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Last week: "HOAX!1!" This week: "We must unite behind our glorious leader in these times of crisis!"
https://www.thedailybeast.com/hoax-is-so-last-week-now-fox-praises-trump-for-virus-emergency?ref=homeAfter weeks of downplaying fears about COVID-19 or actively spreading misinformation about its origins and repercussions, Fox News hosts and guests over the past several days have lauded the president’s handling of the global pandemic, and bashed anyone who raises concerns about the Trump administration’s response.
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Days after suggesting the so-called “deep state” was using the pandemic to hurt the American economy and push “mandated medicines,” Hannity called on all Americans to unite behind the president to overcome the crisis.
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Fox & Friends co-host Dr. Nicole Saphier—filling in for Ainsley Earhardt, who just last Friday encouraged viewers to fly despite all medical advice—questioned whether any criticism of Trump’s handling of the outbreak is “really what America needs to hear right now.”
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Fox Business Network host David Asman made a similar observation on Friday. After a guest on Friday said the president had moved too slow to address the pandemic, Fox Business Network host David Asman grumbled that he was seeing “a lot of criticism of the president but I don't hear any better plans from those people who are criticizing him.”
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While Dobbs and Pirro were suddenly extremely concerned about the seriousness of the crisis now that Trump had declared a national emergency, days earlier they were publicly dismissive of the viral outbreak’s lethality. Pirro, for example, exclaimed that COVID-19 is actually less deadly than the seasonal flu; and Dobbs insisted that the “national left-wing media” was “playing up fears” of the virus, even while simultaneously noting that more than 100,000 people worldwide had been infected.
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Days after suggesting the so-called “deep state” was using the pandemic to hurt the American economy and push “mandated medicines,” Hannity called on all Americans to unite behind the president to overcome the crisis.
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Fox & Friends co-host Dr. Nicole Saphier—filling in for Ainsley Earhardt, who just last Friday encouraged viewers to fly despite all medical advice—questioned whether any criticism of Trump’s handling of the outbreak is “really what America needs to hear right now.”
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Fox Business Network host David Asman made a similar observation on Friday. After a guest on Friday said the president had moved too slow to address the pandemic, Fox Business Network host David Asman grumbled that he was seeing “a lot of criticism of the president but I don't hear any better plans from those people who are criticizing him.”
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While Dobbs and Pirro were suddenly extremely concerned about the seriousness of the crisis now that Trump had declared a national emergency, days earlier they were publicly dismissive of the viral outbreak’s lethality. Pirro, for example, exclaimed that COVID-19 is actually less deadly than the seasonal flu; and Dobbs insisted that the “national left-wing media” was “playing up fears” of the virus, even while simultaneously noting that more than 100,000 people worldwide had been infected.