Donald Trump’s final push, his closing statement in the campaign is an embarrassing lie. Trump has told supporters from coast to coast in the past few weeks that the pandemic is ending, that we’re “rounding the corner” on coronavirus. The opposite is true. Cases are rising rapidly across the country. More than 74-thousand new cases were reported yesterday in the U.S.
As the New York Times’ Alex Burns wrote on Twitter: “When has a president’s reelection campaign so thoroughly depended on asking voters to reject the evidence of their eyes and ears? Trump is spending the last week of the race insisting the virus is disappearing, when voters can see plainly that it is not.”
The Times also writes:
As an immense new surge in coronavirus cases sweeps the country, President Trump is closing his re-election campaign by pleading with voters to ignore the evidence of a calamity unfolding before their eyes and trust his word that the disease is already disappearing as a threat to their personal health and economic well being.
The president has continued to declare before large and largely maskless crowds that the virus is vanishing, even as case counts soar, fatalities climb, the stock market dips and a fresh outbreak grips the staff of Vice President Mike Pence. Hopping from one state to the next, he has made a personal mantra out of declaring that the country is “rounding the corner.”
The markets see the increase in cases as a threat to any global economic recovery. Today, U.S. stocks tanked.
