Eric Trump says the corona virus is a Democratic counterfeit
Eric Trump called on Saturday that the "magical" corona virus would disappear after the November election and allow the country to reopen completely - a baseless scientific claim and disputed by health experts around the world.
In an interview with Jeanine Pirro of Fox News, Trump suggested that critics of the president use the scandal to undermine his father's meetings, calling it a "strategy" that will end if he no longer works in politics.
"You see, they'll milk it every day between now and November 3," little Trump said. "And guess that, after November 3, the corona virus will be magically, suddenly, gone and disappear and everyone will be able to reopen."
He also attacked former vice president Joe Biden, who had been elected to the Democratic Alliance, and boasted of a large crowd at President Trump's political events.
"They think they're taking Donald Trump's biggest tool, which can get into a stadium filled with 50,000 people all the time," he said.
The Biden campaign backed out Trump's remarks, calling them "incredibly negligent."
"We are in the middle of a major public health emergency in the century, with about 90,000 Americans dead, 1.5 million infected, and 36 million unemployed workers," Biden communications director Kate Bedingfield said in a statement. "So Eric Trump's claim that the corona virus is a political ploy 'that will disappear by magic' is astonishing and unbelievable."
He also accused Trump's management of "eager to do everything in their power to install a smoking screen in an attempt to conceal his mistreatment at this critical time."
Leading health officials have repeatedly warned that coronavirus will not go away in the fall and that an increase in cases by the end of the year may be more difficult to manage than the current one.
Anthony S. Fauci, a senior government expert on infectious disease, said late last month that the spread of the disease made it "inevitable" that the corona virus would return or stay longer than in the fall. Robert Red field, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told The Washington Post that the second wave of covid-19 could be worse than the first because it would coincide with the flu season.
President Trump himself has acknowledged that the epidemic will remain a public health problem for months. Earlier this month, he said that while he was confident that covid-19 would disappear on its own, "it does not mean it will end, frankly, in a fall or after a fall."
