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In reply to the discussion: He didn't downplay the Covid19 threat. [View all]sheshe2
(84,593 posts)64. Sorry.
Going to disagree here. If he tought it was real or gave one shite that it was real he would have done something about it. Instead he has super spreader rallies! To this day he declines venues that refuse him by mandating masks.
Just the other day he demanded that a reporter remove their mask because their voice was muffled. The reporter refused.
Welp:
So we have a TON of statements where he acknowledged that the virus is real (even if he WAY downplays its severity), and we have ZERO statements that unambiguously said it was NOT real, that it was just a hoax and there was in reality no virus.
Sorry, the virus is not real to him. The man is insane and continues to ALLOW the virus to spread. He has threatened blue states, withholding funding if they defy his orders to reopen. That is not a man that believes the virus is a threat to Americans, that is a man that only cares about himself, his reelection and staying out of jail for crimes against humanity among others.
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He never literally called covid a hoax. He certainly downplayed it, though.
thesquanderer
Sep 2020
#14
Exactly. As you posted, "Trump did not call the coronavirus itself a hoax."
thesquanderer
Sep 2020
#26
he didn't have to: his surrogate limbaugh called it a hoax for two months from 600 stations
certainot
Sep 2020
#31
The dirty prick used it to benefit him politically and then weaponized it against his opponents...
WyattKansas
Sep 2020
#24
Even worse, he vehemently argued FOR behavior that would worsen the pandemic.
Nevilledog
Sep 2020
#43
Fkn lowlife lying orange POS...so many people who were alive in January would likely still
iluvtennis
Sep 2020
#58