Ep. 525 - Locked Down Or Locked Up？
Summary
The White House wants to hold us prisoner for another 18 months while prosecutors dish out felony charges to formerly free Americans who have the goal to go outside for a walk. The problem is, they don t have a cure for coronavirus.
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Our exalted experts want to hold us prisoner to coronavirus for another 18 months
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while prosecutors dish out felony charges to formerly free Americans who have the goal to go outside for a walk.
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We will examine the junk science behind the most outrageous political power grab of our lifetime.
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Then, China infiltrates a White House press briefing.
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President Trump threatens to cut funding to the World Health Organization.
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And Joe Biden steps up and addresses the nation about his weakness for Fig Newtons.
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I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
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Then it was going to be another two weeks after that.
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And Zeke Emanuel, Ari Emanuel's brother, Rahm Emanuel's brother, one of the architects of Obamacare,
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says that we could be locked up for another 18 months while we wait for a vaccine for the coronavirus.
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You know, even the rosy numbers coming out of the White House, we hear from Larry Kudlow.
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He's saying it could be another four to eight weeks.
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Now, we're hearing it could be as much as 18 months.
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Here is that Obamacare architect telling us why we've got to all hunker down for a year and a half.
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Realistically, COVID-19 will be here for the next 18 months or more.
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We will not be able to return to normalcy until we find a vaccine or effective medications.
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How are people supposed to find work if this goes on in some form for a year and a half?
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Is all that economic pain worth trying to stop COVID-19?
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If we prematurely end that physical distancing and the other measures keeping it at bay,
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deaths could skyrocket into the hundreds of thousands, if not a million.
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We cannot return to normal until there's a vaccine.
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Conferences, concerts, sporting events, religious services, dinner in a restaurant.
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None of that will resume until we find a vaccine, a treatment, or a cure.
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In that case, respectfully, how about you go stuff it, guy?
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Stop telling us, based on faulty models, that we can't do anything that we want to do,
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and we've got to listen to you and do exactly what you say.
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If these guys had been right from the beginning, then they would have a lot of credibility now.
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I'm not saying that we have to be against quarantines per se.
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I'm not saying that we can't suffer economic hardship if there's an epidemic.
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The trouble is, these guys have been wrong from the very beginning, okay?
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And we cannot be shut down and locked up inside of our apartments under threat of prosecution for 18 months.
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We were locked down for, what, two or three weeks?
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And in order to deal with that, the Congress had to pass the largest stimulus measure ever.
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We needed to come up with $6 trillion in relief.
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Two trillion passed by Congress, another four trillion levered up by the Fed, just to get us through a few weeks.
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How much money are we going to need to spend for 18 months?
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We could probably buy the Green New Deal two or three times if we were to get through all of that.
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Which, of course, we cannot because that's not how economies work.
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Second reason that won't work, the models have been wrong.
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We were told, time and time again, two million Americans are going to die, right?
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Or more than two million Americans, maybe, from coronavirus.
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We were told, even if we follow all the great measures and the social distancing and wear the masks,
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A few hundred thousand, at least, if not half a million, if not a million.
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Right now, at what we're being told is the peak of the virus,
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more Americans died from swine flu under Barack Obama than have died so far from the coronavirus.
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Even if we are peaking and we're on the downside of the slope,
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more people died from swine 09 than have died so far from COVID-19.
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So let's say, the number right now is about 12, 13,000.
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Let's say the number gets up to 30,000 or 40,000 or 50,000 or 100,000 even.
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Those are numbers that are similar to the number of deaths we see each year from drug overdoses.
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And who knows how the drug overdose deaths are going to be affected by this.
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When there's economic collapse, guess what goes right through the roof?
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So the very people who sold us the bogus models are the ones telling us that we now need to remain locked up for a year and a half.
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So, first two reasons that we can't remain locked down for 18 months.
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Third reason is we have medicines and treatments for coronavirus.
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Zeke Emanuel said we can't reopen until we have medicine and treatment for coronavirus.
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We have multiple medicines that are in the works, probably most notably hydroxychloroquine,
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which the left, by the way, is still trying to cover up.
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We'll get to that in just a little bit because the New York Times is behaving even more egregiously
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than usual when it comes to this drug that has shown great promise at treating coronavirus.
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And until we have a vaccine, we have a drug that has been shown time and time again.
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So many doctors, we've played a number of them on this show, who say that that drug is working.
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So, we check that box and yet this expert still wants to drag it on 18 months.
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The fourth and final and most important reason that we cannot lock down for 18 months more
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is that this is the most insane political power grab that we have seen in our lifetimes ever.
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A Hamilton County prosecutor, Joe Dieters, is now not only ordering people to stay at home.
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He's now saying that if you go out, go for a walk, violate your stay at home order,
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you will be arrested, you will be charged with a felony, you can, quote, sit your butt in jail,
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I don't care, but you're not going to kill my kids and you're not going to kill my neighbor's kids.
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I'm done with this nonsense, so we'll see what happens.
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This lunatic, who, by the way, is wrong on the facts because the coronavirus has not been shown
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So, the safest people from coronavirus are children.
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But what he is saying is that if you, a free American, have the gall, the audacity to walk outside,
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Yeah, you can go sit in jail and kill yourself because otherwise you might kill people.
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At the same time as government officials around the country are releasing violent criminals,
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in New York, in a jail, they released child rapists because they didn't want the jails to be overcrowded.
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This schmuck is arresting people, charging them with felonies, throwing them in jails for going for a walk.
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He says, I told the chief to charge him with felonious assault.
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I'm telling you, at least now, the guy is going to stop.
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Now, he got even more specific because you think, okay, well, maybe people don't need to go to bars or clubs or things like that.
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But surely there's got to be some exception, right?
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There's got to be some exception for, say, if you go to church, right?
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No, actually, Joe Dieters says, if I was the governor, I would tell these churches the first attendees at your church is going to be the National Guard
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But if it applies to these kids in over the Rhine, it should apply to those churches, too, and they need to just stop it.
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So, first of all, just on a theological point, he's wrong, okay?
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For certain denominations and certain religious groups, you can just do it at home.
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For churches that recognize the sacraments, most notably the Catholic church, but Protestant denominations, too,
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And not only is it ignorant of the religion, it's ignorant of our tradition of religious liberty and liberty generally.
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He had the police arrest Rashawn Davis, this guy who decided to walk outside.
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Had the police just arrest him, charge him with a felony.
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It's not just big talk with this guy, Joe Dieters.
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He's got mostly conservative political positions.
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It's not as though he's some deranged left winger.
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However, what's so scary about this power grab is that it's corrupting even conservatives, even right-wingers.
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It's corrupting people in government because they are stealing absurd, unprecedented power in many cases.
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And something tells me they're not going to want to give it back quite so easily.
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The point is, this shutdown is not without consequence, okay?
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There are many hidden costs to the quarantine, not just to our economy, but to our government.
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Not just to our government, but our way of life, to our politics, and not the least of all, to lives.
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There are consequences to lives of the quarantine.
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People will die because some demagogues and experts and politicians are trying to save people.
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Andy Cuomo in New York, he said, if everything we do saves just one life, it will have been worth it.
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Let's take a look at just one effect of this alarmism and this quarantine and this hysteria to see if it's worth it.
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Illinois, there is a man living with his girlfriend.
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He's afraid that his girlfriend has the coronavirus.
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So she goes, she gets tested for the coronavirus.
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Before they get the test results, the man kills his girlfriend and kills himself.
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This is according to the sheriff's office in Will County, Illinois.
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Murder, suicide, because he was so afraid of getting the coronavirus.
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Was he afraid that they would both have it and die in misery?
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Was he completely ignorant of the statistics and the reality of this virus?
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Maybe because it was so hyped up by demagogues in the media and in politics?
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Now, all I know is we got two bodies now lying on the ground because of the alarmism.
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So, look, I don't do this kind of utilitarian math, but Andy Cuomo apparently does.
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So you got the one life that you've saved from the coronavirus.
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Does Andrew Cuomo still think that it was worth it?
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This is not just one random case in Illinois, or I suppose it is a random case.
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It's not just a standalone though, because we know when there are economic downturns, suicide goes up.
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We know, as we said earlier, drug abuse goes up.
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By the way, we don't even really know how many people have died from the virus.
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So, even if we were going to try to do this Andy Cuomo kind of math, where you save one life and it's all worth it,
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but what about if you lose one life on the other side?
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Even if we were going to do that, we don't know how many people have died from the coronavirus.
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That's according to Dr. Birx yesterday at the White House.
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We know that now because she told us that deaths from coronavirus are being recorded,
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in her words, in the most liberal way possible.
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So, in other words, if anybody dies with the coronavirus,
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then they are going to be recorded as dying from the coronavirus.
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So, I think in this country, we've taken a very liberal approach to mortality.
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And I think the reporting here has been pretty straightforward over the last five to six weeks.
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Prior to that, when there wasn't testing in January and February, that's a very different situation and unknown.
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There are other countries that if you had a pre-existing condition,
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and let's say the virus called you to go to the ICU and then have a heart or kidney problem,
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some countries are recording that as a heart issue or a kidney issue and not a COVID-19 death.
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And we all, I mean, the great thing about having forms that come in
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and a form that has the ability to mark it as COVID-19 infection,
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the intent is right now that those, if someone dies with COVID-19, we are counting that as a COVID-19 death.
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It might not seem like it does because you say,
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well, look, I'm sure the COVID-19 didn't help the condition.
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According to the New York City data, 65.5% of New Yorkers who have died from coronavirus
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And these pre-existing conditions usually are pretty serious.
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Specifically, we're talking about diabetes, lung disease, cancer, immunodeficiency, heart disease,
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hypertension, asthma, kidney disease, and GI liver disease.
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Okay, another 32.6% of New Yorkers who have died still have pre-existing conditions pending.
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We don't know whether or not they had pre-existing conditions.
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Do you know how many people who died of COVID-19 in New York were confirmed not to have pre-existing conditions?
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Anyway, if 46 people who are otherwise healthy drop dead because of a pandemic that was started in China
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that came here and took us all by surprise, that's a scary number.
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But it's a very different number than if thousands of people in New York are dying from that, right?
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This is not to say that some lives are more valuable than others.
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This is not to say that we should throw the old and the frail off a cliff.
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What this tells us, though, is how virulent the disease is and if the virulence of the disease matches what we're being told in the media.
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If somebody with stage 4 pancreatic cancer who does not have a good prognosis, who's got weeks, maybe a month or two to live,
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contracts coronavirus and dies in the hospital,
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do we really believe that that death is caused primarily by the coronavirus?
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But because of the liberal way, to use Dr. Birx's terms, that the deaths are being recorded,
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So it will, if anything, inflate the numbers, and it could inflate the numbers of coronavirus deaths pretty significantly.
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This method of recording the data gives a lot of cover to politicians,
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gives a lot of cover to alarmists who have shut down the global economy
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and then now it looks pretty clear that 2 million Americans are not going to die.
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The number could be significantly lower, in an order of magnitude lower or even more so.
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Now, this method of recording seems to have a lot more to do with politics than it does with medical science.
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It seems to me that the more good news we get about this pandemic,
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the more alarmist the media want to be to try to prove that they were right all along.
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Best example of this is the medicine that has been treating coronavirus.
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There are lots of different medicines out there that might be useful for coronavirus.
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But the one that always comes to mind is hydroxychloroquine.
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That is the drug that was touted by medical doctors,
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by initially some in the media, by Governor Andrew Cuomo in New York,
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Hydroxychloroquine has just been shown to be very effective.
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And the reason it's so helpful is because it's already been approved by the FDA for malaria.
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It's a drug that we have a lot of, it's cheap, we can produce quickly,
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and we know that it doesn't kill you because it's been safe to use for other diseases,
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Because how are they going to raise the alarm bells?
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How is this going to be this massive, unprecedented, endless pandemic if we've got a medicine for it?
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So the New York Times is taking every shot they can.
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You know they've been going after him for hydroxychloroquine now for weeks.
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They've been trying to get him to shut up about this drug.
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So the headline yesterday, you have four New York Times reporters on this.
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Peter Baker, Katie Rogers, David Enrich, and Maggie Haberman.
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Maggie Haberman, Hillary Clinton's favorite journalist.
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Headline is, Trump's aggressive advocacy of malaria drug for treating coronavirus divides medical community.
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Well, I think the doctors who want to help their patients don't seem divided on it.
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Maybe they count themselves in the New York Times as part of the medical community.
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Maybe they count narrative doctors or doctors of narrative medicine like the person who wrote in the New York Times yesterday.
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So the article doesn't even spend too much time on the efficacy of the drug.
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The real political hit job in this essay is trying to suggest that President Trump has corrupt motives for promoting the drug.
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So they say some associates of Mr. Trump's have financial interests in the issue.
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Sanofi's largest shareholders include Fisher Asset Management, the investment company run by Ken Fisher, a major donor to Republicans, including Mr. Trump, a spokesman for Mr. Fisher, declined to comment.
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So what's notable here is they've tried to tie hydroxychloroquine to Donald Trump, but they can't do it very well.
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So they say, you know, he's got a little bit of a stake in a company that has a stake in a company that has a stake in a company in hydroxychloroquine.
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So they realize their better attack is going to be to go after Trump's friends.
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So if Trump's friends have any investment in a company that invests in a company that ever once invested in hydroxychloroquine, then they're going to say this is corruption.
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As of last year, Mr. Trump reported that his three family trusts each had investments in a Dodge and Cox mutual fund whose largest holding was in Sanofi.
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Sanofi is this company that I guess produces hydroxychloroquine, except Ashley Cox, a Sanofi spokeswoman, said that the company no longer sells or distributes Plaquenil, which is the brand name of hydroxychloroquine, in the United States, although it does not sell it internationally.
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So, or although it does sell it internationally.
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So they're saying, okay, so Trump has some investment in a mutual fund that invests in this company, Sanofi, which used to distribute a drug called Plaquenil,
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which is the brand name of hydroxychloroquine in the United States, but they don't distribute it anymore.
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So basically, it's total corruption, and he's just trying to fill his pockets.
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Then, they go on, they say, several generic drug makers are gearing up to produce hydroxychloroquine pills, including Amniel Pharmaceutics, whose co-founder, Shirag Patel, is a member of Trump National Golf Course, Bedminster, in New Jersey.
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So, they can't really, I mean, look, anybody who has a 401k invests in some company that invests in some company that maybe has some drug.
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So, they know that that's not going to stick on Trump.
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So, now they're saying that there are other companies that are working on this drug, which, by the way, undercuts their first argument, because the first argument is Trump's cornering the market, right?
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If other companies are producing it, then he's not filling his pockets.
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But the other companies are producing it, and they're saying, this is corrupt because one of the companies that's working on it has an investment by a company, by an investor, by a fund.
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And one of the people who invests in this is a member of one of the Trump golf clubs.
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If that is the best they've got, they need to just shut down the New York Times right now.
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Oh, my gosh, it's so long to tell you that bombshell that a member of one of Trump's golf clubs has an investment in a fund that invests in a company that isn't right now producing all the hydroxychloroquine, but maybe, maybe will eventually.
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And then I looked, this was, this was even more fun.
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I looked to see how much money Trump had invested, because this thing was blowing up.
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Kyle Griffin, MSNBC news producer, tweeted out this New York Times article.
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Aaron Rupar from Vox.com, serious investigative journalist.
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By the way, even George Conway, Kellyanne Conway's husband, who is a major Trump critic, even he admitted this was pretty weak.
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But you had all the hacks were tweeting about it.
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So I looked, I wanted to see how much money Trump had invested in hydroxychloroquine.
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How much money do you think he invested in hydroxychloroquine, if you look at the percentage of his investment in the fund, in the fund, in the company, in the drug?
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So Trump's investment in the company that produces hydroxychloroquine, or that doesn't currently in the United States, but used to, is at most $1,350.
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He's using a pandemic to promote a company that used to promote this drug, that used to produce this drug, that's going to be used, so that he can turn his $1,350 investment into a $2,000 investment?
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Because we don't know exactly how much of the company he could own.
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At the lower end, the investment could be worth as little as $90.
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He's going to use a global pandemic to bring his $90 investment up to $120.
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He's going to make a cool 30 bucks, and then he's going to treat everybody to ice cream afterwards at the White House.
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So that attack failed spectacularly from the New York Times.
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So when that failed, the press decided to attack him for possible negative health consequences from the medicine.
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He didn't just go after the media on the facts.
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And that's the thing we're all going to have to do if we don't want to keep ourselves locked up for the next 18 months.
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So when the media can't nail Trump for the corruption of investing $90 in hydroxychloroquine,
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they are going after the health effects of hydroxychloroquine itself.
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So at Trump's daily press briefing, where he's his own press secretary, they asked him about this yesterday, about the side effects,
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about how we shouldn't be so quick to administer this drug to dying patients.
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With millions of pills of hydroxychloroquine donated, is there a plan or system in place to track the potential side effects?
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So you know that this is already going to be some unfair questioning because she gets the question out.
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Hey, are you guys tracking the side effects of this drug?
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And then President Trump starts to answer and she keeps interrupting him.
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And the side effects and the side effects and there are going to be all these side effects.
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Because they're so upset, they're so crestfallen that the drug is working.
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They're so upset that people are getting better.
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Because then it can't be Trump's fault and Trump can't be responsible for killing a million people.
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Ah, they were sure they were going to get him this time.
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The Russia thing didn't work and the taxes didn't work and the Ukraine thing.
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They impeached him over Ukraine in a phone call.
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Drats foiled again because he's promoting a drug that's working.
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So now all they've got left is they say, what about the side effects?
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And President Trump gives what I think is the perfect answer to it.
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He gives the answer not merely in scientific and medical terms, but in narrative terms.
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A woman last night, I watched her on one of the shows, good show, Laura.
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She was just in horrible shape for 12 days, 14 days.
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And I think she said that her doctor said she's, you know, it's going to be very tough.
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She saw me talking about this and she asked her husband to go to the drugstore.
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Now, this is a Democrat representative, a person that, you know, perhaps wouldn't be voting for me.
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I think she'll be voting for me now, even if she's a Democrat, even if she's a Democrat representative.
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Now, you know, it's, it's, I don't say it works like this at all.
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Four hours later, she awoke and she said, I feel better.
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This is a woman that thought she was going to die.
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Her manner of speaking, her, the way she told the story was beautiful.
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President Trump is flipping the left's narrative on them.
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The left's narrative this whole time from Andy Cuomo to Zeke Emanuel,
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to the experts, to the media, to the politicians.
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If you, if you even so much as question what they're doing, you want people to die.
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If you oppose shutting down the global economy, you want people to die.
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If you oppose arresting people for leaving their homes, you want people to die.
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They say, if you support giving people access to the medicine that'll save their lives,
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you want people to die because of hypothetical side effects or something that don't even exist.
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Just yesterday was talking about how, if you support giving people this medicine,
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you want other people to die because there is a hypothetical shortage of the medicine
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for people who have lupus, even though there's no evidence of that shortage at all.
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None of that is true, but that is the narrative they're pushing out.
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So Donald Trump, master of narrative, flips the narrative on its head.
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He says, if you oppose giving people this drug, then you want people to die.
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And he picked probably the perfect character to destroy the left-wing's narrative here
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because we're talking about a democratic politician.
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This was a democratic representative who was on death's door and then takes the drug and now is all better.
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Not just a democratic representative, a woman, not just a democratic woman, a democratic black woman.
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I mean, it checks every intersectional box that the left talks about all the time with identity politics.
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So now Trump is saying, if you oppose giving people this medicine,
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you want a black female democratic politician to die.
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Totally fair, above board, no punches below the belt.
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But we've got to be able to counter their narratives as well.
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He was pretty brutal in this press briefing all around.
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You see these motifs coming back in all the press briefings.
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He'll talk about the cure and the drug and giving people some hope.
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He'll talk about how serious it is so we can't just reopen tomorrow.
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And yesterday, that reporter was a young man who asked about how this is all affecting
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the price of oil and what our energy response is going to be to this.
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So the kid barely gets his question out before President Trump corners him and asks him a
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simple question, a question, unfortunately, that he couldn't answer.
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How can you ask a question when you don't know the price?
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And he, he made the unlucky mistake of not preparing for that one part of the question.
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Because, look, I don't, again, I don't want to be unfair to this reporter.
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He might have just not looked up the number beforehand.
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If he says, I want to, I was just checking on oil and I want to ask you about oil.
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It's pretty important information if you want me to give you my answer on oil.
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If the reporters know that he's going to grill them, then they're not going to be so loose
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You know, it's actually the same justification that we have for having the reporters in the
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We have reporters ask tough questions so that we keep the politicians on their toes.
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Otherwise, the reporters are going to take advantage.
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Second reason is it shows to everybody out here that contrary to the media narrative,
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President Trump actually knows a lot more about what's going on than all these media people
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who are condescending to him and who are criticizing him and who are mocking him.
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What this shows, when it's just him and the reporters, unvarnished, live TV, it shows that
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Trump knows a lot more than our self-appointed elites in the mainstream media do.
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You don't get that when you just watch pre-recorded left-wing cable news.
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You don't get that when you just read the New York Times.
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And it's why it's important for Donald Trump to humiliate these reporters on occasion.
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He's got to do it fairly, and this was a fair way to do it.
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But the press comes out there every day and tries to unfairly humiliate Trump.
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And so Trump's got to give it back to them, and then the people can decide.
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There was some news that came out of the briefing yesterday, beyond Dr. Birx, who said that
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we're going to be recording these deaths in a way that's going to compromise our data,
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The most important news that President Trump broke is that the United States is planning
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The WHO, that's the World Health Organization, receives vast amounts of money from the United
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And we pay for a majority, the biggest portion of their money.
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And they actually criticized and disagreed with my travel ban at the time I did it.
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And they had a lot of information early, and they didn't want to do very — they seemed
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We pay for — we give a majority of the money that they get.
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And we're going to put a hold on money spent to the WHO.
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The World Health Organization, the WHO, is a mouthpiece for the Chinese communist government.
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I mean, I mean, I mean, this is not a conspiracy.
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This is — you can look exactly to the dates when they appointed their own lackey to run
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And it's a communist politician that was specifically requested by the Chinese government.
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And as payback for that, this guy has been carrying water for them.
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Totally ignored the warning signs of the pandemic.
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Didn't even send experts over there until February, despite the outbreak happening in China,
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As we might find out, it was even earlier than that.
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Actually, the most intense, passionate campaign they've waged during this whole pandemic was
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to get President Trump and other people to stop calling it the Chinese coronavirus because
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they wanted to hide China's culpability in all of this.
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An egregious organization that has not only failed, but has really carried propaganda for
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Speaking of China, China infiltrated a White House press briefing.
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A reporter, this was not yesterday's briefing, but the day before, a reporter kept pestering
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Trump with questions about China and all the good that China's doing and how China's helping
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And so President Trump just flat out asked this person, said, what outlet are you with?
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Are you with an outlet that is with the Chinese government?
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And Trump was absolutely pilloried for this in the mainstream media as a racist, as a
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And you can hear in Trump's voice, he doesn't quite believe it.
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Just because this woman looks Chinese and sounds Chinese, you're asking if she's working
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He was asking because it sure sounded like she was asking questions that were nice to
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I don't think he was doing it because of how she looked or sounded.
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I think he was doing it, not primarily at least, I think he was doing it primarily because
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she was asking questions that any Chinese propagandist would ask.
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So then she says, no, I'm, I'm with an independent outlet, the Phoenix.
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So, and you Google that outlet and it turns out she lied.
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Actually, she is working for the Chinese government.
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Actually, the Chinese government owns a lot of that news operation.
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And it turns out Donald Trump was totally right.
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And a Chinese propagandist infiltrated the White House press briefing, which, look, these
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Subversive left-wing governments use the press.
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I mean, you know, our own subversive left-wing politicians use the press here, even here in
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And the knee-jerk reaction to say that everything Trump does is wrong and bigoted and terrible,
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even for members of our own press, is a pretty egregious thing in the face of a pandemic that
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And yet they're defending the Chinese propagandists in the briefing room.
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So President Trump talked about a few other things in these briefings.
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He mentioned yesterday that he spoke to Joe Biden.
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And one thing I really liked about this is Joe Biden wanted to have a phone call with
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And I said on the show a few days ago, I liked how Trump handled it.
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Because we were all wondering, what's Joe going to offer on this phone call?
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He's going to solve the pandemic that Trump is already doing a pretty good job of solving?
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Because while Trump is solving this unprecedented global pandemic,
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But you're not allowed to compare this to the flu anyway.
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Joe Biden is quarantined at home, forgetting his own name,
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Because it's the only medium that he can work in, right?
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It's a medium where he can have his voice sped up.
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this is the actual trailer put out by the Biden campaign,
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is to talk about how much he loves Fig Newton cookies.
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And, you know, you can buy little packs of them
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and I get them on the planes when I fly back and forth.
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But the thing that is, the thing that everybody makes fun of me,
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that when in doubt, I have a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
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But I learned everybody was making fun of that.
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And I found out John Kerry has the same addiction,
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Peanut butter and jelly sandwich is always good.
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But my daughter and I enjoyed it when you were in Michigan
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I don't even know how I can go on with the show
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That's the trailer that the Biden campaign used.
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I don't think that we want that guy to become the president.
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I don't think that we want to give that guy a lot of power.
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the largest political power grab in our lifetimes
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and the most important and incisive commentary he can muster
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Fortunately, President Trump is doing a good job.
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but even closer, not eight weeks, not even four weeks.
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We've seen a lot of promise on the medical front,
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The president might even come out of this looking better,
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