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Trump's Remarks in Press Briefing; July 30, 2020
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Remarks by President Trump in Press Briefing | July 30, 2020
Issued on: July 30, 2020
James S. Brady Press Briefing Room
5:41 P.M. EDT
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you very much. Let me begin by expressing our sadness at the passing of a wonderful man and a dear friend of mine, Herman Cain. He was a very special person. I got to know him very well. And unfortunately, he passed away from the thing called the China virus. And we send our prayers to Hermans great wife, Gloria. Wonderful family.
{snip}
Now I want to provide an update on our efforts to ensure a strong economic comeback, including our negotiations on Capitol Hill. Throughout this crisis, my administration has taken the most aggressive action in history to rescue American workers. We love our American workers. And weve set records on job creation records two months in a row.
{snip}
I want to thank Senate Republicans for fighting to extend unemployment benefits today in the face of very strong Democrat obstruction, which Im surprised at because this is great for our country and its great for our workers, and it wasnt our workers fault.
{snip}
My administration is also asking Democrats to work with us to pass $105 billion to help schools safely reopen. Children are not [sic] at the lowest risk. If you look at whats going on: the younger, the better. Amazing the immune system. For children, the lower they are in age, the lower the risk, in terms of the age group itself.
I tell the story that, in New Jersey, with thousands and thousands of people dying sadly, dying the governor was telling me that only one Phil Murphy only one died under the age of 18. Thats incredible. Where thousands of people that died in the state of New Jersey, one made an impact; one died under the age of 18.
{snip}
So I just want to thank you all. And if youd like, well take a few questions.
Steve, please.
Q Are we going to launch an effort to try to delay the election? Or was that just a trial balloon this morning?
THE PRESIDENT: Well, what I want to explain to people, but it doesnt need much explanation I mean, you look at article after article: New Yorks Mail-Vote Disaster, Tens of thousands of mail ballots have been tossed out in this years primaries. What will happen in November? Its a mess. This is done by Washington Post. Can you believe it? The Washington Post, of all papers. Fake news, but in this case, its not fake, its true.
This is done by the Wall Street Journal. Heres another one, Vote-by-mail experiment reveals potential problems within postal voting system ahead [in the] November election. And you see whats happening with so many different places. Theyre doing even trial runs; theyre a disaster.
And I dont want to see an election you know, so many years, Ive been watching elections. And they say the projected winner or the winner of the election I dont want to see that take place in a week after November 3rd or a month or, frankly, with litigation and everything else that can happen, years. Years. Or you never even know who won the election.
Youre sending out hundreds of millions of universal, mail-in ballots hundreds of millions. Where are they going? Who are they being sent to? Its common sense; you dont have to know anything about politics. And the Democrats know this. The Democrats know this, Steve.
So, I want to see I want an election and a result much, much more than you. I think were doing very well. We have the same pho- fake polls, but we have real polls. Were doing very well.
I just left Texas. And Biden came out against fracking. Well, that means Texas is going to be one of the most unemployed states in our country. That means Oklahoma, North Dakota, New Mexico are going to be a disaster. Ohio, Pennsylvania disaster. No fracking.
I want to have the result of the election. I dont want to be waiting around for weeks and months. And, literally, potentially if you really did it right years, because youll never know.
These ballots are missing. You saw Paterson, New Jersey. You saw many other instances. Theres tremendous litigation on that right now.
And that doesnt include absentee. Absentee is different. Absentee you have to work and you have to send in for applications. You have to go through a whole procedure.
Like, for instance, Im an absentee voter because I cant be in Florida because Im in Washington; Im at the White House. So, Ill be an absentee voter. We have a lot of absentee voters, and it works. So were in favor of absentee, but its much different than millions of people.
In California, theyre going to send out tens of millions of voting forms. Well, where are they going to go? You read where postmen are in big trouble now. You read where city councils are in big trouble now. Voter fraud, all over the the ballots.
So, no, I want to get I want to be standing, hopefully, hand held high, big victory, because were doing things with our country that I think nobody else could have done. Our country is despite this pandemic, which is devastating the rest of the world, by the way devastating.
One of the articles that came out was, The Worlds Covid Resurgence. This is the Wall Street Journal editorial the main editorial yesterday in the Wall Street Journal. I dont always agree with them. But they have The Worlds Covid Resurgence. Countries hailed as models [to] see and then they go, the virus returns at a level its never they havent even seen.
Weve been giving praise to certain countries, and the virus has now come to them like like the first time. But its a very interesting and it talks about many countries where everybody was holding them up and saying what a great job they did. Well, its just one of those things. Didnt work out so well.
So we want to have an election. Id love to see voter ID, but this is the opposite of voter ID. The Democrats love it; the Republicans hate it. We all agree that absentee voting is good. Mail-in ballots will lead to the greatest fraud.
You know, we talk about Russia, Russia, Russia for two and a half years, and then they found nothing, and there was nothing. But they talk Russia, Russia, Russia. They talk China. They talk all of these countries. They say they get involved in our elections. This is easy. You can forge ballots. This is much easier for foreign countries.
Go ahead, Steve.
Q But but delaying the election is probably a nonstarter. I mean, wouldnt you agree with that?
THE PRESIDENT: I I just feel I dont want a delay. I want to have the election. But I also dont want to have to wait for three months and then find out that the ballots are all missing and the election doesnt mean anything. Thats whats going to happen, Steve. Thats common sense, and everyone knows it. Smart people know it. Stupid people may not know it. And some people dont want to talk about it, but they know it.
And, no, we want to have an election where people actually go in and Whats your name? My name is so-and-so. Boom, you sign the book, like Ive been doing for years.
Its very, very unfair to our country. If they do this, our country will be a laughingstock all over the world because everyone knows it doesnt work.
How many ballots is he sending in California, as an example? Twenty-eight million or some massive number? Other states are sending out millions and millions of ballots. Well, theyve done it. They had experiments. They had news organizations experimenting.
And, look, read the story in the Washington Post about mail-in voting; its a disaster. Im very surprised to see that story, frankly, from them. The story is a disaster. So were asking for a lot of trouble.
And, no, do I want to see a date change? No. But I dont want to see a crooked election. This election will be the most rigged election in history.
John.
Q So, Mr. President, you said that you dont want to see a delay in the election, but then it looks like the process of these mail-in ballots is going to continue to November the 3rd.
THE PRESIDENT: Well, we have many court cases, John. We have one thats been filed for a while now in western Pennsylvania, as an example, on mail-in ballots.
Q So, Im just wondering, is
THE PRESIDENT: And, by the way, John, we give tremendous examples numbers of examples of all the fraud and all of the things that have taken place with respect to mail-in ballots.
Q Im just wondering, is the net effect of what you tweeted this morning and what youre talking about now to cast doubt on the results of the November 3rd election?
THE PRESIDENT: Well, its had an interesting impact. I didnt know it was going to be the impact it had. What people are now looking at is: Am I right? But not me. Are all these stories right about the fact that these elections will be fraudulent, theyll be fixed, theyll be rigged? And everyone is looking at it, and a lot of people are saying, You know. that probably will happen.
{snip}
OAN, please.
Q Thank you, Mr. President. Yesterday, DHS came to an agreement with the governor of Oregon to remove federal officers, and Oregon state troopers took over. Mayor Ted Wheeler was noticeably absent from that agreement. Are you confident, sir, that the state of Oregon will be able to quell the protests in Portland? And if the violence does continue, would you consider redeploying federal troops?
THE PRESIDENT: So our people have done Homeland Security have done a fantastic job. They went to Oregon a little more than a week ago. The place was a mess. The city, Portland, was just a disaster. You see it, and a lot of people werent reporting it right. They tried to pretend it was a protest, as opposed to anarchists and agitators. You understand what Im saying. Its a mess.
They went there a short while ago, and they saved a federal courthouse that costs hundreds of millions of dollars. And they put a ring around the courthouse and they saved it. But the group thats there is basically meant to save buildings, and they were very strong, very powerful. And they didnt come out too often out of this cocoon that they built in order to save these very expensive, valuable, and psychologically important buildings right? like courthouses.
The governor and the mayor, weve been dealing with them, and we think they dont know what theyre doing, because this should not have been going on for 60 days. Its not our job unless, in case of emergency which I consider now to be an emergency its not our job to go in and clean out the cities. Thats supposed to be done by local law enforcement.
Yesterday, the governor worked a deal where theyll do it; well stand by, theyll do it and thats good. That was very good, but she didnt report it that way. What she reported was totally different. She said, I think Trump wants to take over the country. Its crazy.
So what happened is our people are staying there to see whether or not they can do it today and tomorrow. And if they dont do it, we will send in the National Guard and well take care of it. And were telling, right now, these protesters and many should be arrested because these are professional agitators, these are professional anarchists; these are people that hate our country. Were telling them, right now, that were coming in very soon the National Guard. A lot of people. A lot of very tough people. And these are not people that just have to guard the courthouse and save it. These are people that are allowed to go forward and do what they have to do. And I think that makes the governors job and the mayors job a lot easier.
So theyre working today and probably tomorrow to clean out this beehive of of terrorists. And if they do it, Im going to be very happy. And then, slowly, we can start to leave the city. If they dont do it, well be sending in the National Guard.
Please.
Q Mr. Trump, given whats happening with Major League Baseball and now, today, the Rutgers football team is quarantined, how can you assure people that schools will be safely reopened?
THE PRESIDENT: So, can you assure anybody of anything? I do say, again: Young people are almost immune to this disease. The younger, the better, I guess. Theyre stronger. Theyre stronger. They have a stronger immune system. Its an incredible thing. Nobody has ever seen this before. Various types of flu will hurt young people more than older people.
But young people are almost immune. If you look at the percentage, its a tiny percent of 1 percent. Its a tiny percent of 1 percent. So we have to have our schools open. We have to protect our teachers. We have to protect our elderly. But we do have to have our schools open.
Yeah, please. Go ahead.
{snip}
We are way ahead on vaccines, way ahead on therapeutics. And when we have it, were all set up with our platforms to deliver them very, very quickly. The vaccines are doing well, the therapeutics are doing well, and were all set to deliver them as soon as we have them, and thats going to be very soon.
Thank you very much. Thank you.
END
6:12 P.M. EDT
Remarks by President Trump in Press Briefing | July 30, 2020
Issued on: July 30, 2020
James S. Brady Press Briefing Room
5:41 P.M. EDT
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you very much. Let me begin by expressing our sadness at the passing of a wonderful man and a dear friend of mine, Herman Cain. He was a very special person. I got to know him very well. And unfortunately, he passed away from the thing called the China virus. And we send our prayers to Hermans great wife, Gloria. Wonderful family.
{snip}
Now I want to provide an update on our efforts to ensure a strong economic comeback, including our negotiations on Capitol Hill. Throughout this crisis, my administration has taken the most aggressive action in history to rescue American workers. We love our American workers. And weve set records on job creation records two months in a row.
{snip}
I want to thank Senate Republicans for fighting to extend unemployment benefits today in the face of very strong Democrat obstruction, which Im surprised at because this is great for our country and its great for our workers, and it wasnt our workers fault.
{snip}
My administration is also asking Democrats to work with us to pass $105 billion to help schools safely reopen. Children are not [sic] at the lowest risk. If you look at whats going on: the younger, the better. Amazing the immune system. For children, the lower they are in age, the lower the risk, in terms of the age group itself.
I tell the story that, in New Jersey, with thousands and thousands of people dying sadly, dying the governor was telling me that only one Phil Murphy only one died under the age of 18. Thats incredible. Where thousands of people that died in the state of New Jersey, one made an impact; one died under the age of 18.
{snip}
So I just want to thank you all. And if youd like, well take a few questions.
Steve, please.
Q Are we going to launch an effort to try to delay the election? Or was that just a trial balloon this morning?
THE PRESIDENT: Well, what I want to explain to people, but it doesnt need much explanation I mean, you look at article after article: New Yorks Mail-Vote Disaster, Tens of thousands of mail ballots have been tossed out in this years primaries. What will happen in November? Its a mess. This is done by Washington Post. Can you believe it? The Washington Post, of all papers. Fake news, but in this case, its not fake, its true.
This is done by the Wall Street Journal. Heres another one, Vote-by-mail experiment reveals potential problems within postal voting system ahead [in the] November election. And you see whats happening with so many different places. Theyre doing even trial runs; theyre a disaster.
And I dont want to see an election you know, so many years, Ive been watching elections. And they say the projected winner or the winner of the election I dont want to see that take place in a week after November 3rd or a month or, frankly, with litigation and everything else that can happen, years. Years. Or you never even know who won the election.
Youre sending out hundreds of millions of universal, mail-in ballots hundreds of millions. Where are they going? Who are they being sent to? Its common sense; you dont have to know anything about politics. And the Democrats know this. The Democrats know this, Steve.
So, I want to see I want an election and a result much, much more than you. I think were doing very well. We have the same pho- fake polls, but we have real polls. Were doing very well.
I just left Texas. And Biden came out against fracking. Well, that means Texas is going to be one of the most unemployed states in our country. That means Oklahoma, North Dakota, New Mexico are going to be a disaster. Ohio, Pennsylvania disaster. No fracking.
I want to have the result of the election. I dont want to be waiting around for weeks and months. And, literally, potentially if you really did it right years, because youll never know.
These ballots are missing. You saw Paterson, New Jersey. You saw many other instances. Theres tremendous litigation on that right now.
And that doesnt include absentee. Absentee is different. Absentee you have to work and you have to send in for applications. You have to go through a whole procedure.
Like, for instance, Im an absentee voter because I cant be in Florida because Im in Washington; Im at the White House. So, Ill be an absentee voter. We have a lot of absentee voters, and it works. So were in favor of absentee, but its much different than millions of people.
In California, theyre going to send out tens of millions of voting forms. Well, where are they going to go? You read where postmen are in big trouble now. You read where city councils are in big trouble now. Voter fraud, all over the the ballots.
So, no, I want to get I want to be standing, hopefully, hand held high, big victory, because were doing things with our country that I think nobody else could have done. Our country is despite this pandemic, which is devastating the rest of the world, by the way devastating.
One of the articles that came out was, The Worlds Covid Resurgence. This is the Wall Street Journal editorial the main editorial yesterday in the Wall Street Journal. I dont always agree with them. But they have The Worlds Covid Resurgence. Countries hailed as models [to] see and then they go, the virus returns at a level its never they havent even seen.
Weve been giving praise to certain countries, and the virus has now come to them like like the first time. But its a very interesting and it talks about many countries where everybody was holding them up and saying what a great job they did. Well, its just one of those things. Didnt work out so well.
So we want to have an election. Id love to see voter ID, but this is the opposite of voter ID. The Democrats love it; the Republicans hate it. We all agree that absentee voting is good. Mail-in ballots will lead to the greatest fraud.
You know, we talk about Russia, Russia, Russia for two and a half years, and then they found nothing, and there was nothing. But they talk Russia, Russia, Russia. They talk China. They talk all of these countries. They say they get involved in our elections. This is easy. You can forge ballots. This is much easier for foreign countries.
Go ahead, Steve.
Q But but delaying the election is probably a nonstarter. I mean, wouldnt you agree with that?
THE PRESIDENT: I I just feel I dont want a delay. I want to have the election. But I also dont want to have to wait for three months and then find out that the ballots are all missing and the election doesnt mean anything. Thats whats going to happen, Steve. Thats common sense, and everyone knows it. Smart people know it. Stupid people may not know it. And some people dont want to talk about it, but they know it.
And, no, we want to have an election where people actually go in and Whats your name? My name is so-and-so. Boom, you sign the book, like Ive been doing for years.
Its very, very unfair to our country. If they do this, our country will be a laughingstock all over the world because everyone knows it doesnt work.
How many ballots is he sending in California, as an example? Twenty-eight million or some massive number? Other states are sending out millions and millions of ballots. Well, theyve done it. They had experiments. They had news organizations experimenting.
And, look, read the story in the Washington Post about mail-in voting; its a disaster. Im very surprised to see that story, frankly, from them. The story is a disaster. So were asking for a lot of trouble.
And, no, do I want to see a date change? No. But I dont want to see a crooked election. This election will be the most rigged election in history.
John.
Q So, Mr. President, you said that you dont want to see a delay in the election, but then it looks like the process of these mail-in ballots is going to continue to November the 3rd.
THE PRESIDENT: Well, we have many court cases, John. We have one thats been filed for a while now in western Pennsylvania, as an example, on mail-in ballots.
Q So, Im just wondering, is
THE PRESIDENT: And, by the way, John, we give tremendous examples numbers of examples of all the fraud and all of the things that have taken place with respect to mail-in ballots.
Q Im just wondering, is the net effect of what you tweeted this morning and what youre talking about now to cast doubt on the results of the November 3rd election?
THE PRESIDENT: Well, its had an interesting impact. I didnt know it was going to be the impact it had. What people are now looking at is: Am I right? But not me. Are all these stories right about the fact that these elections will be fraudulent, theyll be fixed, theyll be rigged? And everyone is looking at it, and a lot of people are saying, You know. that probably will happen.
{snip}
OAN, please.
Q Thank you, Mr. President. Yesterday, DHS came to an agreement with the governor of Oregon to remove federal officers, and Oregon state troopers took over. Mayor Ted Wheeler was noticeably absent from that agreement. Are you confident, sir, that the state of Oregon will be able to quell the protests in Portland? And if the violence does continue, would you consider redeploying federal troops?
THE PRESIDENT: So our people have done Homeland Security have done a fantastic job. They went to Oregon a little more than a week ago. The place was a mess. The city, Portland, was just a disaster. You see it, and a lot of people werent reporting it right. They tried to pretend it was a protest, as opposed to anarchists and agitators. You understand what Im saying. Its a mess.
They went there a short while ago, and they saved a federal courthouse that costs hundreds of millions of dollars. And they put a ring around the courthouse and they saved it. But the group thats there is basically meant to save buildings, and they were very strong, very powerful. And they didnt come out too often out of this cocoon that they built in order to save these very expensive, valuable, and psychologically important buildings right? like courthouses.
The governor and the mayor, weve been dealing with them, and we think they dont know what theyre doing, because this should not have been going on for 60 days. Its not our job unless, in case of emergency which I consider now to be an emergency its not our job to go in and clean out the cities. Thats supposed to be done by local law enforcement.
Yesterday, the governor worked a deal where theyll do it; well stand by, theyll do it and thats good. That was very good, but she didnt report it that way. What she reported was totally different. She said, I think Trump wants to take over the country. Its crazy.
So what happened is our people are staying there to see whether or not they can do it today and tomorrow. And if they dont do it, we will send in the National Guard and well take care of it. And were telling, right now, these protesters and many should be arrested because these are professional agitators, these are professional anarchists; these are people that hate our country. Were telling them, right now, that were coming in very soon the National Guard. A lot of people. A lot of very tough people. And these are not people that just have to guard the courthouse and save it. These are people that are allowed to go forward and do what they have to do. And I think that makes the governors job and the mayors job a lot easier.
So theyre working today and probably tomorrow to clean out this beehive of of terrorists. And if they do it, Im going to be very happy. And then, slowly, we can start to leave the city. If they dont do it, well be sending in the National Guard.
Please.
Q Mr. Trump, given whats happening with Major League Baseball and now, today, the Rutgers football team is quarantined, how can you assure people that schools will be safely reopened?
THE PRESIDENT: So, can you assure anybody of anything? I do say, again: Young people are almost immune to this disease. The younger, the better, I guess. Theyre stronger. Theyre stronger. They have a stronger immune system. Its an incredible thing. Nobody has ever seen this before. Various types of flu will hurt young people more than older people.
But young people are almost immune. If you look at the percentage, its a tiny percent of 1 percent. Its a tiny percent of 1 percent. So we have to have our schools open. We have to protect our teachers. We have to protect our elderly. But we do have to have our schools open.
Yeah, please. Go ahead.
{snip}
We are way ahead on vaccines, way ahead on therapeutics. And when we have it, were all set up with our platforms to deliver them very, very quickly. The vaccines are doing well, the therapeutics are doing well, and were all set to deliver them as soon as we have them, and thats going to be very soon.
Thank you very much. Thank you.
END
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Trump's Remarks in Press Briefing; July 30, 2020 (Original Post)
mahatmakanejeeves
Jul 2020
OP
choie
(4,112 posts)1. Lies and blather
And when will he stop saying therapeutics - hes such a damn idiot.
LSFL
(1,110 posts)2. I wanna see some footnotes and references
Dumb orange lying bullshitting fucko.
Ferrets are Cool
(21,117 posts)3. "the younger the better, I guess"
Is it talking about being able to withstand the virus or his choice of partners in the past??