Ep 238 ｜ Enemy of the People
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Summary
In this episode of Relatable, I discuss the hypocrisy of the left-wing media and how they spin the coronavirus story in order to make President Trump look worse than he actually is. I also discuss the role of the media in perpetuating the false narrative that Trump is incompetent.
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Hey guys, welcome to Relatable. Happy Wednesday. I hope everyone has had a great week so far.
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If you haven't listened to Toxic Mommy Culture from Monday, make sure you go back and do that.
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I want to make sure you didn't miss it because a lot of you have been asking me to cover that
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topic more thoroughly. I did. Got a lot of great feedback from those of you who did listen to it
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or watch it on YouTube, so thank you so much for that. Today we are obviously switching gears,
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as I assume you can deduce from the title of this episode, Enemy of the People. We are talking
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about the media, how many, not all, maybe not even most, but many in the media, the left-wing media,
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the anti-Trump media, whatever you want to call it, have spun a particular narrative in their coverage
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of the coronavirus over the past few months and what damage that has done to our morale and our
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ability to get accurate information. If you're like me, you feel like there is conflicting
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information that's coming at us every day and so maybe you've just kind of bowed out and you've
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said, okay, you know what? I can't deal with this anymore. Just tell me when this quarantine is over.
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I don't want to scroll through Twitter. I don't want to hear about the coronavirus because nothing's
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really changed and I can't figure out what is true. So what I'm going to try to do today
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is I'm going to try to show you the prevailing narrative that many people in the media have
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tried to push and the hypocrisy that it shows because it is absolutely insane if you look at
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the timeline of the things that they've reported over the past few months. So on Monday, President
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Trump had what I will call an epic press conference. I don't know if I've ever used that adjective in my
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life, but I'm going to use it because I don't even know how else to describe it. It was an epic press
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conference. The relationship between President Trump and the press has grown increasingly adversarial.
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Like you probably didn't think that was possible after the whole Russian collusion thing and just
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how ridiculous that was. I mean, you never hear about that anymore, do you? But it has. It's become
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an even more fraught relationship, even more tension between them because in President Trump's defense,
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yes, sometimes I think that he is a little bit too harsh and he's a little bit too petty with the
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press. But in his defense, the narrative that they have crafted, the multiple narratives that they
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have crafted around the coronavirus in order to try to make him look as bad as possible, it's
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ridiculous. And I agree that it's bad for the country. And there are many people in the press who
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put themselves at enmity with the American people by constantly criticizing President Trump when he
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doesn't actually solicit criticism. There are times when he does deserve critiques, when he does
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deserve criticism. I'm glad that there are honest and objective people in the press that are willing
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to criticize and critique the powers that be. That is totally fair game. But when you constantly put
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yourself on the side of being an adversary of President Trump, you are going to find yourself
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in alliance with bad causes, with bad stories, with factless narratives, and even bad people and bad
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countries like China. We've seen a lot of the media take the side of China and all of this in an effort
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to try to make Trump look worse than he actually is. But that's the position that they've placed
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themselves in. So on Monday in a press conference with the coronavirus task force, President Trump forced
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the White House press corps to watch their own hypocrisy. He played a montage that basically
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just demonstrated the narrative that they're trying to push of Trump being incompetent. And he put that
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in contrast to what is actually going on, what his administration has actually done, what the
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governors are saying who are actually in this coronavirus fight. And of course, the media had an absolute
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fit over it. CNN, their chyrons read that Trump turned this into a propaganda hour, that he was
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melting down, that he was angry, which just goes to show, again, how non-objective CNN is, even though
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they tried their hardest to pretend like they're unbiased. So the supreme narrative of many people
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on the left side of the aisle who are in the media, the anti-Trump media, whatever you want to call
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them, the supreme overriding narrative goes like this. The coronavirus could have been prevented
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and its effects mitigated if Trump had taken this more seriously and acted more quickly.
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Therefore, every infection, every death, every bit of stress felt by healthcare workers is Trump's
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fault. This is a supreme narrative, which means that every other story or potential story has to fit
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into this framework. This is what so-called journalists today do, no matter what the story
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is. They claim to be impartial. They claim to be objective. But what they actually do is they start
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with a foregone conclusion and they find points, they find quotes, they find sources, they find facts
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to fit into that conclusion. They come up with a conclusion and they try to build an argument around
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that. And then they call it unbiased reporting. They say, no, no, no, no, I'm not political. I'm not
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partisan. I'm just seeking the truth. Well, the fact is they are seeking a narrative. They're seeking a
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foregone conclusion. Now that's fine. If you are an opinion host, if you are a pundit, if you're a
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commentator, if you're paid to give your opinion like I am, I'm not a journalist. Now I try my best to
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give you the whole truth. I don't manipulate. I don't lie to you. I try to give you caveats and nuance
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where these things exist. I try to show you the other side of the argument, but you guys know my
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perspective and I don't try to hide that. The overriding narrative of so-called objective
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journalists adheres to this idea that this whole thing is Trump's fault. And that means that every
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infection, that every death, especially that of young people and people without underlying health
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conditions is Trump's fault. So every hospital hiccup, every complication is reported and hyperbolized
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so as to attempt to point to Trump's incompetence. It means that the responsibility China has is often
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ignored by the media or minimized. They'll even cast China in a positive light. And we'll talk a little
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bit more about that in a second. It means that the media will deny their own culpability in downplaying
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the virus, which they did in January and February. And we'll talk about that a little bit more. It means
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they'll deny Democrats culpability in downplaying the virus like both Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi did.
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It means they'll do whatever it takes to make Trump look bad, simultaneously saying that he's
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acting too tyrannical and insisting that he is not acting tyrannical enough. It means that they will
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ask stupid questions at press briefings to get a viral moment rather than focusing on the issues
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that affect this viral disease. You guys probably saw the parody video that I post on Twitter and
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Instagram and Facebook that was saturating some of the stupid questions that the press ask in these
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press briefings. But it's really not that far from reality. Everyone is looking for their 15 minutes
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of fame by asking something that really pegs Trump rather than asking the questions that are pertinent to
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the American people. So let me show you how this supreme narrative of everything being Trump's
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fault has played out in the media over the past few months. So the New York Times has an April 11th
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piece titled, He Could Have Seen What Was Coming Behind Trump's Failures on the Virus. A quote says,
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an examination reveals the president was warned about the potential for a pandemic, but that
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internal divisions, lack of planning, and his faith in his own instincts led to a halting response.
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The piece argues that Trump ignored advice from experts. He downplayed things. And if he had
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taken earlier action, this would have all been avoided. This is the narrative of most of leftist
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media that Trump has failed, that he hasn't taken it seriously. And he hasn't done things perfectly.
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And again, I'm fine with criticism. But the fact is that Trump took action before the rest of the
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country even thought that the coronavirus was a big deal. The task force was established on January
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29th. He banned travel from China on January 31st. China reported its first death from coronavirus on
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January 11th, which we now know there were people who died long before this from the coronavirus in
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China, but we didn't know that then. Just weeks before that, the World Health Organization told the world
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that there was no human-to-human transmission with coronavirus, only from bats to humans. We obviously
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know that's not true. The World Health Organization, by the way, is a completely corrupt organization and
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functions as a propaganda arm for China, but that's a story for a different day. This is from an article in
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The Statesman by Miriam Valverde. She is quoting Samantha Kiernan, a research associate at the Council on
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Foreign Relations. She says, while the United States was not one of the first countries to impose
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restrictions against travel from China, nor was it late to do so relative to the actions of others.
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Rather, the United States acted around the same time that many other countries did. Now, that said,
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Trump did in the beginning, if you want to talk about him downplaying it, yes, he made the right moves
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about the same time that other people did, but he did say that this was like the flu. He has been
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dragged for that. There's a Vox.com article that's titled, Trump's seven worst statements about the
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coronavirus outbreak, and one of them is Trump saying in February that the flu is worse. The
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Washington Post ran an article about it titled, Trump again downplays coronavirus by comparing it
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to the seasonal flu. It's not a fair comparison. Yes, they're right. Trump did say this, and it's wrong
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because it is more infectious than the flu. It spreads more quickly than the flu, more easily.
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You can be contagious and asymptomatic for longer than you are with the flu, but everyone thought
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that this was like the flu, including the media, including the experts, and not as bad as the flu.
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A lot of people said, here's a montage by the outlet-free beacon of the media, so CNN, MSNBC,
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all of these outlets that are criticizing Trump for saying that, or for comparing it to the flu at all.
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This was in January and even February. These outlets say that this isn't as bad as the flu.
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People are like, you know, I think I have the flu. Could it be the coronavirus?
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Overall, most people should not be terribly concerned about it. You definitely want to pay
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attention. Should they panic? No, Americans do not need to panic. What I would suggest, however,
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is that Americans take this as a wake-up call for seasonal flu. Flu is a much bigger deal.
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There's an important context we need to keep this in, and that is that the flu is more deadly.
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Maybe this is a good opportunity to remind people of that.
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And while there's a lot of fear over this coronavirus, you know, the flu is already
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widespread in the U.S., and it really is much more deadly, is it not?
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Coronavirus is not going to cause a major issue in the United States. We're going to have 40,000 to
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60,000 deaths this year in the United States from the influenza, and it's preventable.
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And there are only 12 confirmed cases of coronavirus here in the States.
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The risk is low. The risk, however, for the flu is through the roof.
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Health warning from doctors why they say people should be more worried about the flu
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Half of the people in America do not get a flu shot, and the flu right now is far deadlier.
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So if you're freaked out at all about the coronavirus, you should be
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On January 27th, Media Matters ran this article titled,
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Fox News Fear Mongers About Coronavirus With Dubiously Sourced Viral Video.
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It was about a segment on Fox & Friends where the host discussed a video online that said
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that the death rate for the coronavirus was actually a lot higher than what was being reported.
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And this is true, by the way. This has ended up being true.
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U.S. intelligence has since confirmed that China is lying about their numbers,
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that there are far more infected and far more dead in China than they have actually said.
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On February 17th, USA Today posted an interview with Dr. Fauci,
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director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
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Fauci doesn't want people to worry about coronavirus,
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the danger of which he says is, quote, just minuscule.
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But he does want them to take precautions against the influenza outbreak,
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The New York Times ran an opinion piece titled,
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Beware the Pandemic Panic by Farhad Manjou on January 29th.
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In it, he says this, the new virus's death toll has just exceeded 130.
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about 15 million Americans have been sickened by the seasonal flu
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so far in the 2019-2020 flu season, and 8,200 have died from it.
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The flu kills between 300,000 and 650,000 people around the world annually.
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That was in the New York Times at the end of January.
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And then, on April 3rd, the New York Times published a video titled,
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I don't know, New York Times, why don't you tell us if it's like the flu?
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The New York Times ran another piece on February 5th titled,
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The byline says the coronavirus travel ban is unjust and doesn't work anyway.
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And dozens of other countries did the same thing.
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The New York Times White House correspondent, Maggie Haberman,
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admitted that it worked, that it was probably effective.
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she said at the end of the day, it was probably effective
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because it did actually take a pretty aggressive measure against the spread of the virus.
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Now, she does go on after that to criticize Trump for not doing more
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and for thinking that banning travel was enough.
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But she herself admits that the travel ban from China was an effective call.
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But the New York Times and other outlets and Joe Biden labeled Trump a xenophobe,
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not just for this, but also for calling it the Chinese virus or the Wuhan virus.
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They said, that's racist, that's bigoted, that's counterproductive.
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That's going to cause a rampant racism in this country.
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Well, here is a montage of outlets like CNN and MSNBC put together by town hall media
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calling it the Wuhan virus or the Chinese Wuhan virus
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before they decided they were going to push this narrative that Trump is a xenophobe
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At least six people have died from the Wuhan coronavirus.
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The Wuhan coronavirus has now surpassed the 2003 SARS outbreak and the number of lives it's claimed.
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They're under quarantine out of concern that passengers and crew were exposed to the Wuhan coronavirus.
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The official death toll from the Wuhan coronavirus in China's Hubei province has now risen to 780.
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Having to deal with it, the total number of deaths from the Wuhan coronavirus,
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it's now surpassed the SARS outbreak from 2002, 2003.
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We don't have, we shouldn't have anything against Chinese people.
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It is an indictment of the Chinese Communist Party,
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who didn't do enough to mitigate this and to limit its effects,
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And just like the West Nile virus, just like the Spanish flu,
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the disease's origins can be acknowledged in its name without it actually being racist.
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But this was the major concern of many left-wing outlets.
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Because remember, their chief concern right now is making you hate Trump
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They likely care about people getting sick and dying.
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They don't want their loved ones to get sick and die.
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But people getting sick and dying is of little concern to much of their reporting
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if they can't prove that people getting sick and dying is Trump's fault.
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How Trump and his Fox News allies are infecting the public trust amid coronavirus concerns.
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It was actually a video by CNN's Brian Stelter.
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And here is Barack Obama in his endorsement, finally, of Joe Biden,
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saying that Republicans denied the science of pandemics.
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And denied the science of climate change, just as they denied the science of pandemics.
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Nancy Pelosi, this was reported by New York Post, said this,
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the more misrepresentations he, Trump, puts out there, the more it obscures the truth.
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What they're saying is not knowledge, is not facts, is not real.
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Well, here's Nancy Pelosi back in February telling people
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that they should go into Chinatown in San Francisco.
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We know that there is a concern about tourism traveling all throughout the world.
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But we think it's very safe to be in Chinatown and hope that others will come.
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They are making you feel crazy for ever thinking or ever wondering if they didn't take this seriously.
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They want you to believe, as a conservative, that you are the one that is peddling and consuming misinformation
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from Fox News and the president, and that they, they have been exclusively the vigilant keepers of the truth all along.
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If they had a sliver, just a sliver of integrity, they'd say,
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look, we got it wrong, we downplayed it too, we didn't know, they can criticize and critique the president.
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Again, I've said that, that's fine, that's fair game.
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But to pretend like they have been getting it right since the beginning and the president hasn't is lunacy.
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When in fact, the president took this seriously before they did and they criticized him for it.
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I thought that this was going to be no big deal too.
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We were told by the modelers, the messages that were relayed by the media and Dr. Fauci and Dr. Birx,
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and probably from them in good faith, that we are going to run out of beds.
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This is going to be a nightmare that we don't have enough personnel.
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And then the media switched their narrative, switched from this.
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Okay, this isn't that big of a deal in January and February and right-wing media and Trump,
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They're just trying to scare you to March saying, oh, wow, this is a huge deal.
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We've been saying this all along and Trump and Fox News have never been saying it.
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We're the only ones that are going to prevent you and your family from dying.
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Not nearly as many people as they predicted were going to die have died.
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Of course, it's still tragic when even just one person dies.
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That's why my family and I have been socially distancing for over a month now
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and have been taking all of the precautions that we possibly can
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because we do believe in the seriousness of it.
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Even in the epicenter of the disease in New York City,
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they've had all of the ventilators and all of the beds that they've needed.
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In other parts of the country, nurses and doctors or nurses at least are being laid off
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to anticipate a surge that never came or hasn't come yet for these hospitals.
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And so they don't need as many people, as many nurses as they thought they would.
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Cuomo himself, the governor of New York, said the Trump administration has been incredibly
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California's Governor Newsom said the Trump administration has shown effective leadership.
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The media refused to give Trump credit and refused to accept responsibility for their own
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But there are people who are actually in this fight, politicians who are actually in this
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fight saying that Trump is actually being extremely helpful.
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So all of this makes the media hypocrites if we didn't know that already.
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Now, the media are trying to tell you as well that this anti-malaria drug, hydroxychloroquine,
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that has been effective in possibly thousands of patients across the country and even around
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the world and has been highlighted by Trump, is probably going to kill you.
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This is their their next thing that they are trying to push to try to make Trump more culpable
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The New York Times headline says small chloroquine chloroquine study halted over risk of fatal
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CNN heart risk concerns mount around use of chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19
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These two headlines are referencing a small study out of Brazil.
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But this drug has been around for decades and there is anecdotal evidence, at least,
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And the media are focusing exclusively on the side effects.
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That's not to say that they shouldn't report on the side effects, but they are focusing
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Every drug, every treatment, you guys know this, have side effects.
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Have you ever listened to like the last 30 seconds of a prescription drug commercial that
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Chemotherapy has side effects that can be deadly.
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If the president said, hey, chemotherapy, I've seen it work in many cancer patients.
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Would the media then write articles about only the side effects of chemotherapy, that it
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may cause hair loss, nausea, and in some cases might be fatal?
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NBC even surmised that maybe Trump has a financial stake in the use of the drug, which is a conjecture
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It's up to the doctors and the patients to decide what's best with this.
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Trump isn't saying that people have to take this pill.
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The doctors are going to decide that with their patients, like in all things, but the
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media are pretending like Trump is actually going into these hospitals.
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He's taking this medicine and he's putting it down the patient's throats and they're dying
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But again, he wants to make it morally reprehensible for you to vote for him in November.
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So they are trying to pin blame on him however they possibly can.
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That is also why they, and many Democrats, are pushing so hard for the economy to stay
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It's why they don't want there to be a cure or even a vaccine anytime soon.
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They want to create as much pandemonium, as much outrage as possible.
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They want to highlight Trump's failures and downplay his administration's successes so
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that no one gets the hint that maybe he's doing an okay job.
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Could we have been more efficient and effective with our testing process sooner?
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Could we do without Trump's incessant tweeting about ratings and what Fox News host he likes
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But the truth is, things are going better than expected.
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Hospitals have actually been laying people off, like I said.
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So it just hasn't been exactly what we expected.
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The media cannot report on the United States' successes at all.
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Instead, they write articles about how well China is doing.
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Beijing is mounting a humanitarian aid blitz in countries struggling with their own outbreaks.
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In doing so, it's stepping into a role the West wants dominated and praised for totalitarian China.
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Never mind that China lied about the seriousness of the disease, continued to lie about how many people have been infected,
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how many people have died, claimed the disease originated in the United States and was released in China by the U.S. military,
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welded their own people inside their homes so they couldn't leave,
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even the needless, which resulted in the needless deaths of thousands of people.
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Not to mention also that right now they are shutting down house churches.
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And as we speak, there are over a million Muslims that are in concentration camps in China.
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Now, here's a headline from Monday in the Washington Post.
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Africans in China allege racism as fear of new virus cases unleashes xenophobia.
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See, it's even interesting in that Washington Post headline that they aren't actually accusing China of racism,
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They are saying Africans in China allege racism as fear of new virus cases unleash xenophobia.
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The article goes on to say Africans living in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou say they have been evicted from their apartments
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and refused entry to restaurants as part of a xenophobic campaign against black people
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that is ostensibly aimed at curbing the transmission of the novel coronavirus.
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Here is another huge change in the narrative from our beloved mainstream media on February 17th.
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The Washington Post ran an article titled Tom Cotton Keeps Repeating a Coronavirus Conspiracy Theory That Was Already Debunked.
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That's not an opinion piece that is in the political section of the Washington Post.
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Senator Tom Cotton, Republican from Arkansas, repeated a fringe theory suggesting that the ongoing spread of a coronavirus
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is connected to research in the disease-ravaged epicenter of Wuhan, China.
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Cotton referenced a laboratory in the city, the Wuhan National Biosafety Laboratory,
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in an interview on Fox News' Sunday Morning Futures.
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He said the lab was near a market some scientists initially thought was a starting point for the virus' spread.
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We don't know where it originated, and we have to get to the bottom of that, Cotton said.
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We also know that just a few miles away from that food market is China's only biosafety level 4 superlaboratory
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Now, recently, or just a couple days ago, there was another article in the Washington Post
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that says in response to Cotton's remarks, as well as in previous interviews with the Washington Post,
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numerous experts dismissed the possibility the coronavirus may be man-made.
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Now, yesterday, the Post published an article by Josh Rogan arguing that there is a big possibility
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that the coronavirus is, in fact, a result of a lab accident in Wuhan.
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So exactly what Senator Tom Cotton said, exactly what the Washington Post said is ridiculous,
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Apparently, in 2018, U.S. officials in China warned about this lab and said it was not secure,
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said that there was a possibility of some kind of leak of a virus like coronavirus
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The article says the Chinese government, meanwhile,
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has put a total lockdown on information related to the virus origins.
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Beijing has yet to provide U.S. experts with samples of the novel coronavirus collected from
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The Shanghai lab that published the novel coronavirus genome on January 11th
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was quickly shut down by authorities for, quote, rectification.
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Several of the doctors and journalists who reported on the spread early on have disappeared.
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On February 14th, Chinese President Xi Jinping called for a new biosecurity law to be accelerated.
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On Wednesday, CNN reported the Chinese government has placed severe restrictions requiring approval
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before any research institution publishes anything on the origin of the novel coronavirus.
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Definitely doesn't sound like it was in a lab or anything, that there was any kind of lab accident.
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So I really look forward to the Washington Post and all of the media outlets that castigated
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that made fun of Tom Cotton for suggesting that maybe it was a lab accident.
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He said that's a possibility, which it is a possibility, but he said it could have originated
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It could have leaked in all of these Twitter blue check marks.
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And of course, the Washington Post said this is totally debunked and dragged him through the mud.
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So I look forward to all of these people apologizing to Tom Cotton now that we know that there is
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for sure evidence that it probably did originate there.
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I'm very thankful for everyone who has taken the personal responsibility
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responsibility to stay at home and to socially distance and all of that.
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And like I said, my family and I have been doing that and taking it very seriously.
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But that does not mean that the media isn't leveraging this to try to hurt Donald Trump
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and to try to paint everyone who questions the mainstream narrative in a bad and in a harmful light.
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It's okay for us to say, yeah, socially distancing is a good idea.
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But I don't like that civil liberties are being suspended in all of this.
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Just another reminder that the media is not on your side
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and they do put themselves as an adversary to the American people.
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So the Washington Post tweeted about a reverend or a pastor that claimed that God was bigger
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than the coronavirus and they seemingly gleefully tweeted that he had died.
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So the Washington Post tweeted this prominent Virginia pastor who said,
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God is larger than this dreaded virus dies of COVID-19.
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So obviously what they're trying to depict for you in that tweet is the irony in a person of faith,
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They're trying to, they've got a little tongue in cheek there.
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They've got a little smirk as they're writing this tweet about this Virginia pastor dying.
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You said that God is bigger than the coronavirus.
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What they're trying to say is that, ha ha, he has been proved wrong.
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And you people of faith who think that God is in control all of this, when you end up dying,
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But they're so secular and stupid that they don't understand that this pastor dying of the coronavirus
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It doesn't actually discount the fact that God is bigger than the coronavirus.
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And if they had any scintilla of wisdom or biblical knowledge or theological savvy at all,
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they would understand that someone dying of the coronavirus doesn't undermine their faith in God.
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They die of all kinds of diseases and sicknesses and of natural disasters.
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That doesn't mean that we think that God is not sovereign, that he's not good,
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that he's not in control because for the Christian, dying isn't the worst thing that can happen to you.
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We still believe, even if millions of people died from the coronavirus,
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that doesn't mean that God isn't bigger than the coronavirus.
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Maybe you should listen to some of my podcasts, The Washington Post,
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and you would understand a little bit about the sovereignty of God.
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Instead of subtly laughing at the fact that a person of faith has died from the coronavirus,
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maybe you could have just a shred, a shred of decency for just a second.
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But unfortunately, there has been an uptick in persecution against Christians,
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There was a church recently that they tried to gather for just a drive-in service,
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and there were nails all over the parking lot and in the entrance to the church
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because people apparently think that this is a good time to drive even more hate against people of faith.
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Oh man, it's a crazy time that we're living in,
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but I just wanted to make sure that you were updated on that.
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We've been taking a break, trying to give you a little bit of a reprieve
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from all of the crazy stuff that's been going on,
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but I just wanted to, I just had to lay this all out there because it's driving me crazy.