{"id":43332,"date":"2020-06-27T00:00:44","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T00:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=43332"},"modified":"2020-06-27T02:46:03","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T02:46:03","slug":"pence-continues-the-trump-lie-about-covid-19-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=43332","title":{"rendered":"Pence continues the Trump lie about COVID-19 fight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Vice President Mike Pence stood before the nation \u2026 and lied through his pearly whites.<\/p>\n

It was edifying and instructive that he had some medical experts on the podium with him to set the record straight about the condition of the nation that is fighting the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n

Pence \u2013 filling in for the Liar in Chief \u2013 had the brass to tell us the pandemic is under control, that states have corralled the killer virus, \u201cthanks to the leadership\u201d of Donald J. Trump. It was the first \u201cbriefing\u201d from the coronavirus task force in two months and to be candid we didn\u2019t need to hear the nonsense that Pence spewed forth.<\/p>\n

He uttered the lie on the same day that Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued an executive order shutting down bars, ordering restaurants to operate at 50 percent of capacity and pushing local authorities to insist on stricter enforcement of social distancing. That\u2019s how Pence defines \u201cunder control\u201d?<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Drs. Anthony Fauci, Deborah Birx and Robert Redfield \u2013 the nation\u2019s top medical pros fighting this pandemic \u2013 had to the good sense to issue much more dire warnings about what lurks ahead of us. They didn\u2019t contradict Pence directly, but they certainly cast the peril in more, um, accurate<\/em> terms \u2026 at least the way I see the trend developing.<\/p>\n

I was struck, too, by the vapid response Pence gave to reporters who asked him to explain how Donald Trump\u2019s campaign rally in Tulsa, Okla. \u2013 which went forward with thousands of Trumpkins sitting shoulder to shoulder without face masks \u2013 isn\u2019t contributing to the spike in infection we are seeing. His answer? The people\u2019s right to assemble peaceably \u201cis enshrined in the Constitution\u201d and \u201cwe have an election coming up.\u201d He said that medical emergencies do not negate people\u2019s civil liberties. Well, actually they should if people\u2019s very lives are endangered by irresponsible behavior at campaign rallies.<\/p>\n

So, the charade continues, even without the Carnival Barker in Chief. His No. 1 sycophant showed once again that he is fully capable of parroting Donald Trump\u2019s lies.<\/p>\n

Shameful.<\/p>\n\n

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Vice President Mike Pence stood before the nation \u2026 and lied through his pearly whites. It was edifying and instructive that he had some medical experts on the podium with him to set the record straight about the condition of the nation that is fighting the coronavirus pandemic. Pence \u2013 filling in for the Liar … Continue reading Pence continues the Trump lie about COVID-19 fight<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13],"tags":[9236,9257,1424,3067,9261],"class_list":["post-43332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medical-news","category-national-news","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-donald-trump","tag-mike-pence","tag-pandemic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43332"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43338,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43332\/revisions\/43338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}