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Not long after they had insisted President Trump treated the coronavirus press briefings as though they were “a reality TV show,” ABC and chief anchor George Stephanopoulos invited former Vice President Joe Biden onto This Week to buoy his oxygen-less campaign. One of the softballs the Clinton lackey tossed to Biden encouraged him to blame Trump for the deaths caused by the coronavirus.
While the crisis was only part of their discussion, Stephanopoulos steered clear of the recent sexual assault allegations against his guest. Something he was used to doing from his time in the Clinton White House.
On the topic of the virus, he cited Biden’s own campaign videos to tee him up to blame Trump for the deaths of thousands of Americans. “And your campaign videos have been quite tough on the President. You said his failures, his incompetence is going to cost lives, is that what's happening now,” he asked.
“Well look, what I have been saying is that he's moving too slow, the corona—the virus is not his fault. There’s— But the response is his responsibility,” Biden clumsily explained. Though Biden didn’t take the bait completely, he did parrot ABC’s lie that Trump was blocking those who lost their job due to the crisis from enrolling in ObamaCare.
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