Don Jr. Slams Democrats On Coronavirus On Fox; Dem Congressman Threatens To Get Physical On MSNBC
A Democratic congressman’s appearance on MSNBC on Friday resulted in an on-air threat of physical violence against presidential first son Donald Trump Jr. over his comments about the Democrats and coronavirus.
The threat by the congressman came in response to Trump Jr. saying earlier Friday that Democrats are “seemingly hop[ing]” that the coronavirus “kills million” in the U.S. to end his father’s “streak of winning.”
On “Fox & Friends” Friday morning, co-host Brian Kilmeade asked Don Jr. if he was “surprised” by how Democrats have been handling the epidemic. “And so now we’re getting to sprint towards November … to see if your dad can get four more years,” said Kilmeade. “Are you surprised the way they’ve been handling the coronavirus situation, meaning Democrats?”
“Not at all,” said Don Jr. “…Like you said, we’ve seen this play out for four years. Anything that they can use to try to hurt Trump, they will. Anything he does in a positive sense, like you heard from the reporter that was just suspended from ABC, they will not give him credit for. The playbook is old at this point.”
Don Jr. then offered the comment that would quickly result in a fiery segment on another cable news network. “But for them to try to take a pandemic and seemingly hope that it comes here, and kills millions of people so that they could end Donald Trump’s streak of winning, is a new level of sickness,” he said. “You know, I don’t know if this is coronavirus or Trump derangement syndrome, but these people are infected badly.”
As reported by Mediaite, California Democratic Rep. John Garamendi appeared on MSNBC afterward to discuss the coronavirus situation and what he said was the Center Disease Control’s failure to adequately respond to it. Garamendi, as noted by MSNBC’s Hallie Jackson, was “angry” and “visibly emotional” about the CDC’s handling of the situation.
After discussing the CDC’s response, Jackson highlighted Don Jr.’s comment and asked for Garamendi’s reaction.
“He shouldn’t be near me when he says that,” Garamendi asserted tensely. “There would be a serious altercation.”
“That is just totally outrageous. That is just totally outrageous,” he said. “I can assure you that there’s not a Democrat or a Republican in Congress that wants anybody to be sick. Don Jr. better not get any place close to me. It would not be a healthy situation.” (Watch the moment here.)
While President Trump hasn’t gone as far as his eldest son with his criticism of the Democrats’ response, he has repeatedly accused them of working — in conjunction with left-wing outlets, like MSNBC — to benefit politically from the crisis.
“Low Ratings Fake News MSDNC (Comcast) & [CNN] are doing everything possible to make the Caronavirus look as bad as possible, including panicking markets, if possible,” Trump tweeted Wednesday. “Likewise their incompetent Do Nothing Democrat comrades are all talk, no action. USA in great shape!”
“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’,” the president wrote Thursday.
“The Do Nothing Democrats were busy wasting time on the Immigration Hoax, & anything else they could do to make the Republican Party look bad, while I was busy calling early BORDER & FLIGHT closings, putting us way ahead in our battle with Coronavirus,” Trump added in a follow-up post. “Dems called it VERY wrong!”
I will be having a News Conference at the White House, on this subject, today at 6:00 P.M. CDC representatives, and others, will be there. Thank you!
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At a press conference on the coronavirus situation Wednesday afternoon, Trump assured Americans that his administration is on top of the issue.
“I have just received another briefing from a great group of talented people on the virus that is going around to various parts of the world,” said the president. “We have, through some very good early decisions — decisions that were actually ridiculed at the beginning — we closed up our borders to flights coming in from certain areas, areas that were hit by the coronavirus and hit pretty hard. And we did it very early … and it turned out to be a very good thing.”
“And the number one priority from our standpoint is the health and safety of the American people,” he continued. “And that’s the way I viewed it when I made that decision. Because of all we’ve done, the risk to the American people remains very low. We have the greatest experts in the world — really, in the world, right here — people that are called upon by other countries when things like this happen. We’re ready to adapt and we’re ready to do whatever we have to as the disease spreads, if it spreads.”
Don Jr. Slams Democrats On Coronavirus On Fox; Dem Congressman Threatens To Get Physical On MSNBC
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