The fool who is Will Thorne.
Posted on 08/06/2020 12:42:20 AM PDT by Cronos
Last night’s wild Axios interview with President Trump scored the HBO program a 33% total viewership bump from its average so far this year.
A total of 136,000 viewers tuned in to see Trump make an utter fool of himself with Axios reporter Jonathan Swan, according to Nielsen Media Research. That may not seem like a large number, especially compared with the millions of viewers who have since watched the interview online, but it is still a decent amount above the show’s usual audience of just over 100,000 total viewers.
The interview currently has almost 3.5 million viewers on HBO’s YouTube channel, and is the number one trending video on the platform. All told, it has been viewed over 40 million times across all platforms, including social media. A clip of the interview on Axios’ Twitter account alone currently has around 36 million viewers.
Returning to the HBO numbers, around 46,000 of those viewers were in the key news demographic of people aged 25-54, with 25,000 falling in the 18-49 demo. That represents increases of 10,000 viewers and 2,000 viewers on the show’s average in those respective demos.
In the interview, which was taped on July 28, Swan challenges Trump’s on how he uses statistics to describe the country’s fight with coronavirus. Swan pointed, rather logically, to the number of U.S. COVID-19 deaths as a percentage of the entire country’s population, to which Trump inexplicably replied, “You can’t do that.”
Later on, Swan also queries Trump on Rep. John Lewis, the civil rights leader, who recently passed away. Trump says he would not attend Lewis’ funeral, seemingly in part because Lewis did not attend his inauguration.
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Jonathan Swan: (00:52)
Thank you so much for having us. We’re over here, Mr. President. Thank you. Kelly.
President Donald J. Trump: (01:07)
Okay.
Jonathan Swan: (01:09)
Mr. President, thank you for joining us.
President Donald J. Trump: (01:10)
Thank you very much.
Jonathan Swan: (01:11)
We appreciate you taking the time, and we appreciate your commitment to answer our questions.
President Donald J. Trump: (01:16)
Sure.
Jonathan Swan: (01:16)
We really appreciate that. Over the years, I’ve heard you talk about your adherence to a philosophy called positive thinking. Is this the mantra that if you believe something, if you visualize it, then it will happen?
President Donald J. Trump: (01:29)
To an extent. I also think in terms of the downside. I do. I’ve been given a lot of credit for positive thinking, but I also think about downside because only a fool doesn’t.
Jonathan Swan: (01:40)
To what extent do you think that that positive thinking mindset is suitable to handling the worst pandemic that we’ve seen in a century?
President Donald J. Trump: (01:49)
I think you have to have a positive outlook. Otherwise, you would have nothing without a positive outlook. I think we’ve done an incredible job, between the ventilators and stopping very infected people from China coming in, meaning putting the ban on China, which frankly nobody wanted me to do, practically nobody because it was very early in January. Then putting the ban on Europe, not an easy thing to do. When you put a ban on Europe, that’s a big thing. We would have probably lost hundreds of thousands of lives more had I not done that.
President Donald J. Trump: (02:18)
And all of the experts, every one of them, not one of them wanted to do it. They thought it was too severe. Three months later, they’re all saying, I’m glad you did it.
Jonathan Swan: (02:27)
The criticism of you that is most prominent, is about the communication. It’s the public health experts saying that it needs to be based in reality. And they’re saying that the wishful thinking and the salesmanship is just not suitable in a time when the pandemic has killed 145,000 Americans. And I understand what you’re saying, that people need to hear positive thinking, but for the past five months it’s been, the virus is totally under control, and the cases have been going up and the deaths have been going up.
President Donald J. Trump: (02:59)
Look, look.
Jonathan Swan: (03:00)
But you’ve been saying it’s under control.
President Donald J. Trump: (03:01)
Nobody knew what this thing was all about. This has never happened before. 1917, but it was a totally different, it was a flu in that case. Okay? But other than 1917, there’s never been anything like this. And by the way, if you watch the fake news on television, they don’t even talk about it. But you know, there are 188 of the countries right now that are suffering, some proportionately far greater than we are. Okay? As bad as we are.
Jonathan Swan: (03:24)
Very few. [crosstalk 00:03:25]
President Donald J. Trump: (03:24)
Some proportionately greater than we are. Right now, right now, Spain is having a big spike. There are tremendous problems in the world. You look at Moscow, look at what’s going on with Moscow. Look at Brazil, look at these countries what’s going on. This was sent to us by China, one way or the other, and we’re never going to forget it. Believe me, we’re never going to forget it.
President Donald J. Trump: (03:46)
And we were beating China at every single point. We were beating them on trade, we were making progress like nobody’s ever made progress. Before the pandemic, they had the worst year, Jonathan, that they’ve had in 67 years. You know that. With the tariffs and everything else I did, we would taking in billions of dollars. I was giving some of it to the farmers. The farmers were doing well because they were targeting the farmers, I was targeting China. We were doing good.
President Donald J. Trump: (04:14)
Then all of a sudden, the game changed, and I had to close it down. I closed down the greatest economy ever in history.
Jonathan Swan: (04:21)
I-
President Donald J. Trump: (04:21)
Well, wait. And then, I closed it down. And now we’re opening it. And we saved, by the way, by closing it down, we saved millions of lives. If we would have gone to herd and we knew very little about the disease, if we would’ve gone herd, we would have lost millions of people, millions of people. One person’s too much. We’re at 140,000 people. One person is too much. We’re at 140. We would have lost millions of people. And those people that really understand it, they really understand it. They said, it’s incredible the job that we’ve done. And again, I bring it up, the ban-
Jonathan Swan: (04:58)
Who says that?
President Donald J. Trump: (05:00)
Banning China from coming in far earlier-
Jonathan Swan: (05:03)
But it was already in here.
President Donald J. Trump: (05:05)
What’s that?
Jonathan Swan: (05:05)
It was already here. By the time you banned China, it came in through Europe.
President Donald J. Trump: (05:08)
Nobody knew the extent. Nobody knew how contagious it was. You know What? Maybe China knew.
Jonathan Swan: (05:12)
But the question is, Mr. President, by June we knew things were bad. And the last time I was with you was the day before your Tulsa rally in the Oval, and you were saying big, huge crowd, it was endorsed. These people, they listen to you.
President Donald J. Trump: (05:30)
By the way, [crosstalk 00:05:30] Excuse me, Jonathan, we had a 19,000 seat stadium and first of all, we had 12,000 people, not 6,000, which you reported and other people reported. But you couldn’t even get in. It was like an armed camp.
Jonathan Swan: (05:40)
Why would you want it that?
President Donald J. Trump: (05:41)
Because they had 120 Black Lives Matter people there and Tulsa-
Jonathan Swan: (05:44)
I understand but why would you have wanted a huge crowd?
President Donald J. Trump: (05:45)
Excuse me, wait. And Tulsa, well, because that area was a very good area at the time. It was an area that was pretty much over. [crosstalk 00:05:55] After, after, a month later, it started going up. That’s a month later, but Tulsa was a very good, Oklahoma was doing very well as a state. It was almost free. It spiked a month later, a month and a half, two months later. But it was a good area.
President Donald J. Trump: (06:09)
We had a tremendous crowd, we had tremendous response. It was like an armed camp. You couldn’t even get through. You couldn’t get anybody in. But we had 12,000 people. It was incorrectly reported. The other thing we had that nobody wants to talk about, so Fox broadcast it. It was the highest rating in the history of Fox television Saturday night. It was the highest rating.
Jonathan Swan: (06:33)
Mr. President-
President Donald J. Trump: (06:34)
Well, wait a minute. You’re saying something. That speech was the highest rated speech in the history of Fox television on Saturday night. And nobody says that.
Jonathan Swan: (06:44)
I think you misunderstand me. I’m not criticizing your ability to draw a crowd. Are you kidding me? I’ve covered you for five years. You draw massive crowds. You get huge ratings. I’m asking about the public health
President Donald J. Trump: (06:52)
I’m just saying this. I’m just saying this. At the time… And I canceled another one. I had to cancel it and we were going to have a great crowd in New Hampshire, and I canceled it for the same reason.
Jonathan Swan: (06:58)
But here’s the question. I’ve covered you for a long time. I’ve gone to your rallies. I’ve talked to your people. They love you. They listen to you. They listen to every word you say, they hang on your every word. They don’t listen to me or the media or Fauci. They think we’re fake news. They want to get their advice from you. And so, when they hear you say, everything’s under control, don’t worry about wearing masks. I mean, these are people, many of them are older people, Mr. President.
President Donald J. Trump: (07:19)
Well, what’s your definition of control?
Jonathan Swan: (07:20)
It’s giving them a false sense of security.
President Donald J. Trump: (07:21)
Yeah. Under the circumstances right now, I think it’s under control. I’ll tell you what-
Jonathan Swan: (07:25)
How? 1,000 Americans are dying a day.
President Donald J. Trump: (07:27)
They are dying. That’s true. And it is what it is. But that doesn’t mean we aren’t doing everything we can. It’s under control as much as you can control it. This is a horrible plague that beset us.
Jonathan Swan: (07:39)
You really think this is as much as we can control it? 1,000 deaths a day?
President Donald J. Trump: (07:43)
Well, I’ll tell you, I’d like to know if somebody… First of all, we have done a great job. We’ve gotten the governors everything they needed, they didn’t do their job. Many of them didn’t and some of them did. Someday we’ll sit down. We’ll talk about the successful ones, the good ones. Look at that smile. The good ones and the bad. We had good and bad. And we had a lot in the middle, but we had some incredible governors. I could tell you right now who the great ones are and who the not so great ones are, but the governors do it. We gave them massive amounts of material.
Jonathan Swan: (08:11)
Mr. President, you changed your message this week, in terms of you canceled the Jacksonville convention, you said, “Wear a mask.” You’re saying that, “It’s going to get worse before it gets better.” It’s not something you’d like to say, I know. And you said that. The big question-
President Donald J. Trump: (08:23)
By the way, not get worse like the original flow. You understand that.
Jonathan Swan: (08:27)
Well, I hope not. It’s a 1,000-
President Donald J. Trump: (08:29)
But If you look, Arizona’s going down. Texas is going down, and Florida is going down.
Jonathan Swan: (08:31)
If I could just finish my question. The question is, even some of your own aides wonder whether you would stick to that message until Election Day, whether in a week or two, you won’t say, “Right, we’ve got to reopen again. We can’t do this stuff anymore.” That you’ll get bored of talking about the virus and go back to that sort of cheerleading.
President Donald J. Trump: (08:52)
No, I’m not going to get bored. I never get bored of talking about this, it’s too big a thing.
Jonathan Swan: (08:54)
So will you stick to that message?
President Donald J. Trump: (08:54)
And again, it should have been stopped by China, and it wasn’t.
Jonathan Swan: (08:59)
But now it’s here and you’re the President.
President Donald J. Trump: (09:00)
We have it here.
Jonathan Swan: (09:01)
[inaudible 00:09:04].
President Donald J. Trump: (09:02)
No, I think I’m very consistent. No, this is a very serious thing. We have 140,000 people at this moment.
Jonathan Swan: (09:08)
More than that.
President Donald J. Trump: (09:09)
This is a very, very serious situation. And what you have to do, is handle it the best it can be handled. And again, I’m working with the governors. I got them tremendous amounts of equipment that they would have never gotten. Jonathan, they wouldn’t have equipment now, if I didn’t get.
Jonathan Swan: (09:25)
When can you commit, by what date, that every American will have access to the same day testing that you get here in the White House?
President Donald J. Trump: (09:34)
Well, we have great testing. We’re doing and many other people do-
Jonathan Swan: (09:37)
By what date?
President Donald J. Trump: (09:39)
Let me explain the testing. We have tested more people than any other country, than all of Europe put together times two. We have tested more people than anybody ever thought of. India has 1.4 billion people. They’ve done 11 million tests. We’ve done 55, it’ll be close to 60 million tests. And there are those that say, you can test too much. You do-
President Donald J. Trump: (10:03)
And there are those that say you can test too much. You do know that.
Jonathan Swan: (10:04)
Who says that?
President Donald J. Trump: (10:05)
Oh, just read the manuals, read the books.
Jonathan Swan: (10:08)
Manuals?
President Donald J. Trump: (10:08)
Read the books. Read the books.
Jonathan Swan: (10:10)
What books?
President Donald J. Trump: (10:11)
What testing does-
Jonathan Swan: (10:13)
Wait a minute. I’m sorry.
President Donald J. Trump: (10:14)
Let me explain. What testing does, it shows cases. It shows where there may be cases. Other countries test… you know when they test? They test when somebody is sick. That’s when they test. And I’m not saying they’re right or wrong. Nobody has done it like we’ve done it. We’ve gotten absolutely no credit for it. But we’ve come up with so many different tests. The only thing that we have now is some people have to wait longer than we’d like them to. We want it-
Jonathan Swan: (10:38)
That’s a big problem.
President Donald J. Trump: (10:39)
We want point to point. We want to have a five minute to a 15 minute test.
Jonathan Swan: (10:44)
Right. When do you think-
President Donald J. Trump: (10:44)
And we have… and like many others-
Jonathan Swan: (10:46)
Every American-
President Donald J. Trump: (10:47)
And, from what I understand, we’re close to 50% where it’s point to point tests. We are making thousands of instruments, thousands of tests right now, tens of thousands that can be distributed to various parts of the country. But you have to understand. And we’ve even sent some of them to other countries where they had a big problem. Jonathan, almost 50%, in fact, I think the number might be over, is immediate testing. The other is tough. You take a test. You have to send it to a laboratory. Let’s say that takes a day. Let’s say it’s a day.
Jonathan Swan: (11:19)
Right. It’s difficult.
President Donald J. Trump: (11:20)
So, it’s three, or four, or five days.
Jonathan Swan: (11:21)
I understand.
President Donald J. Trump: (11:21)
There is nothing you can do about that.
Jonathan Swan: (11:22)
But when do you think you will have it for everyone? What day?
President Donald J. Trump: (11:25)
I think that you will have that relatively soon. I mean-
Jonathan Swan: (11:27)
What does that mean?
President Donald J. Trump: (11:28)
You already have half.
Jonathan Swan: (11:29)
Yeah.
President Donald J. Trump: (11:31)
I would much rather get back to you.
Jonathan Swan: (11:32)
Okay. That’s fine.
President Donald J. Trump: (11:32)
Because I don’t want to have you write in one month, I didn’t make it.
Jonathan Swan: (11:35)
That’s fine.
President Donald J. Trump: (11:35)
I missed it by a day.
Jonathan Swan: (11:36)
Yeah. I get it.
President Donald J. Trump: (11:37)
And it’s a headline.
Jonathan Swan: (11:37)
Mr. President, I want to talk about the federal intervention.
President Donald J. Trump: (11:40)
Excuse me. One thing I would say about testing.
Jonathan Swan: (11:42)
Yeah. Yeah.
President Donald J. Trump: (11:43)
Because we test so much, we show cases. So, we show many, many cases. We show tremendous number of cases. I know you’re smiling when I say that, but I’m telling you.
Jonathan Swan: (11:52)
Well, I mean, I’ve heard you say this.
President Donald J. Trump: (11:54)
I know. Other countries don’t test like we do. So, they don’t show case.
Jonathan Swan: (11:58)
Just a couple points on that. I wasn’t going to continue on the testing, but you said it. So, we’re testing so much because it’s spread so far in America. And, when you-
President Donald J. Trump: (12:06)
We’re testing so much because we had the ability to test.
Jonathan Swan: (12:08)
Okay.
President Donald J. Trump: (12:09)
Because we came up with test-
Jonathan Swan: (12:10)
But South Korea-
President Donald J. Trump: (12:11)
Jonathan, we didn’t even have a test. When I took over, we didn’t even have a test. Now, in all fairness-
Jonathan Swan: (12:17)
Why would you have a test?
President Donald J. Trump: (12:21)
There was no test for this-
Jonathan Swan: (12:23)
The virus didn’t exist.
President Donald J. Trump: (12:23)
Excuse me. I was going to say-
Jonathan Swan: (12:23)
Okay.
President Donald J. Trump: (12:23)
There was no test for this. We didn’t have a test because there was no test.
Jonathan Swan: (12:26)
Of course.
President Donald J. Trump: (12:27)
And, in a very short order, we got one test. We got another test.
Jonathan Swan: (12:30)
It was broken, the first one.
President Donald J. Trump: (12:31)
We got another. Many of those tests are now obsolete because it’s called science.
Jonathan Swan: (12:34)
Right.
President Donald J. Trump: (12:34)
And, all of a sudden, something is better. But, because we tested so many people, 55, 60 million people, very soon, we get cases. You test. Some kid has even just a little runny nose. It’s a case. And then, you report many cases. So, we look like we have more cases than massive countries like China, which by the way, doesn’t report, as you know.
Jonathan Swan: (12:58)
Well, I don’t put any stock in China’s figures.
President Donald J. Trump: (13:00)
No. No. The point is-
Jonathan Swan: (13:01)
Yeah.
President Donald J. Trump: (13:01)
The point is, because we are so much better at testing than any other country in the world, we show more cases.
Jonathan Swan: (13:09)
The figure I look at is death. And death is going up now.
President Donald J. Trump: (13:12)
Okay. No, no.
Jonathan Swan: (13:12)
It’s a thousand a day.
President Donald J. Trump: (13:14)
If you look at death-
Jonathan Swan: (13:15)
Yeah. It’s going up again.
President Donald J. Trump: (13:16)
Let’s look. Let’s look.
Jonathan Swan: (13:17)
Daily death.
President Donald J. Trump: (13:17)
Take a look at some of these charts.
Jonathan Swan: (13:19)
I’d love to.
President Donald J. Trump: (13:20)
We’re going to look.
Jonathan Swan: (13:21)
Let’s look.
President Donald J. Trump: (13:21)
And, if you look at death per-
Jonathan Swan: (13:23)
Yeah. It’s started to go up again.
President Donald J. Trump: (13:25)
Here is one. Well, right here, United States is lowest in numerous categories. We’re lower than the world.
Jonathan Swan: (13:37)
Lower than the world?
President Donald J. Trump: (13:37)
We’re lower than Europe.
Jonathan Swan: (13:39)
What does that mean? In what? In what?
President Donald J. Trump: (13:40)
Look. Take a look. Right there. Here is case death.
Jonathan Swan: (13:46)
Oh, you’re doing death as a proportion of cases. I’m talking about death as a proportion of population. That’s where the U.S. is really bad, much worse than South Korea, Germany, et cetera.
President Donald J. Trump: (13:55)
You can’t do that.
Jonathan Swan: (13:56)
Why can’t I do that?
President Donald J. Trump: (13:58)
You have to go by where… look. Here is the United States. You have to go by the cases. The cases are there.
Jonathan Swan: (14:04)
Why not as a proportion of population?
President Donald J. Trump: (14:07)
What it says is, when you have somebody where there’s a case-
Jonathan Swan: (14:11)
Oh, okay.
President Donald J. Trump: (13:25)
Here is one. Well, right here, United States is lowest in numerous categories. We’re lower than the world.
Jonathan Swan: (13:37)
Lower than the world?
President Donald J. Trump: (13:37)
We’re lower than Europe.
Jonathan Swan: (13:39)
What does that mean? In what? In what?
President Donald J. Trump: (13:40)
Look. Take a look. Right there. Here is case death.
Jonathan Swan: (13:46)
Oh, you’re doing death as a proportion of cases. I’m talking about death as a proportion of population. That’s where the U.S. is really bad, much worse than South Korea, Germany, et cetera.
President Donald J. Trump: (13:55)
You can’t do that.
Jonathan Swan: (13:56)
Why can’t I do that?
President Donald J. Trump: (13:58)
You have to go by where… look. Here is the United States. You have to go by the cases. The cases are there.
Jonathan Swan: (14:04)
Why not as a proportion of population?
President Donald J. Trump: (14:07)
What it says is, when you have somebody where there’s a case-
Jonathan Swan: (14:11)
Oh, okay.
President Donald J. Trump: (14:11)
The people that live from those cases.
Jonathan Swan: (14:14)
Oh. It’s surely a relevant statistic to say, if the U.S. has X population and X percentage of death of that population versus South Korea-
President Donald J. Trump: (14:22)
No. Because you have to go by the cases.
Jonathan Swan: (14:22)
Well, look at South Korea, for example. 51 million population, 300 deaths. It’s like, it’s crazy compared to-
President Donald J. Trump: (14:28)
You don’t know that.
Jonathan Swan: (14:29)
I do.
President Donald J. Trump: (14:30)
You don’t know that.
Jonathan Swan: (14:31)
You think they’re faking their statistics, South Korea? An advanced country?
President Donald J. Trump: (14:33)
I won’t get into that because I have a very good relationship with the country.
Jonathan Swan: (14:36)
Yeah.
President Donald J. Trump: (14:37)
But you don’t know that. And they have spikes. Look, here’s one of-
Jonathan Swan: (14:39)
Germany, low 9,000.
President Donald J. Trump: (14:40)
Here’s one. Here’s one right here, United States.
Jonathan Swan: (14:43)
Let me look.
President Donald J. Trump: (14:44)
You take the number of cases.
Jonathan Swan: (14:45)
Okay.
President Donald J. Trump: (14:45)
Now look, we’re last meaning we’re first.
President Donald J. Trump: (14:52)
And we have cases because of the testing.
Jonathan Swan: (25:40)
You’re going to [crosstalk 00:25:38]? Mr. President, the other day, a reporter asked you about Ghislaine Maxwell. You said, “I just wish her well, frankly. I’ve met her numerous times over the years, especially since I lived in Palm Beach, but I wish her well, whatever it is.” Mr. President, Ghislaine Maxwell has been arrested on allegations of child sex trafficking. Why would you wish such a person well?
President Donald J. Trump: (25:59)
Well, first of all, I don’t know that, but I do know this-
Jonathan Swan: (26:01)
She has. She’s been arrested for that. You know that.
President Donald J. Trump: (26:02)
Her friend or boyfriend-
Jonathan Swan: (26:04)
Epstein.
President Donald J. Trump: (26:05)
Was either killed or committed suicide in jail. She’s now in jail. Yeah, I wish you well, I’d wish you well, I’d wish a lot of people well. Good luck. Let them prove somebody was guilty. I mean, you do know that she [crosstalk 00:26:17]
Jonathan Swan: (26:17)
Oh. So you’re saying you hope she doesn’t die in jail? Is that what you mean by wish her well?
President Donald J. Trump: (26:20)
Well, her boyfriend died in jail and people are still trying to figure out how did it happened? Was it suicide? Was he killed? And I do wish her well. I’m not looking for anything bad for her. I’m not looking bad for anybody. And they took that and made it such a big deal-
Jonathan Swan: (26:32)
I mean, she’s a alleged child sex trafficker.
President Donald J. Trump: (26:35)
But all it is is her boyfriend died. He died in jail. Was he killed? Was it suicide? I do, I wish her well.
Jonathan Swan is Australian - smug son of a smug ABC Australia character, Dr. Norman Swan, who thinks he is Australia’s Dr. Fauci or something. in March, he claimed there’d be up to 80,000 covid cases in a few weeks, with the number rising exponentially thereafter. got mocked for being wildly wrong.
Tweet: Norman Swan (ABC Australia)
1700 on Monday, 3400 on Wednesday or Thursday, 7-8000 by next weekend. True number by then 70-80,000 possibly. Primary school maths. Someone should go figure. No magic fairy will bring that down. 14-20 days behind Italy. Believe in maths not magic...
21 March 2020
https://twitter.com/normanswan/status/1241198962465320960?lang=en
reality: Australia 6 Aug: 19,444 confirmed cases: 247 deaths (212 in just two States) (and that’s with huge boost to numbers in the State of Victoria in last few weeks).
the 37min-plus video isn’t working in Australia:
5 Aug: Catallaxy Files Australia: Fake news interviews Donald Trump
by Steve Kates
FULL VIDEO 38m54s: (NOT AVAILABLE)
The interviewer is an Australian as well, Jonathan Swan...
You will not be surprised that the Fake News Networks worked at finding whatever they could criticise. And if you wish to see the supposedly negative instances, these are described as The Five Wildest Moments:
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Hardly wild at all. If you see these posts in the context of the full interview, there is nothing whatsoever noteworthy about these moments to single out. I don’t know how the President puts up with it. Must also say that this Swan is a serious jerk. And so shallow that it is an embarrassment. Rude as well.
And you know why you haven’t heard a thing about this interview? It’s because Donald Trump takes the interviewer apart. It also seems to be truncated from what would have been the full interview so Trump must have done even better with the rest of it...
Very few will see the interview but many more will see the reviews and hear the commentary
from replies:
Jonathan Swan, son of Dr Norman Swan, ABC officianado on everything.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Swan
J. Swan seems a big Democrat supporter, probably a Greenish elitish private school type.
Described by Frank Elly on (ABC Australia) RN as “a car crash interview”. Yeah right, OMG.
The full interview isn’t available in this country. Why is that?
Fake news wouldn’t want to risk allowing you to judge “The Five Wildest Moments From Donald Trump’s Interview with Axios” in context, now would they?
https://catallaxyfiles.com/2020/08/05/fake-news-interviews-donald-trump/
Thanks,that was cool. :)
Why even concentrate on South Korea and Germany, when the US is far better in every single category than the UK where this interviewer is from?
In deaths as a proportion of the population or deaths as a proportion of positives etc, the US is better off than the UK, Italy, Spain etc.
Nobody in America is “For” Biden. They are either “For” Trump, or “Against” Trump.
Yes.
And my post should have read :
“The polls are right about the huge enthusiasm gap in favor of Trump.”
Jonathan Swan is an Australian journalist. Swan was born and raised in Australia to a Scottish-Australian journalist Norman Swan. Norman Swan was born in Scotland to a Jewish family moving to Australia in 1982
The UK is up there at #2 with 683 deaths/million. The USA is at #8 (discounting Andorra and San Marino as too tiny) with 488 deaths/million. Australia is at around #120 with 10 deaths/million
Though for Italy - it has been below 20 deaths per day for a month now, while in the USA it is now 1300 deaths per day.
Wikipedia: (Jonathan Swan) married Politico reporter Betsy Woodruff on September 14, 2019. He intends to become a citizen of the United States.
these media swamp creatures get around:
Wikipedia: Betsy Woodruff Swan
Betsy Woodruff Swan is an American journalist who is currently a national political reporter for Politico and contributor to MSNBC...
Swan joined the news magazine Slate as a national political reporter in late 2014... She then became a national political reporter for The Daily Beast in March 2015, covering federal law enforcement. Swan has appeared on Fox News and CNN and is a contributor to MSNBC...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betsy_Woodruff_Swan
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