circumstance.”

-Joe Biden, “The Situation Room,” cnn.com, May 29, 2020

5/29/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/ECONOMY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The best strategy for public health is to aggressively protect the most vulnerable while allowing younger and healthier Americans to work safely… To maintain the health and safety of our society, we must also maintain the health of our economy. There’s a reason why our nation’s life expectancy is closely correlated with economic development. A never-ending shutdown would increase, not reduce, the total loss of life in the United States, while failing to focus resources on the most vulnerable.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump in Roundtable Discussion with Industry Executives on Reopening,” whitehouse.gov, May 30, 2020

5/28/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Today, we learned that another 2.1 million people filed for unemployment last week, bringing the total number of new claims since this crisis began to more than 40 million. It’s just the latest evidence of Donald Trump’s utter failure of leadership.”

-Joe Biden, Twitter.com, May 28, 2020 5:00 pm

5/28/2020

BRAZIL/BORDER/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “Mexico is having a very, very hard time, as you know, with COVID, especially along the border… with Tijuana and various places along the border. And fortunately, we have brand-new wall along there, and the wall is saving us… Sadly, the area along our border is the highest — their highest percentage of cases and problems. And we are not letting people into our country…

Brazil now — we have the ban on. The ban has been put on, and it’s a very strong ban.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump and Vice President Pence During Briefing on the 2020 Hurricane Season,” whitehouse.gov, May 28, 2020

5/28/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/NATIONAL GUARD: “The men and women of the National Guard have been doing a great job fighting the CoronaVirus. This week, I will extend their Title 32 orders through mid-August, so they can continue to help States succeed in their response and recovery efforts.“

–Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 28, 2020 6:20 am

5/28/2020

CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19: “All over the World the CoronaVirus, a very bad ‘gift’ from China, marches on. Not good!“

–Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 28, 2020 4:34 am

5/28/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19: “We have just reached a very sad milestone with the coronavirus pandemic deaths reaching 100,000. To all of the families & friends of those who have passed, I want to extend my heartfelt sympathy & love for everything that these great people stood for & represent. God be with you!“

–Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 28, 2020 3:37 am

5/27/2020

ANTHONY FAUCI/CORONAVIRUS: “I wear it [a mask] for the reason that I believe it is effective [against coronavirus]. It’s not 100% effective, I mean it’s sort of respect for another person and have that other person respect you. You wear a mask, they wear a mask, you protect each other.

I do it when I’m in public for the reasons that, A, I want to protect myself and protect others, and also because I want to make it be a symbol for people to see that that’s the kind of thing you should be doing.”

-Anthony Fauci, “Dr. Fauci: I wear a mask because it’s effective,” cnn.com, May 27, 2020

5/27/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/RACISM: “In the past several months, countless Asian Americans have been punched and kicked and threatened, told that they’ll be sorry if they don’t leave this country — their country. They’ve been blamed for COVID-19: yelled at by strangers in parking lots, refused service at stores and needlessly, cruelly scapegoated by the most powerful man on the planet, President Donald Trump, who has racialized the pandemic and stoked xenophobia every time he’s uttered the term ‘Chinese virus.'”

-Joe Biden and Tammy Duckworth, “Joe Biden and Sen. Tammy Duckworth Trump’s encouragement of racism against Asian Americans is an affront to all Americans,” nbcnews.com, May 27, 2020

5/27/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN: “There are moments in our history so grim, so heart-rending, that they’re forever fixed in each of our hearts as shared grief. Today is one of those moments. 100,000 lives have now been lost to this virus.

To those hurting, I’m so sorry for your loss. The nation grieves with you.”

-Joe Biden, Twitter.com, May 27, 2020 5:30 pm

5/27/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Over the last few months, countless Asian Americans have been threatened, attacked, and blamed for COVID-19. They’ve cruelly been made the scapegoat by the most powerful man on the planet, President Trump. It has to end.”

-Joe Biden, Twitter.com, May 27, 2020 3:38 pm

5/27/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/HEALTHCARE/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “We’re in the middle of a global pandemic — and not only is Donald Trump preventing people from getting the health insurance they need, but he’s also actively trying to terminate the insurance millions already have.

It’s morally reprehensible.”

-Joe Biden, Twitter.com, May 27, 2020 1:00 pm

5/27/2020

PRESS SECRETARY/TRUMP PEOPLE/VOTE BY MAIL/VOTING: “Absentee voting has the word absent in it for a reason.

It means you’re absent from the jurisdiction or unable to vote in person.

President @realDonaldTrump is against the Democrat plan to politicize the coronavirus and expand mass mail-in voting without a reason, which has a high propensity for voter fraud.

This is a simple distinction that the media fails to grasp.”

-Kayleigh McEnany, Twitter.com, May 27, 2020 4:28 pm

5/27/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19: “The tally of coronavirus deaths in the U.S. has surpassed 100,000.

Just over four months after the government confirmed the first known case, more than 100,000 people who had the coronavirus have died in the United States.”

-“Four Months After First Case, U.S. Death Toll Passes 100,000,” nytimes.com, May 27, 2020

5/27/2020

CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19: “The Radical Left Lamestream Media, together with their partner, the Do Nothing Democrats, are trying to spread a new narrative that President Trump was slow in reacting to Covid 19. Wrong, I was very fast, even doing the Ban on China long before anybody thought necessary!“

–Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 27, 2020 3:19 am

5/26/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/ECONOMY/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “1 in 4 U.S. workers has filed for unemployment benefits in the last 10 weeks. It’s a crisis unlike anything we’ve seen in our lifetime — and the Trump Administration is failing to do enough to help.”

-Joe Biden, Twitter.com, May 26, 2020 5:28 pm

5/26/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/ECONOMY/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “We are months into this crisis, and Donald Trump still doesn’t have a comprehensive plan when it comes to COVID-19 or the economy. It’s unacceptable. I released a detailed plan laying out what I would do months ago, and have built on it since.”

-Joe Biden, Twitter.com, May 26, 2020 10:30 am

5/26/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I don’t how you’re separate if you’re dead, you have no economic well, being your family has no economic romaine. So first of all, I’d listen to the scientist. I tell the truth. Tell the truth.

There are ways to reopen certain areas and rationally, with distancing, wearing masks, making sure that you don’t congregate with too many people in one spot, making sure you’re in a situation where you don’t spread, you, in fact, inhibit the prospect of a spreading of this disease. This is ubiquitous disease.

And the President doesn’t seem to me to be prepared, we should be testing and tracing, before we can fully open. We should be in a position where we’re able to make sure that people have all the protective gear that are needed, the first responders don’t have — they still don’t have all that.”

-Joe Biden, “The Situation Room,” cnn.com, May 26, 2020

5/26/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “And, and I watched, I watched the President yesterday, wearing no mask, you know, and, and so I’m making fun of the fact I wore a mask. The truth of the matter is that I think you’re supposed to lead by example…

And so I think it’s important that look 100,000 deaths, 100,000 deaths, at least 35,000 to 50,000 were avoidable. But for lack of attention and ego I think and just…

He’s a fool, an absolute fool to talk that way. I mean, every leading doc in the world is saying we should wear a mask when you’re in a crowd. And especially when you know you’re going to be in a position where you’re going to inadvertently get closer than 12 feet to somebody.”

-Joe Biden, “The Situation Room,” cnn.com, May 26, 2020

5/26/2020

2020 ELECTION/DEMS/GOP/JOE BIDEN/VOTE BY MAIL/VOTING: “Joe Biden hired a senior staffer to work on voter protection issues, his presidential campaign said on Tuesday, as President Donald Trump again blasted states’ efforts to expand voting by mail in light of the coronavirus pandemic ahead of the Nov. 3 election.

Voting rights activists have filed dozens of lawsuits around the country to increase universal vote-by-mail and other ballot access measures, which Democrats say are needed to reduce long lines at polling sites that could increase the spread of COVID-19.

But Republican Party officials argue election fraud would increase if more voters are not required to appear in person to cast a ballot.”

-Michael Martina, “Biden hires voting rights director as absentee ballot battle heats up,” reuters.com, May 26, 2020

5/26/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/RELIGION/SENIORS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “We’re safely reopening our country while aggressively protecting the vulnerable, especially our seniors. We’re telling our seniors to stay back a little bit. Stay back. Let this thing pass…

We’re using every tool at our disposal to protect our nursing homes from outbreaks. You saw the disaster of how badly some of the governors handled nursing homes. It’s a disgrace what they’ve done…

We need our churches and our synagogues and our mosques… We want them open, and we want them open as soon as possible…

And if I have to, I will override any governor that wants to play games. If they want to play games, that’s okay, but we will win. And we have many different ways where I can override them.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump on Protecting Seniors with Diabetes,” whitehouse.gov, May 26, 2020

5/26/2020

CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/NANCY PELOSI: “For all of the political hacks out there, if I hadn’t done my job well, & early, we would have lost 1 1/2 to 2 Million People, as opposed to the 100,000 plus that looks like will be the number. That’s 15 to 20 times more than we will lose. I shut down entry from China very early!

….One person lost to this invisible virus is too much, it should have been stopped at its source, China, but I acted very quickly, and made the right decisions. Many of the current political complainers thought, at the time, that I was moving far to fast, like Crazy Nancy!“

–Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 26, 2020 5:18 am

5/26/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/FAKE NEWS/MEDIA: “We made most Governors look very good, even great, by getting them the Ventilators, unlimited Testing, and supplies, all of which they should have had in their own stockpiles. So they look great, and I just keep rolling along, doing great things and getting Fake Lamestream News!“

–Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 26, 2020 5:01 am

5/26/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/ECONOMY: “Stock Market up BIG, DOW crosses 25,000. S&P 500 over 3000. States should open up ASAP. The Transition to Greatness has started, ahead of schedule. There will be ups and downs, but next year will be one of the best ever!“

–Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 26, 2020 3:45 am

5/25/2020

CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/NATIONAL GUARD/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “In recent months, our nation and the world have been engaged in a new form of battle against an invisible enemy. Once more, the men and women of the United States military have answered the call to duty and raced into danger. Tens of thousands of service members and National Guardsmen are on the frontlines of our war against this terrible virus — caring for patients, delivering critical supplies, and working night and day to safeguard our citizens.”

-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump at a Memorial Day Ceremony | Baltimore, MD,” whitehouse.gov, May 25, 2020

5/25/2020

CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19: “Great reviews on our handling of Covid 19, sometimes referred to as the China Virus. Ventilators, Testing, Medical Supply Distribution, we made a lot of Governors look very good – And got no credit for so doing. Most importantly, we helped a lot of great people!“

–Donald Trump, Twitter.com, May 25, 2020 10:16 am