{"id":46760,"date":"2020-09-16T12:23:47","date_gmt":"2020-09-16T19:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=46760"},"modified":"2020-09-16T12:23:47","modified_gmt":"2020-09-16T19:23:47","slug":"trump-is-advocating-herd-mentality-knowing-it-will-kill-2-million-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=46760","title":{"rendered":"Trump is Advocating ‘Herd Mentality’ Knowing it Will Kill 2 Million Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Tuesday evening, Donald Trump took a rare step outside of his protective Fox News bunker<\/a><\/strong> for a town hall style interview on ABC with George Stephanopoulos. It was a pitiful spectacle of prideful ignorance and shameless lying. In other words, business as usual for Trump.<\/p>\n

\"Donald<\/p>\n

Among the many dangerously dishonest departures from reality<\/a><\/strong> disseminated by The Donald were his bizarre defenses of his incompetent and deadly mishandling of the coronavirus pandemic. In addition to spreading many of the same falsehoods he’s been putting out for months, Trump contradicted himself by denying that he downplayed the severity of COVID-19 (which he admitted to<\/a><\/strong> in the new book, RAGE! by Bob Woodward<\/a><\/strong>), while also insisting that he did downplay it in an effort to avoid creating a panic. So Trump was simultaneously downplaying it and not downplaying it, a feat only possible by an acutely disturbed psychotic (which is pretty much what America thinks of Trump<\/a><\/strong>).<\/p>\n

When the discussion came around to the development of a vaccine, Trump managed to surprise Stephanopoulos with a claim that no public health expert or epidemiologist would give any credibility to. That led to this exchange:<\/p>\n

STEPHANOPOULOS:<\/strong> It would go away without the vaccine?
\nTRUMP:<\/strong> Sure, over a period of time. Sure, with time it goes away.
\nSTEPHANOPOULOS:<\/strong> And many deaths.
\nTRUMP:<\/strong> And you’ll develop — you’ll develop herd — like a herd mentality. It’s going to be — it’s going to be herd-developed, and that’s going to happen. That will all happen.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Trump: You\u2019ll develop like a herd mentality pic.twitter.com\/8kTQvUbfoJ<\/a><\/p>\n

— Acyn (@Acyn) September 16, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n