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[ [link removed] ]45's Falsehoods and Failures: Weekly Coverage of Trump During COVID-19

PFAW Member,

This week, instead of demonstrating the leadership our nation sorely needs
during this public health crisis – and on the same day that the U.S.
[ [link removed] ]surpassed three million confirmed cases – Donald Trump continued to lie
and [ [link removed] ]sow chaos and confusion.

On July 7, Trump [ [link removed] ]said that he disagreed with top infectious disease
expert Dr. Anthony Fauci that “we are still knee-deep in the first wave”
of the pandemic and claimed that the U.S. was in “a good place.” As
always, there is ample evidence to the contrary.

* By the end of June, at least 15 states [ [link removed] ]broke single-day coronavirus
case records, cases were on the [ [link removed] ]rise in 33 states and U.S.
territories, and on July 8, the U.S. reported over 60,000 confirmed
cases nationwide in a single day for the first time (and then did so
[ [link removed] ]again on July 9). Overall, COVID-19 cases [ [link removed] ]rose by approximately
50 percent in June, with the most severe numbers in states that were
the first to reopen their economies. Additionally, the most recent
surge in cases has [ [link removed] ]overwhelmed testing capacity in states that were
already barely able to keep up with the need for widespread testing.
* Nearly [ [link removed] ]half the U.S. adult population is without a job right now,
[ [link removed] ]32 percent of U.S. households missed their start-of-month July
housing payments, and as of June 20, nearly 23 million people were
collecting unemployment benefits, according to recent Labor Department
[ [link removed] ]data. Republicans are [ [link removed] ]arguing that the assistance from the
CARES Act has given people an incentive not to go back to work. In
fact, restaurants, retail and other small businesses continue to
[ [link removed] ]close due to the staggering [ [link removed] ]rise in cases.
* On July 7, Trump [ [link removed] ]demanded that the country’s schools reopen this
fall, an incredibly dangerous move that likely was [ [link removed] ]motivated by
his desire to boost the economy and [ [link removed] ]win his reelection. The next
day, he [ [link removed] ]threatened to cut federal funding from schools that do not
do as he wishes. The following day, Vice President Mike Pence
announced that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
would release new recommendations on reopening schools and
[ [link removed] ]reiterated that “we don’t want [ [link removed] ]the guidance from CDC to be a
reason why schools don’t open.”
* And in the latest chapter of Trump’s attack on immigration, U.S.
Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) [ [link removed] ]announced on July 6
that international college students will not be permitted to remain in
the country if their school switches to online-only instruction this
fall. In addition to Trump’s extreme hostility toward immigrants, this
order is widely seen as [ [link removed] ]a way for Trump to pressure higher
education institutions to reopen.
* Newly released data from the Small Business Administration (SBA) on
its Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) [ [link removed] ]reveal that several
businesses and people with direct ties to Trump, including [ [link removed] ]his
partner in a Waikiki, Hawaii, hotel, [ [link removed] ]the Kushner family, and
several [ [link removed] ]religious-right campaign backers, all received PPP loans.
In addition, a new Public Citizen [ [link removed] ]report indicates that 40
Washington lobbyists with direct ties to Trump helped their clients,
including five former administration officials, secure more than $10
billion in federal pandemic aid.
* Despite a recent [ [link removed] ]analysis by a Goldman Sachs economist that
indicated that a clear national mask mandate could lead to better
public health and economic outcomes, Trump continues to [ [link removed] ]refuse to
wear a mask. Multiple Trump staffers and supporters who work closely
with him, including multiple [ [link removed] ]Secret Service agents, a [ [link removed] ]top
fundraising official for his reelection campaign (and girlfriend of
his son, Donald Trump Jr.), and [ [link removed] ]Herman Cain, have all tested
positive for COVID-19. Tulsa City-County Health Department Director
Dr. Bruce Dart [ [link removed] ]stated that Trump’s indoor rally on June 20 – which
included many maskless attendees – “likely contributed” to the
significant surge in coronavirus cases that the area is now seeing.
* Finally, Trump has returned to [ [link removed] ]touting hydroxychloroquine, which
has yet to be proven as effective and could cause dangerous side
effects. On Monday, he tweeted his support of the drug, citing a
[ [link removed] ]flawed study on its effectiveness, and urged the Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) to “act now.”

As Thomas Chatterton Williams succinctly put it in [ [link removed] ]The Atlantic on
July 2, “American leadership has politicized the pandemic instead of
trying to fight it.” Lately, it appears that the Trump administration’s
newest strategy is to hope that [ [link removed] ]“Americans will grow numb to the
escalating death toll” rather than to work to lessen the virus’s impact.

In the midst of Trump’s callous mishandling of this pandemic more than
[ [link removed] ]130,000 Americans have lost their lives. To be clear, none of these
deaths is acceptable – and Trump needs to be held accountable for his many
failures that have enabled such devastating and preventable results.

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The [ [link removed] ]Falsehoods and Failures series will appear every Friday on our
blog. [ [link removed] ]You can find the previous post here. For ongoing coverage of
Trump and the Right Wing's response to the coronavirus, check out PFAW's
[ [link removed] ]Right Wing Watch.

Thanks as always for your ongoing support – stay safe and healthy!

– Sarah, PFAW

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