Posted on 07/19/2020 6:44:26 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
President Trump, in an exclusive interview with Fox News, challenged his critics on his handling of the coronavirus pandemic, threatened a veto for the defense bill, and speculated on whether he will accept the results if his Democratic challenger wins the presidency in November.
Trump, in a contentious sitdown that aired Sunday, told "Fox News Sunday" host Chris Wallace that recent statistics regarding COVID-19 cases and deaths are misleading. Early in the discussion, the president disputed Wallace’s claim that the U.S. currently has the seventh-highest mortality rate in the world.
“I think we have one of the lowest mortality rates in the world,” Trump said, offering White House statistics that differed from the ones Wallace cited.
Wallace then explained that his numbers came from Johns Hopkins University, which ranked the U.S. seventh in mortality, ahead of the UK and worse than Brazil and Russia. He noted that the White House’s chart, which uses data from the European Centre for Disease Protection and Control, has the U.S. ahead of Spain and Italy, but worse than Brazil and South Korea, with Russia and other countries not included in the chart.
From there, Trump pushed back against statements from leading U.S. doctors, specifically CDC Director Robert Redfield and National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci. Redfield said last week that he expects the coming fall and winter to be among “the most difficult times that we’ve experienced in American public health.”
When asked if he agrees with Redfield, Trump said he was unsure, but pointed to mistakes that doctors have made.
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A good answer to a dumb ass question. Better to ask Biden if he will lead a coup if President Trump wins re-election.
>addresses whether he will accept election results
Has Chris Wallace accepted the results of the last election yet? Or the one from 2000? Or...?
Who didn’t accept the 2016 results?
There’s a half dozen or so TV types I can’t stand watching. Wallace is one of them.
Chris Wallace <==== Soros, Romney, Clinton toady;
always eager to interrupt the ELECTED PRESIDENT
AND to add later his LIES.
Trump should be interviewed by Shannon Bream instead.
That should be the last time Mr. Trump allows C. Wallace to interview him before the election.
It’s obvious Chris is writing questions from a hard left or #NeverTrump perspective. He’s on a mission to humiliate and/or disable the president’s status as much as he can.
Musings over something that is not going to take place!
In Wallace’s defense, he agreed with Trump that Hillary has not accepted the results of the 2016 election.
He kicked ass
Let’s just think about this in the context of the Bush/Gore election. Gore went to the USSC over the results.
I would have answered “whether he will accept election results” question differently -
“Chris, are you born stupid or you purposely cultivating it your whole life?”
But, alas, I am not Trump, and I never plan on running for anything.
Did Wallace give any credence to the claims that Trump won because of Russian collusion?
Did Wallace give any rebuke to the Democrats who DO claim that Trump won because of Russian collusion?
Did Wallace give any rebuke to the unelected Democrats at the FBI, CIA, DOJ, CDC, et al who have taken up Hillary’s call to “RESIST” the advancement of this administration’s policies?
Wallace is a scumbag. He’s had 3 years. Sour grapes to bring it up as an election question when the Left is going for all the marbles to steal this election with ballot harvesting coast to coast (lawsuits primed to have mail in ballots for all).
In Houston the election is now being RUN by the former Texas DNC finance chair. Because the elected Democrat stepped down saying she’s afraid of catching Corona. This is a civic office being run by a partisan hack. They steal Texas, so goes the nation.
Wallace came out hard and heavy, nothing Trump couldn't handle, but Wallace was eating out of Trumps hand as things progressed. You can actually tell Wallace's frustration as he tried to argue.
All in all I didn't think I'd be able to handle Wallace as he can be disgusting....but Trump was great!
Did blitzer watch the biased interview on his own channel? He kicked Wallace’s ass
Trumps answer to accepting 2020 election results was exactly as it should be.....he wasn’t going to say. Just as he said in 2016.
You and me both! But I suffered through because Freepers said it was worth the watch for how Trump handled it. Glad I watched it.
Wallace didn’t ask that question of Granny Bloodclot
How did THAT turn out?
Will he ask it of Biden, if he ever comes out of the basement?
Will he ask that of every Democrat he interviews?
Comparing the U.S. COVID mortality rate to other is an apples to oranges comparison. We count anyone who died with COVID as a COVID death, even if they didn’t die of COVID. Other countries don’t do that.
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