Radio host Rush Limbaugh says Bernie Sanders & Democratic Party a ‘greater threat’ to US than coronavirus
RUSH Limbaugh warns that Bernie Sanders and the Democratic party pose “a far greater threat” than the coronavirus, which has killed 2,700 people.
The conservative pundit ripped the politics of Sanders, the self-described democratic socialist who is the frontrunner in the Dem race.
The comments were made during Limbaugh’s podcast yesterday after he opened the show speaking about Sanders the day before.
“The coronavirus has a mortality rate of 2 per cent,” Limbaugh said yesterday.
“The mortality rate for countries with socialism is 100 per cent. Socialism kills every country it comes in contact with, folks.
“Socialism destroys wealth – everybody’s wealth except the leaders. Socialism destroys liberty. It destroys freedom. It destroys prosperity.
“Socialism destroys 100 per cent of every country it comes in contact with. Ditto communism.”
Limbaugh said he decided to address the issue again after getting “pushback” from Tuesday’s show, and refused to back down.
“The Democratic Party, as it’s currently constituted, poses a much greater threat to this country than the coronavirus does,” he said.
“And you can quote me on that, and you can tell Anthony Fauci at the National Institutes of Health I said it and see what he says, and you can tell anybody at the CDC.”
Fauci, the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said yesterday that a vaccine for the coronavirus will not be ready for widespread use for at least a year.
He added that even if it weakens, it is “quite conceivable” that it might “come back and recycle next year.”
President Trump, who awarded Limbaugh the Presidential Medal of Freedom earlier this month, said that there’s “no reason to be panicked” about the coronavirus.
“This will end,” he told reporters.
Limbaugh, 69, was awarded the medal not long after revealing he is fighting a battle against advanced lung cancer.
His comments come as a mysterious 60th case of the coronavirus surfaced in the US, in California.
It is believed to be the first case in the country that has no connection to travel abroad or another known case.
There have been a total of 82,000 people infected, with most of them in mainland China.
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Limbaugh accused the Democrats of trying to “weaponize a virus that doesn’t know a Democrat from a Republican, from a conservative, from a liberal.”
“They are trying to use this coronavirus to scare the hell out of everybody in their madcap hopes of finding something that will get rid of Donald Trump.”
Limbaugh had said earlier this week on his show that coronavirus is being weaponized by China to bring down Trump.
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