Tuesday's debate for the 2020 presidential election between President Donald Trump and former vice president Joe Biden was moderated by establishment Chris Wallace.
Biden made the expected charge from Bob Woodward's book that President Donald Trump knew in late February that COVID-19 was already a serious threat.
Trump did not warn the American people that COVID-19 presented a threat.
In left-wing logic, QED. Trump said on tape with Bob Woodward then that he wanted to downplay the virus so people would not panic.
Biden joined the finger-pointing to the effect that Trump intentionally misled the American people by not letting them know.
Biden fails the first fact-check: on January 31, 2020, Donald Trump declared a national public health emergency.
Trump's hidden knowledge that the pandemic stirring in China could present a danger was one of the worst kept secrets in Washington, D.C. After clearly sounding the alarm, Trump then tried to temper the panic with reassuring words, saying, in effect, "We will get through this." Like Franklin Delano Roosevelt, he wanted to convey that "We have nothing to fear but fear itself." True, Trump lacks the poetry of an FDR or Churchill.
Wednesday, September 30, 2020
Fact-checking Biden: Did Trump lie to the American people about COVID?
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