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Biden’s claim that Trump is ‘pushing to slash Medicare benefits’

October 13, 2020

The explanation from the Biden campaign was also surprising, So let’s explore this claim in detail. It’s an interesting and complex story.

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The Biden campaign explained that this line hinged on the fact that President Trump is backing a lawsuit that would nullify the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. The Trump administration filed a legal brief on June 25 asking the Supreme Court to strike down the entire law, joining with a group of GOP state attorneys general who argue that the ACA is unconstitutional. The court will hear arguments in the case, known as California v. Texas, on Nov. 10.

The case hinges on the fact that Trump’s 2017 tax law in effect eliminated the ACA’s individual mandate penalty by reducing it to zero. Without the mandate, the whole law should fall, rather than just individual portions, the plaintiffs argue. Trump decided to embrace

Dr. Fauci contradicts Trump’s false claim that COVID-19 is as deadly as flu

October 7, 2020

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Dr. Anthony Fauci, the government’s top infectious diseases expert, emphasized the dangers of COVID-19 on Tuesday, contradicting President Donald Trump’s false claim that the coronavirus was only as deadly as the flu.

People infected with COVID-19 do display “flu-like” symptoms, Fauci said Tuesday in an interview with NBC News’ Kate Snow. But the damage the coronavirus can do “is very much different from influenza.”

“You don’t get a pandemic that kills a million people and it isn’t even over yet within influenza,” said Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. “So it is not correct to say it’s the same as flu. It has some overlapping symptomatology early on. But flu doesn’t do the things to you that COVID-19 can.”

Trump, still infected, was released Monday from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center after three days of treatment. He returned to the White House, where he

Claim that Trump’s positive COVID-19 test result is a ‘con’ has no basis in fact

October 4, 2020

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Where Trump traveled, who he met with the week before testing positive for COVID-19

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The claim: President Donald Trump’s positive COVID-19 test result might be a ‘con’ job

Donald Trump, Melania Trump are posing for a picture: President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump have tested positive for COVID-19 and "will begin our quarantine and recovery process immediately."

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President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump have tested positive for COVID-19 and “will begin our quarantine and recovery process immediately.”

Social media reactions to the news that President Donald Trump tested positive for the coronavirus ranged from well-wishes to skepticism.

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On Oct. 2, author and former attorney Richard Greene posted his speculations on Facebook, suggesting Trump’s positive test result could be a “con.” Greene also wrote a 2016 Huffington Post

False claim that Trump’s COVID-19 test result is a ‘con’

October 3, 2020

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President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump tested positive for COVID-19. Here’s a look at where he traveled the week before his diagnosis.

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The claim: President Donald Trump’s positive COVID-19 test result might be a ‘con’ job

The virus that causes the disease responsible for the deaths of over 200,000 Americans has infected the head of state.

President Donald Trump took to Twitter on Friday morning to confirm a positive COVID-19 test result.

“Tonight, @FLOTUS and I tested positive for COVID-19. We will begin our quarantine and recovery process immediately. We will get through this TOGETHER!” the president wrote.

Reactions to the news on social media ranged from well-wishes to skepticism.

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On Oct. 2, author and former attorney Richard Greene posted his speculations

Diabetic Americans dispute Trump’s claim he made insulin so cheap ‘it’s like water’

September 30, 2020

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That came as a shock to the Americans who shell out hundreds of dollars a month on insulin, a number of whom posted triple-digit pharmacy bills to social media immediately after the president’s assertion.

“I looked at my husband and slapped my leg and said, ‘Can you believe that!’ ” said Tiffany Garrioch, 36, a public health nurse and educator in Minnesota with Type 1 diabetes, who watched the debate with her family.

“We’re already an underserved and highly vulnerable population,” she said. “To hear the president say it costs as much as water makes us look like we’re crybabies or liars.”

Insulin costs her $36.76 a day, she said. In 2008, it was $9.81.

Insulin prices have ballooned over two decades, including during the Trump administration. A subset of people enrolled in Medicare drug plans that cap payments at $35 a month are insulated from those costs. Otherwise a

University students claim to have been left for days without food

September 28, 2020

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University students have claimed they are being left without food for days while isolating due to the Covid-19 lockdown restrictions.

Monday, 28th September 2020, 10:21 pm

Locked down students have complained about the food provided

International student Reese Chamberlain, 18, was told that he would receive three meals per day while isolating.

However, the Edinburgh University student said that he was left without anything for two days.

Speaking to Drivetime with John Beattie on BBC Radio Scotland, the international relations student, from New York, said it had been a disaster.

Mr Chamberlain said: “It has been a complete disaster here at Pollock Halls.

“I chose to study here on campus based on some key promises, that we would get food, and mental health support. None of these are happening.

“I have gone hungry for two days

Fact-checking Trump health aide’s unproven ‘hit squads’ claim from controversial Facebook video

September 27, 2020

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The top communications official at the Department of Health and Human Services ran through a series of baseless conspiracy theories in a Facebook Live video, accusing government health officials of “sedition” and warning of a post-election insurrection by left-wing “hit squads.”

The broadcast from Michael Caputo, who President Donald Trump appointed in April as the department’s assistant secretary of public affairs, was first reported by the New York Times.

Caputo, a former Trump campaign official, warned without evidence that “there are hit squads being trained all over this country” to violently oppose a second Trump term, according to the New York Times. He predicted that Trump would win a contested election, sparking chaos.

“And when Donald Trump refuses to stand down at the inauguration, the shooting will begin,” he said, according to the report. “The drills that you’ve seen are nothing.”

Caputo told gun owners to “buy ammunition, ladies and

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The claim: President Donald Trump’s positive COVID-19 test result might be a ‘con’ job

The claim: President Donald Trump’s positive COVID-19 test result might be a ‘con’ job

University students have claimed they are being left without food for days while isolating due to the Covid-19 lockdown restrictions.

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