Actually, he does. Quite a bit.
posed a significant risk and, what’s more, that blocking airborne transmission would help limit the spread. Yet over and over, Trump claimed that the virus was under control, that it would at one point simply disappear and that wearing a mask was a matter of choice — and something that he wouldn’t be doing.
During a news briefing Wednesday after the Woodward reporting was made public, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany was asked about the contradiction between Trump’s private and public comments.“So, when you hear these tapes, it will not appear that the president lied to the American public about the threat posed by covid?” a reporter asked, referring to the disease caused by the virus. “The president has never lied to the American public on covid,” McEnany replied. “The president’s been very — the president was expressing calm, and his actions reflect that.”broad inaction and an obvious effort to link the still-low number of cases to his success in managing the pandemic. “When you have 15 people, and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero, that’s a pretty good job we’ve done,” Trump famously said on Feb. 26.But it’s important to step back and point out the ridiculousness of McEnany’s initial claim. Trump has lied about the coronavirus repeatedly, just as he has misled the public and misrepresented the data. The Washington Post’s fact-checking team documented more than 20,000 false or misleading statements by Trump since he took office through early July. Of those, nearly 1,000 were specific to the coronavirus itself.The nation’s disproportionately large number of cases is a function of our doing more testing.His ban on travel from Europe “saved millions of lives.”No one predicted the threat posed by a pandemic.The nation has more than enough protective equipment to meet needs.That’s a small sampling of the false statements The Post has catalogued. But we’ve also documented statements that directly contradict what Trump admitted to Woodward, such as claims that the coronavirus is. Dubbing something a lie is subjective, but denying something that you’ve admitted elsewhere is pretty much the textbook definition. “I think the bottom line here is that the president, by his own admission, in private, on the record, acknowledged the depth of this crisis,” a reporter asked McEnany later, “and yet told the American people something very different. How is that, at its core, not an abject betrayal of the public trust?” “The president has always been clear-eyed with the American people,” McEnany replied. “He was always clear-eyed about the lives we could lose. Once again, from this podium, he acknowledged that this was serious back in March, that 100,000, 200,000 lives could be lost.”
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