“The president has never lied to the American public on covid,” McEnany replied. Trump has lied about the coronavirus repeatedly, just as he has misled the public and misrepresented the data. The Washington Post’s fact-checking team documented more than 20,000 false or misleading statements by Trump since he took office through early July. Trump has said, for example, that:ADADThe nation’s disproportionately large number of cases is a function of our doing more testing. “Once again, the president expressed calm.”That is contradicted more than a little by comments Trump made to Woodward in March.

Source: Washington Post September 09, 2020 19:14 UTC