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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 Trumps 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.
Weve 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 were dealing with, White House strategic communications director Alyssa Farah told reporters. Were still highly confident well 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.
Weve 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 were dealing with, White House strategic communications director Alyssa Farah told reporters. Were still highly confident well 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.
Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/30/white-house-aide-says-trumps-vaccine-by-election-day-promise-was-arbitrary-433670
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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 is either completely or not at all arbitrary, depending on not-so-obvious point of view
Bernardo de La Paz
Oct 2020
#4
Stand and Fight
(7,501 posts)1. So fucking tired of the media. Just fucking say it. HE LIED. HE LIED LIKE HE ALWAYS LIES!
Docreed2003
(18,306 posts)2. Trump wrote a check his ass couldn't cash
And now people are covering for him...just like his entire life.
R Merm
(429 posts)3. Or, in other words a "lie"
ProfessorGAC
(73,167 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.
Bernardo de La Paz
(56,542 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.
Javaman
(64,079 posts)6. Aka bullshit nt
keithbvadu2
(40,915 posts)7. "Alternative facts" as Kellyanne would call a lie.
"Alternative facts" as Kellyanne would call a lie.
greenjar_01
(6,477 posts)8. Arbitrary Promises, a Memoir of the Trump Years
Fuck these people sideways.
Mc Mike
(9,216 posts)9. Arbitrary. That's so random, him promising it by election day
ck4829
(36,938 posts)10. Ha!
muriel_volestrangler
(103,942 posts)11. "Arbitrary": from "arse", "bit" and "rear"
A bit of something the arse pulled out of his rear-end.
jcgoldie
(12,046 posts)12. "confident we will have one by the end of the year..."
Also "arbitrary" or...?