An Associated Press fact check confirms what Breitbart News reported earlier this week: that Democrat presidential candidates are falsely claiming that President Donald Trump cut funding and personnel needed to fight coronavirus.
On Tuesday, Breitbart News fact-checked “mostly false” claims by former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg during the Democrat debate in South Carolina. Bloomberg claimed that Trump had “fired” a pandemic specialist at the White House, and “de-funded” the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). The implication: Trump was to blame for the spread of coronavirus — even though there have been just over a dozen cases and no fatalities in the U.S.
The truth: the pandemic specialist had left voluntarily during a reorganization of the bloated National Security Council (NSC), and the CDC cuts — as the agency wound down its Ebola response — were only proposed, not enacted.
The AP confirmed Thursday, in an article titled “AP FACT CHECK: Democrats distort coronavirus readiness,” that much of what Democrats are saying about Trump’s response to the coronavirus challenge is simply not true:
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Surprise, surprise. That headline could be used for any topic. "Democrats are lying to the public about (fill in the blank)" and it would be correct.
ReplyDelete11:31PM; you are absolutely correct.....fill in the blank. The Democrat Party has pretty much sustained itself on deception, lies, and misrepresentation since the Civil War. The Party has simply adapted to new technology to further their propaganda. The media and unfortunately our public schools also are participating in conjunction with the promotion of this misguided agenda.
ReplyDeleteYou guys are so gullible.
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What don't the democrats lie about.? It's a nice short list.
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