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Trump Dismisses COVID-19 Vax Safety Claims, Says He Saved 100 Million Lives
Newsweek ^ | 16 Jan 2023 | AILA SLISCO

Posted on 01/16/2023 10:51:44 PM PST by blueplum

Former President Donald Trump has dismissed claims that COVID-19 vaccines are broadly unsafe while asserting that his own role in the development of the vaccines may have saved 100 million lives.

Trump touted the effectiveness of Operation Warp Speed, his administration's program to accelerate the development of COVID-19 vaccines and therapeutics, during a Monday interview on the conservative podcast The Water Cooler.

Host David Brody asked the former president if he would "acknowledge" that the vaccines "were not as safe or effective as we were told....

"I was able to get something approved that, you know, that has proven to have saved a lot of lives," Trump said, ignoring Brody's request to weigh in on the anti-vaccine narrative. "Some people say that I saved 100 million lives worldwide."

Trump touted the speed of vaccine development under his program, saying that he was "able to get [the vaccines] done in nine months...."

..."You have to understand, there are the pros and cons," said Trump. "Some reports [say] that it's the greatest thing that's ever happened and we saved tens of millions of lives. Then you'll read other reports [that] say there were some problems with the vaccine...but relatively small numbers....

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 100millionlives; 1trumpvaccine; antivaxhysteria; chat; concerntroll; concerntrolling; covid; creditdue; greatestthing; tds; trump; trumpcredit; trumpsavedtheworld; vaccinations; warpspeed
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To: SisterK
There were many doctors who were shut out. Doctors with sense and not tyrannical solutions.

That is my take as well. Fauci and Collins tried to discredit the authors of the Great Barrington Declaration that thousands of doctors signed..

101 posted on 01/17/2023 4:59:01 AM PST by EVO X ( )
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To: blueplum

If the truth about the vaccine damage becomes mainstream...guess who will be blamed?

I love Trump, but I wonder if he can admit errors?


102 posted on 01/17/2023 4:59:10 AM PST by xenia ( “The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it” George Orwell)
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To: MayflowerMadam

Did yu look up Wen? Council on Foreign Relations, Planned Parenthood, Chinese. Do you believve she has 100% credibility at a time when China is still trying to maask 60K deaths a month ? I think she’s a little froggy.


103 posted on 01/17/2023 5:00:03 AM PST by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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To: dforest
He was lied to and duped by the DS. Those are the people I blame.

One of the best things about Donald Trump: The man learns from his mistakes.

104 posted on 01/17/2023 5:02:26 AM PST by mewzilla (We will never restore the republic if we don't first secure the ballot box.)
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To: xenia

why would you blame Trump? Biden cancelled Warp Speed which would have funded ongoing research. How is that Trump’s fault?

And who is to blame if infection with covid itself turns out to be catastrophically damaging -say for instance, long covid? Trump again? or will never-vaxers admit their errors?


105 posted on 01/17/2023 5:04:37 AM PST by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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To: blueplum

I think we are missing the point behind this article. This is the start of the left blaming Trump for the unsafe injection. They will turn hard and come out with “evidence” that he knew they were deadly, yet he used it to promote himself and millions died for his ego. I can see the headlines coming, just in time for 24 (not that we have a chance anymore).


106 posted on 01/17/2023 5:05:38 AM PST by GMThrust
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To: faucetman
Ron DeSantis could make this a winning campaign issue.

No, he can’t … because the internet is forever, and there is plenty of video evidence of him publicly telling people they should get “vaccinated.”

For all his faults, Trump has at least been consistent about this all along.

107 posted on 01/17/2023 5:11:06 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("It's midnight in Manhattan. This is no time to get cute; it's a mad dog's promenade.")
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To: blueplum
You denigrate those who rightfully oppose the Jim Jones Jab by calling them "antivaxers" but the Jim Jones Jab is NOT a vaccine regardless of what the CDC changed their definition to.
108 posted on 01/17/2023 5:14:55 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: mewzilla

Another question to ask:

How many people here at FR, and how many in the general public had even HEARD of FauXi in 2019?


109 posted on 01/17/2023 5:15:19 AM PST by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
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To: blueplum

Dr. Wen might be the dingbat who was a full-blown Branch Covidian in 2020-21, but changed her tune when the damage of her idiocy hit right at home. Was she the one who disavowed her prior COVID idiocy when her child came home from school with a drawing he had made in kindergarten, and all the people in his drawing had no mouths on their faces?


110 posted on 01/17/2023 5:18:35 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("It's midnight in Manhattan. This is no time to get cute; it's a mad dog's promenade.")
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To: blueplum

Yeah; I looked her up. Her strong left-leaning creds is what makes it almost astounding that she’s going against the deep state narrative. There has to be a reason, ‘cause openly criticizing the lib handlers is only going to make her life harder. She must have weighed the peer pressure against other repercussions and figured telling the truth is worth it to her.

I think she sees the handwriting on the wall. Her name probably is in the emails and texts that Jim Jordan has access to. They include communications from government feeding talking points to media, and we’ve been told there will be investigations into the collusion to spread lies about Covid.


111 posted on 01/17/2023 5:18:53 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (Stupid is supposed to hurt.)
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To: mewzilla

I have my doubts that he has learned from this mistake. I would like to see him shut up and quit bragging about this obvious fiasco.

Real power from him would be to step up and stop Biden and those Big Pharma liars from continuing to sell this to gullible people. It is still being forced on people all over the world to travel and work. It is being used as a totalitarian tool to control.

Remember, the swine flu vax was taken off the market after 50 deaths..


112 posted on 01/17/2023 5:20:27 AM PST by dforest (Joy Behar is a big mouth cow.)
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To: blueplum

News Weak
Unless you were there the full story and context is unknown but you can always read between the lines on their ever slanted screed


113 posted on 01/17/2023 5:22:23 AM PST by Recompennation (Don’t blame me my vote didn’t count !)
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To: blueplum

“And who is to blame if infection with covid itself turns out to be catastrophically damaging -say for instance, long covid? Trump again? or will never-vaxers admit their errors?”
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My husband and I have had covid twice and did fine. I am not a never-vaxer.... have had various vaccines over my lifetime. But I am careful what I put into my body and I will not inject this experimental vax into it. NO.


114 posted on 01/17/2023 5:24:32 AM PST by xenia ( “The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it” George Orwell)
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To: EBH; All

> “Then he should keep his mouth shut and stop bragging about the shots.”

WRONG.

Trump can’t shut up because everywhere he goes, the press jackals are nipping at his heels with the question.

He responds, with “I was told .....”, “I was able .....”

Importantly, the liar media are trying to get him to go into anti-vaxx mode, so they can bludgeon him with the historical disconnect.

Take a look at what Trump is quoted as saying versus how Newspuke wrote the Title and body. They are stretching his words with their adjectives and false extensions.

The liar media see the anti-vaxx “feeling” rising among the public, whereas just six months ago, the same media aholes were pushing ‘unvaxxed’ as an attribute of MAGA insurrectionism.

And they got the likes of you and your anonymous cowardice screaming “Shaddup Trump! Just shaddup already!”

The shots are not the focus. The shots are largely ok, as long as those getting them don’t stroke out at a later date.

The batches and the persons and groups behind them are what you should focus on.

Right now, like me, you have only seen circumstantial evidence. That won’t hold up in court. I’m different, because I have the scientific and medical background to see what the eff is playing out before us.

The so-called vaccines were delivered in batches. See #40 for the link.

Trump will come around when the evidence is court-worthy, when it’s “admissible”.


115 posted on 01/17/2023 5:30:25 AM PST by Hostage (Article V)
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To: blueplum

Alrighty then.

He’s making it easy for me.


116 posted on 01/17/2023 5:30:29 AM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: 6thavenue

Damn good point. Thank you.


117 posted on 01/17/2023 5:32:51 AM PST by Hostage (Article V)
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To: Vermont Lt

alternative voices? didn’t he announce he bought a trainload of HCQ for folks? didn’t he also announce and make available monoclonals at no cost? didn’t he force pharm companies to produce for America first? didn’t he also use war powers to get america manufacturing ppe? I think sometimes people forget covid is a novel virus that wasn’t responding to the usual treatments for viruses


118 posted on 01/17/2023 5:33:27 AM PST by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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To: stockpirate

He did increase the speed of approval, but they put out a toxic product, not his fault, they planned it this way.


He does have some responsibility — he trusted them.

A lot of people he trusted that he shouldn’t have.


119 posted on 01/17/2023 5:34:08 AM PST by boycott
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To: gas_dr

At least you’re not a bot/AI.

You’ve got that going for you.

Which is nice.


120 posted on 01/17/2023 5:34:19 AM PST by one guy in new jersey
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