Trump denies saying another thing he said and makes more false claims at coronavirus briefing

[Demovictory9]

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/14/politics/fact-check-trump-april-14/index.html

Trump's praise for China's supposed transparency

After he criticized the World Health Organization for praising China's supposed transparency over the coronavirus, Trump was pressed about his own previous praise of China's supposed transparency. "I don't talk about China's transparency," Trump responded. "You know, if I'm so good to China, how come I was the only person, the only leader of a country, that closed our borders tightly against China?"

Facts First: Trump did praise China, and its president, Xi Jinping, for its supposed transparency. Moreover, Trump didn't completely shut down travel between China and the United States; nearly 40,000 people traveled from China to the United States after he announced travel restrictions, according to an April 4 New York Times analysis of data collected in both countries. And Trump was far from the only leader to impose travel restrictions from China. A Washington Post analysis found that 38 countries imposed significant travel restrictions on China "before or at the same time the U.S. restrictions were put in place." (The Post analysis did not count 12 other countries "that took some sort of action before the United States but with measures that were not as sweeping.&quot

[Cha]

1. Everybody should be calling out his Lies.

[sop]

2. It's futile. Fact-checking Trump is a truly Sisyphean task. Just when the press catches up

with yesterday's blizzard of lies, a whole new avalanche of lies comes down from Bullshit Mountain.

[Martin Eden]

3. True that

The task in the general election will be sifting through that avalanche to find the most brazen and egregiously harmful lies to very publicly shove back in his face.

[Roy Rolling]

5. Always one step ahead of the shoeshine

Or, one step ahead of the truth catching up with him.

When a transparent media doesn’t control its content, exploiters like Trump take advantage by overwhelming the system. He put legitimate news as the topic of news! The subject is his lies, so he lies to make the news media the subject.

The unwritten rule is, cover what a president says, it has credibility. By covering his rants, he steals credibility generously given to him by networks, and then destroys it with propaganda.

Trump cannot be trusted to do the right thing under the honor system. That is their whole strategy—defy where people are naive enough to believe he will follow the rules of “the honor system”, that is, police his own behavior.

Not gonna happen. Ever.

[Martin Eden]

7. When what he says is accurately reported ...

Then he later contradicts his own previous statements, he cries "Fake News!" when confronted on it.

The role of the press is to inform the public. When the press and its standard rules of engagement are being exploited to misinform the public to the advantage of a serial liar, it is the responsibility of the press to adapt their rules in order to faithfully fufill the role in presenting accurate and truthful information to the public.

[jaxexpat]

4. "Republicans will lie even when the truth would make a better story."

per my grandfather, Great Depression survivor.

[live love laugh]

6. AND he shipped 1.8 TONS of PPE to China February 7 nt