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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,937 posts)
Sun Sep 13, 2020, 12:31 PM Sep 2020

Chris Wallace Confronts Trump Campaign Adviser: Trump 'Plays the Panic Card All the Time'

Fox News anchor Chris Wallace on Sunday repeatedly confronted Trump senior campaign adviser Steve Cortes over President Donald Trump’s assertion that he intentionally downplayed coronavirus because he didn’t want to “panic” the public, noting that the president “plays the panic card all the time” on a handful of other issues.

At the top of their interview on Fox News Sunday, Cortes insisted that corporate media had pushed out a “myth” that the president had mishandled the pandemic, which has currently resulted in nearly 200,000 American deaths.

“When I look at these revelations from [Bob] Woodward, if you look at them in the context of the totality of the actions taken by this president, it actually reveals an exemplary record of crisis management,” Cortes said, adding that Trump acted decisively during the “fog of biological war.”

After Cortes pointed to the president’s partial travel restriction on China as proof of Trump’s “superb management” of the crisis—a favorite talking point of Team Trump—Wallace brought up Trump admitting to Woodward that the virus was deadly and airborne in early February.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/chris-wallace-confronts-trump-campaign-adviser-trump-plays-the-panic-card-all-the-time/ar-BB18Zp6i?li=BBnb7Kz

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Chris Wallace Confronts Trump Campaign Adviser: Trump 'Plays the Panic Card All the Time' (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sep 2020 OP
I think there is every possibility that Wallace will rip into Trump when he moderates the 1st debate hlthe2b Sep 2020 #1
I certainly hope so pandr32 Sep 2020 #2

hlthe2b

(102,233 posts)
1. I think there is every possibility that Wallace will rip into Trump when he moderates the 1st debate
Sun Sep 13, 2020, 12:37 PM
Sep 2020

Not that he'll let Biden off lightly, but I don't think Trump is going to get the "FOX" benefit.

pandr32

(11,581 posts)
2. I certainly hope so
Sun Sep 13, 2020, 01:17 PM
Sep 2020

No softball questions and no letting Trump off the hook if he doesn't answer.
Gaslighting needs to be shut down, too.
Biden can handle a hot seat, but Trump can't. He'll lose his cool quickly.

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