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yellowcanine

(35,701 posts)
Fri Mar 13, 2020, 10:06 AM Mar 2020

Jerry Falwell spins coronavirus conspiracies on Fox & Fiends to defend Trump.

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/03/jerry-falwell-jr-goes-on-fox-news-and-spins-unhinged-coronavirus-conspiracies-to-defend-trump/

Jerry Falwell Jr. goes on Fox News and spins unhinged coronavirus conspiracies to defend Trump
Published 1 min ago on March 13, 2020 By Brad Reed

Liberty University President Jerry Falwell, Jr. on Friday uncorked an unhinged rant on “Fox & Friends” where he said that the entire world has deliberately overreacted to the coronavirus pandemic solely to hurt President Donald Trump.

Falwell started out his rant by claiming there wasn’t nearly this much hysteria surrounding the H1N1 pandemic in 2009, without noting that H1N1’s fatality rate was less than 0.1 percent, whereas the fatality rate for coronavirus is more than ten times higher.

“It makes you wonder if there’s a political reason for that,” Falwell said. “Impeachment didn’t work, and the Mueller report didn’t work, and Article 25 (sic) didn’t work, and so maybe now this is their next attempt to get Trump.”

Of course, countries across Europe and Asia have gone into complete lockdown to slow the spread of the virus, which seems like an extreme step to take if their goal were really to hurt Trump’s poll numbers.

Falwell also claimed without citing any evidence that the virus was a bioweapon developed by North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.

“The North Korean president promised a Christmas present for America back in December, could it be that they got together with China and this is that present?” he asked. “I don’t know but there really is something strange going on.”


And Trump will tweet about this in 3-2-1.......

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underpants

(182,883 posts)
1. Rush lead with "What about Obama and H1N1 and Ebola?" Yesterday
Fri Mar 13, 2020, 10:16 AM
Mar 2020

He was whining that the press didn’t criticize Obama

Botany

(70,585 posts)
4. " ... the entire world has deliberately overreacted to the coronavirus pandemic solely to hurt ...
Fri Mar 13, 2020, 10:23 AM
Mar 2020

... President Donald Trump."

So all of Northern Italy is shut down in order to hurt Donald Trump?

Botany

(70,585 posts)
7. And China shut down its economy, got 80,000 + cases, and 3,000 deaths because they produced ...
Fri Mar 13, 2020, 10:37 AM
Mar 2020

.... a bio-weapon, C-19, w/N Korea in order to hurt Donny too.

Do we really have people who watch Fox and Fallwell Jr. and believe that crap?

captain queeg

(10,247 posts)
5. I should know better, but I clicked on a FOX story this morning
Fri Mar 13, 2020, 10:24 AM
Mar 2020

It was about a woman who’d been quarantined on that cruise ship the Diamond Princess and recovered. She was complaining because her health club told her to stay away. She was being persecuted and people were hysterically over reacting; her take on it. Obviously Fox was using the story to reinforce the idea it’s all overblown. Well maybe if proper actions and testing were instituted immediately people wouldn’t be reacting like they are. And it seems that even people who have recovered can catch a mutated new version. She had not gotten very sick. In typical trumper fashion she and Fox used that to draw the conclusion that no one is getting very sick. I just hope that crowd gets widely infected soon. Fox peddling this distorted view is just increasing the problem.

SCantiGOP

(13,873 posts)
8. Damn, they're on to us
Fri Mar 13, 2020, 10:56 AM
Mar 2020

And after all that hard work by George Soros and Hillary to get all of those Italians to die just to help our global hoax.

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