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SFGATE: Eric Trump falsely claims coronavirus is a Democratic hoax

Eric Trump falsely claims coronavirus is a Democratic hoax
Published on May 18, 2020 at 02:38AM by Derek Hawkins, The Washington Post

Eric Trump claimed Saturday that the coronavirus will "magically" vanish after the November election and allow the country to fully reopen - an assertion that has no basis in science and is contradicted by health experts worldwide.

In an interview with Fox News' Jeanine Pirro, Trump suggested the president's critics were using the pandemic to undermine his father's rallies, calling it a "cognizant strategy" that would cease once it was no longer politically expedient.

"They think they are taking away Donald Trump's greatest tool, which is being able to go into an arena and fill it with 50,000 people every single time," the younger Trump said. "You watch, they'll milk it every single day between now and November 3. And guess what, after November 3, coronavirus will magically, all of a sudden, go away and disappear and everybody will be able to reopen."

He also criticized former vice president Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee, and boasted about crowd sizes at President Donald Trump's political events.

The Biden campaign pushed back against Trump's comments, calling them "unbelievably reckless."

"We're in the middle of the biggest public health emergency in a century, with almost 90,000 Americans dead, 1.5 million infected, and 36 million workers newly jobless," said Biden communications director Kate Bedingfield in a statement. "So for Eric Trump to claim that the coronavirus is a political hoax that will 'magically' disappear is absolutely stunning and unbelievably reckless."

She also accused the Trump administration of being "desperate to do whatever they can to throw up a smoke screen to try to conceal his historic mismanagement of this crisis."

Leading health officials have repeatedly warned that the coronavirus will not go away by fall and that a...

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