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Meghan McCain concerned Trump will use coronavirus fears for his own benefit
Fox News ^ | 04/06/2020 | Brian Flood

Posted on 04/06/2020 8:47:36 PM PDT by Olog-hai

“The View” co-host Meghan McCain said on Monday that White House coronavirus press conferences should be aired — but not because she is a fan of the daily briefings.

Many members of the mainstream media have called for President Trump’s daily press conferences to be silenced or banned, with some critics comparing them to campaign rallies and others accusing the president of spreading misinformation. But McCain thinks the American people need to see what Trump has to say for the sake of transparency so that he can’t use people’s fears to his benefit.

“My argument for keeping the press conferences is, I think we’re at a place where President Trump, he has always been, a sort of totalitarian president in a way we have never historically seen before,” McCain said.

“My fear is he’s going to play on the American public’s fears in a draconian way, and possibly do this akin to the Patriot Act going forward, where he uses this moment in time to play off our fears for his own benefit,” McCain added. “I think seeing front and center what him and his team — I for one, became even more fearful of what was happening when I saw how inept Jared Kushner was.” …

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TOPICS: Cheese, Moose, Sister; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: coronavirus; covid19; kungflu; meghanmccain; moogoogaipandemic; nomanwilllayher; tds; theview; wuhanvirus
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1 posted on 04/06/2020 8:47:36 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Have another doughnut, Meghan.


2 posted on 04/06/2020 8:48:36 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Olog-hai

Go spew your pig slop elsewhere Megan


3 posted on 04/06/2020 8:49:43 PM PDT by goodnesswins (Trump is as good a dictator as he is a racist.....)
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To: Olog-hai

What again was it your father did in 2009 when the economic slowdown hit?


4 posted on 04/06/2020 8:50:20 PM PDT by digger48
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To: digger48

Damn these glasses!....2008!


5 posted on 04/06/2020 8:50:57 PM PDT by digger48
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To: dfwgator

Meghan mccain is as irrelevant as meghan markle.


6 posted on 04/06/2020 8:51:04 PM PDT by gcparent (Justice Brett Kavanaugh)
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To: Olog-hai

Does she really think this — or is she just pretending to be mentally ill?


7 posted on 04/06/2020 8:51:17 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: Olog-hai

she is getting ugly on the inside, and it’s coming out as nasty opposition to everything President Trump does- she sounds like a liberal


8 posted on 04/06/2020 8:53:05 PM PDT by Bob434
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To: Olog-hai

Mega McCain needs to go on a word diet.


9 posted on 04/06/2020 8:54:10 PM PDT by HighSierra5
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To: BenLurkin

Spend your days with that group of braindead skanks at The Spew and see if you don’t go Wuhan Batschitt Crazy


10 posted on 04/06/2020 8:54:26 PM PDT by digger48
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To: Olog-hai

The fears she professes apply in spades to the dems. Trump has shown no tendency toward autocratic rule.


11 posted on 04/06/2020 8:54:55 PM PDT by MortMan (Shouldn't "palindrome" read the same forward and backward?)
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To: Olog-hai

Nobody cares what she thinks


12 posted on 04/06/2020 8:55:33 PM PDT by stuck_in_new_orleans
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To: Olog-hai

If Trump didnt host those conferences, we would not get any honest straight news about what is happening


13 posted on 04/06/2020 8:55:42 PM PDT by silverleaf (Remember kids: You can vote your way into communism, but you have to shoot your way out!)
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To: Olog-hai

Fat, stupid, ugly to the bone witch.


14 posted on 04/06/2020 8:56:09 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA (It's official! I'm nominated for the 2020 Mr. Hyperbole and Sarcasm Award.)
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To: Olog-hai

Projecton. Megan used her father for her own benefit.


15 posted on 04/06/2020 8:56:57 PM PDT by jonrick46 (Cultural Marxism is the cult of the Left waiting for the Mothership.)
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To: Olog-hai

But she has no problem with Cuomo’s daily press conference?


16 posted on 04/06/2020 8:57:29 PM PDT by HK_Kai_Chung
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To: digger48
"Wuhan Batschitt Crazy."

Now that is a very creative way of putting it. I'm going to use it myself.

17 posted on 04/06/2020 9:00:21 PM PDT by jonrick46 (Cultural Marxism is the cult of the Left waiting for the Mothership.)
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To: Olog-hai

Trump will use coronavirus fears for his own benefit?? You mean like Democraps have been doing since this thing first broke?


18 posted on 04/06/2020 9:02:16 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free equal justice under the law will never exist in the USA)
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To: jonrick46

Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, Meghan.

19 posted on 04/06/2020 9:02:57 PM PDT by Richard Kimball (WWG1WGA)
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To: Olog-hai

She’s getting to be more and more like her Dad.


20 posted on 04/06/2020 9:03:12 PM PDT by EvilCapitalist (Pets are no substitute for children.)
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