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

PFAW Member,

Donald Trump resumed his daily coronavirus press briefings last week – and
they continue to serve as a platform for self-aggrandizement while falling
woefully short with regard to accurate and useful information on the
pandemic. This week, more of his allies have [ [link removed] ]acknowledged what the
Washington Post calls Trump’s “almost pathological” unwillingness to admit
his mistakes and refusal to accept the pandemic’s realities, which forms
the foundation of his mismanagement.

As Trump continues to ignore the advice of public health experts,
including his own, more Americans are suffering and dying.

* This week, the United States surpassed 150,000 deaths due to COVID-19
– almost [ [link removed] ]25 percent of the world’s recorded deaths – and the worst
death toll in the world, by far. More than 1,400 Americans [ [link removed] ]died in
a single day on July 29. Health experts [ [link removed] ]listed 21 states as being
in the “red zone.” Yet Trump continues to insist on a national
reopening and threaten states that refuse to do so. On July 27, he
[ [link removed] ]said: “I really do believe a lot of the governors should be opening
up states that are not opening, and we’ll see what happens to them.”
* Trump continues to lie at every turn about the scope of the pandemic,
about his failure to manage it, about the severity of the crisis, and
about treatments for the disease. This week, Trump took to Twitter to
share factually incorrect posts that [ [link removed] ]claimed that Dr. Anthony Fauci
lied to the American public. He also shared a Breitbart video
[ [link removed] ]dismissing the benefits of face masks and promoting
hydroxychloroquine. Trump’s endorsement of this video caused enormous
controversy when it [ [link removed] ]emerged that the doctor in the video had also
made outlandish claims about humans having sex with demons. Twitter,
Facebook, and YouTube [ [link removed] ]removed some of the posts and videos Trump
shared for violating their pandemic misinformation policy. Trump
[ [link removed] ]defended sharing these posts during a July 28 press briefing and
insisted that most of the U.S. is “corona-free.”
* After months of delay, Trump’s Republican allies in the Senate
unveiled their next COVID-19 relief proposal. The proposal [ [link removed] ]lacks
critical funding for election security or for support for local and
state budgets, and [ [link removed] ]slashes unemployment benefits by 43 percent for
the average worker, even though last week was the nineteenth straight
week in which over one million people have [ [link removed] ]filed for unemployment
benefits. It also includes a provision that [ [link removed] ]limits two-thirds of
the $70 billion in funding for schools that plan to physically reopen.
What the proposal does [ [link removed] ]include is $377 million for a remodel of
Trump’s current home, the West Wing.
* Meanwhile, the Senate’s senseless delay has already left millions of
Americans in limbo, as existing pandemic unemployment benefits will
[ [link removed] ]expire by the end of today, July 31. As for Trump, he foreshadowed
the possibility of ongoing delays when he described the Senate’s
proposed legislation as “semi-irrelevant.”
* During this prolonged period of national turmoil, Trump’s response to
the COVID crisis continues to center around his own ego. On July 25,
on a day when more than 1,000 people died, the White House [ [link removed] ]tweeted
a picture of Trump golfing with NFL star Brett Favre. At the July 28
press briefing, Trump [ [link removed] ]complained that Dr. Fauci’s approval rating
is higher than his. After Dr. Fauci threw the opening pitch at last
week’s Washington Nationals game, Trump [ [link removed] ]claimed he was invited to
throw a pitch at a New York Yankees game that had never been
scheduled.
* Trump announced his latest attempt to disrupt our elections on
[ [link removed] ]Twitter on July 30 when he he raised the possibility of
[ [link removed] ]delaying the election. This latest distraction technique – posted
shortly after the Bureau of Economic Analysis [ [link removed] ]revealed that the
U.S. economy had experienced its worst drop in recorded history during
the pandemic – was met with [ [link removed] ]mixed reviews from even his staunchest
right-wing supporters. Additionally, his lies about voting by mail
seem designed to breed distrust in a safe and secure voting method and
are deeply troubling. If Trump truly cares about the security of our
elections, he should insist on a national vote-by-mail mandate and on
the election security funding necessary to ensure that every eligible
voter can safely cast a ballot.

For nearly six months, Trump’s corruption and abdication of his duties as
the leader of our country have led to more and more American deaths. On
July 29, about one American per minute [ [link removed] ]died due to COVID-19.

Our lives and well-being are on the line, and we need to hold both Trump
and Senate Republicans accountable for the consequences of their failures
at the ballot box this November.

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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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