Whitmer falsely claims on CNN that Trump called coronavirus a ‘hoax’: ‘Sad irony’

Published October 4, 2020 7:18pm ET



Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer falsely claimed on CNN that President Trump called the coronavirus a “hoax.”

“This threat is still very real. And the sad irony is that on the day that the president was admitted to the hospital with a very virus he called a hoax, the Supreme Court in Michigan undermined my emergency rule, my emergency orders that I’ve had to enact that puts us until the same state as all other states in this nation to save lives. We have saved thousands of lives and Supreme Court, on a slim majority Republican vote, undermined that effort. And so I remain very concerned,” Whitmer said Sunday on State of the Union.

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