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AP FACT CHECK: Trump seeds race animus with COVID falsehood
The Associated Press ^ | January 16, 2022 | By CALVIN WOODWARD and DAVID KLEPPER

Posted on 01/16/2022 8:57:37 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump falsely declared in a weekend rally that public health authorities are denying the COVID-19 vaccine to white people because of their race.

TRUMP: “The left is now rationing lifesaving therapeutics based on race, discriminating against and denigrating ... white people to determine who lives and who dies. If you’re white you don’t get the vaccine or if you’re white you don’t get therapeutics. ... In New York state, if you’re white, you have to go to the back of the line to get medical health.”

THE FACTS: No, white people are not being excluded from vaccines, of which there is a plentiful supply. And there is no evidence they being sent to the “back of the line” for COVID-19 care as a matter of public health policy.

Trump distorted a New York policy that allows for race to be one consideration when dispensing oral antiviral treatments, which are in limited supply. The policy attempts to steer those treatments to people at the most risk of severe disease from the coronavirus.

It says that nonwhite race or Hispanic ethnicity “should be considered a risk factor” because long-standing health and social inequities make people of color more likely to get severely ill or die from the virus.

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: apepee; arizona; bias; calvinwoodward; covid; davidklepper; democrats; journalism; marxists; media; mediabias; press; trump; trumprally
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

What about healthy white people 65 and over 65?


61 posted on 01/16/2022 12:16:31 PM PST by WildHighlander57 ((The more you tighten your grip, the more star systems will slip through your fingers.) )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The AP — Ass$_(&es & Pukes — is dead to me.


62 posted on 01/16/2022 1:17:23 PM PST by HKMk23 (The right of freedom of religion shall not be derogated even if the life of the nation is at stake.)
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To: gibsonguy

I was referring to those people among us who are actually capable of critical thought and reason.


63 posted on 01/16/2022 1:46:11 PM PST by Howie66 (Let's Go Brandon!!)
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To: Robert A Cook PE; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; ...
Thanks RACPE.

64 posted on 01/16/2022 2:26:25 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

AP is worthless.


65 posted on 01/16/2022 3:17:02 PM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: BenLurkin; Chode; GOPJ; DoughtyOne
“long-standing health and social inequities make people of color more likely to get severely ill or die from the virus”

"Equity"=punishment. "Inequity" would mean not enough punishment or the wrong kind of punishment.

66 posted on 01/16/2022 4:32:25 PM PST by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Re-imagine the media!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
discriminating against and denigrating

Isee hwat was done here.

67 posted on 01/16/2022 5:24:33 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Timmy

Yes, but it’s different when they say it. /s


68 posted on 01/16/2022 6:40:46 PM PST by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegience to the flag of the U S of A, and to the REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
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To: wiseprince

Every time Biden stumbles in a speech, it shows up in every conservative site. gets posted a dozen times here, and helps pummel his popularity. It is good strategy and it works for both sides. The only solution is a younger, smarter, more factually aware candidate. Biden is toast and we can do better than Trump.


69 posted on 01/16/2022 7:54:43 PM PST by Wayne07
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To: Wayne07
Biden is toast and we can do better than Trump.

Give me a name of someone better than Trump.

70 posted on 01/16/2022 7:57:18 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It wasn’t the $hot that PDJT was talking about.


71 posted on 01/16/2022 8:03:43 PM PST by Jane Long (What we were told was a “conspiracy theory” in 2020 is now fact. 🙏🏻 Ps 33:12 )
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To: Wayne07
and we can do better than Trump.

name one or two ...
72 posted on 01/16/2022 8:05:00 PM PST by bankwalker (Repeal the 19th ...)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Oh so we’re back to “fact” checking, eh?


73 posted on 01/16/2022 8:08:32 PM PST by stuck_in_new_orleans ( )
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To: Wayne07

Trump makes it look easy and everyone thinks they can do better. 50 years proves that’s just not the case. Trump, as an example, is fighting the fake election. I’m confident he is the only one who would do this. He’s a true leader. He takes up issues no one else will touch. Everyone is playing tough on the border right now because Trump took all the arrows (I still doubt anyone will try and actually do anything about it). When election security is a proven winner all the phonies will pretend its easy to fight for. These fools in politics are not leaders.


74 posted on 01/16/2022 8:20:46 PM PST by wiseprince (Me,)
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To: Wayne07
Biden is toast and we can do better than Trump.

There is nobody better than Trump.

75 posted on 01/16/2022 8:22:14 PM PST by Lazamataz (I feel like it is 1937 Germany, and my last name is Feinberg.)
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