Anger at ‘Fake News’ Flows After Trump Says More Have Died of COVID on Biden’s Watch – Opinion

How does a completely accurate statement become “fake news?” Apparently, the answer is when it’s Donald Trump saying something objectively true that the media doesn’t like.

That was the scene on CNN recently, where someone named Boris Sanchez (really, I have no idea who this guy is) took to the airwaves to decry a part of Candace Owens’ interview with the former president. If you’ve been following the news lately, this is one of the CNN shows that had a collective freakout over a parent saying “Let’s Go Brandon” to Joe Biden on a phone call.

Sanchez was furious that Trump agreed with Owens in their interview about how more COVID-19 victims died under Joe Biden than Trump. Per Newsbusters, he angrily responded to the soundbite, complaining that it was “completely wrong” and “fake news.”

CNN’s pundits are claiming that CNN is reporting “fake News” about the 100 percent truth that Joe Biden had more COVID-related deaths than Donald Trump.

CNN is not a news agency. https://t.co/wkqX7fXlsT

— NewsBusters (@newsbusters) December 27, 2021

TRUMP: They are all very, very good. Three of them were created in nine months. This was expected to take between 5 and 12 years.

OWENS – Yet, many more people have been killed by Covid in this year’s election, according to Joe Biden.

TRUMP: That’s right.

“Point of fact, that statement she made about people dying under Donald Trump versus Joe Biden, those numbers are completely wrong, so that’s fake news right there,” he swiftly proclaimed following the soundbite.

I hate to break it to Sanchez, but we’ve got a bit of a problem here because it’s not, in fact, “completely wrong.” Rather, it’s 100% true. And while this low-level, holiday host may not like the reality he’s been presented with, it’s still the reality we all exist in, at least technically.

No matter how you slice the numbers (Newsbusters breaks them down at the above link), whether you use the date the Owens’ interview was filmed or Christmas Eve when Sanchez made his statement, he’s simply wrong. Joe Biden has seen more COVID-19 victims than Donald Trump. Astonishingly, that has happened despite the former being handed multiple vaccines, far more developed therapeutic regimes, and the knowledge of what mitigation measures do and don’t work (though, the current administration is deadset on leaning into failure anyway).

But those in the press despise it when you point that out because it shows just how much of a scam Biden’s 2020 campaign was. He was going to “shut down the virus.” He insisted he had the secret sauce that Trump didn’t have. CNN, among others, praised Biden’s “stable leadership.” We are now seeing worse results than under the former president, Biden.

Now, if Biden and the media had just been fair from the beginning, not assigning deaths directly to whoever the president is based on partisanship, this wouldn’t be an issue. Are there a number of areas where Biden has failed? Of course, but he’s still not directly responsible for people dying of the coronavirus because you simply can’t stop the spread of a partially airborne virus.

Biden and the media weren’t fair from the beginning, though. They accused Trump of murdering people and sometimes implied that he was doing it intentionally. This was their way of playing the blame game. We will continue to do it up until the end, regardless of whether or not the left approves.