CNN fact checking/commenting as the donald speaks.

[sheshe2]

WHO defunded.

After trumps travel ban 40K from China entered the US.

Blames WHO for lack of info when US intel warned of potential virus.

LIAR

[riversedge]

1. I did not realize that trump could unilaterally halt fundng that has been approved by Congress.

[malaise]

9. He can't

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/08/who-responds-to-trumps-threat-to-cut-funding.html

It’s uncertain how the U.S. would withhold funding. Congress has already authorized $122 million for the WHO for this fiscal year, and while Trump has proposed only $58 million of funding in fiscal year 2021, Congress is unlikely to authorize such a drastic funding cut, especially in the the middle of the pandemic.

The president also criticized the WHO’s initial response to the outbreak, which originated in Wuhan in China in late 2019, and the time it took to declare the outbreak a global pandemic, on March 11.

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[SunSeeker]

17. On 1-31-2020, the WHO declared the Covid-19 outbreak an "Emergency of International Concern."

http://www.euro.who.int/en/health-topics/health-emergencies/international-health-regulations/news/news/2020/2/2019-ncov-outbreak-is-an-emergency-of-international-concern

That's what they did with the ebola outbreak. And that's all it took for Obama to take decisive action, here and in Africa, to snuff out the outbreak before it became a pandemic.

But Trump downplayed the announcement. He and his entire administration are criminally negligent idiots.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

28. Yes. But he did stop travel for non-US citizens effective 2-2

Despite that, agree he downplayed everything. I am the last person in the world to defend the creep, and do not want to defund WHO, but he was actually right about one thing...WHO, on Jan 20, said screening and travels restrictions we're not needed. See actual directive link on my response below #27.

What needs to be determined is what happened at WHO between 1-20 and 1-31.

[hangaleft]

29. HE CAN!

Didn’t you get the memo? His authority is absolute!!

[malaise]

31. I forgot

[RockRaven]

2. THEY REFUSED TO USE THE WHO-DEVELOPED TESTS.

The WHO provided all the information he needed, but he covered his eyes, shoved his stubby fingers in his ears and yelled "I CAN'T HEAR YOU!!! LA LA LA LA LA LA....."

[SunSeeker]

21. Exactly. The WHO made the test formula availble to the WORLD in January.

South Korea jumped on it and started mass producing them and implemented mass testing by February. We STILL don't have mass testing.

[lillypaddle]

3. MSNBC is fact checking, too

JFC. Who voted for this lying, sick, MF????

[OhZone]

4. Oh WOW!

You mean the news is reporting news?

[sheshe2]

6. Yes, actually they are and going way beyond simple reporting.

Frankly it pisses me off when the news teams are trashed more than the 'resident.

[hangaleft]

30. Why?

They and their unquestioning 24/7 coverage of tRump in 2016 makes them complicit and enablers.

[IcyPeas]

5. Love it

Showing trumps tweet congratulating China and pres. Xi. He also praised the WHO.

[sheshe2]

7. Praise then trashed...

Then trashed some more then praised.

[paleotn]

8. He's yapping again?

I figured he'd stomp off in a huff after last night and quit the nightly lieapaloozas.

No matter. I doubt many are watching his lie-fests anymore.

[niyad]

12. The arrogant fustercluck is not likely to give up his daily fix, oops, rally, oops, "briefing".

Works as his equivalent of the little blue pill.

[Totally Tunsie]

10. Why is Acosta commenting on CNN, rather than being present

at the presser? He did that yesterday, too.

Has he been banned from the pressers again?

[Laura PourMeADrink]

20. No great loss.

[Stallion]

33. Number of Reporters Has been Restricted Due to Covid-19

I think they are using rotation system

[Totally Tunsie]

34. Makes sense - thanks!

[Mr. Ected]

11. The only way to distinguish statements of fact from gaslighting is to real-time fact check on screen

This has to be the direction the news turns, or this whole FOX-Rush-MAGA thing of alternate news will continue to confuse the people and disrupt our constitutional processes.

These are the enemy from within.

Please, media, include RT fact check from now on. Wish you'd done it a couple years ago, actually.

[sheshe2]

14. They kept breaking away and talked about the fact checks.

Their banner of falsehoods was under him as he spoke.

[bdamomma]

13. he did not

accept test kits from the WHO either. He's a murderer.

[sheshe2]

15. Yes, he and his admin are all murderers.

More blood than Lady Macbeth could ever wash off.

[SunSeeker]

16. Cutting off appropriated funds to the WHO would be a violation of the Impoundment Control Act.

Just like his withholding Ukraine aid was a violation. https://www.newsweek.com/trump-violated-another-law-impoundment-control-act-withholding-ukraine-aid-democratic-senator-1478966

[crickets]

19. Excellent catch. nt

[Laura PourMeADrink]

18. Well if you read the timeline, in mid -January WHO DID say

that inter-country travel bans were not necessary. Don't know, they may have effed up leadership like our country.

[sheshe2]

22. Link?

WHO statement on novel coronavirus in Thailand
13 January 2020 News release

The World Health Organization (WHO) is working with officials in Thailand and China following reports of confirmation of the novel coronavirus in a person in Thailand.

The person was a traveler from Wuhan, China, and was identified by Thai officials on 8 January, and hospitalized that day. The person is recovering from the illness according to Thai officials.

The possibility of cases being identified in other countries was not unexpected, and reinforces why WHO calls for on-going active monitoring and preparedness in other countries. WHO has issued guidance on how to detect and treat persons ill with the new virus.

The genetic sequencing shared by China enables more countries to rapidly diagnose patients.

WHO reiterates that it is essential that investigations continue in China to identify the source of this outbreak and any animal reservoirs or intermediate hosts.

Given developments, WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus will consult with Emergency Committee members and could call for a meeting of the committee on short notice.

https://www.who.int/news-room/detail/13-01-2020-who-statement-on-novel-coronavirus-in-thailand

They said that? Where? Link?

[Laura PourMeADrink]

23. So you are quoting the very organization in question? Thats

exactly like quoting the milk association when they say milk is good for you!

I for one, have listened to WHO reps, and think they mean well and their scientists mean well and are 20x more informed than our scientists.

Oddly, the actual, real timeline is gone from where I referred to it many times.. WHO said it wasn't necessary to create any kind of travel restrictions. It was in January. A week or two before they declared a global emergency.

Trust me, want to nail trump as much as anyone. But choose to seek absolute truth.

[sheshe2]

24. Link? To where they ACTUALLY SAID THIS

Oddly, the actual, real timeline is gone from where I referred to it many times.. WHO said it wasn't necessary to create any kind of travel restrictions. It was in January. A week or two before they declared a global emergency.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

25. Link

https://www.paho.org/hq/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=15676:20-january-2020-novel-coronavirus-ncov-epidemiological-update&catid=2103&Itemid=42346&lang=en

[sheshe2]

26. Not going to read a dozen pages for your claim.

I don't have the time or energy to research what you claim to be a fact.

Laura PourMeADrink (32,320 posts)
18. Well if you read the timeline, in mid -January WHO DID say

that inter-country travel bans were not necessary. Don't know, they may have effed up leadership like our country.

Nite.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

27. Wow. The link is the actual PAHO/WHO Epidemiology Update from January 20 2020

Page 2, paragraph 3.

PAHO/WHO does not recommend any screening at points of entry nor any restrictions on travels or trade

[lindysalsagal]

32. Too bad the channels didn't do that during the campaigns.