With Night One of the Democratic National Convention in full swing on Monday, CNN’s Chris Wallace flaunted how much he changed for the worst since leaving Fox News. Following the angry and divisive speech from Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA), Wallace parroted the Democratic Party’s BIG LIE that former President Trump told people to inject bleach into themselves to fight COVID. He also claimed it was “revisionist history” for Republicans to blame President Biden and Democrats for lockdowns.
During his speech, Garcia falsely proclaimed:
What we needed at that moment was national leadership. But instead, we got Donald Trump. While schools closed and dead bodies filled morgues, Donald Trump downplayed the virus. He told us to inject bleach into our bodies. He peddled conspiracy theories across the country.
Following the speech, Wallace quipped: “I guess if this is the contrast part of the evening, because we hadn't heard a lot about Donald Trump for the first hours, and particularly on the issue of COVID.”
He then parroted the false line about injecting bleach as if it was true:
And they actually ran a video, a series of clips of Donald Trump, some would say his greatest non-hits from 2020 when he was downplaying COVID and talking about injecting bleach into you to try to solve it.
CNN's Chris Wallace parrots the lie that Trump told people to inject bleach into themselves.
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He then claims "the revisionist history" is Republicans pointing out how Biden and the Democrats were for keeping schools and society shut down when it was hurting kids and everyone. pic.twitter.com/eNNGRrBT7y
It was just last month that one of the liberal media’s favorite “fact-checkers,” Snopes published an article admitting that narrative was “false.” “[A]t no point did Trump explicitly tell people they could or should inject bleach into their bodies,” they wrote.
But Wallace didn’t care about the facts.
In fact, he claimed it was “revisionist history” by Republicans to go after Biden and Democrats for pushing lockdowns despite it hurting kids and everyone else:
And you know, it's an interesting question, I think COVID is not a surefire winner for Democrats because there's this kind of revisionist history now that the country was shut down too long and that the Biden when he came in in 2021, continued to shut down businesses and continued to shut down schools. My own feeling is it's a revisionist history because, you know, we know a lot more about COVID now than we did back pre-vaccine in 2020 and 2021.
“But there are two sides to this argument, and I think Republicans are happy to engage on the issue the handling of COVID,” he lamented.
The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read:
CNN’s Erin Burnett OutFront
August 19, 2024
7:44:27 p.m. Eastern(…)
REP. ROBERT GARCIA (D-CA): What we needed at that moment was national leadership. But instead, we got Donald Trump. While schools closed and dead bodies filled morgues, Donald Trump downplayed the virus. He told us to inject bleach into our bodies. He peddled conspiracy theories across the country.
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7:48:58 p.m. Eastern
CHRIS WALLACE: I guess if this is the contrast part of the evening, because we hadn't heard a lot about Donald Trump for the first hours, and particularly on the issue of COVID. And they actually ran a video, a series of clips of Donald Trump, some would say his greatest non-hits from 2020 when he was downplaying COVID and talking about injecting bleach into you to try to solve it.
And you know, it's an interesting question, I think COVID is not a surefire winner for Democrats because there's this kind of revisionist history now that the country was shut down too long and that the Biden when he came in in 2021, continued to shut down businesses and continued to shut down schools.
My own feeling is it's a revisionist history because, you know, we know a lot more about COVID now than we did back pre-vaccine in 2020 and 2021. But there are two sides to this argument, and I think Republicans are happy to engage on the issue the handling of COVID.
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