Trump Claimed The Feds Have ‘Built 18 Hospitals.’ FEMA And Army Records Say Otherwise | Talking Points Memo

President Donald Trump claimed on Monday that the federal government had “built 18 hospitals” to deal with the surge in COVID-19 patients as the pandemic sweeps across the country.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1302254

FEMA spokesperson told TPM
“Currently, USACE is developing 17 alternate care facilities across 9 states.”

It’s just semantics you all…
And if it is a lie,
What’s another lie on top of the 16k and counting?

It’s like the whopping lie the Covidiot-In-Chief just told during a Covid meeting about his Nepotistic daughter Ivanka having “created 15 million jobs”…

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1247603025994227716

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When you lie, lie big. And repeat it, in the face of all evidence to the contrary.

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So all these hospitals that the Army Corps of Engineers are building lickety split is why the US government seize medical supplies head for states. And here we all thought he was going into a side hustle to hawk them on the black market.

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Ignore this, guys. In April, the number of hospitals is 18. By June, it’ll be 48. By Election Day, he alone would have build hundred sof hospitals by himself.

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The 250-bed army field hospital across from Seattle Seahawks stadium is now open for non-COVID patients to free up space at other hospitals.

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The WHO hasn’t shown the moron enough love so he’s going after them. People, his mental illness is killing us.

“We’re going to put a hold on money spent to the W.H.O.; we’re going to put a very powerful hold on it and we’re going to see,” [moron] said, accusing the organization of having not been aggressive enough in confronting the dangers from the virus. “They called it wrong. They call it wrong. They really they missed the call.”

In effect, [moron] was attempting to blame the W.H.O. for the very missteps and failures that have been leveled at him and his administration.

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“And I was stupid enough to believe them.”

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You got it! Say it once more: You got it! If we had used the WHO tests, we might have saved MANY MANY HUNDREDS of lives in the US to date, and prevented HUNDREDS of THOUSANDS from contracting the disease. The testing in this country was WAY too late, and was also HORRIBLY F’D up – poorly responsive to the disease, and poorly wasteful because of the lack of reagents to complete the tests. How many tests were rejected, because they could not be completed?

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Trump Lied
chapter 19,547

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Just dropped by to say how much I despise this depraved piece of unsalted excrement, and how my loathing for him is white hot and even unhealthy, and how I’d love to see him torn apart by a pack of very uncivil corgis. And that goes for every dimwitted follower wearing the mark of the beast (MAGA hat) on their forehead.

That’s all. Whew. Carry on.

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Trump’s statements these days remind me of the ancient Greek paradox from Solon that goes: “Everything I say is a lie.” This was supposed to demonstrate an impossible self-contradiction.

Since Trump tells lies that defy all logic, he may well be the solution to the paradox.

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trumPP fiddled while the country burned, paraphrasing Speaker Pelosi, because there were indications in January something terrible was coming our way. But first moron had to get the racism and hoax blather on the record before he would act.

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They are just a backup scapegoat, in case blaming China, the media, Obama or the governors doesn’t stick.

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Corgis? A pack of hungry hyenas and jackals would be better (I have a neighbor who has a corgi named Emma and she’s too cute to turn vicious).

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“I was born in a small, Queens hospital that I built myself.”

(“With a modest loan from the East Germans.”)

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Wait. He lied? The president lied?

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I’m just being practical. How easy is it to find hyenas and jackals these days?

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This whole China and WHO working together to release the virus has it’s roots in the RWNJ conversations.

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When someone asks him about that at tomorrow’s briefing he’ll attack them and call it a nasty question.

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