Thousands of others hugged down Thursday at a Trump crusade rally in Freeland, Michigan, and there were few masks in sight.
While CNN reporter Jim Acosta asked the crowd why they were watching without a mask, some proudly justified their resolve to attend without a mask to oppose what has long been an overwhelming consensus among public officials who dressed in a mask. . may help protect against the spread of coronavirus. Others said it was totally “fake. “
“There is no COVID. It’s a false pandemic created to destroy the United States of America,” said a rally participant, Rod Beebee, in Acosta when asked why he chose to attend the rally with a mask.
Acosta pressured Beebee, claiming that the president had admitted in leaked interviews with investigative journalist Bob Woodward who made a grimace in public suggesting that the virus would “disappear,” had informed him in previous months that coronavirus was “a deadly thing. “
The supporter of the Trump demonstration stood firm.
“That’s his view,” Beebee said, rejecting a long-demystified conspiracy theory that “only fewer than 10,000 people died by COVID,” while other reported deaths were caused by other factors.
CNN’s Jim Acosta: “Why don’t you wear your mask?”
Rallygoer: “Because there is no COVID. It’s a fake pandemic. Created in the United States of America”.
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Another rally participant, Daniel Guilder, disputed that he would wear a mask because “the intelligent man takes care of me. “
“If I die, I die. We want to move this country. What are you going to put on a mask and stay home for a year?What’s he going to bring you?” he said.
Comments stick to revelations from investigative journalist Bob Woodward’s new book, “Rage,” which, through 18 audio interviews recorded over the past 8 months, among a series of key election questions, recounts how President Trump reported fatal coronavirus and then intentionally deceived the public in the pasting months.
Trump justified what he called “minimizing it,” saying he didn’t need to panic, and even suggested Thursday that if Woodward, a journalist, had defied his decision, he had reported on his conversations earlier.
But Trump has gone beyond minimizing the virus: he allegedly intentionally tricked American audiences into a press trick to get the votes back before the November election, mocking his Democratic rival Joe Biden for dressing up in a mask and telling Fox News in interviews that young people were “at their best immune” to the COVID-19 Array. He also claimed that an overwhelming majority of other people inflamed with coronavirus would have at most one minor case of “sniffing. “
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said at a news convention Thursday that Trump’s talks with Woodward about COVID-19 are a “lack of respect for his supporters. “
“He showed his contempt for the other American people and his health, the contempt for science,” Pelosi said. “He didn’t understand any genuine effort to control the virus. Contempt for his supporters, his children, his parents. “