Dec 18 - House Impeaches Trump
Dec 31 - China alerted WHO to several cases of unusual pneumonia in Wuhan, a port city of 11 million people in the central Hubei province. The virus was unknown.
Jan 8 - First CDC warning on Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19)
Jan 9 - Trump campaign rally
Jan 14 - Trump campaign rally
Jan 16 - House sends impeachment articles to Senate
Jan 18 - Trump golfs
Jan 19 - Trump golfs
Jan 20 - first case of COVID-19 in the US, Washington State.
Jan 22 - “We have it totally under control. It’s one person coming in from China. It’s going to be just fine.”
Jan 28 - Trump campaign rally
Jan 30 - Trump campaign rally
Feb 1 - Trump golfs
Feb 2 - “We pretty much shut it down coming in from China."
Feb 5 - Senate votes to acquit. Then takes a five-day weekend.
Feb 10 - Trump campaign rally
Feb 12 - Dow Jones closes at an all time high of 29,551.42
Feb 15 - Trump golfs
Feb 19 - Trump campaign rally
Feb 20 - Trump campaign rally
Feb 21 - Trump campaign rally
Feb 24 - “The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA… Stock Market starting to look very good to me!”
Feb 25 - “CDC and my Administration are doing a GREAT job of handling Coronavirus.”
Feb 25 - “I think that's a problem that’s going to go away… They have studied it. They know very much. In fact, we’re very close to a vaccine.”
Feb 26 - “The 15 (cases in the US) within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero.”
Feb 26 - “We're going very substantially down, not up.” Also "This is a flu. This is like a flu"; "Now, you treat this like a flu"; "It's a little like the regular flu that we have flu shots for. And we'll essentially have a flu shot for this in a fairly quick manner."
Feb 27 - “One day it’s like a miracle, it will disappear.”
Feb 28 - “We're ordering a lot of supplies. We're ordering a lot of, uh, elements that frankly we wouldn't be ordering unless it was something like this. But we're ordering a lot of different elements of medical.”
Feb 28 - Trump campaign rally
Feb 29 - First COVID-19 death in US
Mar 2 - “You take a solid flu vaccine, you don't think that could have an impact, or much of an impact, on corona?”
Mar 2 - “A lot of things are happening, a lot of very exciting things are happening and they’re happening very rapidly.”
Mar 4 - “If we have thousands or hundreds of thousands of people that get better just by, you know, sitting around and even going to work — some of them go to work, but they get better.”
Mar 5 - “I NEVER said people that are feeling sick should go to work.”
Mar 5 - “The United States… has, as of now, only 129 cases… and 11 deaths. We are working very hard to keep these numbers as low as possible!”
Mar 6 - “I think we’re doing a really good job in this country at keeping it down… a tremendous job at keeping it down.”
Mar 6 - “Anybody right now, and yesterday, anybody that needs a test gets a test. They’re there. And the tests are beautiful…. the tests are all perfect like the letter was perfect. The transcription was perfect. Right? This was not as perfect as that but pretty good.”
Mar 6 - “I like this stuff. I really get it. People are surprised that I understand it… Every one of these doctors said, ‘How do you know so much about this?’ Maybe I have a natural ability. Maybe I should have done that instead of running for president.”
Mar 6 - “I don't need to have the numbers double because of one ship that wasn't our fault.”
Mar 7 - Trump golfs
Mar 8 - Trump golfs
Mar 8 - “We have a perfectly coordinated and fine tuned plan at the White House for our attack on CoronaVirus.”
Mar 9 - “This blindsided the world.”
Mar 13 - [Declared state of emergency]
Mar 14 - Young Asian-American family of 4 stabbed in TX Sam's Club by man who thinks they're responsible for COVID.
Mar 15 - 3,613 COVID-19 cases, 69 deaths
Mar 17 - “This is a pandemic,” Mr. Trump told reporters. “I felt it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic.”
Mar 18 - "It’s not racist at all. No. Not at all. It comes from China. That’s why. It comes from China. I want to be accurate."
Mar 23 - Dow Jones closes at 18,591.93
Mar 25 - 3.3 million Americans file for unemployment.
Mar 30 - Dow Jones closes at 21,917.16
Apr 2 - 6.6 million Americans file for unemployment.
Apr 3 - 270,062 COVID-19 cases, 6,927 deaths.
Tests still not available for most people.
And sadly he still remains a detriment to our country & the world!
More outright lies — and easily proven wrong
Donald Trump continued to voice his opposition to expanded mail-in voting with a tweet on Sunday spreading falsehoods about the prevalence of fraud in the process, even though confirmed cases of voter fraud have been in the single digits in past presidential elections.
“The United States cannot have all Mail In Ballots. It will be the greatest Rigged Election in history,” Mr Trump tweeted, the latest in a recent uptick of attacks on Democrats’ — and even many Republicans’ — desire to expand mail-in voting to mitigate health risks during the coronavirus pandemic.
“People grab them from mailboxes, print thousands of forgeries and ‘force’ people to sign. Also, forge names,” the president wrote, falsely, without citing any evidence to support such claims
Mr Trump, who spent his succssion day in succession at a golf course over the holiday weekend as the death toll from the pandemic neared 100,000 has spent countless hours on Twitter and before reporters during his political career promoting unsubstantiated theories about rampant voter fraud in the US, which study after study has shown is extremely rare. The president has repeatedly claimed, falsely, that he would have beaten Hillary Clinton in the 2016 popular vote were it not for the “millions of people who voted illegally.”
Mr Trump’s own advisory commission on election integrity spent eight months, from May 2017 to January 2018, probing claims of voter fraud and did not turn up a single confirmed instance.
A Washington Post review of data from after the 2016 election found just four confirmed cases of voter fraud: three people who tried to vote for Mr Trump twice — and were caught — and an election worker in Miami who was caught trying to fill in a bubble on someone else’s ballot for a local mayoral candidate.
House Democrats passed a $3trn coronavirus response bill earlier this month that includes $3.6bn for election security, including expanded access to mail-in voting. The bill is expected to languish in the GOP-controlled Senate.
Mr Trump’s own party has been urging voters to send in mail-in ballots this November, even as he has called it “RIPE for FRAUD” and “corrupt.”
“Voting by mail is an easy, convenient and secure way to cast your ballot,” a Republican National Committee mailer from April to voters in Pennsylvania read, the Washington Post reported.
“Return the attached official Republican Party mail-in ballot application to avoid lines and protect yourself from large crowds on Election Day,” the RNC mailer read.
Still, Mr Trump and his campaign surrogates have claimed dating back to 2015 that voter fraud is an acute issue among Democratic voters, particularly among immigrant and minority communities — a theory that is without empirical merit but has been part of the GOP campaign playbook for decades.
The GOP is looking to make combatting voter fraud a central issue in the 2020 elections for the presidency and Congress after a federal court decided in 2018 to lift longtime restrictions on the Republican National Committee’s “voter security” operations after the Democratic National Committee successfully sued against some of the RNC’s activities in the early 1980s.
Republicans are aiming to recruit 50,000 volunteers in 15 key states to observe polling places on election day this November to ensure there is no suspicious behaviour as Americans cast their ballots, The New York Times reported earlier this month.
Democrats have argued the initiative is a thinly veiled guise for intimidating and suppressing mostly minority voters.
“Even in the midst of a global health crisis, the GOP has resorted to using voter suppression as a tactic to win elections,” Guy Cecil, chairman of the liberal advocacy group Priorities USA, said in a statement last week.
“It is disgraceful that they have coordinated national efforts that force Americans to choose between their health and casting their ballots,” Mr Cecil said.
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