On Monday, the house select sub committee
on the Corona virus crisis, uh, released a
series of briefings that Donald Trump had
received from the coronavirus task force.
These were private briefings that were not
made public until this house select subcommittee
decided to release them on Monday. Uh, these
are briefings that spanned from June 23rd
through August 9th. So these are very recent.
They span most of the summer and they reveal
the Donald Trump lied to the public all throughout
the summer about how bad the crisis really
was. Let's not forget throughout this entire
summer, as we saw our numbers going through
the roof, Donald Trump told us one, this whole
thing was just going to disappear. Probably
pretty quickly told us that it was totally
safe to send our kids back to school. We needed
to send them back to school. And that the
only reason we're seeing big numbers is because
we're doing big testing. The committee released
several reports and here we are from common
dreams. They actually put these together with,
uh,
Oh actually, I'm sorry. This is from the press
release of the house coronavirus sub committee.
They put together the briefing of that day,
along with what the president said that particular
day to downplay what was happening here in
the United States. Here's a few highlights
and this is a printed and pro in common dreams
from the house subcommittee report, June 23rd,
vice president Pence claimed than an op ed
that the panic over resurge of, of coronavirus
infections was overblown. But the white house
task force concluded that seven States were
in the red zone indicating the highest risk
of coronavirus spread July 14th report. Uh,
Trump stated publicly no other country tests
like us. In fact, I could say it's working
too much. It's working too well. We're doing
testing and we're finding thousands and thousands
of cases. The same day, the tax task force
concluded 19 States were in the red zone and
recommended increased testing.
Uh, July 26, Trump tweeted, you will never
hear this on the fake news concerning the
China virus, but by comparison to most other
countries who are significant or suffering
greatly, we're doing very well. And we have
done things that few other countries would
have done. Uh, July 26th, the task force also
said, uh, 22 States were in the red zone and
stated quote, Georgia is experiencing widespread
community spread without evidence of improvement.
Improvement will require much more aggressive
mitigation efforts to change the trajectory
of the pandemic. And Georgia similar thing
happened on August 2nd and August 9th. Here's,
here's what this means. Basically, every time
the president was privately given a report
saying, Holy crap, things got so much worse.
Every time that happened, he went out publicly
and said, wow, things are so great in this
country. Look at this. We're doing great.
There's nothing to worry about.
The cases are only up because the testing
is up. Meanwhile, the taskforce is in his
ear saying, Holy crap, dude, you got to increase
testing in these areas. We got to send more
tests. We need to find out how many people
have this. Cause it's spreading like wildfire.
Now here's the kicker to all of this folks.
Do you know what has happened in the last
month or so? The federal government has reduced
testing. They've done this by cutting off
the funding for testing. So there's fewer
areas with federally subsidized testing. Um,
I know in my area, we actually went from having
like four or five test centers and we've got
a population of only like 20,000. Uh, there's
no one. You actually have to leave this town
to go to a different town to go to that hospital.
And they do it. Cause all the other testing
centers have been shut down or they've reduced
their hours to only be open for two hours
per week. And that's why the number of cases
in places like Florida has dropped from 10,000
a day to 3000 a day. Hey, those numbers look
great, right? Well, it's not because we're
controlling the virus. It's because we're
controlling telling people they have the virus
by not letting them get tested and that's
happening all over the country. The pandemic
has not gone away. It simply has not. We're
seeing lower numbers now because we're doing
less tests. I had Trump's Trump's own logic
there. But the fact is he has been lying to
us throughout the entire summer.
And some of the lies that he tells sure about
how great the economy is. Yeah. That doesn't
really hurt anybody. These lies do. And the
house select subcommittee was, was quick to
point out that over this time period, when
Trump was lying to the public about what was
really happening and additional 58,058,000
Americans died, Trump lied 58,000 Americans
died as a result of it. Four died and Ben
Gazi. And we had years of investigations and
hearings on that for people, but an extra
58,000 dying from Donald Trump's repeated
lies to the public Republicans have no problems
with that. Y'all going to keep calling yourselves
the pro-life party as you're actually actively
letting tens of thousands of people die unnecessarily
because you don't want to go against the orange
freaking the white house. So pro-life of you.
So Christian of you, you'd better hope that
this religion that you use to get yourself
elected you better hope it's all fake because
if it's not, I gotta, I gotta some real bad
news for you about where you will be spending
eternity for what you've been doing, not just
throughout your whole careers, but primarily
for what you've done.
Just the last three months alone. That is
a hell worthy trespass. If I've ever seen
one.
