It can pretty much be taken for granted that liberals in the national media are dishonest whenever they’re pretending to be outraged over something President Trump says, but every now and then, it’s good to revisit how truly deranged they can be.
Case in point, both Paul Krugman at the New York Times and Dana Milbank at the Washington Post asserted in the past few days that Trump called the coronavirus a “hoax.”
Here’s Krugman on Thursday: “So, here’s the response of the Trump team and its allies to the coronavirus, at least so far: It’s actually good for America. Also, it’s a hoax perpetrated by the news media and the Democrats.”
And here’s Milbank: “Now Trump faces his first major crisis. And he’s … holding a political rally where he calls the coronavirus a ‘hoax.'”
The president, of course, never called the virus a hoax.
What he said at a campaign rally last week was, “Now, the Democrats are politicizing the coronavirus,” and, “One of my people came up to me and said, ‘Mr. President, they tried to beat you on Russia, Russia, Russia.’ That didn’t work out too well. They couldn’t do it. They tried the impeachment hoax. And this is their new hoax.”
Both the Times and the Post have running tallies of Trump’s “lies.” Maybe they should start one for their own writers.
