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'We were told to trust Fauci's bureaucrat, who ruled our lives but got >everything wrong'

I only trust Trump. Too bad the vaccines turned his mind to mush. He's
so easily manipulated now, he's worse than a 3 year-old child.

12 of Trump’s worst coronavirus contradictions
Over the past two months, President Trump has denied saying things he previously said about the coronavirus at least seven times. (JM
Rieger/The Washington Post)
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By
Aaron Blake
April 23, 2020 at 7:31 p.m. UTC
After begging off a question earlier this week about Georgia Gov. Brian
Kemp’s attempt to reopen his state’s economy, President Trump on
Wednesday reversed course and weighed in against it.
“I disagree strongly with his decision to open up facilities which are in violation of the Phase I guidelines,” Trump said, referring to federal guidelines for reopening states’ economies. Trump said that it remained
Kemp’s call but that the Republican governor’s decision was “too soon.”
It was a significant statement from a president who has himself been
eager to begin the process of reopening states. And it also came after
Trump previously offered very different comments — ones that vouched for
Kemp’s actions.
“He’s a very capable man,” Trump said just a day earlier when asked about
the situation in Georgia. “He knows what he’s doing.”
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But it was hardly the first time Trump has offered mixed messages — and
even directly contradictory ones — on the coronavirus situation. As the outbreak has spread, Trump has often reversed himself and said things
that bear no resemblance to previous statements he’s made.
Below are 11 more examples of his uneven commentary on the virus.
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His ‘total’ authority vs. governors ‘calling your shots’
BEFORE
April 13: “The authority of the president of the United States, having to
do with the subject we’re talking about, is total.” “I have the ultimate authority” on reopening the economy. “The president of the United States
calls the shots.”
AFTER
April 16: “You are going to call your own shots.” “You’re going to be
calling your shots.”
The flu comparison
BEFORE
Feb. 26: “This is a flu. This is like a flu.” “Now, you treat this like a
flu.” “It’s a little like the regular flu that we have flu shots for.”
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AFTER
March 31: “It’s not the flu. It’s vicious.”
April 22: “Flu is very different from corona.”
On this being a pandemic
BEFORE
Jan. 22: On whether he was worried about a pandemic: “No, we’re not at
all. And we have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China.”
AFTER
March 17: “I’ve always known this … is a pandemic. I’ve felt it was a
pandemic long before it was called a pandemic.”
On having ‘control’ over it
BEFORE
Jan. 22: “We have it totally under control.”
Jan. 30: “We think we have it very well under control.”
Feb. 24: “The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA.”

Donald J. Trump
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@realDonaldTrump
The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA. We are in
contact with everyone and all relevant countries. CDC & World Health have
been working hard and very smart. Stock Market starting to look very good
to me!
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Feb. 25: “You may ask about the coronavirus, which is very well under
control in our country.”
March 15: “It’s something that we have tremendous control over.”
AFTER
March 16: “If you’re talking about the virus, no, that’s not under
control for any place in the world. … I was talking about what we’re
doing is under control, but I’m not talking about the virus.”
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China’s handling of the virus
BEFORE
Jan. 24: “The United States greatly appreciates their efforts and transparency.”
Feb. 7: Chinese President Xi Jinping is “strong, sharp and powerfully
focused on leading the counterattack on the Coronavirus.”

Donald J. Trump
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@realDonaldTrump
Just had a long and very good conversation by phone with President Xi
of China. He is strong, sharp and powerfully focused on leading the counterattack on the Coronavirus. He feels they are doing very well, even building hospitals in a matter of only days. Nothing is easy, but...
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Feb. 7: On whether he was concerned China was covering up the spread of
the virus: “No. China is working very hard.”
AFTER
April 15: “Do you really believe those numbers in this vast country
called China. … Does anybody really believe that?”
April 17: “We don’t have the-most-in-the-world deaths. The most in the
world has to be China.” (China’s official numbers are lower than the
United States’s, though there are very valid questions about their
accuracy.)
The success of testing
BEFORE
March 6: “Anybody that needs a test, gets a test. They’re there. They
have the tests. And the tests are beautiful.” “The tests are all perfect,
like the [Ukraine] letter was perfect — the transcription was perfect,
right? This was not as perfect as that, but pretty good.”
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March 12: “Frankly, the testing has been going very smooth.”
AFTER
April 21: “Testing is good in some cases, and in some cases it’s not.”
The media’s coverage of the virus
BEFORE
Feb. 28: “You wonder if the press is in hysteria mode.”
AFTER
April 13: Trump plays a bunch of video clips of media members downplaying
the coronavirus, with the headline, “The media minimized the risk from
the start.”
On calling it the ‘Chinese virus’
BEFORE
March 18: “It’s not racist at all. No, not at all. It comes from China.
That’s why. It comes from China. I want to be accurate.”
AFTER
March 24: “Look, everyone knows it came out of China, but I decided we shouldn’t make any more of a big deal out of it. I think I’ve made a big
deal. I think people understand it.”
March 26: “It got out there and I started calling it the Chinese virus,
and everybody picked it up. And, you know, I’m not looking to do that.
Look, it’s better to have a good relationship.”
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March 26: “This was a Chinese virus. But I don’t have to say it, if they
feel so strongly about it.”
On New York’s need for ventilators
BEFORE
March 26: “I don’t believe you need 40,000 or 30,000 ventilators.”
AFTER
March 29: After it was noted that he’s said that governors don’t actually
need the equipment they ask for, “I didn’t say that. Come on.”
AFTER THAT
April 17: “[New York Gov. Andrew] Cuomo ridiculously wanted ‘40 thousand Ventilators.’ We gave him a small fraction of that number, and it was
plenty.”

Donald J. Trump
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@realDonaldTrump
Cuomo ridiculously wanted “40 thousand Ventilators”. We gave him a
small fraction of that number, and it was plenty. State should have had
them in stockpile!
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Pulling back on WHO funding
BEFORE
April 7: “We’re going to put a hold on money spent to the [World Health Organization]. We’re going to put a very powerful hold on it.”
AFTER
April 7, 17 minutes later: “I mean, I’m not saying I’m going to do it,
but we’re going to look at it.”
On chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine being a ‘game changer’
BEFORE
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March 19: “We think it has a very serious — a very good impact on what
we’re talking about with respect to the virus. So you’ll take a look at
that. Then you can coordinate with us. But I think, to me, that’s a game changer.”
AFTER
April 21: After a Veterans Affairs study indicated the treatment could be counterproductive, “I don’t know of the report. Obviously, there have
been some very good reports, and perhaps this one is not a good report.
But we’ll be looking at it.”

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