Trump Says He Aims For A COVID-19 Vaccine ‘Right Around’ Election Day | Talking Points Memo

President Trump wants there to be a COVID-19 vaccine in time for the November presidential election, he told Geraldo Rivera Thursday morning.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1324420
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Oh C’MON. The man is a liar and has already admitted he will do ANYTHING to ‘win’. The vaccine will NOT be ready and the ‘people’ will continue to DIE to support his dystopian vision.

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Transparent, corrupt, self-serving idiot.

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This deadline is as realistic as reopening the economy by Easter. Didn’t happen then. Not happening now. Dictator Don has spent his life ordering others around. Not gonna work with a vaccine. Even if it did, it’s too late to save his presidency.

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Of course he expects to make an announcement around election time. The announcement will not require any relationship to reality.

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Telegraphing it now seems really stupid. The opposition has months now to prepare to knock it down. Can you have an October surprise that was announced over the summer?

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Another Trump lie for the bonfire.

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Good luck with that.

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Stupid is a stupid does - Forrest Gump

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God, this dipshit will kill us all. His stupid base is going to think “Oh, wow, we have a vaccine now! Masks off! Party time!”

We will not have a vaccine until well into 2021 sometime and even then, it’s going to take months and months – maybe another year or more – to scale up a vaccine program before everyone who needs/wants a vaccine can actually get one.

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So transparent that it’s propaganda. Like the new and perfect health care starting on “day one”…

Here’s hoping some sharp journalist asks him “why do we have to wait until then?”

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“but you’ll be overwhelmed by it come November” yeah - like f**k all else you have managed to bungle, nitwit.

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The Jeopardy answer is ‘donald trump’, but your response must be in the form of a question!

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Keep talking you fucking idiot.

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Of course it will be ready. And of course in research we know that mice lie and monkeys exaggerate. Good luck with your prediction, Orange Man.

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As he likes to say: by election day most people will have voted because of (scary) vote by mail and (not scary) absentee voting. He needs his miracle cure by early-September so he can beat Biden over the head with it in the debates before it starts killing people.

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What is he going to do, stomp his feet and throw a tantrum to get his way, or is this another sleazy developer thing to promise the moon to make a sale?

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Yes, and it will contain hydroxychloroquine, bleach and lysol.

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Must be a lower denomination of $$ on the board because the answer is so easy!

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So…this is the same as the middle class tax cut that I believe he promised during the mid-terms? Or am I mistaken?

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