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White House Virus Task Force Member Says 'None of Us Lie'

Ken Bredemeier

   WASHINGTON - A key member of the White House coronavirus task force on
   Tuesday rejected a suggestion by President Donald Trump that government
   physicians are lying about the severity of the virus to the American
   public.

   Trump retweeted a comment from former game show host Chuck Woolery,
   who, without evidence, claimed that "everyone is lying," including the
   Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and "our Doctors, not all
   but most, that we are told to trust."

     The most outrageous lies are the ones about Covid 19. Everyone is
     lying. The CDC, Media, Democrats, our Doctors, not all but most
     ,that we are told to trust. I think it's all about the election and
     keeping the economy from coming back, which is about the election.
     I'm sick of it.
     -- Chuck Woolery (@chuckwoolery) [1]July 13, 2020

   But Navy Admiral Brett Giroir, one of the several physicians who have
   been the face of the government's response to the pandemic in the U.S.,
   told NBC's "Today" show, "We may occasionally make mistakes based on
   the information we have, but none of us lie.

   "We are completely transparent with the American people," he said.
   "None of us are 100% right. None of us are always right and we admit
   that."

   Trump, facing a tough re-election contest in November against former
   vice president Joe Biden, has for months downplayed the impact of the
   virus and most recently claimed that the impact of the new surge in the
   number of cases in the U.S. is 99% "totally harmless." Trump has had
   little contact in recent weeks with Dr. Anthony Fauci, the government's
   top infectious disease expert, and said that while he likes him
   personally, Fauci had "made a lot of mistakes."

References

   1. https://twitter.com/chuckwoolery/status/1282499347117215745?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

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