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Soph0571

(9,685 posts)
Sat Mar 21, 2020, 08:59 AM Mar 2020

Trump should be denied the oxygen of the media until he starts using facts...

As Rachel Maddow said on her show: "If it were up to me, and it's not, I would stop putting those briefings on live TV. Not out of spite, but because it's misinformation. If the president does end up say anything true, you can run it as tape. But if he keeps lying ... Honestly, it's going to cost lives."

She is not wrong. When Fauci - you know the actual expert in the room – the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force addressing the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic – does this while standing next to the President at a press conference, you know it has spun out of complete control…

Trump would not know how to hold a ‘briefing’ if it jumped up and bit him on the arse. The lies, misinformation and deep state bollocks will cost lives, turning these events into campaigning opportunities to talk bollocks to his base. And as the reaction of Fauci shows us, the sincere reaction from the actual experts, who could make a difference to the outcome of this pandemic if they had a President who was not a sociopathic moron, having stand by and endure the lies and propaganda uttered by such a fool is overwhelming mortification and incredulity.

Something needs to change and change fast, peoples lives depend on it.

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Trump should be denied the oxygen of the media until he starts using facts... (Original Post) Soph0571 Mar 2020 OP
The media should use Trump's pet term Chainfire Mar 2020 #1
Yep, pull his plug. He's using these pressers as substitutes for campaign rallies. MerryBlooms Mar 2020 #2
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