Judge Jeanine Pirro said the media is spreading “doomsday reporting” about the coronavirus during a segment on her Fox News show.
“If you listen to the mainstream media, it’s time to buy the family burial plot, visit the cemetery where the dirt is definitely cleaner than your kitchen counter or your bathroom handles,” Pirro said Saturday’s episode of Justice with Judge Jeanine.
Pirro blamed the media for hyping economic concerns during the coronavirus.
“You want to focus on the Dow now? Where were you when the Dow, the S&P 500, and Nasdaq all repeatedly reached record highs under President Trump? You weren’t interested then, were you?” Pirro said. “Where were you when the Dow closed at a record high more than 100 times since Donald Trump’s election? Where were you when animal spirits were driving this country to new economic heights?”
Pirro said the economy could handle a 3,000-point drop because the stock market is at record highs.
“So what’s the downside of their doomsday reporting? The downside is predictable. When people are scared, when people think it’s just a question of time before they start dropping like flies, they go into survival mode,” Pirro said. “They don’t spend money. The economy suffers. They don’t invest. The market suffers. They talk about taking their children out of school. Education suffers. They talk about canceling March Madness, Coachella, and local businesses suffer.”
Pirro also delivered a public service announcement: “And wash your damn hands, wash them, and then wash them again.”
Trump slammed the media for hyping the coronavirus, tweeting that the “fake news media” and Democrats are working to “inflame” the coronavirus situation.
The Fake News Media and their partner, the Democrat Party, is doing everything within its semi-considerable power (it used to be greater!) to inflame the CoronaVirus situation, far beyond what the facts would warrant. Surgeon General, “The risk is low to the average American.”
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 9, 2020
So, the Coronavirus, which started in China and spread to various countries throughout the world, but very slowly in the U.S. because President Trump closed our border, and ended flights, VERY EARLY, is now being blamed, by the Do Nothing Democrats, to be the fault of “Trump”.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 28, 2020
Trump said on Monday that 37,000 people died of the flu in the United States in 2019, while the coronavirus has claimed 22 lives in the country.
So last year 37,000 Americans died from the common Flu. It averages between 27,000 and 70,000 per year. Nothing is shut down, life & the economy go on. At this moment there are 546 confirmed cases of CoronaVirus, with 22 deaths. Think about that!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 9, 2020
California, Washington state, New York, and Oregon are among the states to declare states of emergencies as the virus spreads. So far, at least 545 cases have been confirmed in the U.S. Across the globe, more than 110,000 cases have been reported.
