Setting the Record Straight

Off-topic, but a here is a warranted look at the disinformation in the MSM on President Trump’s response to the coronavirus pandemic.

In early March, the WHO said that 3.4 percent of coronavirus patients had died from the disease. Trump said this number was false, as the mortality rate was actually much less because their number didn’t take into account unreported cases. Trump challenged WHO’s number. He was right.

It has been said that Trump ignored early intel briefings on possible pandemic. The Washington Post reported that intelligence agencies warned about a possible pandemic back in January and February and that Trump “failed to take action that might have slowed the spread of the pathogen.” Again, it was fake news. The Trump administration had begun aggressively addressing the coronavirus threat immediately after China reported the discovery of the coronavirus to the World Health Organization. In addition to implementing various precautionary travel restrictions, the administration fast-tracked the use of testing kits, set up a Coronavirus Task Force, and implemented a travel ban with China, several weeks before WHO declared the coronavirus a pandemic. What about the President’s political opponents? Joe Biden accused Trump of “fearmongering” and “xenophobia” for his travel ban….

Speaking of rump’s political opponents, in February Biden and still candidate Mike Bloomberg accused the President of cutting funding to critical health agencies during a primary debate. The proposed budget cuts never happened, and funding increased.

I have been listening to Morning Joe repeat ad nauseam that Trump didn’t act quickly enough and is botching the government response to the pandemic. Sadly for Joe and Mika, WHO experts admitted Trump’s actions saved lives in the United States. So did Dr. Ronny Jackson, who served as White House physician from 2013 to 2018.

In a tweet, Mara Gay of the New York Times claimed that during a conference call with governors about the pandemic, Trump told them they were “on their own” in getting the equipment they need. Again, disinformation. Gay misrepresented the President’s words. Trump actually told governors, “Respirators, ventilators, all of the equipment — try getting it yourselves. We will be backing you, but try getting it yourselves. Point of sales, much better, much more direct if you can get it yourself.”

Did the President called the coronavirus “a hoax?” To this day the left (and the media) claim that he did. While the nation was distracted by impeachment, the Trump administration was busy addressing the coronavirus outbreak. With the demolition of their impeachment initiative, it seems the Presidents’ opponents decided to politicize his response to the coronavirus outbreak. Joe Biden called Trump’s travel ban with China an overreaction, and accused him of trying to scare the public. “This is no time for Donald Trump’s record of hysteria and xenophobia ± hysterical xenophobia — and fearmongering to lead the way instead of science.” As is his wont, Trump responded to these allegations at a rally in South Carolina, calling the Democrats’ politicization of the coronavirus "the new hoax." The media jumped on this line, claiming that Trump called the virus, not the Democrats' reactions to it, a hoax. There was quite a brouhaha when the story repeating the false claim that Trump called the virus a hoax was “fake news.”

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