Never Forget That Trump and Fox News Started as Coronavirus Truthers

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exGOPer said:
Where do you get this Facebook bullshit all the time? Last time you were spreading some hoax about MAGA hat guy getting beat up and now this.

https://www.politifact.com/factchec...osi-wasnt-caught-trying-add-abortion-funding/

Stay true to your name, respect facts and science instead of peddling right-wing bullshit again and again. Republicans stopped spying on citizens? Are you for real?
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You know what. I'll be the better man here and eat my words.

https://www.politifact.com/factchec...osi-wasnt-caught-trying-add-abortion-funding/

The argument wasn't over abortion is was to ensure abortion facilities did not receive funds. I have checked a dozen sources and there was no argument over whether abortion facilities were included, but rather the language wasn't specific in excluding abortion facilities from receiving emergency funds. It was remedied and passed promptly.

I will admit my fact checking has become more lax because the stream of diarrhea coming from news outlets has been a lot to process.

I will however stand by the statement on spying. Its no good in this argument, however I remember reading articles on a few reputable non-conspiracy sites about how they were trying to track our cellphones like Korea. Republicans blockaded it for 70 or so days. It doesn't change anything, but it doesn't enhance it either. I'll try to find a good source but right now my quick google searches can't. The search facilities on the congress website are garbage as well so keyword searches like "intelligence gathering" or "emergency cell phone" don't bring up anything really interesting.
 
Confirmed Coronavirus Cases Are Growing Faster In The United States Than Any Other Country In The World

New York Times: “Mr. Trump is no stranger to crisis. He has spent a lifetime grappling with bankruptcy, fending off creditors, evading tax collectors, defending lawsuits, deflecting regulators, spinning reporters and dueling with estranged wives, usually coming out ahead, at least as he defines it. But these were crises of his own creation involving human adversaries he knew how to confront. Nothing in his background in business, entertainment or multiple marriages prepared him for the coronavirus pandemic now threatening America’s health and wealth.”

“Mr. Trump’s performance on the national stage in recent weeks has put on display the traits that Democrats and some Republicans consider so jarring — the profound need for personal praise, the propensity to blame others, the lack of human empathy, the penchant for rewriting history, the disregard for expertise, the distortion of facts, the impatience with scrutiny or criticism. For years, skeptics expressed concern about how he would handle a genuine crisis threatening the nation, and now they know.”
 
Politico: “Team Trump is rushing to rewrite the early narrative about the president’s response to coronavirus. Faced with endless video clips of Donald Trump downplaying the escalating outbreak, Trump aides and allies are working furiously to instead highlight the president’s recent actions and comments.”

“Their effort comprises three tactics: Blanket supporters with detailed timelines of every action the Trump administration took. Amplify praise of those actions. And forcefully push back against anyone who criticizes those actions.”
 
exGOPer said:
Politico: “Team Trump is rushing to rewrite the early narrative about the president’s response to coronavirus. Faced with endless video clips of Donald Trump downplaying the escalating outbreak, Trump aides and allies are working furiously to instead highlight the president’s recent actions and comments.”

“Their effort comprises three tactics: Blanket supporters with detailed timelines of every action the Trump administration took. Amplify praise of those actions. And forcefully push back against anyone who criticizes those actions.”
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dude keeps stepping on landmines. Thanks Donnie for the rally today and tomorrow. The video of you pushing to re-open the country yesterday in a week will still be out there & the body count will keep piling when you eventually flip flop.
 
exGOPer said:

Donald Trump doesn’t tell the truth that often and neither does Fox News. Both, however, seem to have come around to the idea that the coronavirus is not only a bad thing but a real thing. It took each a long time to put aside their own political or financial self-interest in an alternative reality where everything was fine and Trump was to thank, but they more or less got there eventually. We obviously have bigger problems to face at the moment than the damage done nightly by Sean Hannity’s Biff-Tannen-does-the-news routine, though the president lying over and over and over again will never not be a grave threat. It is even more of a problem now, during a pandemic, when people are looking for enlightened leadership and where accuracy and straightforwardness can stave off panic, save lives, and inspire confidence.


As we look to the uncertain future that we’re all confronting together, let’s take a moment to memorialize just how far Trump and his media goons have come in the space of a week really. Two videos, one from the Recount and the other from the Washington Post, help hammer home how the president and his network emerged as early coronavirus hoaxers, masquerading as armchair doctors and epidemiologists, to reassure Fox News viewers that the president’s crisp orange-tinted torso was actually a beautiful robe. Again, both Trump and Fox News ultimately got on board and mistakes can be made that we learn from, but, for the record, these early statements weren’t mistakes.


Things are going to move fast over the next weeks and months, and it will often be hard to remember who said what when. It’s already hard to discern a coherent message on the virus, what we should be doing, and how we should act if we do have it. Let’s not forget though that both the president and his favored network lied over and over again about the danger of coronavirus because it served their interests at the time. The Republican Party fell in line, and then, suddenly, the GOP conga line changed direction.

Now, Trump and Fox News are on the self-isolating is patriotic bandwagon, but when the bandwagon stops at the end of this thing, remember that they didn’t help construct it, they tried to destroy it. They said it was a fiction, no different than the flu, a conspiracy pushed by Democrats. Live your life, they said. Days later, that was no longer possible.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics...fox-news-coronavirus-truthers-hoax-video.html
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Unbelievable. Utterly shameless.
 
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