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

PFAW Member,

As recently as October 12, polls [ [link removed] ]continue to [ [link removed] ]indicate that the
majority of Americans oppose confirming any Supreme Court nominee before
the next president takes office. But that didn’t stop Senate Republicans
from holding confirmation hearings this week for Donald Trump’s nominee,
Amy Coney Barrett, who repeatedly refused to answer questions about her
dangerous record on the Affordable Care Act during the hearings.

For his part, Trump was largely quiet about Barrett’s confirmation
hearings, focusing instead on his reelection efforts, which include
spreading disinformation about voting, election security, and COVID-19.

The strong resurgence of the coronavirus in recent weeks has culminated in
[ [link removed] ]more than 60,000 new cases daily, the highest it’s been since
mid-August. And Trump’s reckless behavior and ongoing attacks on
scientific experts continue to put our lives at risk.

* Less than a week after leaving Walter Reed Memorial Hospital, Trump
[ [link removed] ]resumed his campaign’s in-person events. He gave a [ [link removed] ]speech from a
White House balcony to his supporters on the South Lawn on October 10,
followed by campaign rallies in Florida on October 12; Nevada and
Pennsylvania on October 13; Iowa on October 14, and Pennsylvania on
October 15. All but one of those events were held before doctors
confirmed [ [link removed] ]on October 14 that Trump is no longer likely to be
“shedding infectious virus particles.”

* During his October 10 [ [link removed] ]speech, Trump falsely insisted yet again
that the coronavirus pandemic is “going to disappear.” The
Washington Post noted in its coverage that the [ [link removed] ]first time he
lied about this was back in February, before over 213,000
Americans had died from COVID-19.
* At the rally on October 12 in Florida, a hoarse Trump [ [link removed] ]told
the crowd that he was immune to the coronavirus following his
recovery and bragged that he felt so “powerful” that he wanted to
“kiss” everyone.
* In Pennsylvania on October 13, Trump [ [link removed] ]repeated his COVID-19
immunity claims, this time also assuring the crowd that anyone
among them that had been infected were also immune.

Most people who attended the Trump campaign’s in-person events did not
[ [link removed] ]wear [ [link removed] ]masks or practice social distancing, despite the
president’s recent illness.
* On October 15, Trump held an in-person forum on NBC in Miami, Florida
after having refused to hold a virtual presidential debate with
Democratic candidate Joe Biden. During the hourlong
question-and-answer session, Trump [ [link removed] ]refused to denounce the QAnon
conspiracy theory, [ [link removed] ]avoided answering questions about when his last
negative test for coronavirus was prior to testing positive within
days after the last presidential debate, and [ [link removed] ]lied that 85 percent
of people who wear masks contract COVID-19.
* In an interview with Fox News on October 11, Trump [ [link removed] ]claimed that
his coronavirus treatments were “pretty routine,” even though most
Americans do not have access to such aggressive and experimental
medicine. He also asserted that he was “immune” and “totally free of
spreading” the virus. There is [ [link removed] ]no evidence to support the theory
that those who have already contracted the virus are immune from
reinfection, and Twitter [ [link removed] ]labeled posts about the interview as
“misinformation” that contradicted its coronavirus information
regulations. In fact, on October 13, news broke that a 25-year-old
Nevada man was [ [link removed] ]reinfected with the disease.
* The White House [ [link removed] ]continued to embrace the herd immunity theory,
despite the fact that scientific experts have cautioned that the
approach is a “[ [link removed] ]dangerous fallacy.” On October 14, the director
general of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus,
warned that employing herd immunity as a strategy is “scientifically
and ethically problematic” and has “never in the history of public
health” been used “for responding to an outbreak, let alone a
pandemic.” Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s leading infectious disease
expert, [ [link removed] ]called relying on herd immunity “total nonsense.”
* Trump’s attacks on Fauci continued this week:

* A recent Trump campaign ad [ [link removed] ]used a clip of a Fauci interview
from March to present his words as if he were praising Trump’s
response to the coronavirus. On October 11, Fauci [ [link removed] ]asked that
the clip be removed from the ad and made it clear that his quote
was taken out of context. In an [ [link removed] ]interview on October 12, he
[ [link removed] ]emphasized his history of nonpartisanship during his career,
saying, “In my nearly five decades of public service, I have
never publicly endorsed any political candidate.”
* That same day, ABC political news correspondent Jon Karl reported
that the White House [ [link removed] ]refused to allow Fauci – or any other
coronavirus task force medical experts – to appear on the news
show he co-hosts.
* On October 12, after Fauci [ [link removed] ]cautioned that Trump was “asking
for trouble” by resuming his in-person rallies, Trump [ [link removed] ]tweeted
that Fauci’s “pitching arm is far more accurate than his
prognostications.”

* On October 9, The New York Times reported that the White House had
[ [link removed] ]blocked a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) mask
mandate on all forms of public and commercial transportation in the
United States. The order had even been approved by Trump’s secretary
of Health and Human Services, Alex M. Azar II, before the White
House’s coronavirus task force struck it down.
* New documents obtained by The New York Times [ [link removed] ]revealed that Trump
administration officials briefed top Republican donors back in
February about the potential for the pandemic to disrupt the American
stock market, likely prompting the record-breaking sell-off that
followed.

Trump’s dogged insistence that coronavirus is “disappearing” becomes
increasingly dangerous the longer the pandemic rages on uncontrolled. This
week, more than 20 states have hit a new high in their week-long case
count average, and hospitalizations are up to 34,500 people nationwide –
an [ [link removed] ]increase of more than four thousand people over the previous week.
The U.S. continues to [ [link removed] ]lead the number of deaths and cases relative to
population globally. The winter [ [link removed] ]surge has already [ [link removed] ]begun.

Trump’s failure as a leader is exemplified by his continued recklessness
regarding the coronavirus pandemic. People are dying while his Republican
allies are forcing his anti-health care nominee onto the Supreme Court,
and Trump only cares about his reelection.

We must ensure that he and his Republican allies in the Senate are voted
out of office this fall.

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The [ [link removed] ]Falsehoods and Failures series will appear every week 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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