{"id":805713,"date":"2020-03-26T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=380938"},"modified":"2020-03-26T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T17:00:00","slug":"letter-to-the-editor-trump-has-done-nothing-but-lie-about-virus-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/letter-to-the-editor-trump-has-done-nothing-but-lie-about-virus-outbreak\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to the editor: Trump has done nothing but lie about virus outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/LettersWebCard-SDN-1-1024x638.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>A recent letter stated that Trump has dealt with COVID-19 in an immediate, straightforward and forthright manner.<\/p>\n<p>Jan. 22: \u201cNo. Not (worried) at all. And we have it totally under control. It\u2019s one person coming in from China, and we have it under control. It\u2019s going to be just fine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jan. 24: \u201cIt will all work out well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jan. 28: \u201cJohnson &amp; Johnson to create coronavirus vaccine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jan. 30: \u201cWe have it very well under control. We have very little problem in this country at this moment \u2014 five. And those people are all recuperating successfully.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jan. 31: \u201cWell, we pretty much shut it down coming in from China.\u201d (14,000 cases worldwide)<\/p>\n<p>Early February: Refuses to use World Health Organization testing kits.<\/p>\n<p>Feb. 10: Says warm weather will kill the virus<\/p>\n<p>Feb. 19: \u201cI think the numbers are going to get progressively better as we go along.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Feb. 23: \u201c(The virus is) very much under control. \u2026 We had 12, at one point. And now they\u2019ve gotten very much better. Many of them are fully recovered.\u201d (79,000 cases worldwide)<\/p>\n<p>Late February: Mocks CNN and MSNBC for \u201cpanicking markets.\u201d Blames \u201cthe Democrat policy of open borders\u201d for the virus. Blames an Obama administration regulation for slowing the production of test kits. (untrue)<\/p>\n<p>Feb. 26: Says our cases are going down, not up.<\/p>\n<p>Feb. 29: Says a vaccine will be available quickly and praises his administration for its quick response.<\/p>\n<p>March 2: \u201cIt\u2019s very mild,\u201d he told Fox News commentator Sean Hannity.<\/p>\n<p>March 7: \u201cI\u2019m not concerned at all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>March 10: \u201cIt will go away. Just stay calm. It will go away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In January, Trump was briefed by intelligence committees about the severity.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/opinion\/letter-to-the-editor-trump-has-done-nothing-but-lie-about-virus-outbreak\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent letter stated that Trump has dealt with COVID-19 in an immediate, straightforward and forthright manner. Jan. 22: \u201cNo. Not (worried) at all. And we have it totally under control. It\u2019s one person coming in from China, and we have it under control. It\u2019s going to be just fine.\u201d Jan. 24: \u201cIt will all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-805713","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-18 06:34:01","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}