Trump, the Liar in Chief - from yesterday's press conference. Where does he come up with this stuff?
Where to even start from one press conference?
On mail in voting:
"Our system is not equipped for it. The Post Office is not equipped for it."
"The Postal Service has ample capacity to adjust our nationwide processing and delivery network to meet projected Election and Political Mail volume including any additional volume that may result as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic." -- US Postal Service
On the Corona Virus:
"And your numbers will be -- in 90 days or less, your numbers will be very good, I think, much better on the coronavirus or the China virus."
It's not at all clear where Trump's prediction that the coronavirus pandemic will get better in the next 90 days is coming from. In fact, most experts -- of which Trump is not one -- say that the pandemic could worsen as flu season approaches.
On a vaccine:
"I think we'll have a vaccine before the end of the year, very substantially and we may have a therapeutic resolvement very quickly, very, very quickly and frankly that's the one I'd rather have faster, because you in, you give a transfusion or a shot to people that are very ill and they'd be able to come out of the hospital, the next day or a few days later."
Where is that coming from?
On testing
"If we had much smaller testing, we would have fewer, but we feel that having testing is a very important thing."
does he not understand that testing just identifies people with it? Testing doesn't create illness.
On politicizing the virus
"We must stop politicizing the virus and instead be united in our condemnation of how this virus came to America, how this virus came to the world."
From the mouth of the politicizer in chief
The payroll tax 'deferral'
"But the payroll tax is a big deal for people. It's a tremendous saving for people. And we are going to be doing it."
Really? This is the tax that funds social security and medicare? He is going to defer it until after the election, then it will have to be paid back. If its not paid back its going to put social security into a bigger hole than its in now.
on the Affordable Care Act
"But the individual mandate will always be with us -- the individual mandate termination will always be, they can't start it up."
wtf does that even mean?
On his executive orders
"It would have been so much easier than doing it the way we did it, but we did something that's very important and frankly it's been well received, very well received."
"The pen-and-phone theory of executive lawmaking is unconstitutional slop," said Nebraska Republican Sen. Ben Sasse about the moves. He is hardly alone. Almost all constitutional scholars say they are unconstitutional. Besides some are just BS. The 'stop eviction' Executive Order only suggests federal agencies review evictions rules. There is no oder for them to do anything.
When asked about foreign meddling in the 2020 election:
"So I don't know. You know what I'm telling you? I'll tell you who's meddling in our elections. The Democrats are meddling."
Trump was asked directly whether Russia was seeking to meddle in this election. This was how the President responded. Not exactly comforting. (Also, US intelligence has made very clear Russia is seeking to interfere in the 2020 contest.)
Where to even start from one press conference?
On mail in voting:
"Our system is not equipped for it. The Post Office is not equipped for it."
"The Postal Service has ample capacity to adjust our nationwide processing and delivery network to meet projected Election and Political Mail volume including any additional volume that may result as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic." -- US Postal Service
On the Corona Virus:
"And your numbers will be -- in 90 days or less, your numbers will be very good, I think, much better on the coronavirus or the China virus."
It's not at all clear where Trump's prediction that the coronavirus pandemic will get better in the next 90 days is coming from. In fact, most experts -- of which Trump is not one -- say that the pandemic could worsen as flu season approaches.
On a vaccine:
"I think we'll have a vaccine before the end of the year, very substantially and we may have a therapeutic resolvement very quickly, very, very quickly and frankly that's the one I'd rather have faster, because you in, you give a transfusion or a shot to people that are very ill and they'd be able to come out of the hospital, the next day or a few days later."
Where is that coming from?
On testing
"If we had much smaller testing, we would have fewer, but we feel that having testing is a very important thing."
does he not understand that testing just identifies people with it? Testing doesn't create illness.
On politicizing the virus
"We must stop politicizing the virus and instead be united in our condemnation of how this virus came to America, how this virus came to the world."
From the mouth of the politicizer in chief
The payroll tax 'deferral'
"But the payroll tax is a big deal for people. It's a tremendous saving for people. And we are going to be doing it."
Really? This is the tax that funds social security and medicare? He is going to defer it until after the election, then it will have to be paid back. If its not paid back its going to put social security into a bigger hole than its in now.
on the Affordable Care Act
"But the individual mandate will always be with us -- the individual mandate termination will always be, they can't start it up."
wtf does that even mean?
On his executive orders
"It would have been so much easier than doing it the way we did it, but we did something that's very important and frankly it's been well received, very well received."
"The pen-and-phone theory of executive lawmaking is unconstitutional slop," said Nebraska Republican Sen. Ben Sasse about the moves. He is hardly alone. Almost all constitutional scholars say they are unconstitutional. Besides some are just BS. The 'stop eviction' Executive Order only suggests federal agencies review evictions rules. There is no oder for them to do anything.
When asked about foreign meddling in the 2020 election:
"So I don't know. You know what I'm telling you? I'll tell you who's meddling in our elections. The Democrats are meddling."
Trump was asked directly whether Russia was seeking to meddle in this election. This was how the President responded. Not exactly comforting. (Also, US intelligence has made very clear Russia is seeking to interfere in the 2020 contest.)
