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turbinetree

(24,695 posts)
Thu Mar 5, 2020, 11:22 AM Mar 2020

Trump undermines health experts and calls coronavirus death rate 'false'

By Emily Singer -March 5, 2020 9:53 AM

Trump spread harmful misinformation about the coronavirus on Sean Hannity's show Wednesday night.

Donald Trump on Wednesday night ignored or dismissed facts about the coronavirus, and cast doubt on the global death rate of people suffering from the virus provided by health experts.

In an interview with his friend and Fox News host Sean Hannity, Trump said the 3.4% death rate the World Health Organization has calculated is "really a false number" — a claim he made based not on facts but his own "hunch."

"We have thousands or hundreds of thousands of people that get better just by sitting around, even going to work. Some of them go to work, but they get better," Trump told Hannity.

"And then when you do have a death like you had in the state of Washington, like you had in the state of California, I believe you had one in New York, all of a sudden it seems like 3 or 4%, which seems like a very high number, as opposed to a fraction of 1%."

https://americanindependent.com/donald-trump-coronavirus-misinformation-death-rate-who-fox-news-sean-hannity/

It cannot be empathized enough................this asshole and his enabling assholes every where are dangerous to human beings...................they have no fucking empathy..................they are all pathological narcissistic malignant psychopathic liars..............................

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Trump undermines health experts and calls coronavirus death rate 'false' (Original Post) turbinetree Mar 2020 OP
He doesn't know how to comfort people? pwb Mar 2020 #1
You mean, just like DUers say the death rate is false? Coventina Mar 2020 #2
Ask yourselves honestly... world wide wally Mar 2020 #3
I can honestly say no............................... turbinetree Mar 2020 #4
Dr. Hunch Bayard Mar 2020 #5
Karma would require Chainfire Mar 2020 #6

pwb

(11,261 posts)
1. He doesn't know how to comfort people?
Thu Mar 5, 2020, 11:30 AM
Mar 2020

He knows how to lie and how to talk to fox viewers that is it.

Coventina

(27,101 posts)
2. You mean, just like DUers say the death rate is false?
Thu Mar 5, 2020, 11:30 AM
Mar 2020

I'm getting really tired of reading right-wing talking points on DU....

Chainfire

(17,530 posts)
6. Karma would require
Thu Mar 5, 2020, 12:18 PM
Mar 2020

His sick staff to come to work and snot all over his papers. What justice if he became one of the 1%.

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