Fact Check: Joe Biden Appears to Blame Trump for Coronavirus Deaths

Breitbart ^ | 11 Mar 2021 | JOEL B. POLLAK

[conservative98]

CLAIM: Coronavirus was met with “silence” and “denials” a year ago, which “led to more deaths.”

VERDICT: MOSTLY FALSE. China denied responsibility, but President Donald Trump acted immediately — partly over Joe Biden’s objections.

President Joe Biden addressed the nation from the White House for the first time on Thursday night to mark the one-year anniversary of the coronavirus shutdown that was announced by then-President Donald Trump in the Oval Office.

Biden began by suggesting Trump was to blame: “A year ago, we were hit with a virus, that was met with silence. It spread unchecked. Denials for days, weeks, then months. That led to more deaths, more infections, more stress, and more loneliness.”

But by March 11, 2020, President Trump had already taken many decisive actions against the coronavirus. And while he was wrong when he suggested that the pandemic would be over quickly, and admitted downplaying its impact so people would not panic, Trump was never silent about COVID-19, nor did he deny that it posed serious risks to Americans’ public health.

The only “silence” was from Congress, where Democrats were busy impeaching Trump, wasting precious weeks on politics:

[conservative98]

Biden and other Democrats refused to work with President Trump. Instead, they suggested he should give up authority. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) gave a national address about the pandemic and did not even mention Trump.

When Trump launched Operation Warp Speed, Biden and other Democrats spread doubts about the effort. Biden said during the final presidential debate that there was “no prospect that there’s going to be a vaccine available for the majority of the American people before the middle of next year.”

That prospect is now a reality — but instead of thanking Trump for his efforts, Biden continues to suggest that Americans’ deaths and suffering from a global pandemic is uniquely Trump’s fault.

President Biden closed his address by claiming that success in the fight against the pandemic depended on “national unity.”

[Ouderkirk]

Biden is trash...always has been.

[DesertRhino]

I remember candidate Biden saying stopping travel from China was racism and xenophobia.
I remember Pelosi going to Chinatown. I remember politicians in New York saying to ride the subway.

[themidnightskulker]

I look at the statement” mostly false” with the same accuracy as “partly pregnant”.

[Jolla]

The media and the left are lost without Trump to blame.

[43north]

China Joe lies. He has always lied.

[kaehurowing]

Nancy called Trump’s report to Congress on the virus spreading in America “a pack of lies.”

[virgil]

Drug addled moron. Was he competent when he signed that 1.9T covid19 bill?

[HandyDandy]

Say it ain’t so, Joe (the plagiarist) Biden!

[Ben Hecks]

Didn’t watch. All democrats are liars and cheats. Period.

[Mouton]

FUBIDET

[Liz]

WHEN THE VIRUS BROKE, DEMOCRATS WERE IN LOCK STEP SUCKING UP TO CHINA

On Feb. 2, 2020, with NYC’s first suspected coronavirus case under investigation and China’s death toll skyrocketing, NYC’s first latina Health Commissioner Oxiris Barbot touted upcoming crowded NYC Chinese New Year events. “As we gear up to celebrate the #LunarNewYear in NYC, I want to assure New Yorkers that there is no reason for anyone to change their holiday plans, or avoid the subway, or certain parts of the city because of #coronavirus,” she said.

Feb 2020---Pelosi went to Cali Chinatown to stick it to Pres Trump. She tweeted:
"It was a pleasure to make fortune cookies at the Golden Gate Fortune Cookie Factory.
The message inside? “United We Stand.”

[VeniVidiVici]

Biden is trash. And for better or worse, Pelosi could have had this “rescue” package seven months ago but the bitch decided to play politics and screw the American people.

[PBRCat]

Exactly right.

It is all a pack of lies. Biden is a career pathological liar. It is too much to ask him to do differently now that he is reduced to reading cue cards.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

That’s an insult to trash!

[linMcHlp]

Biden credited “scientists” - instead of properly crediting enterprise.

Biden acknowedged that a continental divide exists between “BLUE” and “RED” states.

Biden insinuated, that YOU BETTER GET A VACCINE SHOT . . . OR ELSE.

And, the federal government is not only your school principal, but also the regulator of your private life.

[lightman]

Did you catch how he started to say “Vice President HARNESS” and then corrected himself?

Great meme material....

[lightman]

“Grandparents may now hug their grandchildren”

Hate to break it to you, Joe and Tony, they never needed your “permission”!

[indthkr]

Scumbag Biden - bump for later....