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Miles Archer

(18,837 posts)
Wed Apr 1, 2020, 08:15 PM Apr 2020

Trump blows up at Fox's John Roberts, denies disbanding pandemic response team. #AlternateFacts

Acyn Torabi
@Acyn

The President lashes out at John Roberts from Fox News for asking about the pandemic team. He asks Roberts if he’s working for CNN




On Wednesday, President Donald Trump lost his temper at a coronavirus press briefing when Fox News correspondent John Roberts asked him about his administration disbanding the pandemic response team.

“We didn’t do that. That turned out to be a false story,” said Trump. (It is not a false story.) “Now you’re starting to go — are you working for CNN?”

“I’m pointing out what they have said and what you have said, that’s all,” said Roberts.
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“Fox isn’t so easy either, don’t kid yourself,” whined Trump. “Look, John, let me tell you something. You know that’s a false story. What you just said is a false story, this doctor knows it better than anybody … you shouldn’t be repeating a story that you know is false.”

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/04/trump-blows-up-at-fox-news-reporter-for-asking-him-about-disbanding-pandemic-team/


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Trump blows up at Fox's John Roberts, denies disbanding pandemic response team. #AlternateFacts (Original Post) Miles Archer Apr 2020 OP
God FUCKING dammit SOMEBODY FUCKING DO SOMETHING Eliot Rosewater Apr 2020 #1
Hey tRump -- you're a goddamn fucking liar Blue Owl Apr 2020 #2
Holy Fuck Balls Batman!! leftieNanner Apr 2020 #3
There Is No Bottom With The Creature, Sir The Magistrate Apr 2020 #4
Fucking asshole thegoose Apr 2020 #5
NO, not him! Zambero Apr 2020 #6
The should be ready to read FACTS when this happens Ferrets are Cool Apr 2020 #7
... handmade34 Apr 2020 #8
Trump thinks if he says something loud enough procon Apr 2020 #9
A different tone, my ass dalton99a Apr 2020 #10
Here you go . . . Strelnikov_ Apr 2020 #11
He disbanded the bdamomma Apr 2020 #12
At what # will Death Count Donnie end these perfectly beautiful cowardly lie filled pressers? Brainfodder Apr 2020 #13
His change of tone lasted...one f'ing day. nt cayugafalls Apr 2020 #14
where is the reporter who will shout back... dhill926 Apr 2020 #15
He already gave himself a 10/10 ThoughtCriminal Apr 2020 #16

leftieNanner

(15,124 posts)
3. Holy Fuck Balls Batman!!
Wed Apr 1, 2020, 08:18 PM
Apr 2020

I know that he lies. I know that he gaslights. But SHIT! This is absurd.

And now his zombie followers will repeat it and it will become true.

The Magistrate

(95,247 posts)
4. There Is No Bottom With The Creature, Sir
Wed Apr 1, 2020, 08:21 PM
Apr 2020

Fox is clearly not quite loyal enough now, the station has clipped the wings of a couple of talking heads who parroted the cheap thug's line regarding the plague he nurtured in his ignorant pride and indifference to human life and suffering.

But not to worry. Like a shark's tooth growing into the gap, One America News is already being groomed to be the favored outlet of maggots everywhere.

Zambero

(8,964 posts)
6. NO, not him!
Wed Apr 1, 2020, 08:23 PM
Apr 2020

It had to be one of his "very best people" he brought on board. Trump handles the gaslighting part.

Ferrets are Cool

(21,107 posts)
7. The should be ready to read FACTS when this happens
Wed Apr 1, 2020, 08:23 PM
Apr 2020

because they should know by now that is IS going to happen. He is going to spew lies...they have to be able to back up their facts.
I wonder how these journalists feel about being called liars.

handmade34

(22,756 posts)
8. ...
Wed Apr 1, 2020, 08:27 PM
Apr 2020
https://apnews.com/ce014d94b64e98b7203b873e56f80e9a


The NSC directorate for global health and security and bio-defense survived the transition from President Barack Obama to Trump in 2017.

Trump’s elimination of the office suggested, along with his proposed budget cuts for the CDC, that he did not see the threat of pandemics in the same way that many experts in the field did.

“One year later I was mystified when the White House dissolved the office, leaving the country less prepared for pandemics like COVID-19,” Beth Cameron, the first director of the unit, wrote in an op-ed Friday in The Washington Post.

She said the directorate was set up to be the “smoke alarm” and get ahead of emergencies and sound a warning at the earliest sign of fire — “all with the goal of avoiding a six-alarm fire.”

It’s impossible to assess the impact of the 2018 decision to disband the unit, she said. Cameron noted that biological experts remain at the White House, but she says it’s clear that eliminating the office contributed to what she called a “sluggish domestic response.” She said that shortly before Trump took office, the unit was watching a rising number of cases in China of a deadly strain of the flu and a yellow fever outbreak in Angola.

“It’s unclear whether the decision to disband the directorate, which was made in May 2018, after John Bolton became national security adviser, was a tactical move to downgrade the issue or whether it was part of the White House’s interest in simplifying and shrinking the National Security Council staff,” Cameron says.

procon

(15,805 posts)
9. Trump thinks if he says something loud enough
Wed Apr 1, 2020, 08:27 PM
Apr 2020

and long enough it will come true. Now if only he could find his ruby slippers before the flying monkeys eat them.

Strelnikov_

(7,772 posts)
11. Here you go . . .
Wed Apr 1, 2020, 08:29 PM
Apr 2020
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/coronavirus-video-trump-pandemic-team-cut-2018-a9405191.html

Mr Trump said of the pandemic team that “some of the people we’ve cut they haven’t been used for many, many years and if we ever need them we can get them very quickly and rather then spending the money”.

“I’m a business person, I don’t like having thousands of people around when you don’t need them,” he added.

bdamomma

(63,875 posts)
12. He disbanded the
Wed Apr 1, 2020, 08:30 PM
Apr 2020

Department there were witnesses to this. And also in 2017 during the transition the tRump jerks were briefed on situation of such a virus and what steps to take. Wilbur Ross was asleep and Betsy DeVos was complaining saying why am I here??? if anyone listens to Randi Rhodes show she has explained the whole thing.

This could have been prevented but wasn't, because we have a con man in office. Who blames others and makes himself a victim. We are Puerto Rico.

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