Trump Coronavirus Briefing Gets Fact-Checked On Live TV | The Beat With Ari Melber | MSNBC

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In a coronavirus taskforce press briefing, President Trump claimed the United States had the “best testing system” in the world. MSNBC’s Ari Melber interrupted the press briefing to fact check Trump’s claim, with Vaccine Scientist Dr. Peter Hotez. Dr. Hotez argues while the United States is “doing a lot of testing,” we also have “the largest number of reported cases of COVID-19 in the world” but adds, “it’s still not adequate enough to manage this epidemic.” (This interview is from MSNBC’s “The Beat with Ari Melber, a news show covering politics, law and culture airing nightly at 6pm ET on MSNBC. ). Aired on 4/10/2020.
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  1. We have never had to fact check a president as much as we do Trump..
    Because we know 99.9 % of what he says is a lie..

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    5. @Daniel Burnley Nope, on this Resurrection Sunday I feel blessed to be alive and surrounded by family. Although we cannot gather as usual this year,we are together digitally. However,

      I offer a prayer for the MANY,MANY families who have been touched by this pandemic. How many families will not have the presence of their deceased loved one. It did not have to be like this.

      I place the blame for this catastrophic situation sqaurely at the feet of DONALD J. TRUMP….

      Anyone who looks objectively at this crisis and not through partisan or propagandised eyes will come to this inescapable conclusion. His deplorable hatred for former PRESIDENT BARACK H. OBAMA has led him to make horrendous,insipid,and devistating decisions. Instead of admitting to his personality flaws,he double downs,and looks to a chorus of brown nosers,his propaganda network or his millions of mindless minions to spread his nonsense on line.

      THE BUCK STOPS WITH YOU, YOU ALONE MUST OWN RESPONSIBILITY FOR WHAT IS HAPPENING.

      In spite of blaming ANYBODY ELSE ( W.H.O.,Dems,Press,China,Science,Governors,Fauci) THAT has a real solution, do something positive. STOP BEING AN A-HOLE AND LET THOSE WHO HAVE EXPERTISE SOLVE THIS PANDEMIC,PLEASE…
      AMERICA has witnessed how the wrong person at the right time is capable of causing death and destruction, if not surrounded by adults in the room.
      In short,Donald you still have very little time to do something positive in bringing about a good result in this pandemic. QUESTION:
      WHAT ARE Y-O-U GOING TO DO ???

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    4. @Dearly Diane Bot…all of you are lively on here….I am becoming a pro at determining you are from here hired by trump/rnc vs. from russia

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    1. I’m pretty sure that covid-19 isn’t even at its peak death rate yet, so this might get worse.. idk

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    4. When you have twice the amount we have now you will get one more zero in the figure. He meant we are close to getting another zero.

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  5. “We Have the Most BeAuTiFul test..so beautiful this testing. If there was pageants for test, America’s test would win”

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    2. Fake quote, lefty’s love to make things up like this because they can’t name one lie that can be proven

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    1. @truzar100
      How about your cable ?
      Do you pay for cable tv?
      How are youtube channels any different.
      Im trained in infectious disease…This is an epic SCAMDEMIC
      To stop Trump NAGA not just domestic but foriegn and China has the most to lose when Trump wins

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    2. @truzar100
      Who is paying them directly? Not me, but if I like what they have to say then more power to them
      Cable TV is Nazi propaganda and you being as smart as you think you are…should get that…

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    4. @JR T just because you wanted america to fail under obama doesn’t mean democrats want the same, we have seen how low you republicans will go. your just too stupid to see it

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    2. Luke Lemaster
      Oh that’s actually worse then, if you’d been working on it for months, yet it ripped through your country like wildfire. How is anyone supposed to trust the word of an American now?
      “We have the biggest and best military” – yet cannot actually win a war…
      “We were working on this since January” – records worse numbers than anywhere, including third world country.

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    4. Peter from GW
      Ikr – 1-2 deaths per day, 70-90 something year olds, less than 100 cases per day, around 500 attributable to community spread in total. We can keep it as it is here, and not overwhelm our doctors, nurses, and hospitals. Well played Oceania & Asia in general

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    5. @Peter from GW I live in New Zealand mate. That’s how you do it. They did a national lockdown when we only had 50 cases!

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    1. Main stream media lies because they are sold on the NWO agenda. Life does come with an instruction manual, despite what you may have heard.

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    2. @Sosume 1 And I suppose you have the life instruction manual and it begins with “Listen only to Sosume 1. He knows all despite what you may have heard.”
      I’d rather follow the NWO agenda (even though it only exists in the stoned paranoid minds of idiots) than the agenda of stoned paranoid idiots spouting nonsense on the internet and in the Trump misadministration.

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    5. @JR T Thanks for another parade of loudmouth idiots talking BS. The only people watching this crap are stoned morons desperately blaming conspiracy theories for their own personal failings.

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  10. The advantage of being able to lie about lies, that you lied about previously; is you don’t have to remember what it was you lied about! 😂

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    3. A lot of paid right wing trolls on here! Just remember, S Korea and US had their first cases ON THE SAME DAY, and look at how much better S Korea did at addressing this than Trump did.

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    5. @arina moda South Korea kept their numbers low through testing and contact tracing. Exactly what every epidemiologist in the world recommends as best practices. We can listen to the scientists, or listen to the politicians.

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  12. This is what happens when you lie. You must tell more and more lies to cover bigger lies. Children usually learn this at an early age.

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  13. Really sad when 90% of the news outlets in a country have to cut off and fact check the lies of a leader of a country.

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    3. So… Are these naysayers saying that this #45 guy is not lying? Are they really trying to say that he hasn’t lied? And they want to be believed and taking serious? This country is done and they are proof.

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    5. @Paul Wilson
      And you say that not one person on this planet has not lied in order make what point? That we should excuse #45 lies? Lies that is costing the lives of americans everyday? Really? Are you as heartless as he is? If he would stop lying now and assume a position of virtue then maybe the healing of this nation would come sooner but with him doubling down on his obvious lies and behaving belligerent whenever anyone points out his lies only furthers the massive suffering that this country is experiencing. Facing truths is far better than ignoring lies. Lies that lead to deaths. And no i am not a democrat so this is not a partisan rant. And one who has lied before need not continue lying because they or others lied before. And in what world does one need to point out the detriment in lies and falsehoods?

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  14. “I alone can do it.” – Donald Trump
    “I take no responsibility.” – Donald Trump
    You can’t have it both ways.

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    1. Why not have it both ways, Obama claimed to served two masters. The God of the Jews and th e God of Islam. Since that is impossible, which God does Obama serve? This should be a no brainier. Obama was Anti American in every since

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    2. Eric W Trump isn’t responsible for the virus though it came from China. If people were not being ignorant and stopped going out they could slow the spread but people are to blame no one is listening and keeps taking this lightly.

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  16. Somebody quoted some “friend” of Trump back in 2016: “He would lie about the time of day just to keep in practice.” Do we really need further proof?

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    3. @Paul Wilson
      That is what the liberal media thought our knuckleheads called leftists: “internal sources, someone from the cabinet, someone close to the case/event..”
      Good luck finding that someone 🤣🤣
      Unless a law is passed that forced the media to come forward to tell who is their source, this country won’t go forward. They will keep using lies to push forward their narratives. I would have thought this should be obvious now but the leftists won’t give up until Trump loses. That is all they care about not whether they are investigating the truth or not. One thing I am confident about is I can’t wait for November to come and Trump 2.0 happens. That is when we will take over all leftists platforms and demand they explain all these lies they have been spreading for 4 straight years! Honestly, Trump should sign an executive order demanding there be repercussions for mendacious deliberate lies. It is one thing to be misled but to just cook up lies shouldn’t be accepted.

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  18. Not to be political, but trump went from “it ain’t no big deal” to “I knew it was coming”

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    1. Humble Dallas Fan
      He, and ‘they’ (the Drumpfucks) called it another hoax… how ignorant will these imbeciles be?

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    2. @BEUZAK TSéMANIE
      A textbook example of indoctrination right there. I base this on the fact that you believe something patently & demonstrably not true.

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    5. It went from “its a hoax” , to “we got it under control” to “I knew it was a pandemic” and “I take no responsibility”.

      Those are actual quotes (verbatim). I am being political.

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    1. What Trump really meant “anyone whos anyone can get tested… the rest of you can just disappear” like what the virus is going to do .

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    5. @Paul Wilson only I alone can fix it.
      Russia, if you’re listeming?……
      I don’t know him.
      I take no responsibility.

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  20. BREAKING NEWS:
    I’m not sure what’s scarier at this point, taking my temperature or weighing myself..

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    1. I know, I work at a doctors office and they take everyone’s temp when they come in, it’s like I’m being put on trial 😂

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