Looks like President Trump isn't the only one responsible for the coronavirus.
So did the media finally acknowledge is to blame? Not even close. On MSNBC Monday afternoon, Andrea Mitchell and the Washington Post's Philip Rucker decided to lay blame at the feet of President Trump (of course) and conservatives in red states.
Despite the constant reminders that this virus does not recognize political affiliation, Mitchell set that aside long enough to bash the president by bringing in Rucker to discuss an article in the Post, which she summed up as "a searing account of the failures of the Trump Administration to take COVID-19 seriously as the virus made its way from China into the U.S. For more than two months, time was squandered, warnings ignored."
Mitchell then repeated the false claim that President Trump called the virus a "hoax" and blamed red states for the increasing number of cases:
"President Trump dismissing the virus as a hoax initially, only to lash out at the press and boast about his social media following. The President is still resisting, despite pressure, and we now see part of your reporting was a Neil Newhouse - Republican polling - that there were a number of people in red states early on who didn't heed the warnings to socially distance because they believed the President's false comments."
WATCH.
