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China is responsible for every American Covid death. But it’s you’re going to try to parse out blame to a particular president, at least get the simple math right. On Christmas Eve, CNN Newsroom fill-in host Boris Sanchez had some trouble doing that as he definitively claimed it was “fake news” to accurately say that more Americans have been killed by Covid under President Biden than former President Trump.
Sanchez’s false declaration came as a knee-jerk reaction to defend Biden from The Daily Wire’s Candace Owens, who made the accurate statement while interviewing Trump on December 21 (where he defended the effectiveness and safety of the vaccines):
DONALD TRUMP: All are very, very good. Came up with three of them in less than nine months. It was supposed to take 5 to 12 years.
CANDANCE OWENS: And yet, more people have died under Covid this year, by the way, under Joe Biden.
TRUMP: That's right.
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