REX TILLERSON DID CORRECTLY CALL THE PRESIDENT AS HE SAW HIM

 BEING A PATHOLOGICAL LIAR IS APPARENTLY,  A TRUMP FAMILY TRAIT

 

…Don Jr. is sounding more and more like his dad

 

If the president is the “Liar-in-Chief, what do we call Don Jr. ?

 

It’s one thing to have the “Commander-in-Chief” as a consistent “Liar-in-Chief”, but to then have the president’s family members also being consistent liars, I guess that just completes a full family circle.  But to lie about the number of tragic coronavirus deaths, that is just disgusting.

Donald Trump Jr. declared on Fox News to the also, less-than-honest, Laura Ingraham, that coronavirus deaths had dropped to “almost nothing.” This is not only questioning the seriousness of the pandemic, it is doing it on a record-breaking day for new cases in which more than 1,000 Americans died of the virus.

But the lying didn’t stop there.

Then the president’s oldest son pointed to data from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) that he falsely suggested that it showed a declining coronavirus death rate.  And once again, his lying didn’t stop there.

He continued lying by saying: “I went through the CDC data, because I kept hearing about new infections, but I was like, ‘Why aren’t they talking about deaths?’ ” Trump Jr. said. “Oh, because the number is almost nothing. Because we’ve gotten control of this thing, we understand how it works. They have the therapeutics to be able to deal with this.”

Everything he said was as expected, a very big lie.

This man’s father had been infected with the coronavirus, and at the president’s military hospital he received a $100,000 experimental drug cocktail that is a experimental therapeutic.  This item is not available for any regular American with the coronavirus.  It was an experimental drug that did work on the president, but it hasn’t been tested for the general public.  The doctors had their fingers crossed when they gave it to the president because of it not having been fully tested.

“While some medical advances and less-crowded hospitals, it appears to have reduced the death rate from the early days of the pandemic.  But scientists warn it’s not clear if that’s a long-term trend”, this is per The Washington Post.  (BTW: Those less-crowded hospitals are starting to fill to capacity, since this quote from The Post.)

The reality is that as the cases surge across the United States, the fatalities are often a lagging data point for the CDC researchers, and reports can be incomplete in capturing the actual rate at which people are dying from the virus and its complications.

“The physicians are also fearful that the latest burst in new cases, including a record 89,940 on Oct. 29^th, will lead to a greater number of deaths in the coming weeks”, this is according to the New York Times.

“This is still a high death rate, much higher than we see for flu or other respiratory diseases,” Leora Horwitz, director of NYU Langone’s Center for Healthcare Innovation and Delivery Science, told the Times of the current death rate. “I don’t want to pretend this is benign.”

President Trump has continued to lie and downplayed the coronavirus as it has ravaged all over the United States, and this is totally disregarding the advice of experts and is politicizing the massive health crisis.

On that same night, Donald Trump Jr pointed to a post from his Instagram account that he argued painted a more clear picture of the present state of a pandemic.  A pandemic that has killed at least 228,000 people in the United States.  “If you look at my Instagram,” he said, “it’s [the death rate’s] gone to almost nothing.”  Wrong!

At least 1,063 people in the United States died of the coronavirus on Thursday, the second-highest daily total for October, and 5,668 Americans died of the virus in the previous seven days. This specific week has also featured two consecutive days of more than 1,000 deaths, marking the second time that has happened, according to The Post’s coronavirus tracker.

The discussion on Fox was sparked by an earlier segment on CNN, when Dr. Sanjay Gupta advised President Trump’s supporters not to attend his rallies. Gupta, the network’s chief medical correspondent, reported that new coronavirus cases had increased 82% of the time in counties that hosted a total of 17 Trump rallies for the president between August and September. The infection rate in those counties had also climbed at a faster clip than the overall rate for their state, CNN reported.

Dr. Gupta noted that if anyone had been to one of Trump’s outdoor rallies, which have attracted thousands of maskless supporters, also not adhering to social distancing recommendations, they should assume they have been exposed to the coronavirus and should quarantine for 14 days.

“Don’t go to these rallies,” Gupta said. “Look, just about anywhere in the country now, if you go to a gathering that’s several hundred people, it’s without a doubt the coronavirus is attending that rally with you.”

On Fox, Ingraham said that Dr. Gupta’s words, along with Minnesota’s Covid-19 guidelines capping the number of attendees at the president’s planned Friday, Oct. 30^th rally to 250 people, was “a part of a larger media effort” to discourage attendance at Trump rallies. The president later tweeted his displeasure over the Minnesota limitations.

“Don, is he kidding me?” Ingraham asked Trump Jr., referring to Dr. Gupta. “They are pulling out all the stops. Now the virus is attending the rally. Apparently, they’re waving flags, too.” She added later, “A tragedy is not a reason to take people away from their candidate.” Trump Jr. scoffed at Dr. Gupta, calling him a “moron.

Trump Jr.’s claim that death rates were now at “almost nothing,” captured in a clip that had been viewed more than 2 million times as of early Friday, prompted a strong response from critics and medical experts.

Alexis Madrigal, a staff writer at the Atlantic, concluded that Trump Jr.'s statement “may result from a common misinterpretation of CDC provisional death counts,” noting that incomplete data for recent weeks would incorrectly show deaths to be in decline.

Dr. Ashish Jha, a physician and the dean of the Brown University School of Public Health, suggested that Don Jr’s. claim showed a total lack of empathy.

“I realize I am naive,” Jha tweeted “But I’m still shocked by the casualness by which our political and media leaders and their families dismiss the daily deaths of nearly a thousand Americans.”

Donald Trump Senior and Donald Trump Junior are from the same tree of pathological liars.  Unfortunately, the senior Trump happens to be the most powerful man in the world.  This country is going to be in a world of hurt if he is re-elected as the US President. 

God help us if that occurs.

Copyright G. Ater 2020