Watch: Joe Biden Tells Huge Whopper in Church
Joe Biden has finally emerged from his basement. He may be the only person still wearing a mask. Incorrectly, of course.
But he just told some huge whoppers about the Wuhan coronavirus.
He’s now trying to claim that he was warning about the virus in January and that if President Donald Trump had shut down a month earlier and listened to him, “45-60,000 people would be alive instead of dead.”
The reality?
Biden made absolutely no recommendations for a shutdown earlier or in his story in January. The story was again full of nonsense and contained lies about Trump’s actions. He misleadingly states that Trump proposed cuts to the NIH and the CDC, yet there were never cuts and any proposals didn’t involve pandemic response. He also spread the lie that went on for months without media debunking it, that Trump cut the pandemic team, when the person in charge of it, Tim Morrison said it was simply reorganized into another department. Biden misleadingly said the whole team was dismantled without saying there was a restructuring.
Biden didn’t say anything at all even about cutting travel in January, while the President was forming a task force, activating the CDC, declaring a public health emergency, and cutting travel with China. Indeed he spoke out against cutting travel in that January story, calling travel bans “reactionary that would only have made things worse.” Then in remarks in response to Trump’s decision to cut travel, Biden called Trump responding with “hysterical xenophobia.”
When Trump cut travel with Europe on March 12, Biden spoke out against that too, saying he didn’t think that was the right move.