Trump: COVID-19 vaccine may be ready 'right around' Election Day
Source: The Hill
President Trump on Thursday said he thinks it's possible there will be a COVID-19 vaccine ready around Election Day in November. "I think in some cases, yes, possible before, but right around that time," Trump said on Geraldo Rivera's radio show when asked if he thought a vaccine would be ready by Nov. 3. "We have great companies," he added. "The rest of the world is also doing vaccines, so let's see how they do."
The president's comments are likely to fuel concerns that he is exerting political pressure on vaccine development in a bid to boost his reelection hopes. Trump told reporters this week that politics will not play any role in the science behind vaccine development, and administration officials have made similar assurances.
But Trump has repeatedly insisted a vaccine could be ready in the near future, citing Operation Warp Speed, a government initiative to expedite the development, manufacturing and distribution of a possible COVID-19 vaccine. "I'm rushing it. I am. I'm pushing everybody." Trump told Rivera of the push for a vaccine.
Trump also claimed a vaccine wouldn't be ready for "two years" if a different president were in office.
Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/510853-trump-covid-19-vaccine-may-be-ready-right-around-election-day
ananda
(28,782 posts)Classic abuse tactic.
Break it, and then at the last minute
be the only one who can fix it.
Mike 03
(16,616 posts)yaesu
(8,020 posts)C_U_L8R
(44,891 posts)This Trump clown is like the Fast Eddy of snake oil.
Botany
(70,289 posts)And Saddam Hussein had WMDs too
Mike 03
(16,616 posts)Russia, of course, is boasting about its vaccine. I hope Trump doesn't plan to make a deal with Russia for their rushed vaccine. I trust that like I trust Bernie Madoff to invest my last thousand bucks.
ScratchCat
(1,957 posts)from miles away, I'm afraid you may be blind. I fully expect this to happen by the end of September and he will then try to claim "we" are going to trade the dropping of all sanctions and lifting the Magniski Act with Russia for the vaccine. Watch. He will proclaim Russia is our savior.
hvn_nbr_2
(6,481 posts)I think it will be a little later than end of September. They want it to be late enough that it won't be clear by election day that the Russian vaccine is a hoax and doesn't work.
Trump is telegraphing this as clearly as "Russia, if you're listening..." He can't keep his mouth shut when he knows a secret that he likes.
dalton99a
(81,065 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,362 posts)Didn't it go away in April when the weather got warmer?
johnnyfins
(772 posts)Nothing he says about this pandemic can be trusted. It's all designed for re-election. Vaccine near Election Day!!!!!!!??????? He's kidding, right? And F Geraldo, too.
AleksS
(1,665 posts)Personally discovered a vaccine the day before Election Day.
Of course this has nothing to do with whether theres ACTUALLY a vaccine ready then.
Initech
(99,912 posts)And I called this back in March that this was going to be their "October Surprise".
louis-t
(23,199 posts)Lots of deplorables are running around saying it's all fake.
dalton99a
(81,065 posts)They_Live
(3,222 posts)only if I win. If I don't win it was rigged" - That's what he meant to say.
IronLionZion
(45,256 posts)and the November surprise will be that it was a lie
C Moon
(12,188 posts)I wouldn't trust a rushed Russian vaccine, anyway (I'm sure that's what is going to happen...Putin will offer to sell vaccines for billions of dollars). They would either be a fake or toxic vaccine.
Grokenstein
(5,707 posts)chowder66
(9,010 posts)Sloumeau
(2,657 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,063 posts)They're going distribute something whether it works or not. Trump will try to bullshit his way through like he always does.
Magoo48
(4,659 posts)Rebl2
(13,303 posts)for the rushed vaccine.
DrToast
(6,414 posts)He just wants to be able to take credit for it.
Alger60
(8 posts)that was two weeks out....both two weeks ago and three and a half years ago. Still nada.
TeamPooka
(24,155 posts)lies
onetexan
(12,994 posts)IcyPeas
(21,737 posts)did he say that? because you know he would do that if he could.
Brainfodder
(6,423 posts)MineralMan
(146,192 posts)I don't think people are going to buy that nonsense.