Report: Trump Casts Doubt On COVID-19 Death Toll, Believes True Number Could Be Lower

As the U.S. grapples with a staggering death toll from the coronavirus, which has now surpassed 70,000, President Donald Trump reportedly has been privately questioning the number of fatalities from the virus and believes the deaths could have been over-counted.


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Just die already.

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Mr. Trump, the number is most likely vastly HIGHER, not lower.

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“Time after time, the President has been forced to revise his optimistically low fatality predictions of the virus, which originally began at 50,000 until Trump had to begin steadily increasing the figure to keep up with the true death rate.”

"I’m not saying we wouldn’t get our hair a little mussed, but no more than ten to twenty million, tops!’

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Trump Casts Doubt On COVID-19 Death Toll, Believes True Number Could Be Lower

Yes Donnie, and the moon could be made of green cheese . . . idiot!

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This years version of the “un-biased unskewed poll”. The “un-biased unskewed” death count, cut the number of deaths in democratic-run state by half, they over-counting deliberately to hurt Trump, and in that they are In cahoots with the Chinese

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However, it’s vitally important that TPM does their own version of “good people on both sides”.

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The people that still intend to vote for this monster are deplorable. Hillary Clinton had it right.

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He’s a believer.

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Ah yes. Wasn’t it “unskewed”?

“Unskewed Death Counts - we discount all the suspected ‘crisis actors’ to get you the real numbers!”

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Is there no end to this vast global conspiracy to make the Donald look bad?

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It was originally 15 cases soon to be zero, that before he realized the the Chinese has lied to him…and only they told him that the thing was highly contagious and completely closed down a city and place the rest of the country under severe restrictions.

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Yes it was “unskewed”… my bad

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Trump Casts Doubt On COVID-19 Death Toll, Believes True Number Could Be Lower

Unskewed bodycounts!

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Trump will stick to his narrative that the virus pandemic is all about him, and that he saved the nation. It’s up to Dems to dispute this, because the media often just amplifies Trump’s version of events.

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Monster is too good a word.

Every person who died as a result of COVID (brought about in greater numbers because of Trump’s negligence) was a person with a life and value.

Tended to by caring and overworked doctors and other medical personnel.

With relatives and loved ones unable to see them on their Journey

And in many cases, unable to be properly interred.

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There was an episode of Cheers where Sam helped Rebecca by bartending at a fancy corporate party she had organized. He gets flirting with this supercilious rich woman who’s amused at his ambition and he says to her, “You probably think I’m just a bartender, don’t you?” She answers, “Well, what do you think you are?” And that’s what Sane America should ask Trump. Objective reality has no hold for him at all, it’s a misty, gauzy illusion that melts away as you gaze beyond it to the higher reality of whatever you want reality to be. He’s fucking nuts, in other words.

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This guy was trying to cast doubt on the tape of his own voice talking about “grabbing them by the pussy”, he has stated publicly that more than 3 million people voted illegally in 2016 (all of them for HRC) - the only question here is what took him so long to start this line of bullshit. Flip the switch, FOX is on it and Alex Jones already has his whole pandemic death actors routine all worked out.

This is the product of a broken mind - of a man who is incapable of admitting he ever made a mistake - ever.

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It was born with the Big Bang and is expanding with the universe at a faster rate than previously thought.

:laughing:

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Really, Donnie is the grim reaper:

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