Analysis | McEnany makes a new indefensible claim: Trump saved ‘3 to 4 million lives’

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The White House's habit of inflating numbers is now being used to make Trump's handling of the pandemic seem less bad.

on April 16. “If there was no mitigation, it could have even been higher than that,” he added, although the 2.2 million figure was explicitly derived from a scenario with no mitigation, as Birx said at the time.On May 19, Trumpa new high“We saved millions of lives. Millions and millions of lives,” Trump said. “You would have had anywhere from a million-five to two million-five, three million lives.

Perhaps the most eyebrow-raising part of that comment, of course, is that the White House is “working on” developing a hard figure representing the number of lives saved. In March, it rejected 2.2 million as too high. Accepting that figure as instead an inevitable worst-case tally, the number of lives saved to date is a bit over 2 million.Though, of course, the alternative depended on doing literally nothing.

So it’s worth remembering that, when first presented with the Imperial College estimate of 2.2 million dead, the White House’s task force coordinator rejected it as excessive.

 

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OMG. Kaylee has injected too much bleach.

Weren’t we initially told a minimum of 2mil would die? Now we’re looking at around 50-60k once we remove the fabricated deaths to increase the numbers for political purposes.

The press secretary is just pulling these numbers straight out of her ass.

According to early projections, she's right. It was predicted that way more people would be dead right now.

Trumo and his stooges live by the motto if they say it enough times enough people will believe it.

You make indefensible claims everyday!

This woman might just be worse than spicey and that huckabee thing. Where does he find these people!! They truly are the best of the worst

She is just shameless ,, a lier like no other

Liar! Why are you covering her garbage

Guys it’s joke of the day you should all be 😂

What a pile of BS.

GlennKesslerWP That’s how many he originally hoped to kill.

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