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

PFAW Member,

After a month of over one thousand COVID-19 deaths per day, it’s
particularly galling for Donald Trump to have [ [link removed] ]said that the U.S. has
done “phenomenally” during the pandemic. Every week Trump uses a new, rosy
adjective to refer to the way he has responded to the coronavirus
pandemic; his language never reflects the grim reality that he’s created.

* [ [link removed] ]According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC),
COVID-19 is now the third leading cause of death in the U.S., behind
only heart disease and cancer. Of the 83 countries in the world
considered to be higher-income industrialized nations, 75 percent of
all coronavirus deaths that have been recorded [ [link removed] ]occurred in the U.S.
And because Trump still has no national testing strategy, a staggering
[ [link removed] ]forty percent of COVID-19 tests in the U.S. are returned too late
to be clinically meaningful.
* One of Trump’s strangest lies this week came when he [ [link removed] ]accused
Congressional Democrats of refusing to fund the U.S. Postal Service
(USPS) – despite the fact that almost three months have gone by since
House Democrats passed the HEROES Act, which [ [link removed] ]included $25 billion
in funding for USPS. The current funding stalemate is due to Trump’s
attacks on the postal service and Senate Republicans [ [link removed] ]enabling him.
* Trump has [ [link removed] ]latched onto a new “miracle cure” for coronavirus that he
wants to push to the public despite the absence of evidence proving
that it has any effect on COVID-19: extract from the oleander plant.
* Once again pursuing his political agenda at the expense of public
safety, Trump held in-person rallies in [ [link removed] ]Wisconsin and [ [link removed] ]Arizona
this week, both of which showed attendees flouting social distancing
guidelines and not wearing face masks.
* The true danger of Trump’s overzealous push for students to return to
in-person classes this fall is starting to come to light. In order to
quash fresh outbreaks, schools nationwide and at all grade levels are
[ [link removed] ]closing down again after only a few days of classes. Researchers
[ [link removed] ]say that the absence of a comprehensive record of school outbreaks
on a national level will hamper future efforts to improve teacher and
student safety. And a new CDC [ [link removed] ]report confirms that COVID-19 rates
in children are “steadily increasing” across the country.
* The CDC was blindsided by Trump’s August 18 [ [link removed] ]statement that his
administration is “ready to deploy CDC teams to support schools that
are opening,” leading to a scramble at the already stretched agency to
act on the president’s whim.
* Showing an increase over the numbers in the previous month’s
[ [link removed] ]survey by The New York Times, almost six in ten Americans who are
out of work due to the pandemic no longer expect to return to their
old jobs, which does not bode well for the economy that Trump had been
determined to “reopen” – at great risk to workers – this spring.

At the Democratic National Convention on August 18, Kristin Urquiza –
whose father died this summer in Arizona – [ [link removed] ]spoke about Trump’s
response to the pandemic that took her father’s life: “My dad was a
healthy 65-year-old. His only preexisting condition was trusting Donald
Trump – and for that he paid with his life.” This is what matters most:
That Trump’s missteps have cost and will cost more lives.

Urquiza spoke eloquently on her father’s behalf, but [ [link removed] ]not everyone is
given that kind of opportunity. At PFAW, we will continue to shed light on
the ways that Trump’s botched response to the pandemic is harming
Americans, and we will commit to holding Trump accountable for all the
damage he has caused.

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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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