TX-21: Chip Roy Says the COVID Pandemic Is a Hoax Meant to Hurt the GOP

[RandySF]

Inflammatory U.S. Rep. Chip Roy, R-San Antonio, suggested during a talk-show appearance this week that the COVID-19 pandemic is a hoax perpetrated by Democrats and the media.

During a chat with right-wing radio host Steve Deace, Roy accused shadowy forces of ginning up fear of the coronavirus to damage the GOP in the fall election.

"It is all about November and all about reclaiming power in November," said Roy, a former staffer for Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas. "And I think on November 4, there'll be a magic awakening on how we suddenly beat the virus."

Roy added that he's asking the White House and his colleagues to hold hearings to "shine a light on the absolute fraud being perpetrated on the American people of fear."

Since being narrowly elected in 2018 to represent a district that includes SA, Austin and the Hill Country, Roy has drawn headlines for over-the-top comments, including likening stay-at-home orders to slow the spread of COVID-19 to the policies in Nazi Germany.

In March, he voted against the bipartisan pandemic relief package, calling it “welfare” that would do “more harm than good” and mocking it in a tweet.



https://www.sacurrent.com/the-daily/archives/2020/07/30/san-antonio-congressman-chip-roy-says-the-covid-pandemic-is-a-hoax-meant-to-hurt-the-gop

[Blue_true]

1. How did San Antonio get someone like him representing them? nt

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

2. I keep on wondering just how he thinks it's a hoax.

Or does he have a different meaning for that word than the rest of us do? Sort of like Humpty-Dumpty in Alice in Wonderland.

[gratuitous]

3. Hey Chip, could you sound a little more triggered and shrill?

What a bunch of whiners.

[dweller]

4. and the 322 deaths from covid19 in texas today is what ?

co-conspirators playing dead ?

what a f'n asshole 😡

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[Zambero]

5. Is this guy the heir-apparent to Louie's level of nut jobbery?

I'm sure Roy's staff must find his assessment of the COVID "hoax" reassuring. The good news is that he won in 2018 by a slim margin. No doubt he'll keep up the crazy talk, making it easier for voters in the district to decide to send him packing.

[tulipsandroses]

6. Prove it! Why don't you prove to us how much of a hoax it is. Please do all you can to volunteer on

a Covid unit, in a jail, nursing home, group home, any facility with known covid cases. Stay a while, mingle, be all you can be there.
Then come back and tell us how much of a hoax it is.

As for welfare, I wish they would have the same attitude to their rich friends that always have their hands out.

[RussBLib]

7. Wendy Davis is his Dem opponent

Wendy should rip him up over this one.

[TheBlackAdder]

8. Chip's-a-Roy: Made from 100% Nut

[Gothmog]

9. Chip Toy is an idiot

[North Shore Chicago]

10. It's a hoax alright

He should let Herman Cain in on it.