Donald Trump Jr. declared on Thursday night that coronavirus deaths had dropped to “almost nothing,” questioning the seriousness of the pandemic on a record-breaking day for new cases in which more than 1,000 Americans died of the virus.
Speaking to Fox News host Laura Ingraham, Trump Jr. pointed to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that he suggested show a declining coronavirus death rate.
“I went through the CDC data, because I kept hearing about new infections, but I was like, ‘Why aren’t they talking about deaths?’ ” Trump Jr. said. “Oh, because the number is almost nothing. Because we’ve gotten control of this thing, we understand how it works. They have the therapeutics to be able to deal with this.”
Number one, Junior did NOT “go through the CDC data.” Please. He is less literate than his father and that’s saying something. Also, if he had he would have found that moe than a thousand people died yesterday. Maybe he thinks that’s nothing. But 20,000 to 30,000 preventable deaths a month is monstrous.
Yesterday’s count:
Thank goodness they now understand a little better how to treat the illness so the death rate isn’t what it was in the very beginning. But it is still deadly and with hospitalizations going up the way they are, there are going to be a lot more deaths.
Watch Ingraham’s face. Even she knows he’s completely off the rails: