07/18/20
Lying again about the pandemic, Trump made 200 false claims from early June to early July
Contrary to President Donald Trump's June claims, the coronavirus is not going away.
by By Daniel Dale and Tara Subramaniam
Trump's coronavirus-related lying spree appears here to stay, too.
The President's months-long bombardment of false and misleading claims about the virus and the pandemic, many of them egregious, continued from early June to early July -- a period that included his controversial rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, a series of interviews with Fox News and other media outlets, events on the economy and the pandemic, and remarks in Texas, Arizona, Wisconsin and at Mount Rushmore in South Dakota.
Trump made 200 false claims in total over the four weeks from June 8 through July 5, an average of about seven per day. Forty-one of the claims were about the virus and the pandemic, by far the most of any subject.
Trump is now up to 2,783 total false claims since July 8, 2019, when we started counting at CNN.
What Trump was most frequently dishonest about
Both of Trump's two most frequent individual false claims during the four-week period were about the pandemic.
Trump made 15 false claims about the relationship between testing and cases -- claiming that testing is responsible for the recent spike in confirmed cases, that testing is causing cases to exist or something similar. (You can click here for a detailed explanation of why his assertions are false.) And he falsely claimed nine times that he had banned travel from China, though he imposed only a partial travel restriction; he has now made versions of this "ban" claim 67 times, more than any other pandemic-related false claim.
Trump made 26 total false claims on the subject of the military, including seven more versions of his regular lie that he is the one who got the Obama-era Veterans Choice program created. Trump also made 25 total false claims about China, the individual country about which he is most frequently inaccurate.
There were two new entrants on the list of Trump's top-five dishonesty subjects.
The first was protests, about which Trump made 25 false claims during the four-week period. Among other things, Trump falsely claimed six times that he was responsible for sending in the National Guard to quell riots in Minnesota; the Guard was activated by the state's Democratic governor. Trump also promoted wild conspiracy theories about a 75-year-old protester who was shoved to the ground by Buffalo police.
The second new entrant on the list was former Vice President Joe Biden, about whom Trump made 24 false claims. Trump ramped up his attacks on the presumptive Democratic nominee, some of them wildly inaccurate. Trump claimed, for example, that Biden was given reporters' news conference questions in advance (no) and that he read his answers off of a teleprompter (no), that Biden has not left his basement (he has repeatedly left his home to campaign) and that Biden wants to prosecute Americans for going to church (wrong) but not for burning a church (wrong).
Where Trump made his false claims
Trump's disastrous Tulsa, Oklahoma, rally -- which involved empty seats, coronavirus infections for his staff and possibly others, and self-damaging Trump remarks about testing -- was also a dishonest campaign rally. Trump made 22 false claims in his speech.
He also made 22 false claims in a "town hall" event in Wisconsin with Fox News host Sean Hannity, which was more like a conversation between Trump and Hannity with occasional softball audience questions thrown in.
And he made 14 false claims apiece in an interview with the Wall Street Journal and in a speech in Phoenix to the conservative group Turning Point Action.
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