{"id":51338,"date":"2021-11-26T12:25:20","date_gmt":"2021-11-26T20:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=51338"},"modified":"2021-11-26T12:25:20","modified_gmt":"2021-11-26T20:25:20","slug":"trump-and-the-wall-street-journal-flagrantly-lie-about-covid-fatalities-to-malign-biden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=51338","title":{"rendered":"Trump and the Wall Street Journal Flagrantly Lie About COVID Fatalities to Malign Biden"},"content":{"rendered":"

The determination of right-wing media outlets to vilify President Biden on a constant basis is the driving force of their malicious editorial mission. Fox News, Newsmax, and others, keep up a perpetual parade of disparaging propaganda even when there are no facts to support their attacks.<\/p>\n

\"Donald<\/p>\n

Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal is among those media manglers hellbent on spreading disinformation intended to deceive their readers and damage Biden’s reputation. On Friday they published an article<\/a><\/strong> with an ominous headline declaring the advent of “Biden’s Covid Death Milestone.”<\/em> Trump promptly tweeted<\/a><\/strong> a link to the article (via his Twitter ban defying spokes-shill<\/a><\/strong>) The gist of the hit piece was summarized in the opening paragraph stating falsely that…<\/p>\n

“It would seem that Mr. Biden has done no better than Donald Trump in defeating Covid despite the benefit of vaccines, better therapies, and more clinical experience.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Journal’s argument was based on the fact that there have been about the same number of deaths due to COVID in 2021, during Biden’s presidency, as there were in 2020, during Trump’s. However, that disembodied “factoid”<\/em> lacks both context and mathematical soundness.<\/p>\n

The Journal conveniently left out the relatively massive expansion of the coronavirus and how it blanketed the nation from its inception. It went from nonexistence to pandemic in just a few weeks. That’s where the Journal’s math fell short. Here’s why…<\/p>\n

Starting from zero there are fewer people infected and, consequently, fewer people to transmit it to others. The growth of incidents of transmission increases exponentially as the population of those infected increases. For instance, if there are ten people infected, growth of 100% would result in 20 total infected people. However, if there are 10,000 people infected, growth of 100% would result in 20,000 total infected people. So there are far more infected people, but the exact same percentage growth rate.<\/p>\n

In real terms, during Trump’s last year in office the number of fatalities went from 10 (when Trump said it would soon decline back to zero) to 400,000, an increase of four million (4,000,000!) percent. During Biden’s first year in office the number of fatalities went from about 400,000 to 800,000, an increase of only 100 percent. That’s a fatality rate percentage decline of 99.9975 percent. So it is brazenly dishonest to say that Biden did no better than Trump. The truth is that during Biden’s term the United States went from 4000 people dying every day by the end of Trump’s term, to about 1,000 deaths a day under Biden, A decline of 75 percent.<\/p>\n

What’s more, it must not be forgotten that more than 90% of the new hospitalizations and fatalities are among unvaccinated people. And those vaccine resisters are almost entirely Fox News viewers. It would not be inaccurate to call this the Pandemic of Fox News<\/a><\/strong>. Not surprisingly, the unvaccinated are predominantly Trump supporters and Republicans<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

From the start of the pandemic Trump has sought to downplay its severity<\/a><\/strong>. In the book RAGE, by Bob Woodward<\/a><\/strong> it was documented that Trump had deliberately lied about the severity of the coronavirus, saying that he “wanted to always play it down.”<\/em> Which he is still doing today. Trump insiders recently disclosed that he has refused to promote vaccines<\/a><\/strong> because it might upset his cult followers or, gawd forbid, help Biden.<\/p>\n

The bottom line for these cretins is, as usual, prioritizing whatever is in their own political self-interest. They couldn’t care less about the suffering and loss of life that they are purposefully contributing to. And to that end they put out lies like this one in the Wall Street Journal that seek to suppress the successes of the Biden administration. Hopefully the truth will find a way to reach the American people through means other than Murdoch’s bullshit factory.<\/p>\n

NOTE:<\/strong> Twitter suspended the News Corpse account after 11 years without giving a reason. So if anyone wants to tweet articles from my website<\/a><\/strong>, please feel free to do so often and repeatedly. Also, Be sure to visit and follow News Corpse on Instagram<\/a>.<\/strong> Thanks for your support.<\/p>\n

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How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:
\nFox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a>
\nAvailable now at Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The determination of right-wing media outlets to vilify President Biden on a constant basis is the driving force of their malicious editorial mission. Fox News, Newsmax, and others, keep up a perpetual parade of disparaging propaganda even when there are no facts to support their attacks. 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