WASHINGTON – In explaining his misleading assurances about the pandemic, President Donald Trump warned that he was doing what Winston Churchill had done, calming the public in those damaging times, but this is not how it happened in World War II.
Churchill did not tell the British that Nazi Germany “under control” or that “as a miracle will disappear,” to quote Trump’s comments about the virus.
The British Prime Minister sowed fear, like the resolution, by summoning the British for national purposes opposed to the “appalling apparatus of aggression” that enslaved swathes of Europe and soon “opposed us. “
Trump’s statements about the pandemic have been plagued by incorrect information from the start. But journalist Bob Woodward’s new e-book, “Rage,” shows that Trump admits distortion as a tactic, as it minimizes the risk of COVID-19 to Americans and other young people in particular, though it tastes better. The president said his goal was to avoid panic.
Details of the e-book and his recorded interviews with Trump have plummeted in a week of intense political politics as the November 3 election crusade entered his home run.
As the rhetoric flew, Trump and his Democratic rival Joe Biden exaggerated their influence to revive the auto industry. In a mix-up, Biden greatly overeseses the deaths of the COVID-19 army. Trump has distorted Biden’s positions.
Tears of blood sweat
TRUMP on Churchill during the German bombing of London: “He spoke calmly. He said, “We have to be calm, ” he told Michigan supporters on Thursday.
TRUMP: “As the British government pleaded with other Britons against World War II,” stay calm and move on. “That’s what I did!” warns Michigan.
THE FACTS: Historians strongly oppose this.
“Churchill understood that the franchise in crisis was vital,” tweeted Erik Larson, writer of “The Splendid and the Vile,” a story by Churchill and the British about the German bombing crusade known as Blitz. “Don’t defame the German threat. “”
Historian Jon Meacham responded to Trump with a quote from Churchill himself, translated with the abbreviation Twitter: “The British can face any misfortune with courage and dynamism as long as they are convinced that those guilty of their affairs do not lie to them. “, or live in a paradise for fools.
The slogan “Keep calm and continue” posted on British posters in preparation for war, but did not win the favor and the posters were temporarily withdrawn.
In his first BBC broadcast as Prime Minister in May 1940, Churchill described in terrifying detail the “remarkable” advance of German armored columns and infantry in the devastated French countryside and declared that it would be foolish to “disguise the gravity of the hour. “
He said that “this terrible apparatus of aggression that has led Holland to ruin and slavery in a few days will turn against us. I’m sure I speak for all of us when I say we’re in a position to deal with them. “The Blitzkrieg began in September.
While Trump continually minimized the danger of the epidemic in his public comments, he told Woodward that he knew the virus was more fatal than even a severe seasonal flu, that he was surprised by the ease with which it spread and that “many young people were “contracting it. “I sought to minimize it, ” he said in March. ” I like to minimize it. Because I don’t need to panic. “
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Virus
TRUMP: “We’re going to have vaccines very soon, it’s going to be a lot faster than you think. “- Press convention on Thursday.
TRUMP: “You’ll get this amazing vaccine, and Array. . . at a rate that no one has noticed before. It may have only taken two or three years, and instead it’s going to be – it’s going to be done in a very short era of time. I could even have it in October. – Monday press convention.
THE FACTS: It almost raised unrealistic hope in the run-up to the November election.
The Food and Drug Administration has in the past told brands that no vaccine would be less than 50% effective. Making the right calculations through November, as Trump promised, is “incredibly unlikely,” said Dr Larry Corey of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Institute, which oversees U. S. government vaccine studies.
Public fitness experts are concerned that Trump is urging the FDA to pass a vaccine before it is shown and effective.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the government’s leading infectious disease expert, said he was “cautiously optimistic” that a coronavirus vaccine would be in a position by early next year. Even in this case, Fauci made it clear that the vaccine would not be widely available. Immediately.
“Ultimately, within a moderate period of time, plans now allow any American who wants a vaccine to get it until 2021,” Fauci told Congress last month.
Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, also expressed “cautious optimism” last week that one of the proven vaccines will be completed until the end of the year. But he warned: “They’re sure to be waiting if this happens a specific week before or after a specific date in early November, it’s beyond anything any scientist can tell you right now. “
The “special date” is November 3rd, Election Day.
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TRUMP: “The virus is a very insurmountable general blockade through Democrats. “- Press convention on Thursday.
TRUMP: “Biden’s plan for the Chinese virus is to shut down america’s entire economy” – press convention on Monday.
FACTS: That’s not Biden’s plan at all. Biden said he would only shut down the economy if scientists and public fitness advisers do so to stop the COVID-19 threat. He said he’d stick to science, he wouldn’t forget her.
Biden told ABC last month that he would “be ready to do whatever it takes to save lives” when asked if he would be ready to close the country again.
“I would pay attention to scientists,” he said. If they said to stop it, “I’d stop it. “
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TRUMP: “When Joe Biden was vice president, his failed swine flu technique was disastrous. And 60 million Americans contracted H1N1 that period . . . We did everything wrong, it was a disaster,” press conference on Thursday.
THE FACTS: This is a distorted history of a pandemic in 2009 that killed far fewer people in the United States than the coronavirus kills lately. For initiators, Biden as vice president did not execute the federal reaction. began that when COVID-19 arrived in the United States.
Then, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s influenza surveillance network sounded the alarm after two young people in California were the first to be diagnosed with the new strain of influenza in that country.
About two weeks later, the Obama administration declared a public fitness emergency opposed to H1NI influenza, also known as swine flu, and the CDC began releasing flu drugs from the nation’s stock to help hospitals prepare. emergency in early March, seven weeks after the first case of COVID-19 was announced in the US. And the country’s health care formula struggled for months with a shortage of critical materials and evidence.
More than 190,000 others have died of COVID-19 in the United States. The CDC estimates that the death toll in the United States from the H1N1 2009-10 pandemic is approximately 12,500.
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Cars
IDBEN: “President Obama and I keep the car and helped Michigan’s economy recover strongly,” he tweeted Wednesday.
THE FACTS: Biden gives too much credit to Barack Obama already himself for saving the auto industry.
At first, what the Obama administration did was an extension of the steps taken through Obama’s predecessor, President George W. Bush.
In December 2008, General Motors and Chrysler were on the brink of monetary collapse. The United States in deep recession and U. S. car sales fell sharply. GM, Chrysler and Ford asked the government for help, but Congress rejected it.
With just a month in office, Bush legalized $25 billion in loans to GM and Chrysler over the $700 billion bailout fund that originally intended to save America’s largest banks. Ford didn’t take any money. Once in office, Obama appointed a working group to oversee GM and Chrysler, which eventually filed for bankruptcy, received another $55 billion in aid and was forced to close many factories and review their operations.
The three corporations recovered and eventually re-created jobs.
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TRUMP: “We’ve brought you a lot of automotive plants, haven’t we?. . . I was storing the American auto industry. ” – Michigan Rally on Thursday.
IDBEN, about Michigan’s economy: “Donald Trump has wasted it, and Michigan workers are paying the value every day. “Moderate Wednesday.
THE FACTS: Trump and Biden exaggerate it. Trump hasn’t destroyed Michigan’s economy, but he hasn’t driven a boom in the auto industry either.
In fact, the number of jobs in car production and portions in the state fell between Trump’s inauguration and February of this year, before the coronavirus began.
When Trump took office, there were 174,200 such jobs, and that number fell to 171,800 in February, according to Department of Labor statistics. While the maximum number of plants closed for about 8 weeks after the pandemic outbreak, many of them are almost complete. capacity, at least for now. In July, the recent maximum figures available, Michigan had 154,400 jobs in the manufacture of automobiles and portions.
Michigan official Gretchen Whitmer, a Democrat, recently said the state economy is now operating at 87% of pre-pandemic levels, dropping figures from Moody’s Analytics and CNN.
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ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT
TRUMP: “Instead of focusing on a radical ideology, my management focuses on getting genuine results. And that’s what we have. Right now, we look at the purest thing we’ve had in this country, say in the last 40 years. “- statements Tuesday in Jupiter, Florida.
FACTS: He is not guilty of all progress — of him.
The six air pollutant measurements monitored through the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency have been monitored by the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency. But it’s not the first time They showed that until 2019, the U. S. airIt is the cleanest recorded, but the maximum vital pollutant, tiny particles, about the same as in 2016, only 1%, according to Neil Donahue, professor of environmental engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. The same figures also showed that air pollutants increased in the first two years of Trump’s management before falling dramatically in 2019.
Donahue and three other outdoor pollutant experts said the president spent years, if not decades, increasing emissions restrictions.
H. Christopher Frey, an engineering professor at North Carolina State University and former director of the EPA’s Scientific Air Quality Advisory Board, said that “current trends in air quality are due to independent reasons or Trump administration policies. “and Donahue attributed it to a change in the use of dirtier coal, a replacement Trump’s management has opposed, and newer, cleaner cars that replace older vehicles.
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TRUMP: “We demonstrate that we can create jobs, protect the surrounding area, and keep energy costs low for the United States and low for our citizens. And he sees it. You also see it when you pump fuel into your car and are paying much less than $2 lately. So we’re fine. ” – Notes on Florida.
THE FACTS: Trump credits himself by mistake. Gasoline costs have not dropped because of the Trump administration, they sank because the coronavirus forced others to leave their offices, schools, business trips and vacations.
“Relief in economic activity related to the COVID-19 pandemic has led to adjustments in energy demand and patterns by 2020,” the US Energy Information Administration said. But it’s not the first time
Global demand for oil has fallen to 8 million barrels in line with the day, the firm estimates.
Underlining the link to the end of the pandemic, gasoline costs in the United States were at their lowest level in April, while others stayed home to the fullest now, up 33 cents on average, according to the gallon, according to the agency.
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troops
TRUMP: “We’re a long way from Syria. “- Press convention on Thursday.
FACTS: Not so much.
Last year, nearly 30 U. S. soldiers left two outposts near the border domain where a Turkish attack on the country first focused, but the U. S. has recently had about 700 soldiers deployed in Syria, a number that hasn’t replaced much lately. .
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IDBEN: “Soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan: 6,922 . . . . Military deaths via COVID: 6,114. My friends, of those counted lives,” he said Wednesday in Warren, Michigan.
THE FACTS: It is because of the number of coronavirus deaths in the US military that the US military is not able to do so. But it’s not the first time
According to the Department of Defense, seven members of the army were killed by COVID-19, adding reservists and members of the National Guard.
Biden’s crusade stated that he had misrepresented quoting global coronavirus deaths in Michigan from deaths across the US military. But it’s not the first time In confusion.
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Nato
TRUMP: “If you look at NATO, with the exception of 8 countries, we are one of them, all countries are behind. They are late, especially in Germany, to pay their NATO bills . . . And they have a higher expense through $130 billion now, to $400 billion a year. It’s all because of me. ” – Press convention on Monday.
THE FACTS: It’s on several fronts.
First, countries pay nothing to be part of NATO and owe nothing to the organization other than contributions to a large-component administrative fund that Trump does not communicate about. Member countries are not on NATO bills. The proceeds haven’t gone up either, as he claimed.
Trump’s real complaint about what NATO countries spend on their own military budgets suggested they spend more. Also Obama. And in 2014, under the Obama administration, NATO members agreed to move “to” spending 2% of their gross domestic product on their own defense until 2024.
Trump then mutilates what follows.
In December, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg announced that until 2024, army spending through non-U. S. alliance members would be more than $400 billion since 2016 due to member state commitments.
That’s $400 billion in eight years. It’s not $400 billion a year, like Trump said. And it’s not all my fault.
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NOVEMBER ELECTION
TRUMP, retweeting an Associated Press investigation that projects the number of rejected ballots to skyrocket this fall due to the backlog of vote-by-mail: “False election!” – tweet on Tuesday.
FACTS: No, defective ballots are amount for fraud. The overwhelming majority are
According to the Brennan Center for Justice, the vast majority of ballots are disqualified because they are late, a specific fear this year of recent delays in the US Postal Service. But it’s not the first time And an expected increase in mail-in voting for the coronavirus pandemic.
Ballots are also found to be defective if a signature is missing, which is not unusual among new voters who know the procedure, or if it conforms to what is on the register. .
“None of these acts are fraud,” said Wendy Weiser, director of Brennan’s democracy program at New York University School of Law. When investigating suspected cases of possible fraud, studies have shown that the main explanation for the defects is voter error.
AP research released Monday found that rejections of mailed surveys may triple since 2016 in some states on the battlefield, which could tip the outcome of the election.
He said the electorate “may be stripped of their rights in major battlefield states” and that canceled votes may be “even more pronounced in some urban areas where Democratic votes are concentrated and vote rejection rates tend to accumulate in this year’s primaries. “This is far from an election” rigged “opposed to Trump.
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Associated Press editors Lauran Neergaard, Seth Borenstein, Josh Boak, Christopher Rugaber, Robert Burns, Lolita C. Baldor, and Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar in Washington, James LaPorta in Delray Beach, Florida, Tom Krisher in Detroit, Alexandra Jaffe in Warren, Michigan, and Tom Beaumont of Des Moines, Iowa, contributed to this report.
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