Will Trump Bail Out His Billionaire Oil-Industry Pals, the True Coronavirus Victims?
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March 12, 2020
Publicly, he sees it as yet another ("Fake News") media war; privately, he worries about virus-carrying journalists on Air Force One. But cancel his rallies? "I'm not going to do it," he says. Yesterday the president weighed in on Twitter: "Vanity Fair Magazine, which will soon be out of business, and their third rate Fake reporters, who make up sources which don't exist, wrote yet another phony & boring hit piece. The facts are just the opposite. Our team is doing a great job with CoronaVirus!"
The president announced efforts to keep coronavirus from being brought into the country—but didn't say what the federal government is doing to curb the cases of Covid-19 that are already rapidly spreading throughout the U.S.
According to Dr. Anthony Fauci, nearly everything the president has said about the coronavirus is wrong.
The first true pandemic of a polarized, plugged-in era comes with all the attendant conspiracy theories—and they're spreading on social media almost as fast as the virus itself.
Amid a public health crisis, sycophantic TV hosts are glorifying the president and attacking his perceived enemies, treating a pandemic like yet another partisan fight.
He's also declined to get tested after spending the weekend with a lawmaker exposed to the virus.
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