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

People For Member,

This week’s news has been largely dominated by the Senate runoff races in
Georgia and Trump supporters’ terrorism at the U.S. Capitol. But even as
news coverage focused on these events, the pandemic continued its
dangerous spread through our communities.

At Trump’s rally that preceded the assault at the Capitol, his supporters
[ [link removed] ]urged the crowd to “turn to the person next to you and give them a hug”
– creating a “mass-spreader event.” That same day, the United States
experienced its most deadly day of the pandemic so far: More than 3,900
deaths and 255,000 new cases were [ [link removed] ]reported on January 6. And neither
Trump nor his Republican allies have indicated any concern about the
ongoing severity of the pandemic or that their failures and misdeeds have
further exacerbated it.

* On January 3, two days after the U.S. [ [link removed] ]surpassed the milestone of
20,000,000 total reported COVID-19 cases, Trump [ [link removed] ]tweeted that the
number of cases and deaths due to the “China Virus is far exaggerated”
because of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC)
“ridiculous method of determination.” Both Dr. Anthony Fauci, the
nation’s leading infectious disease expert, and Dr. Jerome Adams, the
U.S. Surgeon General, [ [link removed] ]pushed back against Trump’s claims within a
matter of hours.
* More of the Trump administration’s vaccine rollout failures came to
light this week: Despite Operation Warp Speed chief advisor Dr. Moncef
Slaoui’s [ [link removed] ]promise last December that 20 million people would be
vaccinated before the end of 2020, only 5 million Americans had
[ [link removed] ]received their first dose as of January 6. Only 30 percent of the
17 million distributed vaccine doses have been administered so far.
Public health experts [ [link removed] ]warn that delays in distributing and
administering the vaccine could cause hundreds of thousands more
COVID-19 deaths, and the CDC [ [link removed] ]forecast that the overall toll of the
virus in the U.S. could exceed 430,000 by the end of January.
* Trump’s private club in Florida, Mar-a-Lago, [ [link removed] ]violated the area’s
coronavirus safety restrictions during multiple holiday events,
including a New Year’s Eve party that was widely maskless. A state
representative has since called for the club to be shut down for
flouting the mask order in Palm Beach County.
* Further [ [link removed] ]details of the Trump administration’s extensive campaign
to exert influence over the CDC’s medical expertise continue to
emerge. In late December, the House select subcommittee on the
coronavirus released documents detailing Trump political appointees’
attempts to “alter or block” information in at least 13 reports on the
use of masks, the virus’s spread among children, its transmission
during the Wisconsin primary in April, and other key morbidity and
mortality data.
* Top Trump enabler Mitch McConnell objected to the extension of the
paid leave mandate for U.S. workers in the coronavirus relief
legislation [ [link removed] ]passed in late December. McConnell’s earlier
obstruction has also [ [link removed] ]resulted in the allocated state aid coming
too late to help the earliest rollout of the vaccine during the latest
surge.

Despite the ongoing devastation, Trump and his federal allies continue to
[ [link removed] ]obstruct the orderly transition of coronavirus information to the
Biden-Harris administration’s incoming team of public health experts.
During a pandemic, every day can make a life-or-death difference. Trump’s
callous indifference to protecting the American people has already taken a
needlessly tragic toll on the country.

Trump’s failure to lead us through the pandemic will be among the greatest
failures of his presidency. And although he will soon lack any governing
power, the impact of his failures will continue to hurt the American
people. President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris
have outlined their extensive plans to combat the virus and speed up the
production and dispersal of COVID-19 vaccines – and their leadership
couldn’t come soon enough.

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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, People For the American Way

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