https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-lying-coronavirus_n_5e669d24c5b68d616458fefe
"President Donald Trump has gotten away with a staggering amount of lying over the course of his public life and has been particularly successful at using numbers to mislead and obfuscate. So far, Trump has lied about coronavirus a lot, and always to make it seem like things are better than they are. Trump lied when he said the number of Americans infected with coronavirus was declining even as health officials told him and the public the truth about it rising. He lied when he said there were enough coronavirus tests for every American even when Vice President Mike Pence ― who’s leading the administration’s response ― said that wasn’t true, and he lied when he blamed the shortage of tests on former President Barack Obama. He lied when he compared a year’s worth of influenza deaths to a few months’ worth of coronavirus fatalities in an effort to mislead Americans about the severity of the new disease. But his constant downplaying of the severity of the coronavirus outbreak is about to run headlong into reality."
