Taken together, the numbers tell a consistent story: the situation in the US is genuinely getting worse. As of October 26, just three days before Trump Jr.’s interview, The number of confirmed new cases was increasing at a faster rate than the number of new tests, according to the COVID Tracking Project, an initiative that assembles and analyzes coronavirus data.Īnd the number of hospitalizations and deaths is also rising, which shows that the increase in the case numbers isn’t merely being caused by tests capturing mild cases. The spike in US coronavirus cases is not being caused by an increase in testing. “The reason they’re seeing more test cases pop up is because they’re doing 100 times the testing,” he said.įacts First: Trump Jr.’s claim is comprehensively inaccurate, just as it’s been when his father has made the same claim repeatedly through the campaign and over the summer. claimed the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was reporting an increase in US coronavirus cases because the country has increased testing. In an interview with radio talk-show host Chris Stigall, Trump Jr. You can watch a complete debunking of this claim from CNN’s Brianna Keilar here. More than 231,000 people in the US have died from the virus.
made this claim nearly 1,000 virus-related deaths were reported. said, “but I was like, ‘Well, why aren’t they talking about deaths?’ Oh, oh, because the number is almost nothing.”įacts First: This is false. “I went through the CDC data because I kept hearing about new infections,” Trump Jr. said that the number of deaths from Covid-19 is now “almost nothing.” Here are some of the more notable claims he’s made about the coronavirus.ĭuring a Fox News interview on Thursday, Trump Jr. Back in July, Twitter even restricted his account for sharing a video that spread false information about hydroxychloroquine. The coronavirus has been the subject of a ton of misinformation online, some of which has been spread by Trump Jr. On the eve of the election here’s a look at some of the false and misleading claims from Trump’s sons. and Eric Trump, have spread a significant amount of false information this campaign season on topics ranging from the coronavirus, to their father’s alleged successes, to attacks against his Democratic opponent former Vice President Joe Biden. As two of his top surrogates, President Donald Trump’s eldest sons, Donald Trump Jr.
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