Host Rush Limbaugh claims China is trying to ‘WEAPONIZE’ coronavirus to take down Trump
RUSH Limbaugh claims the coronavirus is being weaponized by China to bring down President Trump, comparing the deadly disease to a “common cold.” The conservative commentator downplayed the virus, which has killed more than 2,600 people. “It is an effort to bring down Trump, and one of the ways it’s being used to do this […]
RUSH Limbaugh claims the coronavirus is being weaponized by China to bring down President Trump, comparing the deadly disease to a “common cold.”
The conservative commentator downplayed the virus, which has killed more than 2,600 people.
“It is an effort to bring down Trump, and one of the ways it’s being used to do this is to scare the investors, to scare people in business,” Limbaugh said during his podcast yesterday.
“It’s to scare people into leaving, cashing out of the stock market – and sure enough, as the show began today, the stock market – the Down Jones Industrial Average – was down about 900 points, supposedly because of the latest news about the spread of the coronavirus.”
There have been nearly 80,000 cases of the coronavirus, mostly in the Chinese province of Hubei, the epicenter of the virus.
Limbaugh placed the blame on China, saying the “ChiComs are trying to weaponize this thing.”
“One of the reasons they’re able to hype this is that the doctor what warned everybody about it came down with it and died,” he said.
“So if a doctor got it, ‘Oh, my God, Rush! A doctor got it? You can’t possibly be right if a doctor can’t protect himself.”
President Trump told reporters today that the situation is “very well under control in our country.” There have been 35 cases in the US.
Limbaugh pointed out that the survival rate of the coronavirus is 98 per cent and likened it to getting a cold.
“The Drive-By Media hype of this thing as a pandemic, as the Andromeda strain, as ‘Oh, my God, if you get it, you’re dead,” he said.
He added that the people who die from the coronavirus is a “far lower death statistic than any form of influenza, which is an annual thing that everybody gets shots for.”
“There’s nothing unusual about the coronavirus,” he said.
“In fact, coronavirus is not something new. There are all kinds of viruses that have that name.”
He admitted that “nobody wants to get any of this stuff,” but said “we’re not talking about something here that’s gonna wipe out your town or your city if it finds its way there.”
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“This is a classic illustration of how media coverage works,” he added.
“Even if this media coverage isn’t stacked, even if this is just the way media normally does things, this is a hyped, panic-filled version.”
The 69-year-old Limbaugh, who has advanced lung cancer, was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Trump earlier this month.
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