Posted on 02/27/2020 2:38:13 PM PST by bitt
An Associated Press fact check confirms what Breitbart News reported earlier this week: that Democrat presidential candidates are falsely claiming that President Donald Trump cut funding and personnel needed to fight coronavirus.
On Tuesday, Breitbart News fact-checked “mostly false” claims by former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg during the Democrat debate in South Carolina. Bloomberg claimed that Trump had “fired” a pandemic specialist at the White House, and “defunded” the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). The implication: Trump was to blame for the spread of coronavirus — even though there have been just over a dozen cases and no fatalities in the U.S.
The truth: the pandemic specialist had left voluntarily during a reorganization of the bloated National Security Council (NSC), and the CDC cuts — as the agency wound down its Ebola response — were only proposed, not enacted.
The AP confirmed Thursday, in an article titled “AP FACT CHECK: Democrats distort coronavirus readiness,” that much of what Democrats are saying about Trump’s response to the coronavirus challenge is simply not true:
Democratic presidential contenders are describing the federal infectious-disease bureaucracy as rudderless and ill-prepared for the coronavirus threat because of budget cuts and ham-handed leadership by President Donald Trump. That’s a distorted picture. For starters, Trump hasn’t succeeded in cutting the budget.
He’s proposed cuts but Congress ignored him and increased financing instead. The National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention aren’t suffering from budget cuts that never took effect.
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weaponizing everything in to a political sh*t show is what the left does best.
These scumbags want an all out war, don’t they. We need to take them up on it.
Never let a good crisis go to waste, right?
> Bloomberg claimed that Trump had “fired” a pandemic specialist at the White House, and “defunded” the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). <
I saw a Bloomberg ad about that just moments ago on YouTube.
No surprise. This is the same guy who claims that he lead New York City “through 9/11” when Rudy Giuliani was actually mayor at the time.
Since we don’t believe anything they say anyway it doesn’t matter.
Man, that is a ridiculous claim. He would not be stupid enough to jeopardize his run for a second term by doing such a thing. Also, he just plain cares for our country. He is not a Demshovik for heaven’s sake.
Are there pigs flying? You mean the AP, the biggest fake news org on the planet actually agreeing with breitbart?? I’m going to Vegas..
God is in control.
Shocked?
No...................
The dems will help spread the virus if it will hurt President Trump.
The lie is the weapon used most often by the criminal. The greatest percentage of criminals (serial liars) in any collective in the republic is the Democrat party.
DEPOPULATE Democrats from the body politic. Bring civilization back to America.
Be an example to the world.
Wait, you're saying democrats lie to the American people!? I'm shocked, shocked I say!!!
Where is there army? 5 or 10 million disinfected teens?
Because the idea that most Democrats want a war that’s ridiculous. Maybe 15% of the most moronic.
And if the 5 or 10 million do want a war they will die very fast
Dems LIE..now there is the shock of the century/sarc
Notice these commies have not say ONE WORD about what they would have done differently to prevent the virus from coming HERE to the US..not one word
They want Americans to die, and the more the merrier..as long as they are from red states of course
Perhaps the CDC and HHS would be in better shape and more prepared had the last administration NOT spent so much of their budgets on guns, ammo and “studies on gun violence”
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