Fri Oct 30, 2020, 06:56 PM

White House aide says Trump's vaccine-by-Election Day promise was 'arbitrary'

Source: Politico

A top White House adviser on Friday called President Donald Trump’s long-shot pledge to have a coronavirus vaccine by Nov. 3 “kind of an arbitrary deadline,” as Election Day prepares to come and go with no shot having even applied for approval yet.

“We’ve got nearly half a dozen vaccines that are in Phase Three clinical trials, which is record time to get it there for a novel virus like we’re dealing with,” White House strategic communications director Alyssa Farah told reporters. “We’re still highly confident we’ll have one by the end of the year and be prepared to deploy it to a hundred million Americans.”

“His goal has never — Election Day is kind of an arbitrary deadline,” she added.

The acknowledgment comes as Trump has softened his promise — which always appeared improbable and politically motivated — on the campaign trail in recent weeks.

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White House aide says Trump's vaccine-by-Election Day promise was 'arbitrary' (Original post)	brooklynite	Oct 2020	OP
So fucking tired of the media. Just fucking say it. HE LIED. HE LIED LIKE HE ALWAYS LIES!	Stand and Fight	Oct 2020	#1
Trump wrote a check his ass couldn't cash	Docreed2003	Oct 2020	#2
Or, in other words a "lie"	R Merm	Oct 2020	#3
She's Lying, Too	ProfessorGAC	Oct 2020	#5
tRump is either completely or not at all arbitrary, depending on not-so-obvious point of view	Bernardo de La Paz	Oct 2020	#4
Aka bullshit nt	Javaman	Oct 2020	#6
"Alternative facts" as Kellyanne would call a lie.	keithbvadu2	Oct 2020	#7
Arbitrary Promises, a Memoir of the Trump Years	greenjar_01	Oct 2020	#8
Arbitrary. That's so random, him promising it by election day	Mc Mike	Oct 2020	#9
Ha!	ck4829	Nov 2020	#10
"Arbitrary": from "arse", "bit" and "rear"	muriel_volestrangler	Nov 2020	#11
"confident we will have one by the end of the year..."	jcgoldie	Nov 2020	#12

Response to brooklynite (Original post)

Fri Oct 30, 2020, 06:58 PM

Stand and Fight (7,463 posts)

1. So fucking tired of the media. Just fucking say it. HE LIED. HE LIED LIKE HE ALWAYS LIES!

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Fri Oct 30, 2020, 07:06 PM

Docreed2003 (13,181 posts)

2. Trump wrote a check his ass couldn't cash

And now people are covering for him...just like his entire life.

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Response to brooklynite (Original post)

Fri Oct 30, 2020, 07:17 PM

R Merm (365 posts)

3. Or, in other words a "lie"

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Response to R Merm (Reply #3)

Fri Oct 30, 2020, 07:30 PM

ProfessorGAC (50,143 posts)

5. She's Lying, Too

She's lying about him lying.
It was not arbitrary, at all. It was a political machination. She's lying about it being a deadline.

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Fri Oct 30, 2020, 07:25 PM

Bernardo de La Paz (38,217 posts)

4. tRump is either completely or not at all arbitrary, depending on not-so-obvious point of view

tRump says whatever he thinks his audience wants to hear.

Now that is arbitrary because it is untruthful.

But it is also not arbitrary in the sense that it is predetermined by tRump's assessment of his audience.

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Fri Oct 30, 2020, 07:58 PM

Javaman (57,866 posts)