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Trump retweets baseless claim that CDC, doctors are 'lying' about COVID-19 to hurt his campaign

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Speed Readsanother Monday morningPresident Trump appears to be accusing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of "lying" about COVID-19 to damage his re-election prospects.Former Love Connection and Wheel of Fortune game show host Chuck Woolery in the "CDC, media, Democrats, our doctors, not all but most," of "lying" about the pandemic while claiming this is "all about the election and keeping the economy from coming back, which is about the election." His tweet drew plenty of outrage, but not from Trump, who on Monday morning gave it his approval with a retweet.Trump amplifies message that “everyone is lying” about coronavirus — including the CDC and doctors (!) — to hurt him politically and damage the economy.This is, of course, wildly untrue.— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) "There's no public health strategy that exists that involves telling everyone not to believe anyone no matter what, including your own administration," NBC News' Benjy Sarlin to Trump's retweet, while that it's "hard to underscore how dangerous" this is.Trump backing the claim that his administration's CDC, and most doctors, are lying comes as the White House has Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, with an anonymous White House official telling reporters that "several White House officials are concerned about the number of times Dr. Fauci has been wrong on things."Fauci that even as the U.S. continues to set new records for number of new coronavirus cases, he hasn't briefed Trump on COVID-19 in about two months. He also suggested that his reputation for "speaking the truth at all times and not sugar-coating things" may be "one of the reasons why I haven't been on television very much lately."

Speed Readsanother Monday morningPresident Trump appears to be accusing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of "lying" about COVID-19 to damage his re-election prospects.Former Love Connection and Wheel of Fortune game show host Chuck Woolery in the "CDC, media, Democrats, our doctors, not all but most," of "lying" about the pandemic while claiming this is "all about the election and keeping the economy from coming back, which is about the election." His tweet drew plenty of outrage, but not from Trump, who on Monday morning gave it his approval with a retweet.Trump amplifies...

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