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....
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
I don’t think they knew.
And we now know, as we suspected, that the death numbers of Covid deaths were greatly exagerated.
Sorry but your fake data is just that, fake, the people dying are ALL vaccinated.
So you are pro-death shot, hope you got all 4 boosters, me I have never taken a flu shot.
He is either an idiot or lying.
Trump handled the virus horribly.
At first his response was slow and plodding. His first presser on it was a disaster. Then a few days later, he was like a deer in the headlights. Then Warp speed was a decent recovery.
From that point on, his highly pressers turned into an evening mess where it was all about Trump.
I don’t blame him for the vax, but I do think he could have done more to get alternative voices heard. He was so into making sure he didn’t screw up, personally, that he simply failed.
He got totally played by Pharma.
That, in itself, should be a disqualifier for running again.
He is more right on General Election issues than the Democrats, though his personal traits and foibles are terrible in that regard (but so are Biden’s).
The vaxx is evil, he saved no one and the vaxx will kill and maim more people over the years to come, warp speed is proof there’s a reason why drugs and vaccines should take years before they hit the market.
Trump is 100% wrong on this and it will cost him.
“He was wrong on so much or this from the start.
IMO he is done politically.”
Maybe you should read the article and not the headline:
“Trump said that he “always” had concerns but argued that some “reports” were saying the vaccines were “the greatest thing that’s ever happened,” while those that claimed safety issues involved “relatively small numbers.””
Now, that is true, but a lot of us assume the negative reports were heavily censored.
I’m not the one in the philosophical pickle. As I have always said through this whole thing from PDJT perspective. Which friends like the antivaxx coterie here, who needs enemas?
But as you have nothing on the topic all you are relegated to do it take cheap and nonsensical shots….it’s actually hilarious
I have to agree.
I supported him and have no regrets, but I think he’s wrong on this thing and think this is a deal breaker for many of his supporters.
He did what God put him in office for, and and I think that his time is over.
I would have loved to see what this country could have become if he had gotten that shot at his second term, but there’s no going back. GO\od has HIs time table and there’s no stopping it now.
I’m curious. Are those death rates from 2021? 2022? All years combined? After the “Delta” wave death rates dropped dramatically. Either from a weakening virus or natural immunity. The majority of the dead were elderly in nursing homes in that first year so the numbers are definitely skewed.
That’s why find out if the “vaccines” worked is almost impossible. But one thing is certain, they aren’t working now and compared to past vaccine safety numbers, they’re not safe.
Consider the source...
Also during these interviews over the weekend Trump was whining why he was losing the Christain support which he is big time, might be his embracing the Homosexual\Trans lifestyles. Called Christians traitors to him...Like I said Trump can’t get out of his own way.
< We should note the many persons who have been injected without side effects >
Side effects could take years to manifest in a person.
< Now Americans should be on guard for food safety. There are reported concerns that food ingredients are laced with coronavirus that can survive for a week and at temperatures as high as 133 degrees F. >
I’m more concerned about “Little Hitler”, Bill Gates’ statement that he wants vaccinations put into the food supply.
There are vaccinations for just about everything. Doesn’t anyone wonder what that is doing to our God-given immune system? I’ve had the childhood vaccinations from the 1950’s and 60’s, but nothing beyond that. Not even the ridiculous flu shots. So far, my immune system has served me very well.
COVID didn’t kill a lot of people who died. Government, Hospitals and their subjugated doctors killed a lot people with malpractice and deliberate increasing the death-count to take down a sitting MAGA President.
President Trump refuses to admit this, because he has bought into the lies he was told that he saved so many lives. He has a difficult time believing the evil that permeates in this world and that that is against him. What good would it do him to admit it now, anyhow. He’s already taken a position for which their is no return. It would be politically devastating to admit what he did was to promote irreversible damage to hundreds of millions of people.
covid 19 is where Trump crashed and burned
I believe that over 1.125 million have died. If you look at the death rate back to 2020 while the virus was ramping up, there were 15K deaths a week. Jan 2021 was 23K deaths a week (about the current rate in China now) and the vaccine was just beginning to be distributed. Sep 2021 there were 15K deaths a week. By Dec 2021, the death rate fell to 10K a week. By then most of the seniors were vaccinated and 50plus were getting vaccinated. Omnicron was getting a toe-hold in the East but Delta was still dominant in the West. Nov 2022 there were 2500 deaths a week. Yesterday there were 4 deaths. Older people didn’t get any younger and their morbidities didn’t go away. The only difference is an increase to about 90-95% seniors vaccinated and about 75-80% of those over 40 vaccinated. The US numbers model closely to the UK and EU numbers that show similar drops in death rate corresponding to vaccine rates. No insider info to it.
Figure 1 for weekly death rates
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/science/data-review/risk.html
or the historic chart at Worldometer:
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
< BTW Trump just took as huge cash donation from Pfizer recently... >
Source?
It would be best for Trump to get taken out in the Primaries at this point and fade off into history, he was the man for the moment.
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