CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “More than 9 million cases of COVID-19 have been now confirmed in the United States — and more than 228,000 Americans have lost their lives.
It is as severe an indictment of a president’s record as one can possibly imagine, and it is utterly disqualifying.“
––Joe Biden, Twitter.com, October 30, 2020 1:32 pm
CAMPAIGN/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19: “That I even have to do this [campaign rally], I will say this, and it’s terrible but before this COVID — there’s about 24 names, right? China plague, China virus, but we have about 20. Well, let’s just call it the China virus — before the China virus came, we were going to have the easiest campaign in history. I was up so much. Now I got to work, right? I have to work. And that’s okay. Actually, I think people respect it even more.”
-Donald Trump, “LIVE: President Donald Trump in Waterford Township, MI #Michigan,” YouTube.com, Oct. 30, 2020
2020 ELECTION/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/ECONOMY/JOE BIDEN/SHUTDOWN: “I’m not going to shut down the country.
I’m not going to shut down the economy.
I’m going to shut down the virus.“
––Joe Biden, Twitter.com, October 30, 2020 9:10 am
2020 ELECTION/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/SHUTDOWN: “Biden would lock us down forever. We are rounding the corner!“
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The @nytimes now admits that patients ill with Covid are getting better faster and at higher (much) percentages.“
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “More Testing equals more Cases. We have best testing. Deaths WAY DOWN. Hospitals have great additional capacity! Doing much better than Europe. Therapeutics working!“
CHINA/CORONAVIRUS: “What China has done to this country, which it’s not the first time either. Oh, they’re paying. They’re paying. But you can never pay for 200,000 more lives [lost to coronavirus]. You can never pay for that. Yeah, we can make them pay plenty, but a 210,000 lives. But it would have been two million lives. It’s incredible the job that we’ve done and that the American people have done. This could have been two million lives. They said 2.2 million lives. No, they’re going to pay.”
-Donald Trump, “LIVE: President Donald Trump in Tampa, FL #Tampa #Florida,” YouTube.com, Oct. 29, 2020
CORONAVIRUS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Donald Trump has waved the white flag, abandoned our families and surrendered to this virus. But the American people never give up, we never give in, and we surely don’t cower. And neither will I.
Donald Trump just had a super spreader event here again. They’re spreading more than just coronavirus. He’s spreading division and discord. We need a President that’s going to bring us together, not pull us apart. I’ll put a plan in place to deal with this pandemic responsibly, bringing the country together around testing, tracing, masking.”
-Joe Biden, “Vice President Joe Biden Speaks in Tampa, Florida LIVE | Joe Biden For President 2020,” YouTube.com, Oct. 29, 2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19: “So much pain, so much suffering, so much loss in America. More than 225,000 people dead [from coronavirus], 225,000. The estimates are, if we’d have acted responsibly, there’d be 160,000 fewer dead than there are today, because of COVID-19. We’re now past the nine million mark of people infected…
At the debate last week with Trump, he said, ‘We’re rounding the corner. It’s going away. We’re learning to live with it.’ Remember what I told him? He’s asking us to learn to die with it.”
-Joe Biden, “Vice President Joe Biden Speaks in Tampa, Florida LIVE | Joe Biden For President 2020,” YouTube.com, Oct. 29, 2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN: “And just so you know, because all Biden does is talks about COVID. Right? He doesn’t call it the China virus. You know why? Because China has him paid off.”
-Donald Trump, “LIVE: President Donald Trump in Tampa, FL #Tampa #Florida,” YouTube.com, Oct. 29, 2020
CORONAVIRUS: “Look, we were compared to Europe [on the coronavirus]. Germany is doing so well, France is doing so well, everyone’s doing so well. No, they’re not doing well. And you take a look at what’s going on. And we want the best for them, we’re on their team. We want to work with them and everything else, but they’re not doing well. They’re spiking up big, they’re shutting down, they’re locking down.
I disagree with that because we’re never going to lockdown again. We locked down, we understood the disease. And now we’re open for business. And that’s what it is.”
-Donald Trump, “LIVE: President Donald Trump in Tampa, FL #Tampa #Florida,” YouTube.com, Oct. 29, 2020
CORONAVIRUS/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump and his Administration are giving up on getting control of the virus. And, in doing so, they are giving up on our economy and the American people.
I will fight side-by-side with the American people to rein in the virus and provide needed economic relief. Both will be day one priorities in my administration, and an independent analysis from Moody’s shows that my agenda will create seven million more jobs and lead to $1 trillion higher economic growth than President Trump’s plan.”
-Joe Biden, “Today’s Economic Report – Statement from Vice President Joe Biden,” joebiden.com, Oct. 29, 2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The American people deserve a president who will lead us out of this [coronavirus] crisis.
On top of 228,000 lost lives due to COVID-19, working people in this country are still hurting because President Trump failed to lead, failed to get this virus under control, and failed to tell the truth.”
-Joe Biden, “Today’s Economic Report – Statement from Vice President Joe Biden,” joebiden.com, Oct. 29, 2020
CORONAVIRUS/ECONOMY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “And with no plan to convene Congress to get a deal done to get economic relief to those who badly need it and his White House admitting they have given up on trying to get the virus under control, President Trump still has no plan to get our country through this crisis and move us forward.
That’s why President Trump is on track to be the first president since Herbert Hoover to leave office with fewer jobs than when he came into office.”
-Joe Biden, “Today’s Economic Report – Statement from Vice President Joe Biden,” joebiden.com, Oct. 29, 2020
CORONAVIRUS/ECONOMY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump’s failure to take action this spring to get control of the coronavirus led to gutted businesses, closed schools and tens of millions of people out of work that could have been prevented. This failure plunged our economy into a deep recession, putting nearly unbearable strain on working people all over this country who are struggling to pay rent, to pay for their medicines and to put food on the table.
Working people fighting to make ends meet in this economy don’t need today’s report to tell them what they already know, because they feel it everyday: Donald Trump still doesn’t have a plan, and we still haven’t recovered.”
-Joe Biden, “Today’s Economic Report – Statement from Vice President Joe Biden,” joebiden.com, Oct. 29, 2020
CORONAVIRUS/VACCINES: “And we shouldn’t be politicizing the race for a [coronavirus] vaccine either, we should be planning it safe and equitable and free distribution. Providing the funding for PPE, the mask and everything we need to protect ourselves. Setting a national standard for schools and businesses to reopen. Bringing together Republicans and Democrats to deliver the economic relief that’s already been passed in the House of Representatives for working families, the young employed, for schools, for businesses…
I’ve said it before, I’m not going to shut down the economy. I’m not going to shut down the country, but I’m going to shut down the virus.”
-Joe Biden, “Vice President Joe Biden LIVE speech in Broward County, Florida,” YouTube.com, Oct. 29, 2020
2020 ELECTION/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN: “You have my word: if I have the honor of serving as your president, I will do everything in my power to defeat COVID-19.
Here’s my plan to get it done:
https://t.co/zUWDfi0yQ8?amp=1″
––Joe Biden, Twitter.com, October 29, 2020 12:31 pm
2020 ELECTION/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/VOTING: “Enough of the lies.
Vote him out: iwillvote.com
https://twitter.com/i/status/1321933578897248256″
––Joe Biden, Twitter.com, October 29, 2020 11:55 am
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP ADMINISTRATION: “[T]he White House science office, and this stunned me, put out a statement listing ending the COVID-19 pandemic as a top accomplishment of President Trump’s first term…
At the very moment when infection rates are going up in almost every state in our union, the refusal of the Trump administration to recognize the reality we’re living through at a time when almost a 1,000 Americans a day are dying [from coronavirus]. Every single day is an insult to every single person suffering from COVID-19 and every family who’s lost a loved one.”
-Joe Biden, “Joe Biden Speaks on COVID-19 and Health Care LIVE from Wilmington, DE,” YouTube.com, Oct. 28, 2020
CORONAVIRUS/RALLY: “Folks, we’ve lost more than 220,000 lives to this virus already. But this administration has just given up… The American people deserve so much better than this. Just look at what happened last night in Omaha, after the Trump rally ended. Hundreds of people, including older Americans and children were stranded in sub-zero freezing temperatures for hours. Several folks ended up in the hospital. It’s an image that captures President Trump’s whole approach to this crisis.”
-Joe Biden, “Joe Biden Speaks on COVID-19 and Health Care LIVE from Wilmington, DE,” YouTube.com, Oct. 28, 2020
CORONAVIRUS/JOE BIDEN: “I just completed in here another public health briefing with my team of public health experts. We looked at the latest reported data on how it indicates that we’re on an upward slope of a bigger wave of confirmed [coronavirus] infections than anything we experienced to date…
And we discussed again, the vital importance of wearing masks, of protecting yourself, protecting your neighbor, and to save around a 100,000 lives in the months ahead between now and just after the first of the year. This is not political, it’s patriotic. Wearing a mask, wear one, period.”
-Joe Biden, “Joe Biden Speaks on COVID-19 and Health Care LIVE from Wilmington, DE,” YouTube.com, Oct. 28, 2020
CORONAVIRUS/TRUMP’S HEALTH: “And you probably haven’t heard, but I caught it [coronavirus]. I caught it. Did anybody know that? I caught it. And then you get better and you’re immune. And they say, ‘You’re immune for a year.’ They used to say you’re immune forever, but when I got it, I said, ‘I’m immune.’ They said, ‘It’s only for four months.’ I don’t know what happened…
But I got better. Great doctors at the White House. We have great doctors… One thing I learned quickly, when you’re the President and you’re not feeling too good, I didn’t feel great, you have more doctors than you’ve ever seen in your life before.”
-Donald Trump, “LIVE: President Donald Trump in Goodyear, AZ #Arizona,” YouTube.com, Oct. 28, 2020
CORONAVIRUS/JOE BIDEN: “With Sleepy Joe, there’d be no graduations, no weddings, no Thanksgiving. They’re already talking about no Thanksgiving.
And in California you have a special mask [due to coronavirus]. You cannot under any circumstances take it off. You have to eat through the mask. Right? Right, Charlie. It’s a very complex mechanism. And they don’t realize those germs, they go through it like nothing. They look at you with that contraption and they say, ‘That’s an easy one, I’ll go right through with the food.’
Now how about California though? Where you’re supposed to eat with the mask. You can’t take it off.”
-Donald Trump via PBS NewsHour, “WATCH LIVE: Trump speaks at campaign rally in Bullhead City, Arizona,” YouTube.com, Oct. 28, 2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN: “It’s not political.
It’s patriotic.
Wear a mask. Period.“
––Joe Biden, Twitter.com, October 28, 2020 12:15 pm
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “You can’t make this up: Yesterday, the White House science office put out a statement listing ‘ending the COVID-19 pandemic’ as the top accomplishment of President Trump’s first term.“
––Joe Biden, Twitter.com, October 28, 2020 11:26 am
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/HEALTHCARE/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Under Donald Trump’s leadership, we have become weaker and sicker. Tune in as I discuss how I’ll get this virus under control and ensure every American has access to quality, affordable health care.
https://t.co/vm1d4F0oig?amp=1″
––Joe Biden, Twitter.com, October 28, 2020 6:37 am
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN: “We are the United States of America. We can beat this virus.
There is no challenge we cannot meet, no enemy we cannot face, no threat we cannot conquer when we stand together.“
––Joe Biden, Twitter.com, October 28, 2020 5:30 am
2020 ELECTION/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/FAKE NEWS/MEDIA: “Covid, Covid, Covid is the unified chant of the Fake News Lamestream Media. They will talk about nothing else until November 4th., when the Election will be (hopefully!) over. Then the talk will be how low the death rate is, plenty of hospital rooms, & many tests of young people.“
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19: “And you know now with them, you can’t watch anything else. You turn on… COVID, COVID, COVID, COVID, COVID, COVID, COVID, COVID, COVID, COVID. Well, we have a spike in cases. You ever notice, they don’t use the word death. They use the word cases, cases…
And you know why we have so many [coronavirus] cases? Because we test more… We’re testing everybody. In many ways, I hate it. In many ways, I hate it… If I said, ‘We are going to cut our testing down in half,’ they’d go crazy, because the cases would go down in approximately half. And then we’re going to cut it down in half once again… On November 4th, you won’t be hearing so much about it.”
-Donald Trump, “LIVE: President Donald Trump in Lansing, MI #Michigan,” YouTube.com, Oct. 27, 2020
CORONAVIRUS/TRUMP’S HEALTH: “They say you have immunity [after having coronavirus], that you can go in. I could jump— See this crowd right here? I could jump right in. I could give every woman and every man— I’d even kiss the men. I could give every woman and every man right here a kiss, and I wouldn’t catch it. I have immunity.
And until I came along, you used to hear, ‘You have immunity for life,’ right? As soon as I had it and got better, they were not too happy about that… When it was me, they said it’s only good for four months. Okay. Anybody else, it’s for life. With Trump, they said it was four months. So they brought it down now, immunity, from life to four months.”
-Donald Trump, “LIVE: President Donald Trump in Lansing, MI #Michigan,” YouTube.com, Oct. 27, 2020
CORONAVIRUS/JOE BIDEN: “Biden’s cruel and senseless [coronavirus] lockdowns would cause countless deaths from suicide and from all of the problems we have, and we would have problems. And economic, people lose their jobs. They lose their jobs, their small businesses go out or they work for small businesses or big businesses that go out. We’ve got to open up our states.”
-Donald Trump, “LIVE: President Donald Trump in West Salem, WI #Wisconsin,” YouTube.com, Oct. 27, 2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP’S HEALTH: “And you know with the fake news, everything is COVID, COVID, COVID, COVID. I had it [coronavirus]. Here I am, right? Now. I had it. The First Lady had it, Barron had it, but Barron had it for about 12 seconds. Young, young immune system, young.
No, it’s COVID. You turn on the news, COVID, COVID. You know when they’re going to stop talking about it so much? November 4th… I know. It’s a whole crazy thing. I mean, it’s too complicated to explain. These people are very corrupt, very dishonest, but they’ve got a lot of problems. On November 4th, you’ll hear we’re doing extremely well and you’ll see.”
-Donald Trump, “LIVE: President Donald Trump in West Salem, WI #Wisconsin,” YouTube.com, Oct. 27, 2020
CORONAVIRUS/JOE BIDEN/VACCINES: “It’s estimated we lost over 135,000 lives [to coronavirus] so far needlessly because he’s done virtually nothing. But still Donald Trump refuses to listen to science. We shouldn’t be politicizing this race for a vaccine…
I said before, I’m not going to shut down the economy. I’m not going to shut down the country. I’m going to shut down the virus.”
-Joe Biden via NBC News, “Biden Campaigns In Atlanta | NBC News,” YouTube.com, Oct. 27, 2020
CORONAVIRUS: “Think about all those have been infected by the virus. Think about all those who have died… Just imagine where we’d be today if the president had embraced wearing masks instead of mocking it. Imagine where we’d be today if the president had practiced social distancing, instead of holding super spreader events. Imagine where we’d be with a comprehensive system of [coronavirus] testing and tracing.”
-Joe Biden, “Joe Biden Speech on Racial Justice and Voting in Warm Springs, Georgia,” YouTube.com, Oct. 27, 2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/OBAMA/RALLY: “You know who spoke today? President Barack Hussein Obama. He had 12 people in seven cars… He had no people, I thought he’d have some people. And he bought Bon Jovi along, you know what happened to Bon Jovi? They increased the crowd by 22 people, can you believe that? And then Joe spoke and that crowd left and we have 29,000 people here and we had a tremendous crowd in Michigan, had a tremendous crowd in Wisconsin…
But today he tried to blame that on COVID also. He said, ‘No, no, we don’t seek large crowds,’ because of the virus, right? They don’t want the large crowd. That’s not the reason, okay? That’s not the reason. It’s a hell of an excuse, but it’s not the reason.”
-Donald Trump via Fox Business, “Trump delivers remarks at a ‘Make America Great Again Victory Rally’ in Omaha,” YouTube.com, Oct. 27, 2020
2020 ELECTION/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19: “Voters are judging me on a lot of things, and one of the things we’ve done a really good job on is COVID. We would have millions of people — millions, right now — we would have millions of people —“
[Reporter: “That’s if you did nothing.”]
“— dead [from coronavirus]. Two million people. They were projecting 2.2 [million] if we didn’t do what we did. We did the ventilators and now we’re doing all of the equipment. But now we’re doing vaccines, we’re doing —”
[Reporter: “But isn’t that if you did nothing?”]
“— therapeutics, and we’ve done a great job. And people are starting to see.”
-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump Before Marine One Departure,” whitehouse.gov, Oct. 27, 2020
CORONAVIRUS/VACCINES: “We’re on track to deliver 100 million doses of a safe [coronavirus] vaccine and a great vaccine. And that’s all set. We’re all set logistically. Our military is going to deliver it. It’ll be done very quickly. We will vanquish the vaccine and we will get rid of this whole thing. We will get rid of this virus. It’ll be very, you watch, it’s going to happen very quickly and we’re going to have our country back.”
-Donald Trump via Fox Business, “Trump delivers remarks at a ‘Make America Great Again Victory Rally’ in Omaha,” YouTube.com, Oct. 27, 2020
CORONAVIRUS/TRUMP’S HEALTH: “And you know, I don’t have the luxury of staying in a basement. I’m President of the United States… And if something happens, it happens. And I get, you know, they came in, they said, ‘Sir, you’ve tested positive.’ I said, ‘Tested positive for what?’ Then you go into one of the 27 different names, corona, this, this, this, China virus, the China plague, the China plague. That’s what I tested positive for. But it was amazing. And it was actually an experience.”
-Donald Trump via Fox Business, “Trump delivers remarks at a ‘Make America Great Again Victory Rally’ in Omaha,” YouTube.com, Oct. 27, 2020
CORONAVIRUS: “The Biden plan will crush you and crush your family. My plan will crush the virus and you will see economic benefits like we’ve never seen in our country before. That’s what we’re having. When the China plague arrived, we moved heaven and earth to fight the disease.”
-Donald Trump via Fox Business, “Trump delivers remarks at a ‘Make America Great Again Victory Rally’ in Omaha,” YouTube.com, Oct. 27, 2020
CORONAVIRUS/VACCINES: “And what we know today [about coronavirus] is like so different than what we knew six months ago. Incredible. The progress they’ve made and with the vaccines, which are coming immediately, even without, we’re turning that corner. You know, at some point we’re turning that corner and it’s been pretty amazing.”
-Donald Trump via Fox Business, “Trump delivers remarks at a ‘Make America Great Again Victory Rally’ in Omaha,” YouTube.com, Oct. 27, 2020
2020 ELECTION/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN: “If you give me the honor of serving as your president, I won’t waste any time getting this virus under control and building our nation back better.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1321232710711582720″
––Joe Biden, Twitter.com, October 27, 2020 1:30 pm
2020 ELECTION/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/SHUTDOWN: “This election is a choice between a TRUMP RECOVERY or a BIDEN DEPRESSION. It’s a choice between a TRUMP BOOM or a BIDEN LOCKDOWN. It’s a choice between our plan to Kill the virus – or Biden’s plan to kill the American Dream!“
CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/MEDIA: “Death rate of people going into hospitals is MUCH LOWER now than it was. @MSNBC Wow, MSDNC has come a long way! The fact is that we have learned and done a lot about this Virus. Much different now than when it first arrived on our shores, and the World’s, from China!“
2020 ELECTION/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/FAKE NEWS/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Until November 4th., Fake News Media is going full on Covid, Covid, Covid. We are rounding the turn. 99.9%.“
2020 ELECTION/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/FAKE NEWS/MEDIA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “ALL THE FAKE NEWS MEDIA WANTS TO TALK ABOUT IS COVID, COVID, COVID. ON NOVEMBER 4th, YOU WON’T BE HEARING SO MUCH ABOUT IT ANYMORE. WE ARE ROUNDING THE TURN!!!“
––Donald Trump, Twitter.com, October 27, 2020 1:31 am
CORONAVIRUS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Early in this [coronavirus] pandemic… Trump called himself a wartime president fighting a war against an invisible enemy. I’ve been saying for months as you well know that he waved the white flag all the way back then. He wasn’t doing much at all. Some people said I was being harsh, that I was being unfair.
The White House is coming right out now and admitting what I said months ago was absolutely true. And look how many people are dead. 220,000 and it’s expected as many as another 200,000 could die between now and the end of the year.”
-Joe Biden via Yahoo Finance, “LIVE: Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden campaigns in southeastern Pennsylvania,” YouTube.com, Oct. 26, 2020
CORONAVIRUS/SENIORS: “Most importantly, we’re protecting the elderly and those with underlying conditions with extreme vigilance… But we won’t rest until we eradicate this [coronavirus] disease once and for all. Little, I’m telling you it’s happening. We will vanquish the virus. We will overcome the pandemic. And we will emerge better, stronger, and more unified than ever.
And by the way, there are people that want to get out. And there are people that feel more comfortable staying at home. That’s okay. Stay. Don’t feel that, stay, it’s okay.”
-Donald Trump, “LIVE: President Donald Trump in Allentown, PA #Pennsylvania,” YouTube.com, Oct. 26, 2020
CORONAVIRUS/VACCINES: “Groundbreaking therapies and safe [coronavirus] vaccines that quickly end the pandemic. It’s ending anyway. We’re rounding the turn. It’s ending anyway, but the vaccines are going to be incredible. They’ll be very quick. If somebody else were president, you’d get a vaccine in about four years from now. Normal life, that’s what we want, right. Normal life. We want normal life. We just want normal life. It’s happening very quickly.”
-Donald Trump, “LIVE: President Donald Trump in Allentown, PA #Pennsylvania,” YouTube.com, Oct. 26, 2020
2020 ELECTION/CORONAVIRUS/TRUMP’S HEALTH: “It’s a choice between a Trump boom and a Biden lockdown. He wants to lock down the country… But look, I mean, I got it [coronavirus] and I’m here, right? I’m here. We have great medicines now. Great therapeutics, and the first lady got it and she’s doing great. But you know? You know who else got it? Barron. My very tall son got it. He’s definitely tall. He’s very young, he’s very tall and he’s strong…
The young kids, they have a strong immune system, I’ve gained such respect for them. They have a much stronger system than we do, whether we like it or not. So it’s one of those things, but we have to do that, and it’s incredible, but we have made such strides.
It’s absolutely an amazing thing what we’ve done in a period of seven months because I’m the president of the United States. I can’t lock myself in the basement of the White House. I can’t.”
-Donald Trump, “LIVE: President Donald Trump in Lititz, PA #Pennsylvania,” YouTube.com, Oct. 26, 2020
CORONAVIRUS/FAKE NEWS: [Reporter: “Have you given up on controlling the virus?”]
“No, not at all. In fact, the opposite. Absolutely the opposite. We’ve done an incredible job. Take a look at what’s happening in Europe. What’s happening to Europe is — nobody has seen anything like it. And you used to tell me all about Europe.
No, we’re doing a great job. We are absolutely rounding the corner. Other than the fake news wants to scare everybody, we are absolutely rounding the corner.”
-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump After Air Force One Arrival | Allentown, PA,” whitehouse.gov, Oct. 26, 2020
CORONAVIRUS/JOE BIDEN: [Reporter: “Mr. President, Joe Biden says you’ve waved the white flag on fighting coronavirus and controlling the virus.”]
“No, no, he has. He’s waved a white flag on life. He doesn’t leave his basement. This guy doesn’t leave his basement. He is a — he’s a pathetic candidate, I will tell you that.”
-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump After Air Force One Arrival | Allentown, PA,” whitehouse.gov, Oct. 26, 2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “No president whose lies and failures have cost 225,000 American lives should keep his job. Period.“
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/QUOTE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “It didn’t have to be this bad — and as @MichelleObama said, ‘Our commander in chief, sadly, has been missing in action.’
2020 ELECTION/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/FAKE NEWS/MEDIA: “The Fake News Media is riding COVID, COVID, COVID, all the way to the Election. Losers!“
2020 ELECTION/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/FAKE NEWS/MEDIA/VOTING: “Cases up because we TEST, TEST, TEST. A Fake News Media Conspiracy. Many young people who heal very fast. 99.9%. Corrupt Media conspiracy at all time high. On November 4th., topic will totally change. VOTE!“
2020 ELECTION/CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/FAKE NEWS: “We have made tremendous progress with the China Virus, but the Fake News refuses to talk about it this close to the Election. COVID, COVID, COVID is being used by them, in total coordination, in order to change our great early election numbers.Should be an election law violation!“
CHINA/CORONAVIRUS: “Do you know how hard it was for me to say, ‘We’ll shut it down’? We have the greatest economy in history. We’re blowing away China. China was supposed to overtake us 10 years ago. 2019 they were going to overtake us. They were so far behind. We left them in the dust. Now all of a sudden we have to shut it down.
But we saved, remember, 2.2 million people were going to die [from coronavirus]. We saved 2 million people and now we’re opening up and it was a great honor. We had such incredible people. Ventilators, what we did with ventilators. We didn’t have ventilators and now we’re making them for the entire world. We have all we can use in our country.”
-Donald Trump via NBC News, “Trump Delivers Remarks At New Hampshire Rally | NBC News,” YouTube.com, Oct. 25, 2020
CORONAVIRUS/TRUMP’S HEALTH/VACCINES: “We will deliver record prosperity, epic job growth, groundbreaking [coronavirus] therapies, the therapies are unbelievable. By the way, here I am. Now, I don’t know, maybe I didn’t need it. Maybe I didn’t need it, but I’m happy. I took that Regeneron. Regeneron, Superman, and a safe vaccine.
And we have many of our greatest companies and labs are coming out very quickly with the vaccines. They’re doing great. Very shortly, very quickly. It’s going to be delivered fast. That will quickly end the pandemic. It’s ending anyway. We’re rounding the turn, but the vaccine will get it down fast because we want normal life to resume, normal life. We just want normal.”
-Donald Trump via NBC News, “Trump Delivers Remarks At New Hampshire Rally | NBC News,” YouTube.com, Oct. 25, 2020
CORONAVIRUS: “We’re rounding the turn. Even without the vaccines we’re rounding the turn. It’s going be over. And you know who got it [coronavirus]? I did. Can you believe it?…
And I went and what they do is incredible. The doctors are incredible, and especially when you’re president, because you have more doctors. I don’t know if I could ever get used to this again, going back to a normal where you actually have one doctor.”
-Donald Trump via NBC News, “Trump Delivers Remarks At New Hampshire Rally | NBC News,” YouTube.com, Oct. 25, 2020
CORONAVIRUS/ECONOMY/JOE BIDEN: “You don’t have to lock down the economy [for coronavirus]. It depends on the community. It depends on where it’s real– in real trouble. And you have to do things that make sense, that make it easier for people to avoid being exposed. Freedom is about making sure that you care about the people you’re around, that they be free too. It’s a patriotism to put this mask on.”
-Joe Biden in an interview with Norah O’Donnell for 60 Minutes, “Joe Biden makes the case for why he should be president,” cbsnews.com, Oct. 25, 2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN: “We should be investigating a great deal more money in [coronavirus] testing and tracing. A woman can go in and– to a drugstore and buy a pregnancy test, and find out at home whether or not she’s pregnant. We should be doing the same kind of investment to see whether we’re gonna have testing kits for people to know. It’s not enough to know in seven days or five days or three days whether or not you have COVID.”
-Joe Biden in an interview with Norah O’Donnell for 60 Minutes, “Joe Biden makes the case for why he should be president,” cbsnews.com, Oct. 25, 2020
CORONAVIRUS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The grim reality is that we continue to set records for new [coronavirus] cases, and the fact that the head of the White House’s coronavirus task force has an outbreak in his office and yet still refuses to follow CDC guidelines shows us exactly why…
It’s long past time for President Trump and his administration to listen to the scientists, take action, and finally take seriously the threat of a virus that’s costing thousands of lives each week, shuttering our schools, and forcing millions of Americans out of work.”
-Joe Biden, “The Trump Administration’s Response to COVID-19 – Statement by Vice President Joe Biden,” joebiden.com, Oct. 25, 2020
CORONAVIRUS/TRUMP ADMIN: “White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows stunningly admitted this morning that the administration has given up on even trying to control this pandemic, that they’ve given up on their basic duty to protect the American people. This wasn’t a slip by Meadows, it was a candid acknowledgment of what President Trump’s strategy has clearly been from the beginning of this crisis: to wave the white flag of defeat and hope that by ignoring it, the virus would simply go away. It hasn’t, and it won’t.
It’s sadly no surprise then that this virus continues to rage unchecked across the country and even in the White House itself.”
-Joe Biden, “The Trump Administration’s Response to COVID-19 – Statement by Vice President Joe Biden,” joebiden.com, Oct. 25, 2020
2020 ELECTION/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN: “I will never give up on the American people.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1320500637352693761″
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “There is a real human toll to President Trump’s failed leadership.
We can’t forget that.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1320463895295893505“
2020 ELECTION/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/MIKE PENCE/QUOTE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump and his administration may have quit on the American people — but I can promise you I never will. RT @kylegriffin1
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The hard truth is it didn’t have to be this bad. But Donald Trump’s shortsighted actions weakened our ability to respond to a pandemic long before COVID-19 reached our shores. RT @JoeBiden
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/USA: “You know, some countries, they report differently. If somebody’s sick with a heart problem, and they die of COVID, they say, ‘They died of a heart problem.’ If somebody’s terminally ill with cancer, and they have COVID, we report them [as coronavirus deaths]. And you know, doctors get more money and hospitals get more money.
Think of this incentive. So some countries do it differently… So then you wonder, gee, I wonder why their cases are so low. This country and their reporting systems are really not doing it right. If somebody has a really bad heart, and they’re close to death, even if they’re not, but they have a very bad heart and they get COVID, they put it down to COVID.”
-Donald Trump as quoted by Factbase, “Speech: Donald Trump Holds a Campaign Rally in Waukesha, Wisconsin – October 24, 2020,” factba.se, Oct. 24, 2020
CORONAVIRUS: [Reporter: “Mr. President, there are some coronavirus cases rising in Wisconsin.”]
“You used the word ‘cases.’ You know why there’s so many cases? Because we test. Because we test more than any country in the world. Nobody tests like us. ‘Cases.’ Everybody uses the word ‘cases.’ Mortality, way down. Way down. And a lot of those cases that you’re talking about are young people — very young people that get better 99.9. They get better almost immediately.
No, you use the word ‘case’ because you’re trying to scare people. Don’t scare people. Don’t scare people.
The fact is that we’re doing very well. The vaccines are coming out. The therapeutics are coming out. But we have more testing than any country in the world. That includes India with 1.5 billion people. Nobody tests like us. We test more.”
-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump After Air Force One Arrival | Columbus, OH,” whitehouse.gov, Oct. 24, 2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19: “Wisconsin is rapidly approaching 200,000 COVID-19 cases with no signs of slowing down. Jill and I pray for those first responders and health care workers who are on the frontlines everyday, those who’ve contracted the virus, and the families who are mourning the loss of a loved one. Just this week, 47 Wisconsinites lost their lives in a single day, and the sad truth is that it didn’t have to be this bad.
President Trump knew the severity of this virus and failed to tell the American people the truth. Time and again, he consistently downplayed the threat of the virus and has shown he is unwilling and unable to do the hard work to get it under control. It is what it is because of who he is.”
-Joe Biden, “President Trump’s Visit to Wisconsin – Statement by Vice President Joe Biden,” joebiden.com, Oct. 24, 2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump continues to prove just how unfit he is to lead our nation through a global pandemic.“
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN: “Imagine a day in the not too distant future when you can enjoy a dinner out with your friends, a night at the movies, or when you can celebrate your birthday, wedding, or graduation surrounded by your nearest and dearest.
We can get there — together.“
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “On Thursday, President Trump said we’re ’rounding the turn’ when it comes to COVID-19.
On Friday, we set a new record for daily cases.
We’re paying the price for his failures every single day. RT @cnnbrk
2020 ELECTION/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/FAKE NEWS/MEDIA: “The Fake News is talking about CASES, CASES, CASES. This includes many low risk people. Media is doing everything possible to create fear prior to November 3rd. The Cases are up because TESTING is way up, by far the most, and best, in the world. Mortality rate is DOWN 85% plus!“
––Donald Trump, Twitter.com, October 24, 2020 4:55 am
ANTHONY FAUCI/CORONAVIRUS: “There’s going to be a difficulty enforcing it [mandatory masks for coronavirus]. But if everyone agrees that this is something that’s important and they mandate it and everybody pulls together and say, you know, we’re going to mandate it but let’s just do it, I think that would be a great idea to have everybody do it uniformly.
One of the issues though, I get the argument, is that if you mandate a mask then you’re going to have to enforce it and that’ll create more of a problem. Well, if people are not wearing masks, then maybe we should be mandating it.”
-Anthony Fauci in an interview with Erin Burnett, “Fauci says it might be time to mandate masks as Covid-19 surges across US,” cnn.com, Oct. 23, 2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19: “COVID-19 dwarfs anything we faced in recent history. And it isn’t showing any signs of slowing down. The virus is surging in almost every state. We passed 4.8 million [coronavirus] cases. And when Trump was asked this week, what he’d do differently to get the pandemic response right from the start. His answer was and I quote, ‘Not much, not much.’
As many as 210,000 avoidable deaths, but there’s not much he would do differently. The United States is 4% of the entire world’s population. Yet we make up 20% of all the deaths worldwide. If this is a success, what’s a failure look like?”
-Joe Biden via PBS NewsHour, “WATCH LIVE: Biden delivers remarks on COVID-19 in Wilmington, Delaware,” YouTube.com, Oct. 23, 2020
CORONAVIRUS/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “My fellow Americans, last night, we saw the President of the United States lie to the American people and repeatedly lie about the state of this [coronavirus] pandemic. We saw him refuse to take responsibility for the crisis that should have been met with real presidential leadership. Instead it has cost hundreds of thousands of Americans lives and pushed millions into poverty.
We saw him diminish the pain felt by so many Americans. President Trump said, ‘We’re rounding the corner. It’s going away. We’re learning to live with it.’ There are quotes, but as I told them last night, we’re not learning to live with it, we’re learning to die with it.”
-Joe Biden via PBS NewsHour, “WATCH LIVE: Biden delivers remarks on COVID-19 in Wilmington, Delaware,” YouTube.com, Oct. 23, 2020
CORONAVIRUS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: ”I always take responsibility, and I’ve done a great job [on coronavirus], and the people around me have done a great job, just like these people have done a great job. The pandemic people, what they’ve done for ventilators and for equipment and for stocking governors that had absolutely nothing — they had nothing on their shelves, and we stocked them. And those governors, if they’re honest, they’ll tell you we’ve done the best job they’ve ever seen. I’ve had governors say it’s one of the best jobs they’ve ever seen anybody do on anything.”
-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump Announcing Normalization of Relations Between Sudan and Israel,” whitehouse.gov, Oct. 23, 2020
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN: “Wearing a mask is not a political statement.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1319790457560379393″
––Joe Biden, Twitter.com, October 23, 2020 1:59 pm
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A slight change of tone from the president for one night doesn’t cover up the lies he told. It doesn’t change the fact that over 220,000 Americans have died from COVID-19 on his watch.
We can’t take another four years of Donald Trump’s failed leadership.“
––Joe Biden, Twitter.com, October 23, 2020 10:40 am
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “After eight months of this pandemic, we finally found President Trump’s plan to beat COVID-19.
https://t.co/KO4g328Uvr?amp=1″
––Joe Biden, Twitter.com, October 23, 2020 9:32 am
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Joe Biden’s response to the H1N1 Swine Flu, far less lethal than Covid 19, was one of the weakest and worst in the history of fighting epidemics and pandemics. It was pathetic, those involved have said. Joe didn’t have a clue!“
––Donald Trump, Twitter.com, October 23, 2020 9:16 am
CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/ECONOMY/JOE BIDEN/OBAMA/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “.@BarackObama is right: President Trump wants full credit for the economy he inherited and zero blame for the pandemic he ignored.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1319686774441058306″
––Joe Biden, Twitter.com, October 23, 2020 7:07 am
CORONAVIRUS/DEBATES/EDUCATION: “I want to open the schools. The [coronavirus] transmittal rate to the teachers is very small, but I want to open the schools. We have to open our country. We’re not going to have a country. You can’t do this, we can’t keep this country closed. It is a massive country with a massive economy. People are losing their jobs, they’re committing suicide. There’s depression, alcohol, drugs at a level that nobody’s ever seen before. There’s abuse, tremendous abuse. We have to open our country. You know I’ve said it often — the cure cannot be worse than the problem itself.”
-Donald Trump on Oct. 22, 2020, “Debate transcript: Trump, Biden final presidential debate moderated by Kristen Welker,” usatoday.com, Oct. 23, 2020
CORONAVIRUS/DEBATES/JOE BIDEN: “What I would say is I’m going to shut down the virus, not the country. It’s his [Donald Trump’s] ineptitude that caused the country to have to shut down in large part — why businesses have gone under, why schools are closed, why so many people have lost their living and why they’re concerned…
The standard is, if you have a reproduction rate in a community that’s above a certain level, everybody says, slow up. More social distancing. Do not open bars and do not open gymnasiums. Do not open until you get this under control, under more control. But when you do open, give the people the capacity to be able to open and have the capacity to do it safely.”
-Joe Biden on Oct. 22, 2020, “Debate transcript: Trump, Biden final presidential debate moderated by Kristen Welker,” usatoday.com, Oct. 23, 2020
CORONAVIRUS/DEBATES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The fact is, when we knew it [coronavirus] was coming, when it hit — What happened? What did the President say? He said don’t worry, it’s going to go away, it’s going to be gone by Easter. Don’t worry, the warm weather. Don’t worry, maybe inject bleach — he said he was kidding when he said that, but a lot of people thought it was serious. A whole range of things the President said. And even today, he thinks we are in control. We’re about to lose 200,000 more people.”
-Joe Biden on Oct. 22, 2020, “Debate transcript: Trump, Biden final presidential debate moderated by Kristen Welker,” usatoday.com, Oct. 23, 2020
CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/DEBATES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “I take full responsibility. It’s not my fault that it [coronavirus] came here. It’s China’s fault. You know what, it’s not Joe’s fault that it came here either. It’s China’s fault. They kept it from going into the rest of China, for the most part, but they didn’t keep it from coming out to the world including Europe and ourselves.”
-Donald Trump on Oct. 22, 2020, “Debate transcript: Trump, Biden final presidential debate moderated by Kristen Welker,” usatoday.com, Oct. 23, 2020
CORONAVIRUS/DEBATES: “He [Donald Trump] says that we’re, you know, we’re learning to live with it [coronavirus]. People are learning to die with it. You folks home will have an empty chair at the kitchen table this morning. That man or wife going to bed tonight and reaching over to try to touch their, out of habit, where their wife or husband was, is gone.
Learning to live with it? Come on. We’re dying with it.”
-Joe Biden on Oct. 22, 2020, “Debate transcript: Trump, Biden final presidential debate moderated by Kristen Welker,” usatoday.com, Oct. 23, 2020
CORONAVIRUS/DEBATES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP’S HEALTH: “I’d love to put myself in the basement or in a beautiful room in the White House and go away for a year and a half until it [coronavirus] disappears. I can’t do that… and I meet a lot of families, including Gold Star families and military families, every meeting I had — and I had to meet them, I had to, it would be horrible to have canceled everything.
I said, you know, this is dangerous. And you catch it. And you know, I caught it. I learned a lot. I learned a lot, great doctors, great hospitals. And now, I recovered. 99.9 of young people recover. 99% of people recover. We have to recover. We can’t close up our nation, we have to open our school, and we can’t close up our nation, or you’re not going to have a nation.”
-Donald Trump on Oct. 22, 2020, “Debate transcript: Trump, Biden final presidential debate moderated by Kristen Welker,” usatoday.com, Oct. 23, 2020
CHINA/CORONAVIRUS/DEBATES: “I don’t think it’s going to be a dark winter at all. We’re opening up our country. We’ve learned and studied and understand the [coronavirus] disease, which we didn’t know at the beginning.
When I closed and banned China from coming in heavily infected, and then ultimately Europe, but China was in January — months later he [Joe Biden] was saying I was xenophobic, I did it too soon. Now he’s saying, ‘Oh, I should have, I should have, you know, moved quicker.’ But he didn’t move quicker; he was months behind me, many months behind me. And frankly, he ran the H1N1 swine flu, and it was a total disaster.”
-Donald Trump on Oct. 22, 2020, “Debate transcript: Trump, Biden final presidential debate moderated by Kristen Welker,” usatoday.com, Oct. 23, 2020
CORONAVIRUS/DEBATES/VACCINES: “And by the way, this [Donald Trump] is the same fellow who told you this is going to end by Easter last time. This the same fellow who told you that, don’t worry, we’re going to end this by the summer. We’re about to go into a dark winter, a dark winter, and he has no clear plan and there’s no prospect that there’s going to be a vaccine available for the majority of the American people before the middle of next year.”
-Joe Biden on Oct. 22, 2020, “Debate transcript: Trump, Biden final presidential debate moderated by Kristen Welker,” usatoday.com, Oct. 23, 2020
CORONAVIRUS/DEBATES: “If we just wore these masks — the President’s own advisors told them — we could save 100,000 lives. And we’re in a circumstance where the President, thus far, still has no [coronavirus] plan. No comprehensive plan.
What I would do is make sure we have everyone encouraged to wear a mask, all the time. I would make sure we move in the direction of rapid testing, investing in rapid testing. I would make sure that we set up national standards as to how to open up schools and open up businesses so they can be safe, and give them the wherewithal and financial resources to be able to do that.”
-Joe Biden on Oct. 22, 2020, “Debate transcript: Trump, Biden final presidential debate moderated by Kristen Welker,” usatoday.com, Oct. 23, 2020
CORONAVIRUS/DEBATES: “220,000 Americans dead [from coronavirus]. If you hear nothing else I say tonight, hear this… anyone who is responsible for that many deaths should not remain as President of the United States of America. We’re in a situation where there are thousands of deaths a day, a thousand deaths a day. And there are over 70,000 new cases per day… The expectation is we’ll have another 200,000 Americans dead by the time, between now and the end of the year.”
-Joe Biden on Oct. 22, 2020, “Debate transcript: Trump, Biden final presidential debate moderated by Kristen Welker,” usatoday.com, Oct. 23, 2020
CORONAVIRUS/DEBATES: “We have a [coronavirus] problem that’s a worldwide problem. This is a worldwide problem, but I’ve been congratulated by the heads of many countries on what we’ve been able to do with the — if you take a look at what we’ve done in terms of goggles and masks and gowns and everything else, and in particular, ventilators. We’re now making ventilators. All over the world, thousands and thousands a month, distributing them all over the world, it will go away and as I say, we’re rounding the turn, we’re rounding the corner, it’s going away.”
-Donald Trump on Oct. 22, 2020, “Debate transcript: Trump, Biden final presidential debate moderated by Kristen Welker,” usatoday.com, Oct. 23, 2020
CORONAVIRUS/DEBATES/TRUMP’S HEALTH: “I can tell you from personal experience that I was in the hospital, I had it [coronavirus]. And I got better and I will tell you that I had something that they gave me — a therapeutic, I guess they would call it. Some people could say it was a cure. But I was in for a short period of time and I got better very fast or I wouldn’t be here tonight. And now they say I’m immune. Whether it’s four months or a lifetime, nobody’s been able to say that, but I’m immune. More and more people are getting better.”
-Donald Trump on Oct. 22, 2020, “Debate transcript: Trump, Biden final presidential debate moderated by Kristen Welker,” usatoday.com, Oct. 23, 2020
CORONAVIRUS/DEBATES: “So, as you know, 2.2 million people, modeled out, were expected to die [from coronavirus]. We closed up the greatest economy in the world in order to fight this horrible disease that came from China. It’s a worldwide pandemic. It’s all over the world. You see the spikes in Europe and many other places right now. If you notice, the mortality rate is down, 85%.”
-Donald Trump on Oct. 22, 2020, “Debate transcript: Trump, Biden final presidential debate moderated by Kristen Welker,” usatoday.com, Oct. 23, 2020
2020 ELECTION/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/DEBATES/JOE BIDEN/SHUTDOWN: “I’m going to shut down the virus, not the country.“
2020 ELECTION/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/DEBATES/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Learning to live with it [coronavirus]? Come on. People are dying with it, Mr. President.“
2020 ELECTION/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/DEBATES/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “220,000 deaths.
If you hear nothing else I say tonight, hear this: Anyone who is responsible for that many deaths should not remain President of the United States.“