There's so much in
a Fox interview that aired today, but here are some of the COVID-19 highlights (or, if you will, lowlights):
- "'No country has ever done what we've done in terms of testing. We are the envy of the world,' he said."
- "Trump downplayed the recent rise in national case numbers, claiming that it is the result of increased testing, with the implication that it is not a true rise in the severity of the pandemic, a claim that leading health experts have disputed."
- "'I guess everybody makes mistakes,' the president said, then added, 'I'll be right eventually. I will be right eventually,' referring to his past prediction that the virus would eventually go away.
"'It's going to disappear and I'll be right,' he said."
- "'I think we have one of the lowest mortality rates in the world,' Trump said, offering White House statistics that differed from the ones [interviewer Chris] Wallace cited [that we have the seventh-highest mortality rate in the world]."
- "The Trump administration announced that they are supporting a lawsuit to overturn ObamaCare. When asked why he would oppose something that people are relying on during a pandemic, Trump said he will be replacing it soon, and is 'signing a health care plan within two weeks.'" I am sure that's news to Mitch McConnell and the rest of the GOP majority in the Senate, let alone Speaker Pelosi and the rest of the House of Representatives.
