Rush: “Heartless” Trump Blamed for Reopening Deaths

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“Heartless” Trump Blamed for Reopening Deaths

May 5, 2020



RUSH: You know, folks, people have asked me – like when I play golf with people that can play the game very well, I ask them if it ever gets boring hitting the drive straight down the middle all the time, whatever distance, 250 yards, does it ever get boring. And they always say no. See, I would think that it would. But then I am asked the same thing myself. “Rush, does it ever get boring being right? Does it ever get boring when your predictions just come true and then come true and then come true?” And I’d say no, it never gets boring. So I kind of understand it.

So what did I predict? And anybody could have predicted this. A lot of people did. So I can’t claim a hundred percent credit for this. Let’s go back basically two and a half weeks, April 16th on this program I told everybody what was gonna happen shortly after the move was made to end lockdowns and reopen the United States economy.

RUSH ARCHIVE: yes, I’m gonna admit, people are gonna continue to get this virus after we reopen the economy, and yes, Donald Trump is gonna get blamed for it, and yes, Donald Trump knows.

We all know what’s gonna happen. We all know what’s gonna happen in the news. We all know what’s gonna happen politically. It doesn’t matter. We have to be up and running. We cannot allow this to continue. It has gone on way too long. No matter what, this is not sustainable.

RUSH: And, lo and behold, not only do we have death continuing to happen because death happens every day, death is a part of life, and, you know, I keep reminding myself of things that make me interrupt myself. I have got to make a note. Hang on. I have got to remember to make this point to you, theory on we’re all gonna die. Okay, there.

The idea here that somehow after we open up everything’s gonna be hunky-dory is a pipe dream. People are gonna continue to die because the virus is there, people die from other things as well. But it was easy to predict that the first death or a series of deaths related to COVID-19 after opening up blamed on Trump. The purpose will be to make sure that everybody knows that trying to get the economy restarted, Trump doesn’t care. The bottom line is, Republicans kill people. You can see newspaper columns written by people who have those headlines. Republicans kill more people. Republicans look to kill more people. It’s vicious out there. And so here is an audio montage we put together from yesterday, last night, and this morning of people from the Drive-By Media fulfilling my prediction.

ERIN BURNETT: Two major projections both forecasting the number of deaths in the United States.

BROOKE BALDWIN: New models projecting 3,000 coronavirus deaths per day.

MARTHA MACCALLUM: It has gone up to its highest projection ever.

JIM ACOSTA: That’s much higher, nearly double.

BEN TRACY: A draft analysis shows daily deaths in the U.S. nearly doubling.

ARI MELBER: Projections were showing U.S. coronavirus deaths nearly doubling.

GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: Models say the death toll is going to double over the next month.

SANJAY GUPTA: We could double the number of deaths every single day.

WOLF BLITZER: If all these models that are surfacing today are accurate, should cities consider imposing even tighter restrictions rather than plan for re-opening?

DON LEMMON: Everything is not fine. We’re not on the other side of this yet, okay? Please, please listen to me.

RUSH: That’s Don Lemon there, the dumbest man in television, begging people listen to him. “Don’t reopen! Don’t do this!” What is all this about? This is about a leaked projection from a new model that has not been verified, it has not been in any way backed up with any evidence whatsoever.

In fact, I believe that this model was created to be leaked for the express purpose here of trying to tarnish and trash the decision that has been made to reopen states and to reopen the U.S. economy, and how do I know? Because the New York Times has the story, and here’s the headline: “An internal Trump administration report expects about 200,000 daily cases by June. …

“As President Trump presses for states to reopen their economies, his administration is privately projecting a steady rise in the number of coronavirus cases and deaths over the next several weeks.” See? Trump doesn’t care. Trump doesn’t care that you’re gonna die. Trump doesn’t give a rat’s rear end whether you’re gonna die — and, in fact, I have a column here from the U.K. Guardian.

“Will Americans Ever Forgive Trump for His Heartless Lack of Compassion?” It is a full-court press, easily predictable. We have reopened, but now the number of cases? Ballooning! The number of deaths? Ballooning. Trump knows, and he’s not telling anybody, because he doesn’t want people to know they’re gonna die.

Trump would prefer that they die. The Republicans would prefer people die just so they can go out and make a profit. That is the mantra, “The daily death toll,” according to the leaked projection here of another model that — again — hasn’t been vetted yet scientifically in any way, shape, manner, or form. It is purely a political document.

It’s like the Steele dossier, folks. This thing is just largely made up out of whole cloth. “The daily death toll will reach about 3,000 [people] on June 1…” Do you realize that’s just 26 days from now, folks? “The daily death toll will reach about 3,000 on June 1, according to an internal document obtained by the New York Times, a 70% increase from the current number of about 1,750” people who die that Trump hates.

“The projections, based on government modeling pulled together by the Federal Emergency Management Agency [FEMA], forecast about 200,000 new cases each day by the end of the month, up from about 25,000 cases a day” at the moment. So we’re gonna go from 25,000 cases a day to 200,000 cases a day by 26 days, and we’re gonna go from 1,700 deaths to 3,000, all because why?

Donald Trump opened up the U.S. economy! Donald Trump told Republican governors — who also hate people, and who also don’t care about killing people — to open up their states. Good Lord. This is outrageous what these people are doing, and it’s all about an election in November. It’s not…

These are the people who claim to have all the compassion, the Democrats and the leftists and so forth, the media. I’ll tell you, in case anybody still has any doubts about how important the Democrats in the media think it is to continue this lockdown of the country as long as possible in order to destroy this economy and wreck Trump’s chances for reelection, this story will tell you.

The New York Times claiming the FEMA model — with no evidence whatsoever — sees a tenfold increase in cases per day and deaths. “The daily death toll will reach about 3,000 … a 70% increase from the current number … The numbers,” it says, “underscore a sobering reality: The United States has been hunkered down for the past seven weeks to try slowing the spread of the virus, but reopening the economy will make matters worse.”

I wouldn’t be surprised if this FEMA thing were totally made up. As I say, folks, the administration is denying it; Trump is calling it fake news. It is not an official government document. Nobody is relying on it. Trump has dismissed it, saying it’s false, that it’s fake news. He says, “I don’t even know anything about this. Nobody’s told me this.

“Nobody has shared this thing with me. This is just… It’s not part of the coronavirus task force daily function. It’s not a White House document. It hasn’t been presented to the coronavirus task force. The only people who have seen it are the New York Times.”

So if you had any doubt about how important the Democrats in the media think it is to keep this country on lockdown, to keep this economy moribund and weak for as long as possible so as to wreck Trump’s chances for reelection, get rid of your doubt, because this is abundantly obvious what is going on.

You know this newspaper, the New York Times, just got a Pulitzer? They got a Pulitzer Prize for their reporting on the 1619 Project. Do you know what the 1619 Project is? The New York Times decided that the country was not founded in 1776. That all of that is a lie. The country was actually founded in 1619, and that is the date you can trace the first slave ships arriving on our continent.

So the New York Times totally rewrites American history to say the American experiment was founded with the arrival of slave ships in 1691. It’s just… To say that it’s outrageous and false is to really undersell what it is, and they get a Pulitzer Prize for it. Then we find out that the New York Times has a working relationship with the Pulitzer committee.

I tell you, this business of journalism and the media has become so corrupted. It’s worse than anything you imagined that it is. But this idea that Republicans happily preside over people dying — Republicans only care about the economy, only care about profit — and that Trump opening up the country is resulting in more and more people dying?

You know what? People have forgotten. Why did we social distance in the first place? Why did we mitigate in the first place? Why did we stay home? Why did we shut down? To flatten the curve. But what was the purpose of flattening the curve?

It was not to stop the virus, it was not to get rid of the virus, and it was not to slow it down. It had nothing to do with anything other than ostensibly preventing an overrun of hospital emergency rooms and intensive care units.